Helen Phelps Hoyt Lewis

Background

Lewis, Helen Phelps Hoyt was born on December 27, 1902 in Lakewood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of John Sherman and Ethel Phelps (Stokes) Hoyt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania) College, 1923; Master of Arts, Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University, 1925.

Career

Board managers, Christodora Settlement House, New York City, 1927-1938; 1st vice president, Christodora Settlement House, 1929-1938; national board, Young Women’s Christian Association, 1927-1930; member women's advisory council, New York Botanical Garden, 1952-1993; member nursing committee, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, 1944-1954; trustee, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1969-1978; honorary trustee, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1978-1993. Member women's auxiliary Neurological Institute, New York City, 1939-1993, chairman, 1949-1954. Member women's Executive Committee, Chairman of Commission hospital auxs.

United Hospital Fund, 1951-1964, vice chairman women's campaign committee, 1961-1962, chairman women's subcommittee distribution, 1963-1965, vice chairman women's Executive Committee, 1963-1964.

Membership

Member Colonial Dames American (director 1951-1956, chairman scholarship committee 1949-1951, president-general 1953-1956), Daughters Cincinnati. Clubs: Darien (Connecticut). Garden (president 1935-1938), Millbrook Garden (past president), Garden Club Am.

Colony (New York City) (governor 1954-1976, secretary 1956-1959, secretary, vice president 1969-1971, president 1972-1976, chairman membership committee 1956-1971).

Connections

Married Byron Stookey, May 11, 1929 (deceased October 20, 1966). Children: John Hoyt, Lyman Brumbaugh, Byron. Married Robert James Lewis, August 5, 1971 (deceased May 17, 1988).

Father:

John Sherman Hoyt

Mother:

Ethel Phelps (Stokes) Hoyt

Spouse:

Robert James Lewis

Spouse:

Byron Stookey

child:

Byron Lewis

child:

John Hoyt Lewis

child:

Lyman Brumbaugh Lewis