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93 Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer

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 February 21, 1855 - December 6, 1902

 


 

 


 


 

 

Personal Data

 

Born: Colesvile, NY

Died : Paris, France

Married: George Herbert Palmer, late 1887 

 

 

 

Education

 

1870    Classical Preparatory Curriculum, Secondary Education, Windsor Academy, Windsor, NY

1876    Baccalaureate with Honors, University of Michigan; also completed graduate work in history

1882    Honorary Ph. D. at University of Michigan

 

 

 

Employment

 

1876                             Taught girls' seminary in a private secondary school, Lake Geneva, WI

1877-1879                head of the high school at Saginaw, MI

1879                          Head of History Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

1881-1887                First female President of Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

1887                          Trustee, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

1889                          President of Massachusetts State Board of Education 

1889-1890                 President of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae

1892-1895                 First Dean of Women at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1893-1894                 President of the Woman's Education Association of Boston

1900                          Trustee of Bradford Academy, New England

 

Awards and Honors

 

Alice Freeman Scholarship Fund was created in her name to give to women who graduate from Wellesley college

 

Membership-Professional Organizations

 

American Association of University Women, helped found Association of Collegiate Alumnae which later became known as AAUM. Served as President form 1885 – 1886

Member, Massachusetts Board of Education after 1889

Supported the Harvard Annex, later known as Radcliffe College

Advisor to Barnard College

Director of the World's Columbian Exposition

Education Hall of Fame in 1920

 

 

 

Publications

 

1897                                      Why go to college?: An address. TY Crowell.

1908                                      The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. Houghton, Mifflin.

 

 

 

Professional Interest Areas

 

Higher education of women

New Woman

Coeducation by gender

 

 

  

Major Contributions to Adult Education

 

Advocated for women to attend higher education institutions

 

 

Additional Resources

 

Articles

Kenschaft, L. J. (1999). Marriage, gender, and higher education: the personal and public partnership of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer, 1886-1902 (Doctoral dissertation, Boston University).

 

Tonti, L. (2014, February 26). THE HOURGLASS: Who was Alice Freeman Palmer? The Wellesley News. Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://thewellesleynews.com/2014/02/26/the-hourglass-who-was-alice-freeman-palmer/

 

Photo Gallery

 

 

 

Video/Audio

 

Presentations

 

Books

 

Bordin, R. B. A. (1993). Alice Freeman Palmer: The evolution of a new woman. University of Michigan Press.

Linenthal, A. J. (1995). Two academic lives: George Herbert Palmer and Alice Freeman Palmer: A compilation. Privately printed.

Palmer, A. F. (1925). Why Go to College? TY Crowell.

Palmer, G. H. (1908). The life of Alice Freeman Palmer. Houghton, Mifflin.

Palmer, G. H., & Palmer, A. F. (1908). The teacher: Essays and addresses on education. Houghton Mifflin.

Wein, R. (1974). Women's colleges and domesticity, 1875-1918. History of Education Quarterly, 31-47.

 

 

     

 

Interesting Facts

Her father left the family while he studied in medical school until he completed his MD.

First generation of women college student

Husband, George Herbert Palmar was a Harvard Philosopher

She rarely saw her husband before and after they got married.

Died at age 47 because of heart failure for intestinal obstruction surgery

Her ashes rest behind a white marble facade in the Houghton Chapel.

 

References

 

Kenschaft, L. (2002). Palmer, Alice Freeman (1855–1902). Encyclopedia of Education. 2002. Retrieved from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403200479.html

 

Leavitt, J. A. (1985). American women managers and administrators: A selective biographical dictionary of twentieth-century leaders in business, education, and government. Greenwood.

 

Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman. [Photograph]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/143633/Alice-Elvira-Freeman-Palmer 

 

 

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