Faith Lanman Gorrell

Faith Lanman Gorrell
Faith Lanman Gorrell, from a 1920 publication
Born	Faith Robinson Lanman 1881 New London, Connecticut
Died	October 9, 1966 Columbus, Ohio
Occupation(s)	Home economist, educator
Relatives	Charles Rockwell Lanman (uncle)

Faith Robinson Lanman Gorrell (1881 – October 9, 1966) was an American home economist and educator. She was director of the School of Home Economics at Ohio State University from 1929 to 1945.

Early life and education

Lanman was born in New London, Connecticut, the daughter of Jonathan (or John) Trumbull Lanman and Charlotte Elizabeth Stilwell Lanman. Her uncle Charles Rockwell Lanman was a professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University. She graduated from Ohio State University in 1903.^[1] She earned a second bachelor's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1907.^[2]

Career

Gorrell taught school in Florida as a young woman.^[2] She was appointed director of domestic science in the Columbus public schools in 1907.^[3] She worked on food conservation projects for the Ohio State College of Agriculture during World War I.^[2] She joined the faculty of the School of Home Economics at Ohio State University in 1920, succeeding Edna Noble White as the head of the home economics department.^[4] When the department became the School of Home Economics, she became the new school's director. In 1941, she was chair of a conference titled "Nutrition in Defense", held on the Ohio State campus.^[5]

Gorrell resigned from the director post in 1945, but remained on the faculty until 1957, and worked on building a placement service for the school's alumni.^[6] A Faith Lanman Gorrell scholarship was established in her honor in 1952, by the Ohio State University Home Economics Alumnae Association.^[7]

Publications

• Handbook of Recipes (1918)^[8]
• "The Effect of the Use of Salt in Cooking Vegetables" (1927, with Elsie Steiger Minton)^[9]
• The Family's Food (1937, with Hughina McKay and Frances Zuill)^[10]
• Foods Workbook (1939, with Hughina McKay)^[11]
• Food and Family Living (1947, with Hughina McKay and Frances Zuill)^[12]

Personal life

Lanman married Edmund Morgan Gorrell in 1932. Her husband died in 1948, and she died in 1966, at the age of 84, at a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio.^[13]

References

1. Neely, Ruth (1939). Women of Ohio: A Record of Their Achievements in the History of the State. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 246.
2. "Faith Lanman, '03, is New Home Economics Head" Ohio State University Monthly (October 1920): 34.
3. Education, Columbus (Ohio) Board of (1908). Financial Report of the Board of Education of the City School District of Columbus, Ohio for the Fiscal Year... p. 118.
4. "New Head for Women's Department at O.S.U." Ohio Farm Bureau Monthly. 6 (2): 1. August 1920.
5. "Miss Mary Valerio to Represent Cincinnati at 'Nutrition in Defense' Conference". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1941-06-12. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-09-02 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Home Ec Expert to be Here for Guidance Day". Chillicothe Gazette. 1949-11-10. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-09-02 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Bombeck, Erma (1952-12-04). "Dayton Woman Wins Top Award for Homemaking". The Journal Herald. p. 25. Retrieved 2023-09-02 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Gorrell, Faith Lanman (1918). Handbook of Recipes as Used in the Course in Home Economics in Columbus Public Schools. Stoneman Press Company.
9. Lanman, Faith R.; Minton, Elsie Steiger (July 1927). "The Effect of the Use of Salt in Cooking Vegetables". Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin (406): 1–17.
10. Gorrell, Faith Lanman; McKay, Hughina; Zuill, Frances; Andrews, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Richard) (1937). The Family's Food. University of Alberta Libraries. Chicago, Philadelphia [etc.] J. B. Lippincott company.
11. Gorrell, Faith Lanman (1939). Foods Workbook. J.B. Lippincott Company.
12. Gorrell, Faith Lanman; McKay, Hughina; Zuill, Frances (1947). Food and Family Living. J.B. Lippincott Company.
13. "Ex-Educator Dies". Dayton Daily News. 1966-10-10. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-09-02 – via Newspapers.com.