page_title: Julia Grout
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Julia Grout / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: 1920 Basketball Team from Mount Holyoke College. Julia Rebecca Grout became first Director of Duke Women's Physical Education program and expanded program at Duke during her 40-year career.
context_page_description: Julia Grout served as Chairman of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education at Duke University from 1924 to 1964. She was the first director of the physical education department in Duke Women's college. Grout's resume, letters related to Grout's professional career, retirement materials, tributes to her, and documents related to her funeral are housed at the Duke University Libraries.
context_section_description: Julia "Jerry" Grout was born April 1, 1898 in North Brookfield, Massachusetts to Edgar H. Grout and Laura M. Grout. Grout earned an A.B. degree at Wellesley College. She became a physical education director at Duke, in 1924. She held the post until she retired in 1964. She taught for two years at Wellesley College before coming to Duke University. 
  Grout produced many speeches, papers, and reports pertaining to the need for physical education for women, American physical education compared to that of Europe, and the history of physical education for women at Duke. In 1958, Grout traveled to Southern Africa, and participated in an exchange workshop of 60 physical education instructors in Sweden, visiting in 1938, where she studied the physical education programs of Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway.
  Upon her retirement, students and colleagues presented her with a large bound volume of letters written expressing their appreciation for her forty years of service at Duke. She also worked on the Dedication Committee of Baldwin Auditorium.
  Duke University honored Grout in 1982 through the establishment of a biennial lecture in her name, being cited for her leadership in bringing national recognition to her department through the quality of its staff and programs.
  Grout died on April 23, 1984 in Chapel Hill, after an extended illness.
caption: Julia Grout on 1920 Basketball Team at Mount Holyoke College
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