Gladys Wood place of birth Roxbury
Early life and education
Gladys Wood was born on May 16, 1916, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, to Samuel Clarence Wood Sr. and Gertrude Ella Boyd. Her father worked as a porter, carpenter, and lumber surveyor. Her mother was a schoolteacher in Alabama before she married and moved to Massachusetts. Gladys Wood was the third of 13 children. Her middle name was recorded as "Samuel" in early family Bibles, and her baptism recorded it as "Sammie", but Wood eventually used the middle name "Sara".Wood attended Julia Ward Howe Elementary School, Lewis Jr. High School, and Roxbury Memorial High School. In 1937, she earned a bachelor's degree from the Teachers College of the City of Boston (later the Boston State College). She earned a master's degree in education from the same college in 1951, writing a 141-page master's thesis entitled "Nutrition And Its Relationship To The Noonday Lunch Of The Growing Child".
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