Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 21/7/109
Hilda S. White
Papers, 1953-1997


Descriptive summary

creator:

White, Hilda S.
title:

Papers
dates:

1953-1997
extent:

0.21 linear feet (1 half-document box)
collection number:

RS 21/7/109
repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research
publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:

Hilda S. White Papers, RS 21/7/109, Archives of Women in Science and Engineering Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Hilda S. White, a native of Mercer, Pa., received a B.A. (1942) in Chemistry from Bethany College in West Virginia. She started graduate school at Iowa State, but due to World War II, returned to Bethany and taught general and organic chemistry from 1943 until 1945. She completed her Ph.D. at Iowa State after the war was over.

She married Phillip Louis White (b. 1922) and accompanied him to Peru to participate in a Harvard program to study the food habits of Peruvians. After Phillip took a position with the American Medical Association, Hilda became an Associate Professor in Nutrition at the Home Economics Dept. at Northwestern University. She retired when the Department was dissolved in 1973. She later worked for the Chicago Nutrition Association and she served on the journal board of the American Dietetic Association. Her research focused on the iron intake and status of young women.

 

Collection description

This collection contains 10 printed articles on nutrition. The articles focus on nutritional needs of girls and women, particularly iron and zinc; and the nutritional needs of Peruvians (one article is in Spanish). Of special interest is a 1972 article on the organic foods movement in the United States.

 

Organization

This collection is arranged alphabetically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Article: "Nutrition Survey in the Peruvian Jungle"

1953

1

1

Article: "La Composicion de los Alimentos Peruanos"

1953

1

1

Article: "Meeting Iron Needs through Diet"

1960

1

1

Article: "Iron Nutriture in Girls and Women: A Review"

1968

1

1

Article: "Inorganic Elements in Weighed Diets of Girls and Young Women"

1969

1

1

Article: "Systeme International d'Unites"

1970

1

1

Article: "Utilization of Inorganic Elements by Young Women Eating Iron- Fortified Foods"

1971

1

1

Article: "The Organic Foods Movement; What It Is and What the Food Industry Should Do About It"

1972

1

1

Article: "Zinc Content and the Zinc-to-Calorie Ratio of Weighed Diets"

1976

1

2

Biographical information

1997