Louise Rosenfeld
"Certainly,
few women have had the influence on the state that Louise Rosenfeld
has had. As State Leader of Home Economics Extension, she lead an
education program that went to every county of the state and
was available to every family."
— Margaret K. Yoder, 1979
Louise
Rosenfeld, as state home economics director of Iowa State University's
Cooperative Extension Service for over 30 years, extended her
program to every county in the state. Rosenfeld expanded the
orientation of the extension program to include education in
global awareness and the arts, as well as programs in nutrition,
home management, and child care. The United States Department
of Agriculture recognized Rosenfeld's innovative leadership of
Iowa's home economics extension program by awarding her the USDA
Superior Service Award. Following her retirement in 1972, Professor
Emeritus Rosenfeld worked as a professional volunteer in Iowa
State University's International Resource Center and served on
the Iowa Commission for the Aging. She was born in Kelly, Iowa
in 1906. Rosenfeld was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of
Fame in 1979.
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