Quindara Oliver Dodge
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May 3, 1897
Quindara Oliver Dodge | |
|---|---|
 Quindara Oliver (later Dodge), from the 1918 yearbook of Michigan State College | |
| Born | Quindara Oliver May 3, 1897 Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 1978 (aged 81) Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupations | Dietitian, college professor |
Quindara Oliver Dodge (May 3, 1897 – August 1978) was an American dietitian based in Boston. She was a professor of institution management at Simmons College beginning in 1931, and president of the American Dietetic Association from 1933 to 1934.[1][2]
Oliver was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Lapeer, Michigan, the daughter of William Loveridge Oliver and Gertrude Carroll Oliver.[3] She graduated from Lapeer High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from Michigan State College in 1918.[4][5] She pursued further studies at Columbia University.[3]
Career
Dodge was a "nationally known dietitian" by 1929.[6] She was a professor of institution management at Simmons College in Boston beginning in 1931.[7] She was also director of the vocational training department of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.[8] She was president of the American Dietetic Association from 1933 to 1934.[9][10] "Mrs. Dodge is not at all the austere, coldly professional sort of person you would expect of one bearing so many impressive titles," a 1934 report assured readers.[11]
Dodge spoke about changing patterns of consumption and new methods of packaging milk and curing hams to the Texas State Dietetic Association in 1938.[12][13] In 1944 she addressed the Springfield Nutrition Bureau on worker nutrition and industrial cafeterias.[14][15] In 1947 she was honored by Michigan State College as an outstanding home economics alumna.[16]
Dodge was a charter member of the Boston chapter of Zonta International, when it formed in 1927.[8]
Publications
- "Where Administrators Come From" (1937)[17]
- "Menu Planning and Food Cost Control" (1940)[18]
- "Institution Management and Professional Success" (1940)[19]
- "Management Control in Industrial Cafeterias" (1944)[20]
- "The Administrative Dietitian in Industrial Feeding" (1946)[21]
- "The Food Administrator: A Product of Modern Living" (1949, with Alberta Macfarlane and Mary deGarmo Bryan)[22]