Dr. McKimmon Praised by Carolina Co-operator, 1937

From the Editorial Page of the March, 1937 issue of the Carolina Co-Operator

After rounding out a quarter of a century as the moving force back of Home Demonstration Work in North Carolina, Dr. Jane S. McKimmon has retired as active head of the work to assume less acting duties of an advisory nature.

She will continue as Assistant Director of Extension and thus will be available for consultation on various problems affecting extension work. Dr. McKimmon also plans to write the record of the development of the Home Demonstration activities during the past 25 years. And what a record of progress that will be!

Dr. McKimmon became State Home Demonstration Agent in 1911 and is the only one of the five original home agents left in service throughout the United States. Her dream, which had its beginning in 1911, with a handful of canning club girls has steadily come true until today there are some 59,000 farm women and girls enrolled in the various clubs which have for the purpose the building of a more satisfying rural home in the State.

In relinquishing her more exacting duties at the height of her power, Mrs. McKimmon has had a rare courage and broad vision that few people possess. If Mrs. McKimmon cares to do so she can now relax to a certain degree ad look back upon the long list of achievements which she made for the betterment of farm life in North Carolina. But knowing Mrs. McKimmon as we do—and not only is she the sweetest and kindest, but the most progressive that we’ve ever met—we seriously doubt if she will be content with mere “looking back.” Her eyes are always in the front and her broad vision enables her to see much farther ahead than the majority of us.

Just the same Dr. McKimmon has done far more than her share of making the world, especially the rural part of it, a better place in which to live. She now deserves to take life easier—and we hope that she will do just that.