█PARA ╙PAR@ ` +TEXT ` Bevier, Isabel1860╨1942educatorBorn near Plymouth, Ohio, on November 14, 1860, Isabel Bevier attended Plymouth High School and Wooster Preparatory School in Wooster, Ohio, and taught school for three summers before entering the University (later College) of Wooster, from which she graduated in 1885. She was principal of the high school in Shelby, Ohio, for two years and then taught Latin for a year in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1888, having received a master╒s degree from her college, she became a professor of science at the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh. During her nine years there she taught chemistry, botany, physics and geology. She obtained advanced training in summer attendance at Case School of Applied Science, where she was the first woman student, in 1888 and 1889; at Harvard in 1891; and at Wesleyan University, where she worked under Wilbur O. Atwater╒s direction, in 1894. Her field studies of nutrition in 1898 in Pittsburgh and in Hampton, Virginia, which were later published in bulletins of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, resulted from her association with Atwater. In 1897 she resigned from Pennsylvania College. She then continued her studies at Western Reserve University and under Ellen H. Richards at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1898╨1899 she was professor of chemistry at Lake Erie College. In 1900 she accepted an offer from the University of Illinois to head the new home economics department in the College of Agriculture. From the outset, in designating the department ╥Household Science,╙ she determined to make the course one of rigorous scientific instruction rather than mere utilitarian domestic training. She insisted upon entrance and academic standards equal to those of other departments, and her often blunt manner generated some difficulties╤notably during 1907╨1910 with the women of the Illinois Farmers╒ Institute, who wished to send an advisory committee into her domain╤before her department won national recognition as a leader in the field. In 1915 she was given charge of the home economics section of the university extension program established under the federal Smith-Lever Act. From 1900 she served as vice-chairman, under Ellen Richards, of the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics, and when that organization became the American Home Economics Association in 1908 she was elected vice-president; in 1910╨1912 she served as its second president, succeeding Richards. During World War I she served briefly in Washington, D.C., as an adviser on food conservation in the Food Administration. Professor Bevier left the University of Illinois in 1921 and chaired the home economics department of the University of California at Los Angeles from that year until 1923. In 1925 she lectured at the University of Arizona for a semester. In 1928 she returned to Illinois as professor of home economics; she served also as acting vice-director of the extension program until her retirement in 1930. Among her publications were numerous articles, bulletins, circulars, and such books as Food and Nutrition, with Susannah Usher, 1906; The Home Economics Movement, also with Usher, 1906 (later enlarged into Home Economics in Education, 1924); and The House: Its Plan, Decoration and Care, 1907. She died in Urbana, Illinois, on March 17, 1942. vstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ # !I ╫ !I ▐ Φ !I \ 5¬ ] !I
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