Jessie Embry
Biographic Data
| ID | 5884539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Embry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Embry |
| SIGNATURE | EMBRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Car Racing and Mobility History
Point Four, Utah State University Technicians, and Rural Development in Iran, 1950–64
In 1950 Iran and the United States signed the first Point Four agreement, establishing a program now known as USAID. It fulfilled President Harry S. Truman's desire to control the Soviet bloc and to share technology with third world countries. Utah State University contracted with the U.S. Point Four program to provide technicians in agriculture from 1951 to 1954. This paper examines the successes and the frustrations that the Utahns felt in tran…
A Wise Choice
When I signed up to take an oral history class during the summer of 1973, I had no idea what the class even was. I only knew that I was starting a graduate program, and my major professor Thomas G. Alexander, also assistant director of the newly formed Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, wanted students in the class being taught by a guest professor, Gary L. Shumway from California State University-Fullerton. That…
A Wise Choice
When I signed up to take an oral history class during the summer of 1973, I had no idea what the class even was. I only knew that I was starting a graduate program, and my major professor Thomas G. Alexander, also assistant director of the newly formed Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, wanted students in the class being taught by a guest professor, Gary L. Shumway from California State University-Fullerton. That…
Point Four, Utah State University Technicians, and Rural Development in Iran, 1950–64
In 1950 Iran and the United States signed the first Point Four agreement, establishing a program now known as USAID. It fulfilled President Harry S. Truman's desire to control the Soviet bloc and to share technology with third world countries. Utah State University contracted with the U.S. Point Four program to provide technicians in agriculture from 1951 to 1954. This paper examines the successes and the frustrations that the Utahns felt in tran…
Car Racing and Mobility History
Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aeronautics (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Aside (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (1 work)