Cartwright worked as an extension agent for Texas A&M University. The Shad Festival was suggested by then North Carolina extension agent Ed Comer. She worked as a home extension agent and as a home economics teacher. He later became the county agriculture extension agent for Oneida County, Idaho. Shortly after graduating from college, Woolman became an Agricultural Extension Agent at Louisiana State University. Leavenworth County had the first Kansas State University extension agent in the State.