BU-06334 1994

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Minnesota Extension Home Economics Past and Present

Part Seven:

Extension Home Economics Staff

1914 to 1993

by Evelyn Quesenberry McDonald

State Extension Home Economics faculty members provide statewide program leadership. Bottom row, from left: Marlene Stum, Sherri Gahring, Craig Hassel, Sharon Danes. Top row: JoEllen Feirtag, William Schafer, David McAllister, Jean Bauer, Ronald Pitzer, Susan Meyers. Not shown: Paul Addis, Harold Alexander, William Angell, Marilyn Bode, Linda Bradley, Frank Busta, Mary Darling, Harold Grotevant, Marilyn Johnson, Janet Macy, Earl Morris, Wanda Olson, Marla Reicks, Ellen Schuster, and Geraldine Skogen.

These lists were compiled by Evelyn McDonald from personnel records in the Minnesota Extension Service director's office. They were completed in October 1993, and although some dates are approximate, they are as accurate as possible.

**State Leaders**
Julia Newton, State Leader	1920 – 1948
Dorothy Simmons, State Leader	1948 – 1964
Roland Abraham, Acting State Leader	1964 – 1967
Evelyn Quesenberry McDonald, Program Director	1967 – 1982
Irene Ott, Acting Program Director	1983 – 1986
Shirley Baugher, Assistant Director	1986 – 1991
Mary Ann Smith, Acting Assistant Director	1991 – 1993
Craig Hassel, Acting Collegiate Program Leader (half-time)	1993 – Present

**Assistant State Leaders**
Adele Koch, Asst. Home Demonstration Leader	1920 – 1922
Eva L. Blair	1928 – 1949
Beatrice McGrath, Asst. State Home Demonstration Leader	1939
Ina B. Rowe, Asst. State Home Demonstration Leader	1936 – 1939
Mildred Sailor Fredrickson, Asst. State Home Demonstration Leader	1939 – 1943
Charlotte Kirchner, Asst. State Home Demonstration Leader	1943 – 1953
Amy Wessel Newcomb, Asst. State Home Demonstration Leader	1943 – 1945
Angele Parker, Assistant Program Leader	1977 – 1979
Irene Ott, State Program Leader	1980 – 1986
Eileen Anderson, Acting Program Leader	Sept. 1982
Janet Krofta, Assistant to Assistant Director	1986 – 1987
Sherri Johnson Gahring, Acting State Program Leader	1986 – 1987
Diane K. Flynn, Program Leader	1990
Barbara A. Warren, Acting Program Leader	1991 – 1992
Shirley Anderson, Acting Program Leader	1989 – 1990
Marilyn H. Grantham, Extension Program Leader	1983 – Present
Rodney B. Hamer, Extension Program Leader	1985 – Present
Diane Martenson, Extension Program Leader	1983 – Present
Barbara Warren, Extension Program Leader	1993 – Present

**District Supervisors, Directors, Home Economists**
Esther McKowen, District Supervisor	1945 – 1950
Evelyn Morrow, District Supervisor	1945 – 1956
Amy Wessel Newcomb, District Supervisor	1945 – 1950
Doris Wyman Anderson, District Supervisor	1950 – 1954
Minerva Jenson, District Supervisor/ Assistant Director	1950 – 1976
Margaret Jacobson Bubolz, District Supervisor	1954
Caroline Fredrickson, District Supervisor/ Assistant Director	1954 – 1973
Rosella Qualey, District Supervisor/ Assistant Director	1954 – 1982
Eleanor Gifford, District Supervisor	1961 – 1963
Arleen Barkeim, District Supervisor/Director	1961 – 1981
Cathryn Berntson Huntsman, Assistant District Director	1972 – 1980
Marguerite Green Sanford, Assistant District Director	1972 – 1979
Ruth Edberg, Assistant District Director	1972 – 1980
Dennis Seefeldt, District Director	1972 – 1991
Barbara Muesing, District Program Leader	1979 – 1983
Mary Luttinen, District Program Leader	1983 – 1984
Lois Ingels Goering, District Program Leader	1983 – 1988
Lorilee Sandmann, District Program Leader	1983 – 1990
Nancy Frosaker Johnson, District Program Leader	1979 – 1986
Jon Groth, Acting State Program Leader	1986 – 1990
Linda Jacobson, District Program Leader	1986 – 1987
Ronald Jones, District Program Leader/Director	1990 – 1993
Gordon Shafer, District Program Leader/Director	1993 – Present
Pauline Nickel, District Program Leader/Director	1993 – Present
Larry Tande, District Program Leader/Director	1993 – Present
Sheila A. Barbetta, District Director	1993 – Present

