Ethel Bushnell Waring papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 23-13-550

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, research reports, films, voluminous nursery school records, and other materials constituting a history of the Department of Child Development and Family Relationships from its beginning as courses in child guidance in the 1924 summer school to becoming an independent department. Also, one volume with typescript history of the department, student papers for Mrs. Waring, and lessons for Christian agricultural missions in China, 1942.

Dates

[ca. 1917-1965]

Creator

Waring, Ethel Bushnell, 1887-1972. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of home economics, Cornell University.

In 1927 Ethel Waring came to Cornell as professor of home economics in what was then the Department of Family Life. In 1945 the name was changed to the Department of Child Development and Family Relationships. This department is now called Human Development and Family Studies. Her greatest interest was in child guidance. She wrote six Cornell Extension bulletins, published two books, and was a consulting editor for PARENTS Magazine and other child-parent related publications.

Extent

78.5 cubic feet. (78.5 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Physical Description

Correspondence, films, records

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:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: September 1989
EAD encoding:: Dan Sterner, August 2006