WOODS HOLE FOLKS: ~ABOUT THEM~---document-links---pictures---related pages---site navigation
It seems like a good idea to have a pigeonhole for the people we saw in Woods Hole. I see their names on the pictures and I don't want to ignore them. I'll write about them when I gather enough information that I can't ignore it. Miss Clapp. Ruth Johlin. Glady's cousins the Goltermans. I'll add to the list as I see them. Mrs. Van Doorn? Billy mentions her in 1927. The name is not familiar to me. Madeleine Monro. (I heard about her as a child, though all I heard was something along the lines of "There was Marilyn Monroe and there was Madeleine Monro.") Miss Turner in 1923.
DR. AND MRS. MEYER
Barb found this in her notes: Dr. Alfred Meyer, NY physician, specialist in tuberculosis & his wife, Annie Nathan Meyer, who founded Barnard College
AG wrote:
When I first met Dr. Meyer, he had a walking stick whose handle opened out into a seat to rest on when tired of walking. My father explained that Dr. Meyer was 97 and I had to shout because he was deaf. Mrs. Meyer was intimidating and had no soft spot for small children. Aunt Alma and I visited them once at their very elegant apartment in a tall New York building, with at least two African-American servants, one who cooked and another who served the food (from the left) and collected the used plates (from the right). I'm quite sure we also visited them in Ogunquit, Maine, but since they had a lovely summer home in Woods Hole, why would they need one in Maine as well? I can't believe he made all that money as a doctor. My father was also a doctor and was definitely not rich monetarily.
And then in a later email, AG added:
Annie Nathan Meyer, founded Bernard College but opposed women's suffrage. Her sister, Maud Nathan, was a suffragette. Bernard college was formed to be in relation to Columbia College (University) as Radcliffe was to Harvard. No wonder she seemed to have no use for stupid little children, just big, educated ones.
Barb found this in her notes: Dr. Alfred Meyer, NY physician, specialist in tuberculosis & his wife, Annie Nathan Meyer, who founded Barnard College
AG wrote:
When I first met Dr. Meyer, he had a walking stick whose handle opened out into a seat to rest on when tired of walking. My father explained that Dr. Meyer was 97 and I had to shout because he was deaf. Mrs. Meyer was intimidating and had no soft spot for small children. Aunt Alma and I visited them once at their very elegant apartment in a tall New York building, with at least two African-American servants, one who cooked and another who served the food (from the left) and collected the used plates (from the right). I'm quite sure we also visited them in Ogunquit, Maine, but since they had a lovely summer home in Woods Hole, why would they need one in Maine as well? I can't believe he made all that money as a doctor. My father was also a doctor and was definitely not rich monetarily.
And then in a later email, AG added:
Annie Nathan Meyer, founded Bernard College but opposed women's suffrage. Her sister, Maud Nathan, was a suffragette. Bernard college was formed to be in relation to Columbia College (University) as Radcliffe was to Harvard. No wonder she seemed to have no use for stupid little children, just big, educated ones.
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).
FANNY THIVY / FRANCESCA THIVY
Alma met Mrs. Thivy in India, at the Women's Christian College in Madras where Alma taught for three years. Later Mrs. Thivy came to the US, and stayed at Fernbank more than once. We have pictures of Fernbank residents dressing up in Indian garb once when Mrs. Thivy did an Indian dinner there. There's more about her online, which I should gather together sometime.
Mrs. Thivy doesn't exactly belong here because Alma met her in India, but I don't have an India Folks page, so this is where I'm putting her.
Alma met Mrs. Thivy in India, at the Women's Christian College in Madras where Alma taught for three years. Later Mrs. Thivy came to the US, and stayed at Fernbank more than once. We have pictures of Fernbank residents dressing up in Indian garb once when Mrs. Thivy did an Indian dinner there. There's more about her online, which I should gather together sometime.
Mrs. Thivy doesn't exactly belong here because Alma met her in India, but I don't have an India Folks page, so this is where I'm putting her.
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