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She worked to improve the facilities for women\u2019s education at institutions of higher learning. So important was her work in this regard that the Grange urged that the first women\u2019s building (Morrill Hall) at Michigan Agriculture College should be named Mary Mayo Hall. However, it was not until 1931 that Mary Mayo Hall Dormitory on the Michigan State University campus was named for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her concern for the well-being of women and children led to the idea of the \u201cFresh Air Outing Program,\u201d designed to give poor children from the city, working women, and mothers with babies, a two-week outing in the country in the summer. More than 1000 people participated in the program from 1895 to 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Cyrus Luce appointed Mayo to the Board of Control of the State Industrial Home for Girls, and in 1895 she was selected to head the newly created Women\u2019s Division of the Farmer\u2019s Institute, a two-day educational program that was the beginning of the state supported extension program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the forward to Jennie Buell\u2019s book, <em>One Woman\u2019s Work for Farm Women<\/em>, Kenyon Butterfield, then president of Massachusetts\u2019 Agricultural College said, \u201cMrs. Mayo \u2026 had the power to reach the hearts of those who dwell in the farm home. She knew their trials, their discouragements, their hopes and ambitions, their struggles to educate their children, and their attempts to beautify and adorn. 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