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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
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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. OCLC 60852446
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  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. PMID 13987769
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  9. OCLC 23614229
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  10. JSTOR 2711568
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  11. ISSN 1552-3934
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  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. OCLC 3233609
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  14. S2CID 71544198
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  15. OCLC 35086176
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  16. OCLC 504272473.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  17. OCLC 1157829684
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  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. 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.
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