Emma Weigley

Emma Weigley
A young white woman with curly hair.
Seifrit, from her 1950 high school yearbook
Born
Emma Seifrit

(1933-01-27)January 27, 1933[1]
Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 18, 2020(2020-04-18) (aged 87)
South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationProfessor of nutrition
SpouseRussell Weigley

Emma Seifrit Weigley (née Seifrit; January 27, 1933 – April 18, 2020) was an American professor of nutrition. Her husband was military historian Russell Weigley.

Early life

Emma Seifrit was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.[2] She graduated from Albright College in 1954.[3] She completed doctoral studies in nutrition at New York University in 1971, with a thesis titled Sarah Tyson Rorer (1849-1937), a Biographical Study.[4]

Career

Emma Seifrit was a clinical instructor in nutrition at Reading Hospital after college, and won an essay award from the American Dietetic Association in 1960.[5] She taught home economics at Albright College[6] and nutrition at Drexel University; she was also an adjunct professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.[7]

Publications by Weigley included "The High Fat Diet" (1963),[8] "The Philadelphia Chef: Mastering the Art of Philadelphia Cookery" (1972),[9] "'It might have been euthenics': The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement" (1974),[10] "The Professionalization of Home Economics" (1976),[11] Sarah Tyson Rorer: The Nation's Instructress in Dietetics and Cookery (1977),[12] a biography based on her dissertation,[2][13] "Infant Feeding Practices: A Century of Transitions" (1988),[14] and Robinson's Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy (1997), a textbook.[15] She also co-edited Essays on History of Nutrition and Dietetics (1967) with E. Neige Todhunter, a collection of essays published on the fiftieth anniversary of the American Dietetic Association.[16] The collection included her own essay, "Food in the days of the Declaration of Independence".[17] Her collection of Sarah Tyson Rorer papers is housed at the American Philosophical Society library.[18] She also wrote the article on Rorer for the American National Biography.[19]

Personal life and death

Emma Seifrit married Russell Weigley in 1963. They had two children, Jared and Catherine. Her husband died in 2004.[20] She died from COVID-19 in South Philadelphia on April 18, 2020, at age 87.[2] Weigley was one of the thousand names included in The New York Times cover story on May 24, 2020, "U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss".[21]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary for Emma (Seifrit) Weigley". Logan Funeral Home. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Giordano, Rita (May 8, 2020). "Emma Weigley, 87, was an educator, author, and lover of city life". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  3. ^ "Memorial Gifts" Albright College Annual Report (2003), page 50.
  4. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1971). Sarah Tyson Rorer (1849-1937), a biographical study (Thesis). OCLC 60852446.
  5. ^ "Two Pennsylvanians Among Winners in Dietetic Events". The Daily Courier. October 22, 1960. p. 2. Retrieved December 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ McCormack, Patricia (November 8, 1961). "Ancient Food Fads from Hysterical to Ridiculous". Pampa Daily News. p. 4. Retrieved December 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Emma Weigley, Nursing". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. May 12, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  8. ^ SEIFRIT, EMMA (January 1, 1963). "The High Calorie Diet". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 12 (1): 66–69. doi:10.1093/ajcn/12.1.66. ISSN 0002-9165. PMID 13987769.
  9. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1972). The Philadelphia chef: mastering the art of Philadelphia cookery. Philadelphia: Pa. Magazine of History and Biography. OCLC 23614229.
  10. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1974). "It Might Have Been Euthenics: The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement". American Quarterly. 26 (1): 79–96. doi:10.2307/2711568. ISSN 0003-0678. JSTOR 2711568.
  11. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1976). "The Professionalization of Home Economics". Home Economics Research Journal. 4 (4): 253–259. doi:10.1177/1077727X7600400406. ISSN 1552-3934.
  12. ^ Carter, Marilynn (July 31, 1977). "The Lady was a Gourmet Ecologist". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 97. Retrieved December 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit. (1977). Sarah Tyson Rorer : the nation's instructress in dietetics and cookery. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-119-1. OCLC 3233609.
  14. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (March 1988). "Infant Feeding Practices—A Century of Transitions". Nutrition Today. 23 (2): 20–24. doi:10.1097/00017285-198803000-00003. ISSN 0029-666X. S2CID 71544198.
  15. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit; Mueller, Donna H; Robinson, Corinne H; Robinson, Corinne H (1997). Robinson's basic nutrition and diet therapy. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill. ISBN 978-0-13-577016-0. OCLC 35086176.
  16. ^ Beeuwkes, Adelia M.; Todhunter, Elizabeth Neige; Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1967). Essays on history of nutrition and dietetics, reprinted on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding, in 1917, of the American Dietetic Association. Chicago. OCLC 504272473.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^ Weigley, Emma Seifrit (1967). "Food in the days of the Declaration of Independence". Essays on History of Nutrition and Dietetics. OCLC 1157829684.
  18. ^ Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston; Weigley, Emma Seifrit. "Emma Weigley Collection of Sarah Tyson Rorer Papers". American Philosophical Society Library. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  19. ^ Weigley, Emma S. (2000). "Rorer, Sarah Tyson (1849-1937), cooking teacher and diet reformer". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302019. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  20. ^ Ershkowitz, Herbert J.; Immermann, Richard H. (October 2004). "Russell F. Weigley (1930-2004)". AHA Perspectives on History. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  21. ^ "U. S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss" (PDF). The New York Times. May 24, 2020. p. 1. Retrieved December 11, 2020.