Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home (Founders Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557535914 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is a historian, advertising copywriter, and scriptwriter. Angie has attended the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton on five occasions. Angie writes biographies, histories, documentaries, children's books, essays, and copy for a variety of advertising media. About the AuthorAngie Klink is the author of eight books. Rise Above the Mark was named an Official Selection in the 2014 Gutsy Gals Film Award competition. Angie was the scriptwriter for the public education documentary Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote. Deborah Hutchison, President and Founder of Gutsy Gals Inspire Me said, "Your film has helped to support our mission of promoting talented women writers and directors of film, and putting women's creative vision front-and-center in today's contemporary media."She has won
Fascinating, entertaining and enlightening a reader and writer Divided Paths is a delight. Well-written and well-researched, it opens up a window on two early feminists in academia, as well as the small world they lived in--that of Purdue University's Depts. of Home Economics and School of Agriculture--in addition to the larger world that shaped them. Lella Gaddis and Mary Matthews emerge as heroic and a. "The Big Ladies on Campus!" according to JLT. The halls I walked on the campus of Purdue University as an undergraduate were merely means to an end. In Stone and Matthews Halls respectively, it was a body-dodging between classes experience making my way to the next lecture. Now that I have read the history of my "fore-sisters" in Angie Klink's new book, Divided Paths Common Ground, how m. "Diaries quips telling" according to Jo. The Diaries that the author had access to were revealing not only into the lives of the two sisters but in the era in which they lived.With the diary entries the history of Tippecanoe County and Purdue University are made so much more real.The hard work of all these women in a time where conveniences were few made this book a read in persever
According to those who knew them, Lella was a sparkler who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene, safe water, childcare, and more. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.. As a land grant institution, Purdue University has always been very connected to the American countryside. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. Reserved Mary established Purdue's School of Home Economics, created Indiana's first nursery school, and authored a popular text
Angie was the scriptwriter for the public education documentary Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote. Deborah Hutchison, President and Founder of Gutsy Gals Inspire Me said, "Your film has helped to support our mission of promoting talented women writers and directors of film, and putting wome