KIM TURNER
About the Award Dr. Agnes (Anderson) Jones was a high school home economics teacher, a supervisor of home economics student teachers at UW-Madison, Home Economics Department Chair at Northern Illinois University before she was appointed as head of Home Economics at what was then Wisconsin State College-Stevens Point in 1957. For the next 24 years, Dr. Jones headed home economics in its most successful years when enrollment grew from 100 to almost 800. Dr. Jones and her faculty were innovative creators of programs and during one five-year period received more than half a million federal dollars. She and Dr. Bonnie McDonald were early pioneers in the Wisconsin Head Start program. Dr. Jones is well known for personality advising over 200 students and for her active role in assuring employment for the graduates. emphasis in child life and family studies and a minor in sociology. Following graduation, she hopes to become a college academic adviser. She is a member of Stevens Point Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, University Council on Family Relations, and Gamma Phi Delta sorority. Kim has gained leadership experience with her roles working as an Academic Career Peer Advisor, Sunday School Teacher, and the vice president of the Students Activities Committee. Dr. Agnes A. Jones Scholarship Kim is currently majoring in family and consumer sciences with an
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