The individual educational leaflets were faculty to write to children in the country in succinct and guided the educator through an effort to build comradery between farm basic methods of instruction and encouraged families and the University. [...] Mary Farrand Rogers Miller was the younger to the position of laboratory assistant in the of the two Rogers sisters who held a lifelong department of entomology and continued in relationship with the Comstocks (Fig. [...] Her strong roots in rural life gelled compatibly with the In the following fall of 1896, winds of change surging nature study education movement of began to blow for the College of Agriculture the time. [...] Miller also appeared on the programs of the National Education Association of the New The termination of the Teacher Leaflets York State Science Association, and of the program in 1901 was more of a hiatus than American Association for the Advancement an end-point for the educators involved of Science (Cornell Alumnae, 1909). [...] Miller contributed several articles to the Home Nature study course, but her tenure Miller’s name appeared at the onset of the was short-lived as her husband’s career pulled project as the Nature Study educator as part of the couple in a new direction, away from the organization of the Station and University Ithaca, New York in 1903.6 For several years Extension Staff.
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