Joane S. Wohlgenaut

Title: Joane S. Wohlgenaut
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Home economics
Description: Joane Sophia Wohlgenaut was an instructor in home economics education from 1956 to 1962. She was born in 1925 in Miles City, Montana. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Montana State College in 1948 in home economics, with additional study in biology. She then earned her Master of Education in Home Economics Education from Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1956. Before coming to OSC, she worked as a homemaking teacher throughout Montana, and was a Supervising Teacher for the Home Economics Department of Montana State College at Helena Senior High School. She was chairman of an evaluation committee to evaluate the Montana Home Economics Curriculum Guide, and was an advisor for the pacific region of the National Executive Council of Future Homemakers. She was also Supervising Teacher on the Program Planning Committee for the Pacific Region. She attended several conferences, including the Pacific Regional Home Economics Education Conference in 1953 and 1954, and the National Future Homemakers Conference, representing the State Advisor in 1953. At OSC, Wohlgenaut was hired for $4,500 for a ten month term, coming recommended by Dr. Dubois and by the State Board. She became an assistant professor in 1961. In 1962 she resigned, at a salary of $6,900, to accept a position in the Home Economics Education Department at Washington State University. She was a member, Chairman, and Councilor of the Montana chapter of the American Home Economics Association,; Vice President representing Home Economics with the American Vocational Association; and was a member of the National Education Association. She was also a member of the American Association of University Women and the Business and Professional Women’s Club.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1956-09-01
Identifier: P092:1017
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