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Creator: Sague, Mary Landon, Thomson, Vera, de Schweinitz, Margaret
Date: [After 1954]
Text: I i \ \ I 1 I 1 esoacranm comzow 1878 - 195k Associate Professor Emeritus Georgianna Conrow was born on January 26, 1878 in Moorestown, New Jersey and died in Poughkeepsie on November 19, l9Sh. She received the A.B. and M.A. degrees from Cornell University, and subsequently continued her studies at Columbia and Cornell, and in Switzerland and France. In l923 she was awarded the Dipl$me de l'Ecole des Professeurs de frangais a l'etranger from the University of Paris. She came to...
Show moreI i \ \ I 1 I 1 esoacranm comzow 1878 - 195k Associate Professor Emeritus Georgianna Conrow was born on January 26, 1878 in Moorestown, New Jersey and died in Poughkeepsie on November 19, l9Sh. She received the A.B. and M.A. degrees from Cornell University, and subsequently continued her studies at Columbia and Cornell, and in Switzerland and France. In l923 she was awarded the Dipl$me de l'Ecole des Professeurs de frangais a l'etranger from the University of Paris. She came to Vassar College in 1905, after teaching in high schools in New'York State and New Jersey, and retired in l9h6. During her many years of service in the French Department Miss Conrow taught students at all levels of their progress - from the beginners, to whom she gave particular care and encouragement, up to the class in Molibre, a subject which was especially congenial to her lively sense of humor. She made an invaluable contribution to the smooth functioning of the department. Faithful in all things,she never con- sidered any task too small to receive scrupulous attention. In discussion of policy matters one could depend on her for a word of good counsel, given at the right time, and founded on experience and wise judgment. In 1925 Miss Conrow was elected Secretary of the Faculty, and held this important post until her retire- ment in 19h6. For the period 1937 to l9h7, including one year after she had withdrawn from teaching, she was also Secretary of the Board of Trustees - the first member of the faculty to serve in this capacity. The value of her service to both faculty and trustees is well expressed in the resolution adopted by the trustees in May l9h7, which we quote in part: "...To convey the meaning of the Board's delibera- tions and actions in brief and effective minutes is a difficult art. Hiss Conrow is a master craftsman in this art. Her work...has not only constituted a fine permanent record for the col- lege but has been of constant help to all members of the Board... in clarifying their thought for further action. Her devotion and wisdom in this work and her loyalty and friendship in performing it... cannot be measured.” GEORGIAHNA CONROW (Continued) Miss Cnrow's interest in the total college community was friendly and warm. But it extended beyond the campus; to civic work also she gave generously of her time and her abilities. Among the important offices she held in Poughkeepsie were: Director of the Vassar Hospital Association and President of the Beard of Directors in 1939-l9h0; 2nd Vice-President of the Comunity Chest; 2nd Vice-President of the Poughkeepsie Garden Club; member of the Scholarship Fund Comittee of the Poughkeepsie Branch of the American Association of University Women, and general Chairman of the v regional A.A.U.W; convention held at Vassar College in l9h8. She was also actively interested in the Women's Republican Club of Dutchess County, and several County welfare associations. The great amount of work Miss Comrcw accomplished, and her many and varied interests reflect her character. With her untiring energy she carried through to completion a task however small or large. She will be greatly missed not only at Vassar College but in the wider city and county community. Her zest for living and interest in people of all ages and walks of life will be a lasting memory to all who knew her. Mary Landon Sague ' Vera Thomson Margaret de Schweinitz XIV — 15
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Creator: Smith, Winifred, Miller, John R., de Schweinitz, Margaret
Date: [After 1954]
Text: MATHILDE monnxsn 1876 - 195k Mathilde Monnier, Professor Emeritus of French, was born in Switzerland on May 26, 1876, and died there at her home in Porrentruy, on April 22, l9Sh. She came to Vassar in 1909, after teaching for seven years at Putnam Hall in Poughkeepsie, and served the college as a distinguished member of the French Department until l9hh. Miss Monnier's work in the first World War was significant. In 1918 she was granted leave of absence to assist American soldiers of...
