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"Home Extension Leader Resigning"
One of Nebraska's outstanding and veteran educational leaders, known
to thousands of rural homemakers, is retiring on July 1 after 28 years of
pioneering in work with homemaking education. She is Miss Mary Ellen
Brown, state home extension leader at the University of Nebraska college
of Agriculture.
Born in an early pioneering Nebraska farm home, Miss Brown has always
known the challenges and difficulties of the rural home. Her father, as
a young bridge builder, helped push the original line of the Union Pacific
across the Nebraska plains. Her mother, coming to the state in 1867, was
one of Nebraska's earliest teachers, first in a small one-roomed school
in the country northwest of Fremont and then in the "newly organized town"
of Fremont.
Miss Brown's early training was in a rural school. After teaching in
Fremont, she came to Lincoln and taught here before continuing her studies
at the University of Nebraska. In 1909, she entered the department of
home economics and taught here before continuing her studies at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska. In 1909, she entered the department of home economics
and taught in that department upon her graduation and then joined the
agricultural extension service in 1917 as assistant state 4-H club leader.
She wrote the first circular for 4-H clothing club and revised the foods
circular to adapt them to 4-H age. Miss Brown has always felt that new
developments were important in the growth of the extension service and
were necessary for growth and originality. With this in mind, she helped
organize the Keep-Well project in 4-H club work.
In 1923, Miss Brown was asked to take the directorship of the women's
work in the extension service. Home demonstration work then was with
individual clubs. The number of project clubs grew until a new system of
educational work was developed with two leaders for each club. There are
now 1,220 home demonstration in 88 Nebraska counties with a membership of
17,850 women. In addition to the organization of home demonstration clubs,
Miss Brown organized Nebraska study clubs. When radio came into use, the
program entitled, "Mrs. True Homemaker" was originated by Miss Brown on
KFAB.
Miss Brown will complete her service with the extension service with
seven district meetings of the Nebraska council of home demonstration clubs.
She will retire then with a record of leadership development in Nebraska
and of helping thousands of homemakers study and understand their job of
homemaking.
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Mary Ellen Brown was a member of the Daughters Of The American Revolution
and she helped gather much of the material about our ancestors available to
us today.
She also helped Bonnie Brown, Lewis Clark Brown's first daughter, complete
her degree in Home Economics through financial assistance.
_Robert Merritt CHAMBERLAIN _
_Robert M. CHAMBERLAIN _|
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