Jean Stewart |
| Posted 2009-12-04 by Pat Wilson |
| Jean Stewart, ex-UA home economist. Memorial services will be held April 28, 1992, for Jean Stewart, former state leader of home economics extension at the University of Arizona, who died last week of brain cancer. She was 87. The service was at Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St. Stewart, who ran the home economics cooperative from 1942 until her retirement in 1969, was responsible for the work of extension home agents in Arizona 's 14 counties and home economics specialists at the university. She was the first clinic dietician at Stanford University Hospital, and after coming to Arizona in 1939, became the UA's first extension nutritionist. After retiring, she became chairman of the Tucson Adult Literacy Volunteers. That organization has been instrumental in popularizing the Laubach method, a way of teaching people to read through pictures that resemble letters. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1927 from the University of California, then earned a master's degree from the same institution in 1929. Later, in 1958, she earned another master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. "We used to say we could write a book about her," said Corinne Stinson, a longtime friend. "She was a strong person, dynamic, very determined." Stewart is survived by two cousins, Mary Lou Winkworth of Short Hills, N. J., and Edward Stringer of Phoenix. The Arizona Daily Star April 23, 1992 |
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