Show moreMATHILDE monnxsn 1876 - 195k Mathilde Monnier, Professor Emeritus of French, was born in Switzerland on May 26, 1876, and died there at her home in Porrentruy, on April 22, l9Sh. She came to Vassar in 1909, after teaching for seven years at Putnam Hall in Poughkeepsie, and served the college as a distinguished member of the French Department until l9hh. Miss Monnier's work in the first World War was significant. In 1918 she was granted leave of absence to assist American soldiers of foreign origin at Camp Devens, and in the summer of 1919 she was with the Y.W.C.A. in France, dealing with the problem of sending French war brides to America - an experience she described in the Vassar Quarterly of May 1920. While greatly attached to her work and her friends here, Miss Monnier remained the the European in our midst. Her summer vacations and her subsequent leaves of absence were spent in travel and, most often, at her apartment in Paris - where she entertained many of the contemporary writers with whom she was acquainted. Miss Monnier's students were admiring and devoted; they felt her power and her charm and were appreciative of her tireless efforts on their behalf. All her life she counted many lasting friends among them. As a teacher she maintained strict discipline and the highest standards. Under her instruction the students worked their hardest, and longed to excel. They discovered not only the meaning of the classics but also the rhythm and the tone. For Miss Monnier was one of the rare teachers of language and literature who was herself a poet. This was proved - long before her own volume of verse appeared - by her eiquisitely sensitive and musical reading of the literature she taught. She introduced and established in the Vassar curriculum the first courses in contemporary French literature and in diction. In 192k Miss Monnier and Miss White collaborated in translating from the French a novel by Isabelle Sandy, Andorra, which was published by Houghton Mifflin. Miss Monnier's volume of poems entitled Dis ersion, appeared in l9h2, published in New York By Ehe Editions MATHILDE MONNIER (Continued) de la Maison francaise, in a series which included works by several of the leading French writers. One of the publishers remarked after reading the manuscript: "I1 y a de la musique dedans." As in her work, so in her bearing, there was artistry and distinction, and in her life clarity of purpose courageously carried out to the end. Respectfully submitted, Winifred Smith John R. Miller Margaret de Sghweinitz XIII - use
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Creator: Sague, Mary Landon, Miller, Maria Tastevin, de Schweinitz, Margaret
Date: [After 1950]
Text: FLORENCE DONNELL WHITE 1882 - 1950 The Faculty of Vassar College expresses its deep sense of loss in the death on December 15, 1950 of Florence Donnell White, Professor Emeritus of French. Miss White was born in Alna, Maine, on January 23, 1882. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1903, taught for two years at the Springfield, Massachusetts, High School, and received her M.A. degree from Mount Holyoke in 1907. Continuing her graduate study at Bryn Mawr, where she was a Fellow in...
