Florence E. Blazier

Title: Florence E. Blazier
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Education
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Dr. Florence E. Blazier was an Associate Professor of Home Economics from 1924 to 1949. Blazier was born on September 24th, 1888, in Springfield, Indiana. She received her undergraduate education from the University of Chicago and the University of Indiana. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1932. Blazier had previously taught home economics in various grade schools and high schools throughout the 1910’s. She then taught home economics at Indiana University. She became the head of the Department of Home Economics Education in 1925 and held that position until her retirement. She was paid $2800 a year initially for this position, but by 1945, her salary had risen to $3770. She retired in 1949 due to an illness. Blazier tried to come back to work part-time when her health began improving, but she passed away in 1951.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:1041
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