Effie Raitt

Effie Raitt
A white woman with hair dressed to the nape, wearing a dark dress with a square neckline and a lace-trimmed collar
Effie Raitt, from a 1923 publication
Born
Effie Isobel Raitt

June 13, 1878
Patterson, Iowa
DiedDecember 4, 1945
Seattle, Washington
Occupation(s)Home economist, dietitian, college professor

Effie Isobel Raitt (June 13, 1878[1] – December 4, 1945) was an American dietitian and college professor. She was head of the University of Washington's School of Home Economics for more than thirty years, from 1912 to 1945. Raitt Hall on the university's central Quad is named in her honor.[2] She was a national leader of both the American Home Economics Association and the American Dietetic Association.

  1. ^ Some sources give her birth year as 1879; June 13, 1878 is the birth date given on her 1910 application for a United States passport, and Patterson, Iowa is the birth place given; from the National Archives, via Ancestry.
  2. ^ "History". University of Washington Nutritional Sciences Program, School of Public Health. Retrieved 2023-03-22.