3 collections related to Home economics extension workers

The Juanita Lagg Cooperative Extension Papers consists of records pertaining to North Carolina Extension Homemakers work from 1915 to 2014. The records include photographs, letters, notes, correspondences, newspaper articles, a scrapbook, and other records relating to Juanita Lagg's work with Home Demonstration and Extension organizations. Juanita Lagg actively volunteered with the Rowan County Extension and Community Association for over fifty years. She joined the Rowan County Home Demonstration in 1956 and served in leadership positions at the club, county, district, state, and national level. She served as president of the North Carolina Extension Homemakers in 1971. She was the International Chairman for the National Extension Homemakers in the late 1970s. The North Carolina Extension Homemakers sent Lagg as a delegate to multiple triannual conferences of the Associated Country Women of the World. Lagg researched and directed the North Carolina Extension Homemakers water project in Guatamala that brought clean water to three villages. In 1981, she was appointed by the governor to the Rowan County Board of Social Services and served two three-year terms. Less

The records of the North Carolina Extension and Community Association document the activities of the association from 1916 to 2023, with the bulk of the records falling between 1929 and 1975. The files contain correspondence and memoranda, programs and brochures, reports, meeting minutes and agenda, member lists, financial information, clippings, news releases, photographs, and handbooks and yearbooks. The association was organized in 1920 as the Federation of Home Bureaus, and the name changed to the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs in 1924. An African American organization was formed in 1940, and it integrated with its white counterpart in 1966. The current designation was assumed in 1995. Less