Dewilda Naramore Harris Explained

Dewilda Naramore Harris
Birth Name:Dewilda Ellen Naramore
Birth Date:May 20, 1918
Birth Place:Washington, D.C.
Death Date:July 7, 1995
Death Place:Alpena, Michigan
Occupation:Historian, economist, foreign service officer, businesswoman, philanthropist
Spouse(S):William Page Harris

Dewilda Naramore Harris (May 20, 1918 – July 7, 1995) was an American historian, economist, foreign service officer, and philanthropist.

Early life and education

Dewilda Ellen Naramore was born in Washington, D.C.,[1] the daughter of Chester A. Naramore and Grace E. Chilson Naramore. Her father was a petroleum geologist.[2] She spent one year at the American School of Berlin, and graduated from Bronxville High School. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1938,[3] [4] [5] and won the school's prestigious European Fellowship, and several other scholarships and awards.[6] She earned a PhD in history at Radcliffe College and Harvard University in 1942. Her doctoral dissertation, "The Arrière-ban in Medieval France", won the Caroline Wilby Prize in 1942.[7]

Career

During World War II, Naramore worked as an economist at the Office of Price Administration.[8] [9] After the war, Naramore, who spoke German well, returned to Germany as a foreign service officer.[10] She worked in various roles in Stuttgart and Bonn with the OMGUS and the Allied High Commission.[11] [12] [13] She was a deputy commercial attache in 1953 and 1954.[14] [15] She wrote about her postwar foreign service work in an essay, "My Job in Germany, 1945–1954" (1993).[16]

Harris was on assignment to the Department of Commerce in 1955 and 1956.[17] [18] After marriage in 1956, she was a businesswoman, helping her husband to run concrete and lumber businesses in the Detroit area, until they retired in 1982.[10] The Harrises endowed professorships at Stanford University,[19] Dartmouth College,[20] and Bryn Mawr College.[10]

Personal life

Naramore married businessman William Page Harris in 1956, as his second wife. She died in 1995, aged 77 years, at a hospital in Alpena, Michigan.

Notes and References

  1. Book: United States. Department of State. The Biographic register of the Department of State. [Washington, D.C.] : General Editing Branch, Division of Publications : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. 1950. 341.
  2. https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf196n984j/admin/#ref10 Chester Naramore Papers
  3. News: 1938-06-02. Sayre Makes Plea for Christian Way; He Tells Bryn Mawr Graduates It Offers 'Only Direction' for 'Permanent. Solutions'; Bronxville Girl Honored; European Fellowship Awarded to Miss Dewilda Naramore--$97,000 Gifts Reported. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-12-27. 0362-4331.
  4. Book: Bryn Mawr College. Senior Class. Class of 1938. 1938. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library. Internet Archive.
  5. News: 1937-05-01. Bryn Mawr May Day Fete. 17. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2021-12-28. Newspapers.com.
  6. News: June 1, 1938. Dewilda Naramore is European Fellow, 89.290. 1. The College News. December 27, 2021.
  7. News: 1943-05-27. Ada Comstock in Last Appearance as College Head. 6. The Daily Times. 2021-12-28. Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1943-10-14. Experts of OPA Lead Rationing Conferences. 6. The Atlanta Constitution. 2021-12-28. Newspapers.com.
  9. News: Ogle. Carl. 1944-01-31. OPA Begins Campaign on Service Charges. 1. The Miami News. 2021-12-28. Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1995-07-11. Obituary for Dewilda Harris (Aged 77). 14. Detroit Free Press. 2021-12-28.
  11. Web site: November 3, 1947. Military government weekly information bulletin (Number 117): Directory of key MG personnel. live. 2021-12-27. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. https://web.archive.org/web/20211228035828/https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=turn&entity=History.omg1947n117.p0014&id=History.omg1947n117&isize=text . 2021-12-28 .
  12. Book: Division, United States Office of Management and Budget Statistical Policy. Statistical Reporter. Executive Office of the President.. April 23, 1951. 84. en.
  13. Book: Foreign service list. 1951. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.. Boston Public Library.
  14. Book: Foreign service list. April 1, 1952. United States, Department of State. 28.
  15. Book: Foreign service list. United States. Department of State. October 1, 1954. Washington : U.S. G.P.O.. George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida. 20.
  16. Harris, Dewilda N. "My Job in Germany, 1945–1954" in Michael Ermath, ed., America and the Reshaping of German Society (Berg 1993): 177-178.
  17. Book: United States Dept. of State. Foreign service list. April 1955. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.. Boston Public Library. 72.
  18. Book: United States Civil Service Commission. Official register of the United States ... (1956). 1907. Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off.. The Library of Congress. 508.
  19. Web site: September 29, 1999. Three faculty appointed to new endowed chairs. live. 2021-12-27. Stanford Report. https://web.archive.org/web/20150409051514/http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/september29/orr-929.html . 2015-04-09 .
  20. Web site: Harris Distinguished Visiting Professorship Program. live. 2021-12-27. Dartmouth College. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606052250/http://www.dartmouth.edu:80/harris/ . 2017-06-06 .

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