Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Oregon State University
University Archives
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone: 541-737-2165
Email: archives@oregonstate.edu
Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
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Collection Number:
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Consult repository.
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Creator:
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Clark, Ava
Milam, 1884-1976
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Title:
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Ava Milam Clark Papers
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Dates:
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1888-1972 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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6.6 cubic feet
1 microfilm reel
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Languages:
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Materials in
English
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Summary:
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The Ava Milam Clark Papers document
Clark's role as Dean of Home Economics at Oregon State College from 1917 to
1950 and her international activities as a consultant to home economics
programs in China, Japan, Korea, Iraq, and Syria.
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Biographical Note
Ava Milam Clark was born on November 27, 1884 in Macon, Missouri. She
was one of five daughters of Ancil and Louisa Milam. She attended the
University of Chicago and obtained her Ph.B. in 1910 and her A.M. degree in
1911. Ava Milam Clark taught two years in public school, 1902-1904, and at
Blees Military Academy (Macon, Mo.) from 1904-1907. She was an instructor of
Foods and Nutrition at Iowa State College in the summer of 1911, after which
she came to Oregon Agricultural College.
From 1911 until 1916 she was professor and head of the Department of
Foods and Nutrition. She was made Dean of the School of Home Economics in 1917,
serving in that capacity until 1950. In 1922 Clark went to China to help
establish a home economics department at Yenching University in Peking. She
left Oregon State College in 1931 for one year to work as a consultant in home
economics at various universities in the Far East. In 1932 she was made
Director of Home Economics for the Oregon State System of Higher Education.
In the summer of 1937 Clark and Alma Fritchoff conducted a home
economics tour to China and Japan. For five and one-half months in 1948 she
acted as a consultant in home economics colleges in Korea and China and made an
educational survey in the Philippines for the Foreign Missions Conference of
North America. From 1950 until 1952 Clark served as a home economics advisor to
the governments of Syria and Iraq for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO). She retired from OSC in 1950 and was made Dean Emeritus.
Clark wrote many articles for various professional magazines and two
books,
A Study of Student Homes of China (1930),
and her autobiography,
Adventures of a Home Economist, with Kenneth
Munford (OSU Press, 1969). Ava Milam married J.C. Clark on November 1, 1952.
She received the Distinguished Service Award from OSU in 1966 and the same
award from Yonsei University in 1968. Ava Milam Clark died on August 14,
1976.
Content Description
The papers of Ava Milam Clark consist of seven boxes containing
correspondence from 1903 until 1971; speeches on the Orient; information on
Chinese family customs; Food and Agriculture Organization monthly reports;
information on education in Syria, Iraq, and the Philippines; travel
itineraries; radio talks, 1933-1954; notes; quotations; photographs; awards;
information on home economics at OSU; newspaper clippings; student reports and
term papers; her two books; and various items belonging to J.C. Clark, her
husband. The reel of microfilm consists of J. C. Clark's YMCA letters and
reports from 1911-1918.
Boxes 1-4 were rearranged according to accepted rules for manuscript
collections. Boxes 5 and 6 consist of information used in writing her
autobiography and were transferred to the Archives by the OSU Office of
Publications. The two boxes were left in the order received. Box 7 consists of
photographs of Ava Milam and Jesse Clark, friends and family; Ava Milam Clark's
travels abroad; and her homes in Corvallis and McKenzie Bridge, Oregon.
Arrangement
Organized into several groupings by type of material. Most groupings
arranged chronologically.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation Ava Milam Clark Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Subjects
| Clark, Ava
Milam, 1884-1976. |
| Clark, J. C.
(Jesse Claude), 1881-1956. |
| Snell,
Margaret Comstock, 1843-1923. |
| American
Baptist Assembly (Green Lake, Wis.) |
| Blees Military Academy. |
| Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
| Oregon State
College. School of Home Economics. |
| Yanjing da
xue. |
| Young Men's
Christian Associations of China. |
| Young Men's Christian Associations of the City of New
York. |
| Baghdad
(Iraq) |
| Beirut
(Lebanon) |
| Damascus
(Syria) |
| Jerusalem. |
| Architecture--China. |
| Home
economics--China. |
| Home economics--International
cooperation. |
| Home economics--Iraq. |
| Home
economics--Japan. |
| Home
economics--Korea. |
| Home economics--Study and
teaching--China. |
| Home economics--Study and
teaching--Oregon. |
| Home
economics--Syria. |
| Home
economists--Oregon. |
| Photographs. |
| Adventures of a
Home Economist. |
| Other Creators : |
| Munford, James
Kenneth. |
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Teachers Certificate and
Convocation Program - University of Chicago
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Thesis, "Factors Affecting the
Economic and Dietetic Value of Foods", 1911
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Speeches on Home
Economics
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Student Reports and Term
Papers
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J.C. Clark
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Container(s)
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Description
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Address Books
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American Baptist Assembly
Green Lake, Wisconsin
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Articles Written by J.C.
