5.3 Current: Home demonstration agent
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Ruth Current is the first woman on the left standing in the back row. Provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries. About the photograph
When she began working with the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service she was a Home Demonstration Agent and also served as Assistant State 4H Leader.
From 1937 to 1957 Miss Current served as State Agent where she worked hard to make sure farm families had opportunities to learn new skills to use on their farms and in their homes.
Contents
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Movie
- 3 Monument activity: Jane McKimmon
- 4 Monument activity: Josephus Daniels
- 5 Monument activity: Ruth Current
- 5.1Current: Early years
- 5.2Current: Home economics
- 5.3Current: Home demonstration agent
- 5.4Current: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
- 5.5Current: Woman of the Year
- 5.6Current: Hall of Fame
- 5.7Current: Helping farm families
- 6 Monument activity: Lera Harrill
- 7 Monument activity: William Scott
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