¿Rose, Mary Davies Swartz1874╨1941nutritionistBorn on October 31, 1974, in Newark, Ohio, Mary Swartz grew up in Wooster, Ohio. She attended public schools and in 1894 entered Shepardson College (later part of Denison University). Her career at Shepardson was interrupted by a year of teaching school in Wooster and a year of study at Wooster College, and she graduated finally in 1901. After a year studying domestic science at the Mechanics Institute in Rochester, New York, she taught high school home economics in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, from 1902 to 1905. In the latter year she entered Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she received a bachelor╒s degree in 1906. She remained another year as an assistant in the department of household arts and then began graduate work in physiological chemistry at Yale. On receiving her Ph.D. in 1909 she returned to Teachers College as its first full-time instructor in nutrition and dietetics. In September 1910 she married Anton R. Rose, a chemist. In the new department of nutrition, of which she was the founder and guiding spirit, she became assistant professor in 1910, associate professor in 1918, and full professor in 1921. Under her direction, and with the assistance of Professor Henry C. Sherman, a pioneer nutritional chemist, the Teachers College nutrition department became a recognized national center for the training of nutrition teachers. Rose╒s own research ranged across such topics as the vitamin content of food, protein comparisons, effects of nutrients on anemia, metabolism, and trace elements in the diet, and she published numerous articles in professional journals as well as several books, including A Laboratory Hand-Book for Dietetics, a widely used textbook, 1912, Feeding the Family, in which food nutritive values were presented in a form useful to homemakers, 1916, Everyday Foods in War Time, 1918, The Foundations of Nutrition, another widely used text and reference book, 1927, and Teaching Nutrition to Boys and Girls, 1932. She was associate editor of the Journal of Nutrition from 1928 to 1936. During World War I she was deputy director for New York City of the Bureau of Conservation of the U.S. Food Administration, and in 1940 she was an adviser on nutrition to the Council of National Defense. From 1933 she was a member of the Council on Foods of the American Medical Association, and from 1935 she was a member of the nutrition committee of the Health Organization of the League of Nations. She served as president of the American Institute of Nutrition, of which she had been a founder, in 1937╨1938. She retired from Teachers College in 1940 and died in Edgewater, New Jersey, on February 1, 1941. ₧styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ # 5¬ 1 !I │ 5¬ ┤ !I ª !I ╩ !I Ω !I ⁿ !I R !I l !I t !I É !I ╔ !I φ !I !I * !I @ 5¬ A !I link `
