JEAN CUEBERT PALMER
1872 - 1929
The following minute written by Caroline M. Lewis
and adopted at the Philadelphia meeting of the As-
sociate Alumnae of Vassar College, and also at the
Council meeting with a vote that a copy should be
sent to the faculty of Vassar College, was read:
If the aim of Vassar College's existence can be
caught in one phrase, it seems happily expressed in
the enrichment of personality through character of
mind. To these qualities of education Jean Culbert
Palmer particularly contributed. Her unerring sen-
sitivity to the needs and capacities of the per-
sonalities with whom she was in contact created for
them an immediate sense of adjustment to difficulty
and a freer course to self-development. Her own
character of mind offered the steady inspiration of
its example especially throughout her recent illness
during which her first thought always was her re-
sponsibility to the College, herself the last thought.
As Warden of Vassar College for fourteen years, Mis
Palmer preserved a peculiarly delicate and important
balance between the solidity necessary to the large
group which her decisions affected and constructive
exceptions which personality demanded.
As we, the Associate Alumnae of Vassar College, mou
her death on July ll, 1929, we are also grateful th
her charm of calm power remains a living impulse wi
us who shared it.
From the Philadelphia meeting
of the Associate Alumnae of
Vassar College
VIII - 351