Her husband died in 1987.įuneral services are scheduled Friday in Salt Lake City. Wood is survived by her daughter and seven grandchildren. of Shawnee Mission, Kan., which teaches the course through seminars. The company is now owned by Pryor Resources Inc. Douglas Wood, sold the institutes in 1966, but she continued to teach until she suffered a massive stroke in 1977. President Kennedy, a natural speed reader, sent staff members to take Wood’s course.Īt their peak in 1978, there were 150 institutes around the country. After studying the habits of naturally fast readers she developed a methodology that was taught in many seminars throughout the country. As with many of the speed reading courses that would follow, Wood's course focused on minimizing the number of back-and-forth eye movements a reader made while scanning a page. She actually coined the term speed reading before it became a conventional phrase. Speed Reading 101 Speed reading courses have been around since the 1950s, with educator Evelyn Wood introducing one of the more popular ones - Reading Dynamics - in 1959. Students included President Carter, members of Congress and actor Lancaster, said her daughter, Carol Davis Evans. Although not as well known as the two presidents, Evelyn Wood, popularized speed reading in the U.S. Wood, who reportedly could read up to 15,000 words per minute, opened her first Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institutes in Washington in 1959. Born Evelyn Nielsen on January 8, 1909, in Logan, Utah died on August 26, 1995.
Those taking her course reported reading and comprehending ability at thousands of words per minute after only a few weeks. Wood, Evelyn (19091995)American developer of the speed-reading technique. Wood, who was born in Logan, Utah, began teaching speed reading in 1957 at her alma mater, the University of Utah, where she earned a degree in English in 1929.
Wood died Saturday of natural causes at her daughter’s home in Tucson, where she had lived since 1987. Evelyn Wood, whose speed-reading courses taught students including Jimmy Carter and Burt Lancaster to whiz through thousands of words per minute, is dead at 86.
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