Word: headmistress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during the rest of the year. She died the day that The Green Pastures came to Augusta...
Married. Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, 53, president of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N. J.); and Helen Clarkson Miller, 55, his third wife, social and economic research expert, long-time executive and headmistress from 1929 to 1932 of socialite Spence School; in Manhattan...
Appointed Brearley's headmistress in 1930 was Millicent Carey, onetime English professor and acting dean at Bryn Mawr. Young, personable, friendly, moderately progressive, Headmistress Carey increased her popularity with students in 1932 by marrying able Pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, sent it sky-high last year when she bore twin boys...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ector Pleasant, 56, wife of onetime Governor of Louisiana Ruffin Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...