CAROLINE L. HUNT
Caroline L. Hunt READERS OF LA FOLLETTE'S will share with me a deep sense of personal and public loss in the death of Caroline Hunt, teacher, writer, lecturer and widely known authority in the...
...She spoke fittingly of Miss Hunt's character and achievements and read telegrams and messages from her friends and co-workers throughout the country...
...She organized the department on a broad basis of usefulness to the people of the State...
...Few if any women since Ellen Richards have exercised a more far-reaching and wholesome influence than Caroline Hunt in the solution of everyday problems of health, sanitation, balanced diet, sensible clothing, convenient house planning, durable furnishings, and general efficiency and beauty in the home...
...In 1908, Miss Hunt published "Home iProblems from a New Standpoint," and In 1912 the "Life of Ellen Richards...
...We can trace her influence at work in schools and colleges and other educational institutions, * * * in the more efficient activities of public agencies and private undertakings, which she touched * * * (This is especially true of Miss Hunt's influence on the home...
...She has held the position and has resided here continually since...
...Herself a University woman of unusual culture and taste, she was •iways thinking in true democratic spirit of the concrete problems of the average woman...
...The funeral services for Caroline Hunt at Hull House January 29th were most appropriate and moving...
...and Mrs...
...School Lunches, Food for Young Children, Food for Average Family, Good Proportion in Diet, Guide to Meals, How to Select Foods, and so on...
...She was interested in their music, art, literature, and the general advancement of the race...
...Her life goes on in a thousand forms and in a thousand places...
...J. David Thompson...
...We may say of Caroline Hunt what she said of Ellen Richards: "Such a life does not lose its power and vitality when it passes from us...
...We were brought together by a mutual friend, Lulu Daniels, afterwards Mrs...
...Her ginning smile lighted up her usually .thoughtful, sometimes sad countenance with playfulness and joy...
...She was a wonderful comrade, fond of nature, she Was always ready to explore new paths, jt was a rare pleasure to spend a day pat of doors in her company...
...A little pamphlet published privately, call-led "Revaluations," expresses her philosophy better perhaps than anything she has written...
...they were teachers together in the public schools of Brooklyn and Minneapolis...
...She wrote for their journals, spoke at their meetings, and was at all times a source of friendly encouragement to their progress...
...To strangers she sometimes jpave the impression of intellectual reserve...
...When LA FOLLETTE'S Magazine was started in 1909, she became a member of our editorial staff and for four years gave a part of her time to writing for Home and Educaton...
...From 1903-08, Miss Hunt was professor of Home Economics in the University of Wisconsin...
...they were associated for five years teaching at Lewis Institute, Chicago...
...Mary McDowell, Chicago's settlement worker, also a close friend, spoke especially of Miss Hunt's interest in the Negro...
...In the midst of beautiful floral tributes in the presence of a large gathering of friends and associates from Chicago and Evanston, Jane Addams presided...
...Miss Hunt died suddenly of pneumonia January 27th at a hospital in Chicago, where she was staying with a sister who was recovering from an operation...
...For many years Miss Hunt has been one of my closest friends...
...She had many personal friends among the colored people...
...As I recall she was the first to institute Conferences of Farm Women...
...her 'democracy was as she says of Mrs...
...It is an excellent example of her standards—the scientific background, the comprehensive grasp of her subject, the plain, practical application of scientific knowledge to everyday living...
...She enjoyed research work, at the same time she was imbued with a desire for practical results...
...The Bureau of Home Economics furnished a congenial field for Miss Hunt's special talents and equipment...
...jBhe had an original creative mind, a fine jBense of humor and social charm...
...We have recently published in three installments Miss Hunt's latest article in the Agricultural Year Book—"Nutritive Value of Fruits, .Vegetables, and Nuts...
...She had a very wide ^acquaintance, and in all the centers she .visited she made warm friends...
...In all the ye.irs since she has been an inspiration to me to carry on the policy upon which we agreed at the beginning,—-to seek the cooperation of intelligent, progressive women in the solution of home and educational problems and to stimulate interest and sense of responsibility in matters of public concern...
...her low, even voice and tranquil manner, which bespoke her Quaker ancestry, at times gave the effect of disinterestedness, but underneath her calm there were a sincerity and depth of feeling and a magnetism which had lasting jk>H on those who came to know her well...
...She was a Delta Gamma and Phi Beta Kappa...
...Miss Hunt traveled, lectured, held conferences and aided in organization under the auspices of the Home Economics Bureau...
...Professor Sophonisba Breckinbridge of the Department of Social Economy of the University of Chicago, for many years an intimate friend, told of Miss Hunt's contribution to Home Economics...
...Miss Hunt was the author of many widely distributed bulletins issued by the Department of Agriculture...
...There was an extraordinary and beautiful friendship between the two women...
...She was not aggressive but she was firm in her convictions and true to them...
...She resided for a time at Hull House and throughout her life she was an appreciative friend and admirer of Jane Addams...
...She was a true liberal...
...To those who knew her and worked with her there remains the personal presence of the leader, the counselor, the friend, in the laboratory, at the desk, in the conference room and the convention hall—wherever tasks must now be faced alone, which once were faced with her...
...Thompson came to Washington to take positions in the Library of Congress, Miss Hunt later accepted a position as scientific assistant in the Home Economics Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, which brought her to Washington...
...Work for the Department of Agriculture was not limited to her desk and laboratory...
...Miss Hunt took her A. B. at Northwestern University, followed by gradu...
...Caroline L. Hunt READERS OF LA FOLLETTE'S will share with me a deep sense of personal and public loss in the death of Caroline Hunt, teacher, writer, lecturer and widely known authority in the field of Home Economics...
...When Mr...
...They were simple and without formality...
...Richards, "of the perfect kind—not that Which overlooks differences, but that which does not see them...
...She had A genius for friendship not easy to flefine...
...ate work in chemistry at the University of Chicago...
Vol. 19 • January 1909 • No. 2
