Joan Booth Kearney

Title: Joan Booth Kearney
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Home economics
Description: Joan Booth Kearney briefly held the position of Emergency Assistant at Large (Instructor rank) in 1946. She was born in 1922 in Toledo, Oregon, and began attending Oregon State College as an undergraduate in 1939, with a focus on child development and political science. Before finishing her degree, she spent three years working for the War Department at Camp Adair in the purchasing department. She returned to OSC and completed her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics in Spring 1946, and shortly thereafter applied for a position at the college. She applied and was accepted for the position of Emergency Assistant at Large (Instructor rank) to the tune of $2,400 per year, with the eventual likelihood of becoming a home demonstration agent in the future. At this point, her husband had recently returned from overseas, and the two were currently childless. Due to unknown reasons, Mrs. Kearney soon found it impossible to accept the position and withdrew her application. She passed away in 1992, at the age of seventy.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1945
Identifier: P092:0907
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