Ruth Ellen Grout
Ruth Ellen Grout | |
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Born | October 4, 1901 Princeton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | February 22, 1998 (aged 96) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Health educator, college professor |
Relatives | Julia Grout(sister) |
Ruth Ellen Grout(October 4, 1901 – February 22, 1998) was an American health educator. She taught at theUniversity of Minnesota School of Public Healthfrom 1943 until her retirement in 1967. She was also a consultant to theWorld Health Organizationfrom 1952 to 1971.
Early life and education
[edit]Grout was born inPrinceton, Massachusetts,the daughter of Edgar H. Grout and Laura M. Miller Grout. Her father was the superintendent of schools in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts from 1903 to 1928.[1]Her older sisterJulia Groutwas a physical educator and professor at Duke University.[2]
Grout graduated fromMount Holyoke Collegein 1923.[3]She earned a master's degree in 1930, and a Ph.D. in 1939, from Yale University.[4][5]She received a fellowship from theAmerican Association of University Women(AAUW) for her graduate studies.[6][7]
Career
[edit]Grout directed a health education study for theMilbank Memorial FundinCattaraugus County, New York,from 1931 to 1938.[6][8]She was Senior Supervisor of Health Education for theTennessee Valley Authorityfrom 1939 to 1942. She was a professor at theUniversity of Minnesota School of Public Healthfrom 1943 until her retirement in 1967. She was also a consultant to theWorld Health Organizationfrom 1952 to 1971.[4]She spoke at community meetings and academic conferences about her work.[9]
Grout was technical advisor on a short educational film,Human Reproduction(1947). In 1950, she was a founding board member of the Society of Public Health Educators (SOPHE).[10]After she retired to North Carolina, she was a founding member of the board at her retirement community, Carol Woods, and helped establish the Home Health Agency of Chapel Hill.[5]
Publications
[edit]- "A Project in Rural School Health Education: Initiating the Study" (1933)[11]
- Handbook of Health Education: A Guide for Teachers in Rural Schools(1936)[12]
- "Function of the School in the Rural Health Program" (1937)[13]
- "Rural Supervision of Health Education" (1937)[14]
- "Health Materials for Rural Schools" (1938, with Vivian V. Drenckhahn)[15]
- "Appraising a School Health Education Program" (1940)[16]
- "Preparation of Health Education Personnel for the War and Post-war Periods: Preparation of the Public School Teacher" (1944)[17]
- "Postwar Problems in Teacher Education in the Field of Health Education" (1947)[18]
- "Health Education Today in the Light of Yesterday" (1947)[19]
- "Health Education in Industry: The Nurse's Part" (1947)[20]
- Health Teaching in Schools(1949)[21]
- "Public Health Education Section: Research and Evaluation Projects in the Field of Health Education" (1951, with Andie L. Knutson and W. Fulton)[22]
- "Planning a Conference: A Chronological Story of the Development of the European Conference on Health Education of the Public" (1954)[23]
- "Health Education in Public Health Practice" (1967)[24]
- "The Nurse and Health Education" (1971, with Julia D. Watkins)
Personal life and legacy
[edit]Grout died in 1998, at the age of 96, inChapel Hill, North Carolina.The University of Minnesota established a scholarship named for Grout in 1996.[5]There is a box of her papers in the University of Minnesota Archives.[4]
References
[edit]- ^"Edgar H. Grout".The New York Times.January 9, 1951. p. 27.Retrieved2024-04-12.
- ^"Julia Grout".The Durham Sun.1984-04-25. p. 36.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^Mount Holyoke College,Llamarada(1923 yearbook): 137.
- ^abc"Collection: Ruth Ellen Grout papers".University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides.Retrieved2024-04-12.
- ^abc"Dr. Ruth E. Grout".The News and Observer.1998-02-24. p. 20.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^ab"Unified Program of Rural Health Declared Needed".The Buffalo News.1937-12-14. p. 14.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Miss Ruth E. Grout to be speaker for A.A.U.W. meeting Jan. 19".Lincoln Nebraska State Journal.1946-01-13. p. 16.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"N.E. Health Group Opens Conference".The Boston Globe.1938-06-04. p. 10.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Dr. Ruth Grout to Speak at Annual School Health Conference on Campus".The Franklin Evening Star.1953-10-22. p. 1.Retrieved2024-04-12– via Newspapers.com.
- ^SOPHE History 1950-1959,Society of Public Health Educators.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (1933)."A Project in Rural School Health Education: Initiating the Study".The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin.11(3): 201–207.doi:10.2307/3347560.ISSN0276-5187.JSTOR3347560.
- ^Review of Grout, Ruth E. "Handbook of health education."American Journal of Nursing37(6)(1937): 706.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (1937)."Function of the School in the Rural Health Program".American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health.27(6): 583–586.doi:10.2105/AJPH.27.6.583.PMC1563207.PMID18014641.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (February 1937)."Rural Supervision of Health Education".The Journal of Health and Physical Education.8(2): 78–121.doi:10.1080/23267240.1937.10623528.ISSN2326-7240.
- ^Drenckhahn, Vivian V., and Ruth E. Grout."Health Materials for Rural Schools"Journal of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation9(3)(March 1938): 152-153.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (1940)."Appraising a School Health Education Program".American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health.30(7): 797–805.doi:10.2105/AJPH.30.7.797.PMC1531133.PMID18015263.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (May 1944)."Preparation of Health Education Personnel for the War and Post-war Periods: Preparation of the Public School Teacher".American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health.34(5): 446–451.doi:10.2105/AJPH.34.5.446.ISSN0002-9572.PMC1625115.PMID18015980.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (March 1947)."Postwar Problems in Teacher Education in the Field of Health Education".The Journal of Health and Physical Education.18(3): 138–188.doi:10.1080/23267240.1947.10626746.ISSN2326-7240.
- ^Grout, Ruth E."Health education today in the light of yesterday"The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine19(4)(1947): 573.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (1958)."Health Education in Industry".American Association of Industrial Nurses Journal.6(1): 17–22.doi:10.1177/216507994700600106.PMID20284408.
- ^Vera, Harriette D. (December 1949)."Health Teaching in Schools for Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools, by Ruth E. Grout".The Quarterly Review of Biology.24(4): 346.doi:10.1086/397221.ISSN0033-5770.
- ^Grout, Ruth E., Andie L. Knutson, and Wallace Fulton. "Public Health Education Section: Research and Evaluation Projects in the Field of Health Education." American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health 41, no. 5_Pt_2 (1951): 132-136.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (December 1954)."Planning a Conference: A Chronological Story of the Development of the European Conference on Health Education of the Public".Health Education Journal.12(4): 195–202.doi:10.1177/001789695401200405.ISSN0017-8969.
- ^Grout, Ruth E. (March 1967)."Health Education in Public Health Practice".Health Education Journal.26(1): 23–29.doi:10.1177/001789696702600106.ISSN0017-8969.