Elnora Ana E. Owens earned a master’s degree in Home Economics from Iowa State College in 1932. After graduating from Iowa State, in 1935 she was listed as the Supervisor of Directed Teaching in the Division of Home Economics at the Virginia State College for Negroes (presently Virginia State University). Like other Iowa Staters, she was listed as an attendee at the banquet held by the Iowa State Alumni Association for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee, in 1935. In the early 1940s Owens became an Assistant Professor of Home Economics. Her family has several ties to the university; the Owens building at Virginia State University was named after her father.
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Home activities and housing conditions of Negro girls in the rural secondary schools of Virginia as an index to their curricular needs, 1932
Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990006522850102756
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Biography available at HBCU Connections at Iowa State University : Anna E. Owens http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Anna_E._Owens )
