Lulu Grace Graves
Lulu Grace Graves was an American dietitian, who was, from 1917 to 1920, the first president of the American Dietetic Association.
Early life
Lulu Grace Graves was born in Fairbury, Nebraska. She trained as a teacher and taught to save money for college. She earned a degree in home economics at the University of Chicago in 1909.Career
Graves was associate professor of home economics at Iowa State College early in her career. She was professor of home economics at Cornell University, where she began a training program for hospital dietitians. Graves held various hospital positions, including first resident dietitian at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago in 1911, head dietitian at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland from 1914, and superintendent of the dietary department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.In 1917, she and Lenna Frances Cooper founded the American Dietetic Association, for hospital dietitians to meet and discuss the public health and food conservation needs during World War I, and she was the first president. While she was in office, and after her term ended, Graves was editor of the Dietetics and Institutional Food Service department of Modern Hospital magazine. She moved to Berkeley, California in 1938. In 1947 she received the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award from the American Dietetics Association.