Lemo Rockwood papers

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Identifier: 23-13-2984

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Subject files of Professor Rockwood, including material relating to family life, parenthood, and education; also, notes, reprints, monographs and other professional working papers, and material relating to Martha Van Rensselaer.

Dates

1912-1948.

Creator

Rockwood, Lemo Dennis, 1896-1982. (Person)
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor emeritus of marriage and family life education, New York State College of Home Economics.

Lemo Rockwood received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska in 1919 and her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1926. In 1929, she came to Cornell on a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship to work for a Ph.D. degree in sociology and psychology with a special emphasis on the family, which she received in 1931. In 1935 Rockwood was hired as an extension specialist in the New York State College of Home Economics. The following year she was promoted to full professor, and from 1937 until her retirement in 1958 she devoted herself primarily to undergraduate teaching and research.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

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Physical Description

Subject files, notes, reprints, monographs, and other material.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Eileen Keating
Date completed:: June 2004
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, June 2004
Date modified:: RMC Staff, December 2012