Interview with Dorothy C. Camenisch, January 30, 1985

Interview Summary

Dorothy Cook Camenisch, a home economics county extension agent in Lincoln County, Kentucky, was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky on January 27, 1920. She states that she attended college at the University of Kentucky and graduated in 1940 with a B.S. degree in Vocational Home Economics. She secured a job as a Warren County Assistant Agent in Home Economics, and she describes the methods she used in training. She discusses living conditions and her job in rural Lincoln County, where she became a home demonstration agent in 1941.

Camensich explains the differences between the county approach and the area approach and says that most people preferred the county approach; she also explains the council hierarchy from county to area to state. Camenisch then describes how the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has helped with in-service training. She recounts some stories of her encounters while working with the College of Agriculture Operative Extension Program. Camenisch also describes her two daughters Caroline and Susan, her son Bernie, and her husband Bernard and how they were all members of 4-H and state project winners. Caroline and Susan are UK graduates.

Interview Keyword

Kentucky's Cooperative Extension Service

Interview LC Subject

Camenisch, Dorothy C., 1920- Camenisch, Dorothy C., 1920- --Interviews Home economics University of Kentucky University of Kentucky--History University of Kentucky. Cooperative Extension Service

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