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Title: Merrill-Palmer Institute: Icie G. Macy Hoobler Collection Genre: Papers Date : 1918-1963 (Predominantly, 1920s-1950s)Size : 7 linear feet, 7 storage
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Scope & Contents
Icie Gertrude Macy Hoobler was the director of chemical and biological research at the Nutrition Research Laboratory of the Merrill-Palmer Institute and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan from 1923 until 1930. She was then appointed Director of the Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory, where she served until her retirement in 1954. Hoobler died in 1983.
Born near Gallatin, Missouri in 1892, Hoobler earned an undergraduate degree with a teaching certificate in music at the Central College for Women in Lexington, Missouri, where she developed an interest in science as well as social issues. In 1916 she graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor of science degree and two years later earned an M.S. from the University of Colorado. Hoobler became the fourth woman to receive a Ph.D. from the Department of Physiological Chemistry of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1920. Before coming to Detroit, she taught in the Department of Household Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
Icie G. Macy Hoobler was a pioneer in the study of infant, child and adolescent growth and nutrition. She conducted some of the first studies on mother’s milk and developed the first metabolic studies of pregnant women, which led to the establishment of nutritional needs during pregnancy. Hoobler also studied the composition of cow’s milk and was instrumental in determining the appropriate amount of Vitamin D to be added to milk to prevent children from getting rickets. Other research related to amino acids and Vitamin C and the prevention of scurvy.
Hoobler was involved in many professional societies and organizations. She was president of the National Institution of Nutrition, served on the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection in 1930, was a fellow of the American Public Health Association and was the first woman president of the American Chemical Society.
The Merrill-Palmer Institute: Icie G. Macy Hoobler
Collection consists primarily of material relating to her research, including
reports, papers, reference and lecture materials, and correspondence. Also included are publications she
authored or co-authored, materials relating to conferences at which she spoke
or attended, her student course work and research at the University of Colorado
and Yale University and her brief teaching career at the University of California.
Chemists--United States
Child development--Research--United States
Child development--Testing
Children--Nutrition
Children’s Fund of Michigan
Detroit (Mich.)--History--20th century
Infants--Nutrition
Milk--Analysis
Milk--Composition
Milk--Lactation
Milk as food--History
Milk, human
Nutrition--History
Science--History
Science--United States--Methodology--History
Vitamins in human nutrition
White House Conference on Child Health Protection (1930 Washington, D.C.)
Women chemists--United States
Women scientists--United States
McCollum, Elmer Verner
Several photographs have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
The Icie Gertrude Macy Hoobler papers (29 l.f.) and audiovisual material
(.25 l.f. of photographs and 3 audio cassettes) are at the
Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.
1-5. American Chemical Society One Hundredth Meeting; Women’s Service Committee, 1940
6. Amino acids study, 1946-54
7-8. Blood studies; case study report, c. 1927
9. Blood studies; misc., 1930-31
10-11. Blood studies; reference materials, 1925-38
12. Blood studies; “Some Physiological Variations in Peripheral Blood Cell Counts” by Fanny Kenyon, 1930
13. Childhood nutrition, 1922-24
14. Children’s Fund of Michigan; “Methods for Evaluating Nutritional Status of Mothers, Infants and Children” (conference proceedings), 1947
15. Children’s Fund of Michigan; newsletters, 1937-42
16. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; human milk study report, 1944
17. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; misc. publications, 1931-53
18. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; publications program, 1924-54
19-20. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; publications program, 1956-60
21. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; supported research, 1938-40
22. Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory; Report, May 1, 1931-April 30, 1939,1939
23. Conference programs; American Chemical Society, 1936-41
24. Conference programs; Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,1936-41
25. Conference programs; Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 1935-41
26-27. Conference programs; misc., 1938-41
1. Correspondence; American Chemical Society, 1925-29
2. Correspondence; misc., 1921-23, 1931, 1950-1960
3. Correspondence; McCollum, E. V., 1924-28
4. Correspondence; Pi Beta Phi Social Exchange Committee, 1923-28
5. Correspondence; University of California, Berkeley, Household Science Dept., 1921-23
6. Cotton seed research, 1920-24
7. Cotton seed research; corres., 1919-21
8-9. Cotton seed research; “Further Studies on Cotton Seed Meal Injury” by Icie G. Macy and Julia Outhouse, 1923-24
10. Course materials; University of Colorado, c. 1916
11. Course materials; University of Colorado, c. 1918
12. Course materials; Yale, 1918-20
13. Course materials; Yale (blood methods), c. 1920
14. Course materials; Yale (lab methods), 1919
15. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Food and Dietetics), 1921
16-20. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Food Economy), 1921-23
21. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Household Science 102), 1921
22-23. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Household Science 106), 1920-22
24. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Household Science 216), 1923
25. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. (Household Science 327), 1922
26-27. Course teaching materials; Univ. of Calif. Household Science Dept. (misc.), 1920-23
1-2. Course teaching materials; University of California Household Science Dept. (misc.), 1921
3-5. Evaporated Milk Association; corres., 1929-33
6. Evaporated Milk Association; corres. re: studies, 1929-30
7. Evaporated Milk Association; reports, 1929-30
8. Family studies; “Family #2,” c. 1940
9. Family studies; “The ‘Fein’ Family,” c. 1940
