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Died. Valentine Laura Chandor, 59, headmistress of Manhattan's swank Spence School, founder of the Chandor School which merged with Spence three years ago (TIME, May 16, 1932); in Manhattan...
...meeting of private school headmistresses, at Manhattan's Spence School. Standing: Mrs. Ordway Tead of Katharine Gibbs School; Miss Valentine Chandor of Spence. Seated: Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve of Barnard College; Mrs. Roosevelt of Todhunter School: Mrs. Reid...
Divorced. By Douglas Chandor, British painter (TIME covers in 1929-31): Pamela Chandor, by an interlocutory decree giving the father custody of their daughter, Jill, 13, and forbidding Mrs. Chandor to remarry during his lifetime; in Manhattan. Grounds: while Painter Chandor was busy in the U. S., she lived for two years in England with the Hon. Douglas Beauchamp, British sportsman. Left. By Edwin Gould, second son of the late famed financier Jay Gould: $20,000,000 (estimated); half to his wife Sarah Cantine Schrady Gould, the balance (except for small miscellaneous bequests) to the Edwin Gould Foundation for children...
...Miss Helen Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame as great educators of New York's best daughters. Last week the Spence trustees announced their next move. To run the new Spence plant and continue the proud Spence tradition they had called upon Miss Valentine Laura Chandor, able proprietress of the foremost remaining small school for New York fashionables...
Spence parents learned what Chandor parents have known for 15 years, that Miss Chandor used to assist at the oldtime Charlton School, which the Rockefeller Foundation bought 15 years ago and turned into Lincoln School, the experimental adjunct of Teachers College, Columbia. Charlton parents persuaded Miss Chandor to start up on her own, which she did with 40 girls in East 62nd Street. Quietly, carefully, successfully ever since she has run her Chandor School, choosing 100 girls for character and breeding sooner than wealth, keeping classes small, teaching always herself, emphasizing scholarship, urging college afterwards but making sure her girls...