Sally Lucas Jean, 1878-1971: Health Education Pioneer

Geneva, Switzerland: The International Journal of Health Education, 1973. First edition.

SCARCE BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING AMERICAN EDUCATOR WHO COINED "HEALTH EDUCATION" AND DEVELOPED HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Slim volume 9 1/2 inches tall; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in dark red, French flaps; xi,[1]. 115pp. Wrappers a bit worn with spine ends bumped and slightly chipped, textblock uniformly toned, later descriptive print-out of the book taped to rear free endpaper, very good. Autograph letter signed by the author on her personal letterhead (recipient unknown) taped inside wrapper, dated April 27, 1974: "This has been a long time in the preparation - first as a dissertation and then as this publication. So much has happened and so many changes in my life since Gertrude Robinson-Smith died - and the Gladstone in NY came down. I now go to Maine where I have a cottage a [sic] Pemaquid Point summers so no more Tanglewood."

SALLY LUCAS JEAN (1878 – 1971) was an American health educator and nurse. Jean served as an army nurse during the Spanish–American War in Lexington, Kentucky and Chickamauga, Georgia, her first post. Later Jean went on to become a pioneering educator coining the term health education. In 1914 she became the director of Maryland's Social Health Service before going in 1917 to New York to organize a People's Institute Department of Health Service. She then went on to supervise health education for the U.S. Indian Service in 1934/35. During the First world war she served on New York Academy of Medicine's Committee on Wartime Problems of Childhood. Seeing the impact it had on the population, she became director of the establishment of the Child Health Organization which went on to be the American Child Health Association when it merged with the American Child Hygiene Association in 1923. Jean went on to work as the director of the Health Education department there. She worked as a consultant internationally from 1924 to the 1950s, developing health education programs in China, Japan, Philippines, Virgin Islands and Panama Canal Zone as well as working with companies and for University of Denver summer school in 1942, the Colorado River War Relocation Authority from 1942 to 1943 and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1944.

MARGUERITE VOLLMER was on the faculty of the Department of Health Education at Columbia University. She was chair of the first New York State Committee on the Evaluation of Health Teaching, and a fellow of the American Public Health Association, the American School Health Association, and the Royal Society of Health of Great Britain.