Greta Gray

Greta Gray (September 30, 1880 – January 18, 1961) was an American architect, professor of home economics, and author. In 1941 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Quotes The house and its surroundings are intimately connected with the home, each modifies the other. Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables House of Seven Gables, Poe's The Fall of the House of the House of Usher Fall of the House of Usher, there reports of investigations of housing committees, Vital statistics (government records) vital statistics, all tell us the same story. The dwellers in a house put their stamp upon it, even when they have left it empty it reflects something of their characters and habits from its walls and floors, from the very air which has surrounded them. Still more the house modifies the home and the people who dwell in it. Disease and death come more frequently to the damp, unventilated house than to the sunlit one. The inconvenient house, making irksome the necessary work, influences the dispositions of all under its roof. The quiet dignified house with a beautiful outlook brings soothing and inspiration. House and Home: A Manual and Text-book of Practical House Planning Lippincott's Home Manuals, edited by Benjamin R. Andrews J.B. Lippincott 1923 https://books.google.com/books?id=3ztDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 1 (356 pages; 2nd edition, 1927) A convenient kitchen is one in which the necessary work can be done with the least possible effort. To plan such a kitchen requires at least two things. First, there must be a clear idea of all the routine jobs to be done in the kitchen in the order that they are most likely to come. Outline of food preparation Preparing raw food, cooking, serving, clearing away and dishwashing are the jobs that follow each other most often in the majority of kitchens. Second, after the plan of work is clearly in mind, comes the choosing and placing of the needed equipment. The relation of the kitchen to the rest of the house, especially the dining portion, also plays an important part in convenience. Convenient Kitchens Farmers' Bulletin, United States. Department of Agriculture issue 1513 U.S. Government Printing Office 1926 https://books.google.com/books?id=SLKOzqIgxhQC&pg=PA1 (30 pages; quote from p. 1) Quotes about Greta Gray A two-year study made by Gray (3) of one family's food during the Great Depression depression indicated that even intelligent persons living on a very low income are likely to have a deficient diet. The Diet (nutrition) dietary of the three women in this family, two of whom were college students, furnished per person per day 2372 Calories, 41 grams protein, 0.59 gram calcium, 0.79 gram phosphorus, and 0.000754 gram iron. ...3. Gray, Greta. One family's food during the depression. Jour. Home Econ. 27:24-25. 1935. Grace Spoelstra, A study of the diets of ten low-income families (M.S. thesis) 1936 Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science https://files.core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33354224.pdf (quote from p. 4 & p. 47) External links Category:1880 births Category:1961 deaths Category:Women architects from the United States Category:Architects from the United States Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:People from Kentucky Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women born in the 1880s Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:Yale University alumni