Browsing by Author "Robbins, Jean C."

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    Dear Nannie... yours devotedly, Charlie: Nannie Figgat Chronicles Mid-19thCentury Southwest Virginia through her Diary, Recipes and Correspondence
    McMillan, Gail; Robbins, Jean C. (Botetourt County Historical Society Museum, 2013-04-25)
    The title, Dear Nannie... yours devotedly, Charlie, represents the basis of our story of Nancy G. Figgat/Anne Godwin/Nannie -- all the same person. We began with two manuscript recipe books, which we realized belonged to mother and daughter, Martha Mary Godwin and Nannie. Resources at the Botetourt Country Historical Society Museum helps us appreciate the Figgat and Godwin families of Fincastle, Virginia. Our research took off when we discovered that Charles Miles Figgat courted, married, and deserted Ann Godwin, whom he alone affectionately addressed as "Nannie." Having a passion for research led us to a wealth of primary and secondary documents, but it all began at Virginia Tech in Newman Library's Special Collections with the Southwest Virginia Counties Collection. Our story is the story written by Nannie in her letters, diary, and recipe book. She provides a culinary perspective from her time and place in Virginia history, and she documents activities in and around Fincastle during the Civil War. With additional historical documents including letters written by her father, mother, and husband from 1835 to 1885, we follow Nannie Figgat for more than 80 years. Her story is mainly from the perspective of a young woman in her twenties waiting to hear if her parents will agree to a marriage proposal, through war and scandal, to her final move and residence with her adult children in Roanoke, Virginia. Their documented activities conclude the story with her death in 1919. We hope readers will experience, as we did, her triumphs, grief, and disappointments, and appreciate her as an example of courage, faith, and love during often trying times.
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    The development of a model to be utilized in the evaluation of the telephone as a vehicle for nutrition information
    Robbins, Jean C. (Virginia Tech, 1981-07-04)
    The purpose of this study was to design a model to evaluate the influence of selected factors on the performance of a telephone delivery system for nutrition information and use the model to evaluate the performance of the Roanoke Dietetic Association Dial-A-Dietitian program. The Dial-A-Dietitian program was established to provide nutrition information to the public by Registered Dietitians. The model entailed a systems approach to evaluate the Roanoke Dietetic Association Dial-A-Dietitian program. The five phases of the model included Enabling Factors (inputs), the Interaction Process, Effort Factors (outputs), Performance (outcome), and Feedback. Feedback entailed the utilization of the results of the evaluation in the decision-making process for future Dial-A-Dietitian programs and their operation. The evaluation instruments, the Encounter Form and the Telephone Survey of clients, included reaction statements and attitude assessment of clients and dietitians. The data were analyzed with frequency distributions. Also the Chi Square Tests of Independence were computed to determine the relationship between the independent variables, Enabling Factors (Phase 1) and Effort Factors (Phase 3), and the dependent variable, Performance (Phase 4). The model was useful in the evaluation of the Dial-A-Dietitian program. The data analysis indicated that the Dial-A-Dietitian program was effective as measured by this model.