**State Extension Home Economics Specialists**
Bess Rowe, Gen. Home Economics/ State Leader	1914 – 1916
Juniata Shepperd, Household Engineering	1916 – 1923
Mary Bull, Home Management	1916 – 1923
Margaret Blair	1916
Mary Wetmore, Public Health	1916 – 1917
Cora Cooke, Poultry	1921 – 1945
Josephine Creelman, Health and Home Nursing	1917 – 1921
Lucy Cordiner, Nutrition	1917 – 1923
Annabel Campbell, Poultry Flock Improvement	1920
Esther Cooley, Clothing	1920 – 1921
Nora Holt, Clothing	1920 – 1921
Eunice Ryan	1921 – 1922
Fairie Mallory	1921 – 1922
Lily A. Lenhart	1921 – 1922
Bessie Willis	1921 – 1922
Inez Hobart, Nutrition	1924 – 1953
M. Lois Reid, Clothing	1925
Eves Whitfield, Clothing and Millinery	1926 – 1956
Mary May Miller, Home Management	1928 – 1952
Eva L. Blair, Home Management	1928 – 1949
Belle Osborn Fish Thompson, Child Development/Family Relations	1929 – 1942
Charlotte Kirchner, Home Furnishings	1930 – 1943
Alice Linn, Clothing	1939 – 1948
Pearl Cummings, Family Life	1943 – 1952
Athelene Scheid, Clothing	1946 – 1972
Grace Brill, Nutrition	1950 – 1972
Lucille Holaday, Home Management	1952 – 1953
Edna Jordahl Cowles, Home Management	1952 – 1981
Myra Zabel, Home Furnishings	1954 – 1971
Eleanor Loomis, Consumer Marketing	1955 – 1962
Charles Martin, Family Life	1955 – 1967
Marion Melrose, Physically Handicapped	1958 – 1973
Eleanor Gifford, Foods and Nutrition	1958 – 1959
Genevieve Moffitt, Foods and Nutrition	1958 – 1959
Verna Mikesh, Foods and Nutrition	1959 – 1970
Data Hochholter, Home Improvement	1959
Shirley Erickson, Clothing	1959
Janice Fitzsimmons, Clothing	1960 – 1961
Mary L. Miller, Home Improvement	1960 – 1965
Thelma Baierl, Clothing	1961 – 1974
Mary Frances Lamison, Home Management	1962 – 1978
Rachel Munson, Home Furnishings	1964 – 1965
Huldah Curl, Arts Education Coordinator	1964 – 1982
Ronald Pitzer, Family Life/Family Sociologist	1965 – Present
Harriet Meldahl, Home Economics Rehabilitation	1965 – 1980
Beverly Lundgren, Information Answering Service	1966 – 1972
Mary Jean Stobb (part-time)	1965
Allen Quick, Housing	1966 – 1968
Glenda Humphries, Household Equipment	1966 – 1969
Mary Darling, Nutrition	1970 – Present
Robert Olson, Food Service Management	1970 – 1983
Sheryl Nefstead, Information Answering Service	1970 – 1973
Wanda Warnes Olson, Food Service Management	1970 – Present
Susan Meyers, Family Life, Family Sociologist	1970 – Present
Louise Mullan, Food Service Management	1970 – Present
Gerald Semmler, Psychology	1971 – 1976
William Angell, Housing	1971 – Present
Muriel Brink, Nutrition	1971 – 1979
Linda Reece, Interior Design/ Furnishings	1972 – 1975
Karel Stradness, Information Answering Service	1972 – 1975
Eileen Anderson, 4-H Clothing	1972
Isabel Wolf, Nutrition	1972 – 1982
Patricia Kramm, Information Answering Service	1973 – 1984
Lois Ingels Goering, Clothing	1974 – 1983
Oscar Snyder, Food Service Management	1974 – 1985
Sherri Johnson Gahring, Clothing/ Textiles/Apparel	1975 – Present
Kathleen Mangum, Information Answering Service	1975 – 1983
Carl Fredrickson, Rural Sociology(half time)	1978
Roger Peterson, Household Energy	1978 – 1988
Richard Krueger, EFNEP(half time)	1978 – 1983
Dorothy Goss, Family Resource Management	1979 – 1985
Harold Alexander, Interior Design/ Home Furnishing	1980 – Present
Cherilyn Nelson, Textiles and Clothing	1981 – 1985
Joanne Slavin, Nutrition	1981 – 1988
Rachel Ewaldson, WILL Project(part-time)	1981
Judy Moen, Home Economics/Family Living (part-time)	1982
Kathleen Mangum, Volunteer Budget Consultant Program	1983 – 1987
Jean Bauer, Family Resource Management	1983 – Present
Sharon Danes, Family Resource Management	1986 – Present
Rebecca Knittle, Rural Mental Health Project	1983
Jan Zielke, Admin. Intern/Computer Software	1983 – 1984
Ellen Richards, EFNEP Nutritionist	1985 – Present
Ed Blonz, Nutritionist	1986 – 1987
Donna Rae Waldock Scheffert, Leadership Program Coordinator	1986 – 1987
Craig Hassel, Nutritionist	1988 – 1993
Marlene Stum, Family Resource Management	1988 – Present
Phillip Thompson, Indoor Air Quality	1986
Paul Addis, Food Science	1990 – Present
Vernal Packard, Nutrition	1990
Linda Dieleman, Intercollegiate Nutrition Consortium	1988 – 1991
Marilyn Bode, Design, Housing and Apparel	1990 – Present
Sonya Gambrel, Nutritionist	1990
Marla Riecks, Nutritionist	1990 – Present
William Shafer, Food Technologist	1990 – Present
Ellen R. Schuster, EFNEP Program Coordinator, Nutritionist	1985 – Present
Marilyn Johnson, Family Nutrition Program Coordinator	1993 – Present

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