Clark
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Correspondence, 1932-1956
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Diary (1954) and
Notebook
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Obituaries
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YMCA Letters and
Reports, 1911-1918
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Certificate, newspaper
clipping, poems, itinerary, RR pass, health report
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YMCA Material
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Book of Letters from Former
Students and Colleagues
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YMCA Reports (J.C.
Clark), 1911-1927
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Correspondence, 1903-1950
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Correspondence, 1951-1971
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Correspondence to Margaret Snell
(from OAC) (copies), 1888-1889
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Letters after J.C. Clark's
passing
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Personal letters, 1930-1936; 1952-1971
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J.C. Clark's letters to
children
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Personal letters to each other
(Ava & J.C. Clark)
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Note cards - Chinese Family
Customs
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Orient
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Container(s)
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Description
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Chinese Family and
Homes
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Chinese Marriage
Customs
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China-Miscellaneous
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Chinese Survey
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Education in
China
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Japan-Journal of
Japan
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Korean Diet
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A Study of Student Homes of
China
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Manuscript
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Book
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Reviews of
book
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Miscellaneous Papers on
China
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Speeches on the
Orient
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The Korean People (with
photos)
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Yenching
University
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Board of Trustees
Newsletters, 1930-1946
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Yenching News and
Miscellaneous information, 1924-1945
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Alumni News, 1968-1969
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Yonsei University
Journal
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Home Economics Conference in the
Caribbean
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Middle East
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Container(s)
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Description
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Reports on the Arab
World
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Lebanon-Miscellaneous
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Education in
Syria
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Syria-Miscellaneous
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Iraq-Education and Home
Economics
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Iraq-FAO Monthly
Reports
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Iraq-Queen Aliya
College
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Iraq-Report of a Mission to
Iraq
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Iraq-Status of
Women
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Iraq-Travel
Information
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Philippine Islands
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Container(s)
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Description
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About the Country Educational
Committee
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Home Economics
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Schools and
Colleges
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Articles on Home Economics (by
others)
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Biennial Reports (Home
Economics), 1914-1950
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Blueprint for Ava Milam's
House
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Booklets -
Camp Cookery and
others
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Early Publications from England
on Training for the Home
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Faculty List (School of Home
Economics), 1889-1970
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Guest Books (two
folders)
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OSU Home Economics Alumni
Conference, 1968
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Home Economics Student
Projects
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Home Economics at other U.S.
Universities
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Identification card, short
biography
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Interesting
Personalities
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Journal of Home Economics by
Sarah Arnold
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Miscellaneous Speeches by Ava
Milam Clark
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Newspaper Articles on Ava Milam
Clark
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Newspaper clippings on
OSU
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Newspaper clippings about Ava
Milam Clark, J.C. Clark, OSU, and other topics
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Oregon Home Economics
Association
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Oregon Staters (pertaining to
Home Economics)
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Pamplets on 5Oth, 6Oth, and 75th
Anniversary (OSU)
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Radio Talks on Foreign
Countries
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Reviews of book,
Adventures of a Home
Economist
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Expansion Histories of the
Departments of the School of Home Economics
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First Trip to China (folders 1
and 2)
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Research in Home Economics at
OSU
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Typescripts to chapters 22,
"Syria," and 23, "Iraq," from
Adventures of a Home
Economist
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Philippines (folders 1 and
2)
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Biography (Ava Milam
Clark)
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Mailing List (for
manuscript)
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Papers (written by
others)
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Reader Comments (on
autobiography), 1966-1972
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Reviews of
Adventures of a Home
Economist
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Adventures of a Home Economist
miscellaneous
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Adventures of a Home Economist
production
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Development of Home
Economics, to
1911
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Home Economics in Oregon to
1911-Margaret Snell
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Early Years as Dean, 1917-1922
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Home is the Heart of Society-My
Philosophy
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First Trip to China (two
folders)
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Important People I Met and
Quotations
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Clark, Ava Milam
(biography)
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Replys from Former
Students
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Comments Re: Mrs. Clark's
Manuscript
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Reactions to
Manuscript, 1966-1967
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Correspondence Regarding
Manuscript, 1968
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University of Chicago
diplomas, 1909, 1910 & 1911
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U.S. Food Administration
Certificate of Appreciation, 1918
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Photographs
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Container(s)
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Description
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Ava as a young
woman
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Blees Students, 1905-1907
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Ava Milam Clark, 1922-1968
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Homes
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Friends
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J.C. Clark
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Ava and J.C.
Clark
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Grandchildren
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China
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Chinese Students
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Chinese
Architecture
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Philippines
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Syria, 1951
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Baghdad, 1952
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Adventures of a Home
Economist (photos of book)
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Negatives
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Drawings of
Buildings
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