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Ruth Ellen Grout papers, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
The collection was deposited in University Archives in 1967 and 1975.
The collection comprises family, personal and professional papers, including bibliographies, working papers and reports from various assignments and a copy of her Ph.D. thesis, "The evaluation of a school education program in a rural county" (1939). Other materials in the collection include letters, photographs, diaries, personal correspondence and miscellaneous documents. Curriculum vitae and other biographical materials were removed from the collection and added to the Ruth E. Grout information file available in University Archives.
Ruth Ellen Grout, B.A. (1923) Mount Holyoke College; M.P.H. (1930),
Ph.D. (1939) Yale University. Professor, School of Public Health, University of
Minnesota (1943-1967). Consultant, World Health Organization, author of
Ruth Ellen Grout was born in Princeton, Massachusetts in 1901. She earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1930 and 1939, respectively. Grout began her public health education career as director of a health education project in the rural schools of Cattaraugus County, New York (1931-1938). From 1939-1942 she was a Senior Supervisor of Health Education for the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1942-1943 she was a consultant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C.
She was appointed to an associate professorship in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 1943 and retired from the University in 1967 as Professor Emeritus. In addition to her teaching duties, Grout also worked with the World Health Organization from 1952 to 1971. She organized the first two European seminars on health education, which were held in London (1952-1953) and Wiesbaden, Germany (1956-1957). In 1969-1970, she was a consultant in Jamaica on a US/AID assignment. Ruth Grout died in 1998.
School of Public Health records
Ruth Ellen Grout papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library
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Includes reports "A Project in Rural School Health Education" and "Evaluation of a Rural School Health Education Project," as well as progress reports to the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Includes briefing letter and schedules.
By Ruth Grout in
Associated with first European Conference on Health Education of the Public.
Includes Norway (1952), Turkey, England, France, Switzerland (WHO Assembly, 1953), WHO Copenhagen (1957), Scotland (1957), WHO Conference, Germany (1957), Eastern Nigeria (1962), Bangkok, Thailand (1968).
Includes briefing letter from Mrs. Ivy McGhie, February 11, 1969.
A bibliography is included in folder 6.
New Haven High School
U.S. Armed Forces Institute
Meeting of the Mississippi Public Health Association, Jackson, Mississippi.
Annual Meeting of the Arkansas State Organization for Public Health Nursing, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Delivered before the Tennessee Public Health Association, Nashville, Tennessee.
Health Education Section Dinner Meeting, Georgia Public Health Association.
Meeting of the Georgia Public Health Association, Savannah, Georgia.
Prepared for U.S. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency.
Iowa Association for Health, Physical Education and recreation at the Iowa State Education Association Meetings, Des Moines, Iowa.
Urban Principal's Section, Ontario Educational Association, Toronto, Canada.
Tenth Annual Meeting of the U.S. National Citizens Committee for the World Health Organization, Miami Beach, Florida.
American Public Health Association Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida.
Paper presented by Ruth Grout for Women's Club, Webster, SD.
A Report of the Joint Committee on Health Problems in Education of the National Education Association and the American Medical Association.
A workshop sponsored by the members of the Health and Medical Care Division, Community Welfare Council of Hennepin County.
Presented at ISOPHE's (Illinois Society for Public Health Educators, Fall Conference, Chicago, IL.
Correspondence regarding Ruth Grout's appointment (1941, 1943) and retirement (1967); correspondence with Gaylord Anderson on his retirement (1960); miscellaneous memos and clippings including article with photo of Edgar Grout (brother), Chairman of Massachusetts Tuberculosis and Health League (1958).
A two-week credit course on "The Nurse and Health Education in Schools and the Community;" correspondence and course outlines.
Winter quarter course, "Special Group Studies in School-Community Health Education;" outlines and a student comment.
Early reports; work materials; minutes with correspondence and handwritten notes; executive committee minutes; committee's constitution; Proposed Enabling Act for County and District Health Departments for Consideration by the 1947 Minnesota Legislature; community-wide chest X-ray survey minutes.
Ruth E. Grout, top row.
Written by father, Edgar Homer Grout.
A copy of an original manuscript of a talk given by mother Laura Miller.
This twenty-one page document contains highlights from Laura's diaries, kept from 1929-1950.
Extracts from diary kept by Ruth E. Grout.
Correspondence, clippings, miscellaneous material relating to Ruth Grout's life and interests in Chapel Hill.