Beatrice Pitney Lamb Explained

Beatrice Pitney Lamb
Birth Name:Beatrice Louise Pitney
Birth Date:May 12, 1904
Birth Place:Morristown, New Jersey
Death Date:December 9, 1997 (age 93)
Death Place:Hightstown, New Jersey
Occupation:Editor, writer, photographer
Relatives:John Oliver Halstead Pitney (uncle); Christopher Reeve (grandson); Matthew Reeve (great-grandson); F. D. Reeve (son-in-law)

Beatrice Louise Pitney Lamb (May 12, 1904 – December 9, 1997) was an American editor and writer. She worked with the League of Women Voters in the 1930s, and with the United Nations in the 1940s. She published several books on India.

Early life and education

Beatrice Pitney was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of Mahlon Pitney and Florence Theodora Shelton Pitney. Her father was an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Her uncle was lawyer John Oliver Halstead Pitney. She graduated from Westover School and, in 1927, from Bryn Mawr College. She completed further studies in international relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute.[1] Much later, in 1956, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University.

Career

Lamb wrote pamphlets on policy topics for the National League of Women Voters in the early 1930s, and chaired the League's department of government and economic welfare.[2] [3] She also represented the League in a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee in 1935, in support of unemployment compensation.[4] From 1945 to 1950, she was the editor of the United Nations News, and lectured on the United Nations to community groups. "We are never going to save the world from communism without effort and without sacrifice," she told a Pennsylvania audience in 1950, in reference to the Korean War and NATO. "We have been thinking it could be done cheaply and easily."[5]

Lamb was a delegate to a conference on Indo-American relations in New Delhi, and spent much of her later life traveling, photographing, and writing about India. She published several books on the subject,[6] and exhibited her photographs in galleries and museums.[7] [8] [9] She also revised the India article for the World Book Encyclopedia.[10] "Her intelligence was obvious, her energy formidable, her exuberant enthusiasms contagious," wrote Orville Prescott in a 1963 review for The New York Times.

Publications

Personal life

Beatrice Pitney married lawyer Horace R. Lamb. They had two daughters, Barbara and Dorothy. One of their grandchildren was actor Christopher Reeve. Her husband died in 1977,[22] and she died in 1997, at the age of 93, at a retirement community in Hightstown, New Jersey.[23]

Notes and References

  1. News: December 5, 1950 . Author and Lecturer to Speak at Wilson; Beatrice Pitney Lamb to Discuss 'Current U.N. Problems' . 2 . Public Opinion . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1935-11-10 . Mass Meeting to Be Held at the Hotel Astor Is Only One of Three Events by Organization in the Nation This Week. . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-15 . 0362-4331.
  3. News: October 14, 1934 . League of Women Voters Arranges Luncheon for Tomorrow . 67 . Chicago Tribune . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: United States Congress Senate Committee on Finance . Economic Security Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1130, a Bill to Alleviate the Hazards of Old Age, Unemployment, Illness, and Dependency, to Establish a Social Insurance Board in the Department of Labor, to Raise Revenue, and for Other Purposes. January 22 to February 20, 1935 . 1935 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 442–444 . en.
  5. News: December 7, 1950 . Editor Asserts A-Bomb Use Now Would Hurt U.N. . 3 . York Daily Record . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: Prescott . Orville . 1963-06-26 . Books of The Times; Encyclopedic Impersonal View of India . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-15 . 0362-4331.
  7. News: Dietz Krebs . Betty . February 20, 1988 . Portraits of India; Visiting exhibition explores a country that stretches the American imagination . 25 . Dayton Daily News . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  8. April 9, 1990 . Museums . New York Magazine . 125.
  9. News: Shine . James G. . October 4, 1985 . Indian Art Exhibit at Vassar Worth a Visit . 11D . Poughkeepsie Journal . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: Collection: Beatrice Lamb Collection . 2023-05-15 . University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides.
  11. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . Reparations and War Debts in 1932 . 1932 . New York League of Women Voters . en.
  12. Book: Lamb . Beatrice Pitney . Economic causes of war and the hope for the future . National league of women voters . 1932 . National league of women voters, Dept. of international cooperation to prevent war . New York city.
  13. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . Buyers Beware: The Case for New Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Legislation . 1935 . National League of Women Voters . en.
  14. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . Government and the Consumer . 1935 . National league of women voters . en.
  15. Lamb . Beatrice Pitney . January 1947 . Documents of the United Nations . American Journal of International Law . en . 41 . 1 . 140–145 . 10.1017/S0002930000085912 . 246004920 . 0002-9300.
  16. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . Trade and Aid . 1953 . Public Affairs Committee . en.
  17. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . Introduction to India . 1960 . American Association of University Women, Educational Foundation . en.
  18. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . India: a world in transition . 1964 . Frederick A. Praeger . Praeger contemporary World series ;no. 7 . New York.
  19. Book: Lamb, Beatrice Pitney . India . 1965 . Macmillan . en.
  20. Lamb, Beatrice Pitney. The Nehrus of India: Three Generations of Leadership. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
  21. Lamb . Beatrice Pitney . November–December 1988 . Glimpses of a Great Person . Darshan . 5 . 11 . 7–9.
  22. News: 1977-11-12 . H. R. Lamb, New York Law Firm Partner . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-15 . 0362-4331.
  23. News: 1997-12-14 . Beatrice Pitney Lamb (death notice) . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-15 . 0362-4331.

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