Myrtle Mae Carter

Title: Myrtle Mae Carter
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Home economics
Description: Myrtle Mae Carter was a home demonstration agent for the Federal Cooperative Extension at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1957. She was born in 1906, in Grants Pass, Oregon. She received her undergraduate education from Bahnke Walker Business college in 1928, and her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Oregon State University in 1940. She received her Master of Science from Oregon State College in 1942, and as a graduate, she also attended Columbia Teachers College. Her master’s thesis was titled, “Study of the Household Management Practices of Married H. Ec. Graduates of O.S.C. between the Years of 1925-29 and 1935-39”. Before becoming a demonstration agent, Carter worked as a supervisor at the Withycomb House at Oregon State and was a graduate assistant in the Household Administration in 1941. She was hired as an extension agent in 1942 and represented Umatilla County. Her annual salary was $2,694. Carter was also listed as a widow in 1942. In 1944, she became a home demonstration agent at-large.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0189
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University