[1] She attended Reading Academy High School[2] and graduated from Simmons College in 1916 (after starring as Prospero in her class's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest).
"We draw rations every morning of bacon, rice, onions, potatoes, tinned meat, milk, cocoa, jam, oleomargarine, pork and beans, sugar, salt, tea, cheese, bread, mustard, pepper, pickles, and coal and ice when they have it.
[6] In 1924, Marjorie Hulsizer married Dr. Glover Hancock Copher, a surgeon and professor at Washington University School of Medicine.
Copher died in St. Louis in 1935, aged 43 years, from bronchogenic carcinoma, a form of lung cancer.
[8] The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics's highest award is the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award, given annually since 1945 to a member who "has contributed to the profession through extensive, active participation and service to the profession of nutrition and dietetics, both within and outside of the Academy".