I am honored to recognize some of the important people and organizations who helped make this dissertation study a reality. My Major Professor, Sedahlia Jasper Crase Ph. D. who, as a senior professor, assisted me with her expertise and encouragement. Some of the people in my life who have encouraged me to stay the course of my life and of my dissertation work through a long and difficult illness, these are people I hold in my heart: my Father, Meade N. Kinzer, my Mother, Mary Frances Nelson Kinzer, her Father, my maternal Grandfather, James Clyde Nelson, my husband Roger L. Blanchfield, my siblings: Kathryn Ann, Joan Elizabeth & Steven Charles, and my friends who encouraged and pushed me and who helped me know that I was not alone in this process.