Sweatt, John R. (Two-Year Agriculture Certificate, 1922-1923)
John R. Sweatt attended Iowa State College in 1922-1923. Like many African American students at the time, he graduated with a two-year “Non-Collegiate” degree in agriculture. While studying in Ames he lived at 226 ½ Main Street and 2510 Lincoln…
Myles, Marion Antoinette Richards (Ph.D., Botany, 1945)
Iowa State College Thesis Title: Relations of hormones to correlation in maize, 1945 Iowa State University Library Digital Repository Link:https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/68745
Fair, Eugene Lawrence (M.S., Agricultural Education, 1943)
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Factors that contribute to the failure of Negro teachers of vocational agriculture in Texas, 1943 Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://iowa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/12tutg/01IASU_ALMA21216550120002756
Terrell, Evanel Elizabeth Renfrow (Attended ISC 1926-1929)
Evanel Elizabeth Renfrow was born in 1908 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, where she graduated from Grinnell High School in 1926. Renfrow started her Bachelor’s degree coursework in Home Economics at Iowa State that fall…
Hopkins, Glee Jane Willoughby (M.S., Home Economics Education, 1935)
Glee J. Willoughby was born in 1906. Earning her master’s of science degree in Home Economics Education from Iowa State College in 1935, she became an Instructor of Home Economics at Winston-Salem State University, an HBU in North Carolina. She…
