found: Growth and development of the young child, 1930:t.p. (Mary E. Sweeny, M.S., M.A.; nutritionist at the Merrill-Palmer School, Detroit)
found: OCLC, Dec. 4, 2000(hdg.: Sweeny, Mary E., 1879- )
found: Jour. of home economics, Sept. 1968p. 496 (Mary E. Sweeny; d. June 13, 1968; ret. from Merrill-Palmer Inst. in Detroit in 1945)
found: Social Security death index, online, Dec. 11, 2000(Mary Sweeny; b. Oct. 11, 1879; d. June 1968)
found: Wikipedia, April 2, 2014(Mary E. Sweeney; Home Economics professional who was head of the Home Economics Section of the United States Food Administration during World War I; Sweeney was President of American Home Economics Association; she was born in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 1879 to Dr. W.O. Sweeney and Margaret Prewitt Sweeney; she attended Transylvania University where she received her bachelor's degree in 1899; she earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Kentucky, and another master's degree in 1912 from Columbia University; Sweeney taught physics and chemistry at Campbell-Hagerman College before she came to work at the University of Kentucky as a specialist in home economics extension; after serving for five years in rural Kentucky where she introduced hot school lunches in rural schools and courses in cooking and sewing in elementary and high schools, she was promoted to serve as the head of the department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture in 1913; she was the first dean of the University's new College of Home Economics that was formed in 1916; in 1917 Sweeney was appointed to be the chair of home economics for the U.S. Food Administration in Washington D.C. where she trained citizens about rationing food during wartime; she left with her sister Sunshine Sweeney in the fall of 1917 to work as canteen workers with the U.S. Army in France with the YMCA and the Army of Occupation in Germany; in 1920 Sweeney became Dean of Human Ecology at Michigan Agriculture College (now Michigan State University) and was elected president of the American Home Economics Association; she returned to the University of Kentucky in 1923, but in 1925 left to become the Physical Growth and Development department chair of the Merrill Palmer School (later Institute) in Detroit, Michigan; by 1928, Sweeney became assistant director and continued her work in research, teaching and writing about nutrition and child development until her retirement in 1946; after World War II, Sweeney served as the North American Delegate to the International Missionary Conference in Madras, India; she also worked in China as a consultant on child welfare, and taught at Mississippi Southern College, Hattisburg; she died June 11, 1968 and is buried at the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky)
found: The Lexington Cemetery, via WWW, April 2, 2014(Sweeney, Mary E. (1879-1968); a native of Lexington, Mary E. Sweeney became known internationally as an authority on home economics and child care; in World War I, she was chairman of home economics in the U.S. Food Administration, headed by Herbert Hoover, and she was in demand as a lecturer and consultant in Europe, India, and China as well as America; she had degrees from Transylvania, the University of Kentucky, and Columbia University, and for twenty years was affiliated with a school for child development and family life in Detroit)
found: ancestry.com, April 2, 2014(Mary E. Sweeney; Mary Sweeney; Mary E. Sweeny; born October 11, 1879 in Lexington, Kentucky; daughter of William Oglesby Sweeney and Margaret Woodson Prewitt; died June 11, 1968 in Woodford County, Kentucky)
