Phyllis Nelson Yuhas Papers

Phyllis Nelson Yuhas was an emeritus professor of history and one of the founders of international education at Ball State University, Indiana. Phyllis Ann Nelson was born in November 17, 1922, in Grinnell, Iowa, the daughter of Gladys Shand Nelson and Edward L. Nelson. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1944 and received a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.. She taught history at Ball State University, Indiana, from 1952 to her retirement in 1988. In 1974, she became the director of International Studies at Ball State and was instrumental in establishing Ball State a charter member of ISEP (International Student Exchange Program). Phyllis Ann Nelson married Theodore Frank Yuhas who predeceased her..

Her father was a manufacturer, and her mother was a teacher, Iowa legislator, and president of the Iowa League of Women Voters. Gladys Nelson was an avid traveler and after her husband’s death, she and Phyllis traveled widely. Gladys Nelson died in 1995 and established an endowment at Ball State to honor her daughter’s work in international education, the Phyllis Ann Yuhas International Scholarship Fund. Phyllis Yuhas died February 21, 2006.