PROFESSOR A. G. STRONG. 0.B. E.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10

PROFESSOR A. G. STRONG. 0.8. E.

Dean of the Home Science Department of Otago University, Professor A. G. Strong, 0.8. E., is noted for her distinguished service in the cause of education in the higher branches of domestic science. Under her supervision. Studholme House has attained a standing which is recognised beyond New Zealand. Born in the United States, Mrs. Strong was educated at Bucknell University, and later at Columbia University, where she obtained the degree of bachelor of science. She was afterwards appointed professor of home economics and dean of

women at the University of Tennessee. The important positions of director of household arts at the University of Cincinnati and later at Baroda, India, followed. Mrs. Strong is at present director of the Homo Science Extension Bureau, and president of the House Economics Association. She has always taken a keen interest in women's organisations, and as a member of the provincial executives has rendered valuable assistance to the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union and the Women's Institute. Mrs. Strong has written valuable text books, including one for a high school for girls in India, and "Domestic Science." and she also was the author of the chapter on household arts in Dn Paul Monroe's "Secondary Education."