Jessamine Chapman Williams

Title: Jessamine Chapman Williams
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Household Science Foods and Nutrition
Creator: Ball Studio
Description: Jessamine Chapman Williams was a Professor and Department Head of Foods and Nutrition from 1923-1947. She was born in 1881 in Brockport, New York, and was married when she came to OSC. She attended State Normal School in Brockport where she received her normal diploma. She then received her Bachelor of Science from Columbia University Teachers College in 1906, and attended graduate school at Cornell University, Yale University, and finally returned to Teachers College, where she received her degree in 1921. After graduating, she became head of home economics at Sweet Briar College in Virginia for five years, taking a leave of absence one year to study. She went on to spend a year as Head of Home Economics at A&M College in Orlando, Florida, and then spent nine years as Head of Foods and Nutrition at University of Oregon. She was a visiting professor for six summers at the University of Washington, and taught summers at other colleges, including Teachers College, Simmons College, and Bradley Institute. At OSC, she was hired in 1923 as Professor of Household Science at $3000 for a ten month term, on the understanding that she would take the summer to be a student in one of the leading children’s clinics of the East. She became Head of the department, but resigned in 1944 to go on half time. She was a published writer: a contributor to numerous articles on food and nutrition in encyclopedias, and wrote “The Book of Rural Life” in 1935. She was a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, the American Dietetics Association, and the American Home Economics Association. She took five sabbatical leaves in her time at OSC, for the purpose of study, travel, and observation of other institutions. She passed away in 1963, leaving behind her husband, Richard H. Williams.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Identifier: P092:0730
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University