Show moreFLORENCE DONNELL WHITE 1882 - 1950 The Faculty of Vassar College expresses its deep sense of loss in the death on December 15, 1950 of Florence Donnell White, Professor Emeritus of French. Miss White was born in Alna, Maine, on January 23, 1882. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1903, taught for two years at the Springfield, Massachusetts, High School, and received her M.A. degree from Mount Holyoke in 1907. Continuing her graduate study at Bryn Mawr, where she was a Fellow in Romance Languages, and also at the University of Paris, she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1915. She came to Vassar in 1908, and was glad to carry on her whole career in the college which she loved and on which she has left her distinctive mark as an educator and as a person. The gratitude felt by Miss White's students for what her teaching means to them was well expressed in one letter, received at the time of her retirement in l9h7, when the Florence Donnell White Fund was established: I felt when I left Vassar and feel even more strongly after twenty-four years that her teach- ing gave in fullest measure what a college educa- tion should give: respect for scholarship, honesty and humility in the practice of it, and as an end result of four years of study a founda- tion of knowledge of and interest in the subject so well-laid that nothing can destroy it. There were no easy short-cuts in Miss White's courses - for herself or her students... Her stu- dents were well-informed, because she informed them well, with the highest standards for thorough work, with a belief in the importance of exact knowledge as against guesswork and good intentions, and with a mastery of her subject which, shared with them, gave them a fund of appreciative familiarity with France that they would use and enjoy for the rest of their lives. ' Miss White was chairman of the department of French from 1918 until 19h6. She served on the most important elective committees of the faculty; among those which claimed her activity for the longest periods were the 30 FLORENCE DONNELL WHITE (Continued) Committee on the Curriculum, on Students‘ Records, and the Advisory Comittee. She published a study of Vol- taire's Essay on Epic Poetry, and in collaboration with colleagues made translations from the French and Spanish. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Modern Lan- guage Association, the American Association of Teachers of French, the American Association of University Profes- sors, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames of America. Outside the college she participated in the activities of the Institute of International Education and she was one of the originators of its program for the Junior Year Abroad. In recogition of her constant work in further- ance of understanding between the French and American peoﬁle she was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 193 . Miss White's clarity of mind, her keen wit, her absolute justice, and her unfailing enthusiasm are qualities recalled by all who knew her. They enabled her to carry the responsibilities of teaching and administrative tasks with untiring strength and without ever seeming to be burdened. She had the tact and true sociability which came from a generous interest in people. A staunch New Englander, she had a deep affection for France, its literature and its people. In France, where she spent almost every summer, she counted many friends, one of whom has written, characteristically, "No one could have mgde the"United States better respected and loved than s e did. The Faculty of Vassar College, who have long had Miss White's sustaining presence among them, will keep the memory of her distinction, her wise counsel and her gracious company. Mary Landon Sague Maria Tastevin Miller Margaret de Schweinitz XIII - 171-172
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Creator: Moore, Leverett J., Miller, Maria Tastevin, de Schweinitz, Margaret
Date: [After 1920]
Text: ELIZABETH mvrca PALMER 1865 - 1920 By the death of Elizabeth Hatch Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College has lost a member whose service has extended over a period of twenty years, and by this minute the Faculty aims to record its apprecia- tion of the work that she has accomplished. The selfsame qualities that made Professor Palmer so successful as a teacher were manifest in her work as a member of the Faculty - a broad and deep humanity, a high ideal of scholarship, a scrupulous honesty...
Show moreELIZABETH mvrca PALMER 1865 - 1920 By the death of Elizabeth Hatch Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College has lost a member whose service has extended over a period of twenty years, and by this minute the Faculty aims to record its apprecia- tion of the work that she has accomplished. The selfsame qualities that made Professor Palmer so successful as a teacher were manifest in her work as a member of the Faculty - a broad and deep humanity, a high ideal of scholarship, a scrupulous honesty towards herself and others, a sense of balance and justice made constructive through untiring energy and a sincere loyalty to the best interests of the College. She possessed in an unusual degree the capacity for detail combined with a sane opinion of its value and a notable gift for administration, which made her a valuable member of the important committees on which she served, particularly the Comittees on Petitions and Elections, on Intercollegiate Relations and on Admission. Professor Palmer was no mere laudator te oris acti either in the greater world without or In the ITFFIe world of the college, but a vital personality who saw clearly the essential connection between the past and the present. She possessed something of the ancient Roman virtus, something of Roman reverence and dignity, quickened by a sympathy which made her a loyal friend and a reasonable fellow-worker. To the College as a whole her death is a very real loss, but to her colleagues who enjoyed the privileges of a long association her honored memory will live as an eternal possession. Grace H. Macurdy Ida C. Thallon J. Leverett Moore VII - S2
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