To recognize and honor a University of Utah teaching legend, Hulda Van Steeter Garrett, a memorial scholarship in her name has been established by Barbara Vance, a U Home Economics graduate.

During the 1940s, Mrs. Garrett introduced what was then a radical new approach to teaching - group discussion.

Named "the family strengths scholarship" because Mrs. Garrett always focused on the importance of developing strong families - families that produce citizens of principle-centered character, the scholarship also recognizes Mrs. Garrett's mantra that a strong family is the basis of any moral culture and society.

Recipients of the scholarship will be undergraduate students in Family and Consumer Studies who show most promise in pursuing a career focusing on developing family strengths, including students studying human development, family interaction, consumer economics, family life education and marriage and family therapy.

Hulda Price, an only child, was born in November 1904, in Minersville, Utah . After attending public schools in Beaver County , she attended and received her A.B. degree (major in Child Development and minor in Family Relationships) in 1926 from the University of Utah . Between 1926 and 1941, she taught Home Economics in Utah 's secondary schools in Carbon and Salt Lake counties. She married J. Melvin Van Steeter, had a son, and shortly thereafter was widowed.

Mrs. Garrett attended Cornell University, receiving her M.A. degree in 1941. She taught in the U's Home Economic Department from 1941 to 1957, after which she focused her professional skills as a therapist in the Marriage and Family Counseling Bureau at the University of Utah.

During her early years at the U, she married Leon D. Garrett, the comptroller of the university. She retired on December 31, 1969 , and was widowed a second time not long after her retirement.

She lived out the remainder of her 91 years in Salt Lake City, where she died on April 24, 1995.