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    <abstract id="aspace_bbe8f1279644fe848ff489c724d17fd4">Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and other papers (1965-95) of Dr. Joanna Strosnider Nesselroad documenting the organization and administration of the nation's first Head Start Program. Dr. Nesselroad began the first Head Start Program in McDowell County in 1965, and has served as West Virginia's regional training officer and as a national consultant for the Program. There are also letters, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, slides, and other papers (1930-86) of a former West Virginia University Agriculture professor, W.W. Armentrout. Subjects include milk production and distribution, agricultural economics, broiler industries, and the West Virginia University College of Agriculture. Also includes financial records of the Armentrout Memorial.</abstract>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81042773" source="lcsh">McDowell County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002415" source="lcsh">Agriculture  </subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077784" source="lcsh">Livestock</subject>
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    <persname source="ingest">Armentrout, W.W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Nesselroad, Joanna Strosnider.</persname>
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