Background
Wood, the daughter of Elias and Rose (Stirland) Nielsen, was born in Logan Utah in 1909 and grew up in Ogden, Utah. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Utah in 1929 — later pursuing a master's degree in speech. On June 12, 1929, she married Myron Douglas (Doug) Wood (1903–1987), son of William Wood, Jr. and Ellen Sutton (Goddard) Wood – and university student body president at U. Utah. Doug Wood grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and earned a B.A. in business from the University of Utah in 1929. The couple had one daughter, Carol Davis Wood Evans of Tucson, AZ.
Wood first began to study reading while a teacher and girls' counselor at Jordan High School in Salt Lake City. Evelyn and Doug Wood created a speed reading business in 1959, Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Reading Dynamics.
In 1967, the Woods sold the business, Doug Wood continuing to serve as President until he retired in 1974. American Learning Corporation, a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, bought Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics in May 1986, and it was later sold in September 1993 to Pryor Resources, a business seminar training company in Kansas City, Kansas. The business is currently owned by PARK University Enterprises, Inc.
After two strokes, Wood died 26 August 1995 in Tucson, Arizona at age 86 . Her papers are archived at the Utah State Historical Society.
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