Dorothy Newton

Title: Dorothy Newton
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service 4-H clubs
Description: Dorothy Newton Belle was a home demonstration agent who worked extensively with the 4-H Club, employed from 1946 to 1953. She was born in 1922 in Coquille, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Science from Linfield College in the field of home economics and business administration. She completed graduate work at OSC’s 1946 summer session. Before coming to OSC, she spent two years as a home economics teacher at Newberg Union High School. She was hired to work with Washington County, at $2904 per year. In 1949, she was transferred to become senior home economics worker in Curry County, receiving a raise and promotion in rank to assistant professor. In 1951, she became the City Extension Agent in Portland, a new position created to work with the 4-H Club. For this, she received a raise and indefinite tenure. Throughout her time in Washington and Curry counties, she spent about one-half of her time working with the 4-H Club, and so was the ideal choice. In 1953, at a salary of $5,136, she resigned to be married.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1945
Identifier: P092:0421
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