Ruth Boynton was a physician, researcher, and administrator who spent almost her entire career at the University of Minnesota.
20 Facts About Ruth Boynton
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Ruth Boynton worked in public health and student health services.
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Ruth Boynton was director of the University Student Health Service from 1936 to 1961and it was renamed the Boynton Health Service in her honor in 1975.
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Ruth Boynton served as the acting dean of the School of Public Health from 1944 to 1946.
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Ruth Evelyn Boynton was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on January 3,1896.
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Ruth Boynton was the daughter of Ervin and Nellie Alice Boynton.
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Ruth Boynton decided to become a doctor while she was in high school.
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Dr Mary P Houck cared for Boynton's two brothers during their final illnesses, when they were 12 and 20 years old and Nelly Boynton who died during Ruth's youth.
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Ruth Boynton graduated with a major in medical sciences and coursework in Latin and French.
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Ruth Boynton saw patients with a wide variety of diseases, including tuberculosis.
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Ruth Boynton was Director of the Minnesota Department of Health Division of Child Hygiene from 1923 to 1927.
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Ruth Boynton spent one year at the University of Chicago, from 1927 to 1928, as the Chief Medical Advisor for Women and assistant professor of medicine.
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Ruth Boynton was Director of the Student Health Service from 1936 until her retirement in 1961.
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Ruth Boynton started several new programs during her time as Director.
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Ruth Boynton boosted the amount of psychological and psychiatric counseling services.
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Ruth Boynton ran the U of M School of Public Health during World War II when its Director left to serve in the Army.
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Ruth Boynton served for twenty-two years on the Minnesota State Board of Health, and was twice elected its president, in 1945 and 1951.
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Ruth Boynton moved to Florida where she volunteered her time as the secretary-treasurer of the American College Health Association for several years.
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Ruth Boynton died on December 21,1977, in Miami after a brief illness.
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Ruth Boynton gave $20,000 to establish the Prudence Cutright Scholarship for an outstanding woman graduate student in education to the University of Minnesota in her bequest.