Guthrie, Helen Andrews.

Dr. Helen Andrews Guthrie was born September 25, 1925 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. She held a bachelor's degree in home economics and an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario, a master's degree in nutrition and biochemistry from Michigan State University and a doctorate in physiology from the University of Hawaii. Helen A. Guthrie came to The Pennsylvania State College as an instructor in 1949; she was promoted to assistant professor in 1954, and associate professor in 1968. She became a full professor in 1972, and served as the head of the Nutrition Department twice, from 1971 to 1975 and 1979 to 1989. In 1974, she was awarded a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment that provided the impetus for developing a nutrition education curriculum for kindergarten through twelfth graders in Pennsylvania. The grant helped Guthrie establish Penn State's Nutrition Center and supported a number of Penn State studies on nutrition education strategies. She authored the book Programmed Nutrition as well as the widely used textbook, Introductory Nutrition. She was editor of Nutrition Today and was a reviewer for a number of other journals. She received a number of awards, including the Borden Award, the Atwater Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition from the American Institute of Nutrition. Dr. Guthrie retired with emeritus status in 1992 after 42 years of service at the university.