Betty Baker House : an honors thesis video[(HONRS 499)]

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Authors
Baker, Erin L.
Advisor
Issue Date
1998
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Thesis (B.?.)
Department
Honors College
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Abstract

This video is a brief exploration of the life and experiences of Betty Baker House, an eighty-three year-old mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother whose unique opportunities and decisions since 1914 have distinguished her as an educated, resilient, and caring woman. As a woman who has been surrounded largely by men during most of her years, both personally and professionally, Betty Baker House's dignity and self-respect has inspired her four grand-daughters to try to follow her example. Her personal dedication to education and educating also serves as an inspiration to Betty's family and peers. Although her life experiences have not been terribly extraordinary, they have been unique enough to shape Betty Baker House into an extraordinary woman. This video provides some insight into the happenings, both horrible and happy, both irritating and educating, that shaped one long life, that of Betty Baker House, into something to look back upon with sentiment and with pride.