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 | : | 4.37 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557535914 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Angie holds a BA from the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. Angie writes biographies, h
It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.. Reserved Mary established Purdue's School of Home Economics, created Indiana's first nursery school, and authored a popular textbook. In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. As a land grant institution, Purdue University has always been very connected to the American countryside. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. Both women used their natural talents and connections to achieve their goals in spite of a male-dominated society. Mary
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 fifty-seven American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards and an honorable mention in the 2007 Erma Bombeck Writers' Competition. Angie has attended the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton on five occasions. Abou
"Fascinating, entertaining and enlightening" according to 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 all too human in this engaging story. I found the details about their childhoods, their families and home lives as well as the accounts of their struggles with male colleagues . The Big Ladies on Campus! 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 my vision of those halls have changed. Thanks to Klink, I am the better for it. The earliest roots of "girl power" can be found between the pages documenting the lives and care. Diaries quips telling 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 perseverance, determination and inspiration.