University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MISS CELESTE CHOVVEN This popular State School is now giving to Minnesota every year many thoroughly trained young women ambitious to return to the farm to help improve conditions in aggri- cultural communities and to make happier farm homes. Greenhouse Laboratory-All girls were required to take this work in 1900. c Tfuc111'y-.vi.v A

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L fl. H ., ' E357-af i Tiff.. 72 N N I Tffffii .:.-112' iucibffit' Qs Liifik' I I iikiov. K I fiitil . K ' -.17 I Hifi 53: fciif .-iw 51, .1 U gd' Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith Catherine Comfort QQ MRS. VIRGINIA C. MEREDITH 33 The School of Agriculture has been very fortunate in having as preceptresses 333 some very able women. ' Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith was the first preceptress, serving in that capacity ,461 for six years, 1897-1903. It was she who laid the foundation for the Home Eco- nomics Course for girls. Mrs. Meredith was a practical farm woman, having managed 'P her own farm since the death of her husband in 1882. She has been a successful may exhibitor of Shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep. She has been active in pro- moting the formation of literary clubs among the farm women and at one time was :Eff president of the Indiana Union of Literary Clubs. She served as chairman of the committee on awards of the board of lady managers in the Columbian Exposition. V1.5 After leaving the School of Agriculture, she engaged in farming until 1916. Since A then she has been active in club work for women. She is at present a trustee of Purdue University, the Land Grant College of Indiana. Wliile Mrs. Meredith was at ff the School of Agriculture, Miss Ellen H. Richards of Boston visited the school and E366 said of her work here, Mrs, Meredith, you are doing in Minnesota what we are We-.fi talking about doing in the East. ,pq MISS CATHERINE COMFORT Miss Catherine Comfort was preceptress in the School of Agriculture from 1903-1905. Since leaving the school Miss Comfort has taken two .years of graduate 'qi work at the University of Chicago, has taught at Mills College, California, in Brad- ley Institute, Peoria, Illinois, and in Iowa State College at Ames. Since 1923 Miss ggi Comfort has been in the Big Sisters' Department, of the Woman's Co-operative ,jst Alliance in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ,Lf S215 Q? fr fi M'mfz.tf. - i g5fgQl:ali '5tg2ff'Ngx-wig., g - . ff ff' to ' 'fig --' Tr-me y in-,Jo ' f 1' lf ' f 1 ' ' 'U-f11M1.2.,.1 342' . Page Tzusrzty-ciiglzf .nf