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BRYAN COUNTY HISTORY: Woman teaching women
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Women’s farm clubs existed shortly after statehood and gradually evolved into Home Demonstration Clubs. In 1914 Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, mandating that state and local governments match federal funding to “establish agricultural extension work by trained men and women agents.” Their mission was to provide information on agricultural and home economy topics to citizens who had not attended college. Emma A. Chandler, an A&M graduate in domestic science, was selected to direct the state s program.
By 1918 seventy-three Oklahoma counties had home demonstration agents. Most were trained at Oklahoma A & M College (now OSU). They traveled throughout the state and conducted lessons in gardening, raising poultry, using a pressure cooker, cooking nutritious meals, sewing, and household sanitation. Each year a major topic was chosen, such as “Live at Home” (1931). Nina Gordon Craig was the Bryan C
Elizabeth "Liz" DeMier Follis of Miami, Oklahoma passed away on January 3, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma from the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. She was 79.Born June 21, 1941 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, Liz was the daughter of Fred DeMier and Martha K. DeMier.Liz began her formal education in Miami, Oklahoma before moving to Tulsa to begin the eighth grade at Tulsa Edison Jr High School. She graduated from Tulsa Edison Sr High School with the class of 1959. She then attended the