 She laid out a program of research which was approved by college president George H. Hand, and the college’s first folklore course was inaugurated in 1948.In 1950 she revived the state’s folklore society, dormant since 1917 (two years after its founding), and in 1951 became the founding editor of "West Virginia Folklore", serving in that capacity until her retirement in 1967.According to her eulogy by William Hugh Jansen, Folklore Professor at the University of Kentucky, she had become “a public relations agent for West Virginia Folklore.” At the same time, she wrote two folklore columns for West Virginia newspapers