Nora Talbot Papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1907-1949
Creator
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Biographical Sketch
Dean Talbot earned degrees from Oklahoma A & M College, Central State Normal College and Columbia University. Her first teaching job was in the Stillwater Public Schools. She moved to Nowata in 1910 where she established a home economics department. In 1916 she returned to Oklahoma A & M to head the department of household arts and eight years later became the dean. Under her guidance the department grew from a faculty of 12 to approximately 60 members. The department added programs and courses throughout Dean Talbot’s tenure.
Dean Talbot was a member of three honorary societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu and Delta Kappa Gamma. She was one of the first women inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. She was also active in the American Home Economics Association and numerous other professional organizations. Talbot passed away on January 7, 1970, and is buried in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Extent
0.5 Linear feet (1 letter box; 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Location
Processing Information
Updated by Tawny Taylor, September 2010.
Creator
- Title
- Nora Talbot Papers Collection Number 1996-004
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Mildred L. Jackson
- Date
- December 1996
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Oklahoma State University Archives Repository
204 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater 74078-1071 USA
libscua@okstate.edu