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These are Mount Holyoke College/South Hadley folks who don't quite rate a page of their own, though I may change my mind later on.
Anne Starr and Fredda Reed have non-family pages of their own:
NON-FAMILY: ANNE STARR
NON-FAMILY: FREDDA REED
Lenette Atkinson was fellow botanist. Mr. Warbeke was a music teacher, and also Fredda Reed's landlord. I'll write more about both of them later. (I'm not saying how much later.)
Anne Starr and Fredda Reed have non-family pages of their own:
NON-FAMILY: ANNE STARR
NON-FAMILY: FREDDA REED
Lenette Atkinson was fellow botanist. Mr. Warbeke was a music teacher, and also Fredda Reed's landlord. I'll write more about both of them later. (I'm not saying how much later.)
Cornelia Clapp
Cornelia Clapp was a Mount Holyoke professor who lived near Alma in Woods Hole, so I never can decide which page she should be on - South Hadley or Woods Hole - so I've put her in both. Wikipedia says:
Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896. Clapp was the first female researcher employed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as its only female trustee during the first half of the 20th century. She was rated one of the top 150 zoologists in the United States in 1903, and her name was starred in the first five editions of American Men of Science (now American Men and Women of Science).
Cornelia Clapp was a Mount Holyoke professor who lived near Alma in Woods Hole, so I never can decide which page she should be on - South Hadley or Woods Hole - so I've put her in both. Wikipedia says:
Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896. Clapp was the first female researcher employed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as its only female trustee during the first half of the 20th century. She was rated one of the top 150 zoologists in the United States in 1903, and her name was starred in the first five editions of American Men of Science (now American Men and Women of Science).
Ellen Hinsdale
Not a close friend of Alma's, I think, but she visited Fernbank both while she was living in South Hadley and after her retirement when she moved away.
Ellen came from an academic family in Ohio, and had two sisters, Mildred and Mary. Mildred ended up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, presumably at the University of Michigan, and when Ellen retired from Mount Holyoke, she moved to Ann Arbor to be with Mildred.
Ellen was born in 1864. The Holyoke Transcript Telegram tells me that she graduated from Adelbert College in Cleveland in 1885. She got her master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1893, and then went to Germany for her doctorate. She tried Leipzig, but they didn't do doctorates for women, so she went to Gottingen, and got her doctorate in 1897, after which she immediate came to Mount Holyoke. There she set up Mount Holyoke's German department, and was head of the department until her retirement. I'd love to more about how she managed during World War I, when there was great sentiment against anything and everything German.
She retired in 1931, and as noted, moved to Michigan, but came back to Massachusetts for visits, staying with Grace Bacon, who also has a segment on this page, and visiting Fernbank. She died in 1958, aged 94.
Not a close friend of Alma's, I think, but she visited Fernbank both while she was living in South Hadley and after her retirement when she moved away.
Ellen came from an academic family in Ohio, and had two sisters, Mildred and Mary. Mildred ended up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, presumably at the University of Michigan, and when Ellen retired from Mount Holyoke, she moved to Ann Arbor to be with Mildred.
Ellen was born in 1864. The Holyoke Transcript Telegram tells me that she graduated from Adelbert College in Cleveland in 1885. She got her master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1893, and then went to Germany for her doctorate. She tried Leipzig, but they didn't do doctorates for women, so she went to Gottingen, and got her doctorate in 1897, after which she immediate came to Mount Holyoke. There she set up Mount Holyoke's German department, and was head of the department until her retirement. I'd love to more about how she managed during World War I, when there was great sentiment against anything and everything German.
She retired in 1931, and as noted, moved to Michigan, but came back to Massachusetts for visits, staying with Grace Bacon, who also has a segment on this page, and visiting Fernbank. She died in 1958, aged 94.
Grace Bacon
Grace Mabel Bacon was not a close friend of Alma's, but she was a friend of Ellen Hinsdale's, and taught German at Mount Holyoke. She came to the attention of the Stokeys when she went to France with the Red Cross at the end of World War I, leaving in the fall of 1918 and returning around June of 1919.
Her papers are online:
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/collections/grace-bacon-papers
with a picture of her during her time in the Red Cross, looking very stalwart.
Grace Mabel Bacon was not a close friend of Alma's, but she was a friend of Ellen Hinsdale's, and taught German at Mount Holyoke. She came to the attention of the Stokeys when she went to France with the Red Cross at the end of World War I, leaving in the fall of 1918 and returning around June of 1919.
Her papers are online:
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/collections/grace-bacon-papers
with a picture of her during her time in the Red Cross, looking very stalwart.
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- 1925-09-04 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA ---------- Miss Hinsdale
- 1926-06-14 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA AND EVA ---------- Miss Hinsdale and Miss Bacon
- 1928-06-18 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA ---------- Miss Hinsdale and Miss Bacon
- 1949-09-12 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA, FRED, AND A.G. ---------- Miss Hinsdale and Miss Bacon
- 1958-04-06 ARTICLE ABOUT ALMA
- 1958-11-18 ATLANTA CONSTITUTION ITEM ABOUT EVA AND ALMA
- 1958-12-25 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA
- 1958-12-28 POSTCARD FROM ALMA TO EVA
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No pictures yet. Surely there will be some.
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