10-11. Family studies; Seek Ye First: A Study of Development in the Life of One Family, c. 1940
12. Graduation; Yale, 1920
13-15.Grosse Ile Study, 1924-31
16. Grosse Ile Study; case summaries, c. 1924-27
17. Grosse Ile Study; “Child Health on Grosse Ile” by Icie G. Macy Hoobler
and Charles A. Wilson, 1932
18. Grosse Ile Study; misc., 1927-30
19. Grosse Ile Study; notes, 1924-29
20. Grosse Ile Study; weight-height standards, 1924-28
21. Growth
studies; A Biological Growth Study of Infants by Children’s Fund of Michigan Research
Laboratory (Gerber Co. grant), 1936
1. Growth studies; A Biological Growth Study of Infants by Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory (Gerber Co. grant), 1936
2. Growth studies; “Influence of Accessory Food Factors on the Growth and Development of Infants Receiving a Normal Diet,” 1934-35
3. Growth studies; misc., 1935
4. Growth studies; progress report to the Detroit Board of Health and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, 1935
5. Growth studies; report to the American Medical Association Foods Committee, 1935
6. Growth studies; A Study of the Influence of Orange Juice Concentrate, Freshly Expressed Orange Juice and Ascorbic Acid on the Nitrogen and Acid-base Mineral Storage of Preadolescent Children by Children’s Fund of Michigan Research Laboratory (P. A. McRee grant), 1937
7. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; articles: metabolism, 1931, 1950s
8. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; articles: milk, 1927-51
9. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; articles: misc., 1956-63
10. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; articles: nutrition and diet, 1930s, 1950s
11. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy,
publications; Composition of Human, Cow, Goat Milks, 1953
12. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy,
publications; Icie G. Macy and Associates,
1923-31, c. 1931
13. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; Maternal Nutrition and Child Health, 1950
14. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood, Vol. III, Calculated Data, 1951
15. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, publications; Nutritional Status of Mothers and Their Infants, 1954
16. Hoobler, Icie. G. Macy, publications; Physiological Adaptation and Nutritional Status During and After Pregnancy, 1954
17. Hoobler, Icie. G. Macy, publications; Physiological Changes in Plasma Proteins Characteristic of Human Reproduction, c. 1955
18. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, reports, papers, and presentations, 1920s-1930s
19. Hoobler, Icie G. Macy, reports, papers, and presentations, n.d., 1940s-1960s
20-21. Human milk studies, c. 1931
22. Human
milk studies; bibliographies, c. 1931
1. Human milk studies; human milk versus cow’s milk, 1950-53
2. Human milk studies; maternal metabolism, c. 1931
3. Human milk studies; notes, c. 1950
4-5. Human milk studies; reference materials, 1930s-1940s
6. Lecture materials, 1925-26
7-10. Lecture materials, 1930s
11. Lecture materials; electrophoresis, c. 1949
12. Maternal studies; breast milk/mother’s milk bureaus, 1946-47
13. Maternal studies; misc., 1947
14. Maternal studies; pregnancy, 1946
15-16.Maternal studies; reference materials, 1940s
17. Metabolic studies; basal metabolism, 1938-40
18-20.Metabolic studies; “Metabolic Adaptations to Emotional Disturbances,” corres. and progress report re, 1960
21. Metabolic studies; Methodist Children’s Village, 1935
22-24. Metabolic studies; mineral metabolism, 1931-34
25. Metabolic studies; mineral metabolism abnormal cases: epilepsy, rickets, scoliosis, c. 1935-40
26. Miscellaneous, 1930s-1950s
1. Mother’s Milk Bureaus, 1930
2. National Research Council; Maternal and Child Feeding Committee, 1946-48
3-5. The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.; reports of the scientific director, 1945-51
6. Nutrition studies; “Body Composition in Childhood,” 1955
7. Nutrition studies; “The Chemical Composition of the Human Fetus” by Maurice H. Givens and Icie G. Macy, c. 1934
8. Nutrition studies; Children’s Village Dietary, 1947
9. Nutrition
studies; dietary aluminum, tin and lead, 1944-45
10. Nutrition studies; family nutrition, 1936-37
11. Nutrition studies; rickets, c. 1935
12. Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood; corres., 1941-52
13. Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood; corres. with Julia Outhouse, 1943-45
14. Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood; corres. re permissions, 1941-43
15-16. Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood; distribution, 1942-52
17. Nutritional and Chemical Growth in Childhood; reviews, 1942-53
18. Pregnancy; diabetic, c. 1935
19. Pregnancy; electrophoretic, 1949
20. Pregnancy; toxemia, c. 1935
21. Reference materials; flour and bread, 1942-48
22-25. Reference materials; food and nutrition, 1940s-1950s
26-27. Reference materials; food
rationing/nutrition, 1941-43
1. Reference materials; milk, 1930s-1940s
2. Reference materials; milk vitamins, 1942-45
3. Reference materials; pediatric hospitals, 1943-47
4. Reference materials; vitamins, 1942-44
5. Research funding, 1955-60
6. Research grants; Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, 1954
7. Research grants; Health, Education and Welfare Dept., 1954-55
8-9. Research grants; National Institute for Mental Health, 1958-60
10. Research grants; Nutrition Foundation, 1954
11. Research grants; publication programs, 1954-61
12. Research materials; mercury biochloride poisoning, c. 1921
13. Research Program, 1934-35
14. Research materials; wheat digestibility, c. 1920
15. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; child development, 1930-31
16-17. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; corres., 1930-31
18. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; mental development, 1930
19. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; misc., c. 1930
20. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; reports: dietary, c. 1930
21. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; reports: human milk, c. 1930
22-23. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection; reports, papers and presentations, 1930-31
24. White House Conference on Children and Youth; Children and Youth in Michigan, 1950
25. White House Conference on Children and Youth; misc., 1950-51
26. White House Conference on Children and Youth; Mayor’s Committee on Youth Problems (Detroit), 1950
27. Women in the physical sciences, 1926-52
28. Women in the workplace, 1933-44