Louise P. Guild, age 95, of Brookings, died Friday, November 9, 2007, at the Brookings Hospital. Her body was donated to the USD School of Medicine. A remembrance service will be held at the SDSU Alumni Center at 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, December 5, 2007. Memorials may be directed to the SDSU Foundation. Louise Pillsbury Guild was born September 6, 1912, at Amesbury, Massachusetts, to Henry and Margaretha (Knobel) Guild. She graduated from Amesbury high School and Framingham State College. For six years she was employed in analysis of plant foods of Mexico and Central America at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and, after obtaining a Master of Science degree in nutrition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was engaged in research at UMass and the University of Montana, Bozeman. She then served five years as Extension Home Economics Agent in Sweet Grass County, Montana, and one year as State Extension Nutrition Specialist in New Hampshire. Louise joined the nutrition research staff at South Dakota State University in 1964. She was the author of several published research reports and made a number of oral reports on the results of her studies, including one at the International Congress of Nutrition in Kyoto, Japan, in 1975. She was a member of Sigma Xi and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and she served one year as local chapter president of each. A fan of Elderhostels, she participated in more than 20, including two in Europe. She visited Mexico several times and all 50 states. She made most of her own clothes and enjoyed all kinds of handwork. After retiring from SDSU in 1978 she contributed more than 400 pairs of baby booties to the Brookings Hospital Auxiliary gift shop. She liked puzzles of all kinds. She assembled and distributed genealogical and historical information about and to both branches of the family. Louise is survived by a sister, Eleanor Gilman, of Bonita Springs, Florida, seven nieces and nephews; and many great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two brothers: John in 1992 and Edward in 1999.