Draft:Penelope Easton

Penelope S. Easton (c. 1923 – November 12, 2020) was an American dietician, nutritionist, and educator. She served as the founding department chairperson and later professor emeritus of the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at Florida International University.

Raised in Craftsbury, Vermont, Easton attended the University of Vermont, receiving a B.S. in 1944.

Dietetic Internship at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. MPH from the University of Michigan. PhD from the University of Southern Illinois.

Easton taught at Indiana State University from 1963 to 1971, when she joined FIU to initiate its dietetics program.

In 1982, Easton was named Florida's outstanding dietician for the year by the Florida Dietetic Association.

Easton published two books in her 90s, Learning to Like Muktuk: An Unlikely Explorer in Territorial Alaska (2014), and Fleeing the Depression: Finding Refuge in World War II (2017).