Virginia E. McCormick

Virginia “Jennie” Evans McCormick was a home economics education professor at Pennsylvania State, Iowa State, and Ohio State Universities. In retirement, she has authored thirteen books on Ohio and local history. Her childhood memoir, Tomboy: Remembering a Family-Farm Childhood, 1934-1948 focuses on the dramatic change of rural lifestyles in the early 20th century and what it was like growing up on a Midwestern dairy farm during the Great Depression and World War II.