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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Jean Phillips Papers, Ms1998-026, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Jean Phillips Papers were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1998.
The processing and description of the Jean Phillips Papers commenced and was completed in November, 2023.
Jean Allen, daughter of John M. and Catherine Carrie Weller Arnold Allen, was born in Knoxville (Knox County), Tennessee, on December 10, 1918. She earned her bachelor's degree in home economics at the University of Tennessee in 1940 and married Dr. Leonard J. Phillips (1900-1954) in Knoxville on August 4, 1943. The 1950 federal census lists the couple as residents of Chattanooga (Hamilton County), Tennessee, with Jean Phillips working as a homemaker. Phillips returned to school and work following her husband's death, earning her master's degree at the University of Tennessee with the thesis "Student Personnel Supervision at the University of Tennessee Cafeteria" in 1955. She worked as an instructor at the university from 1954 until 1958, when she was hired as associate professor at Purdue University. She earned her doctorate at Purdue in 1966. That same year, she became an associate professor at University of Tennessee at Martin, a position in which she served until 1969, when she joined the Department of Human Nutrition and Foods (later the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise) at Virginia Tech. During her tenure, Phillips co-authored a college textbook (
This collection contains papers of Jean Allen Phillips, a professor of human nutrition and foods at Virginia Tech from 1969 to 1985. The papers consist largely of professional correspondence, with much of it devoted to the sixth and seventh editions of
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