Dorothea Seelye Franck Explained

Dorothea Seelye Franck
Birth Name:Dorothea Chambers Seelye
Birth Date:June 8, 1917
Birth Place:Chatham, New Jersey, U.S.
Death Date:October 27, 1988
Death Place:Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Relatives:Talcott Williams Seelye (brother); Mary-Averett Seelye (sister); Julius Hawley Seelye (great-grandfather); Kate Seelye (niece)

Dorothea Chambers Seelye Franck (June 8, 1917 – October 27, 1988) was an American writer, editor, and Middle East specialist.

Early life

Dorothea Seelye was born in Chatham, New Jersey, the daughter of college professors Laurens Hickok Seelye and Kate Ethel Chambers Seelye,[1] and the great-granddaughter of politician and college president Julius Hawley Seelye.[2] Her mother completed a doctorate at Columbia University in 1919, two years after Dorothea was born.[3] She was raised in Lebanon, where her parents taught at the American University of Beirut.[4] Her sister Mary-Averett Seelye had a career in dance,[5] and her brother Talcott Williams Seelye was a diplomat.[6]

Seelye attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from St. Lawrence University. She earned a master's degree from American University.[7]

Career

Seelye worked in Egypt during World War II, translating for the Allies at the Office of Strategic Services. Later she worked in Washington, D.C., at the State Department,[8] and for the American Friends of the Middle East.[9] She edited the Americans for Justice in the Middle East (AJME) News. She founded the Turkish-American Women's Group when she lived in Istanbul from 1956 to 1965.[10] She lived in Beirut again in the 1980s,[11] and on her parents' farm in Plainfield, Massachusetts,[12] and in Syracuse, New York.

Publications

Dorothea Seelye Franck was a writer and editor, usually on topics concerning the Middle East and education, in publications including The Middle East Journal, Foreign Service Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor. She also wrote a book about finger crochet, and two children's books.

Personal life

Seelye married German-born economist and professor Peter Goswyn Franck in 1940. They had two daughters, Karen[22] and Marianne. Dorothea Seelye Franck died from cancer in 1988, aged 71 years.[23] The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers at Amherst College contain some of her papers. Journalist Kate Seelye is her niece.

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Notes and References

  1. News: 1915-10-05 . Miss Chambers is MInister's Bride . 11 . The New York Times . 2022-09-15 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1988-11-01 . Dorothea S. Franck . 4 . Daily Hampshire Gazette . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1973-06-01 . Mrs. Seelye Dies; Was Prof in Turkey . 7 . The Post-Standard . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1960-08-22 . Dr. L. H. Seelye, 71, Former University Head, Dies Here . 3 . The North Adams Transcript . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  5. Web site: 2017-01-06 . A Dancer in the Family: Mary-Averett Seelye . 2022-09-14 . The Consecrated Eminence . en.
  6. Web site: The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers ("The Franck Papers") . 2022-09-13 . Amherst College - ArchivesSpace.
  7. News: 1967-01-20 . Franck Family Keeps Turkish Customs Alive in Syracuse . 13 . The Post-Standard . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  8. US Department of State, "Turkish Graduate at Chicago Hospital" The Record 11(April 1946): 32.
  9. Book: Walhout, M. D. . Arab Intellectuals and American Power: Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East . 2020-10-01 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-0-7556-3416-3 . en.
  10. News: 1969-12-10 . Saturday Club to Hear of Holy Land . 24 . The Troy Record . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: Friedman . Josh . 1984-03-01 . Clinging to Beirut Amid Chaos and Fear . 173 . Newsday . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: Potter . Mary . 1987-10-20 . Sharing Knowledge, Preserving Skills . 9 . The Berkshire Eagle . 2022-09-14 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Franck, Dorothea Seelye . In the Minds of Men . 1946 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  14. Franck . Dorothea Seelye . January 1946 . Cultural and Scientific Cooperation in the Near East . The Record . 11 . 1 . 2.
  15. Franck . Dorothea Seelye . Franck . Peter G. . 1949 . The Middle East Economy in 1948 . Middle East Journal . 3 . 2 . 201–210 . 4322065 . 0026-3141.
  16. Franck . Dorothea Seelye . 1950 . The Interchange of Government Experts . Middle East Journal . 4 . 4 . 410–426 . 4322219 . 0026-3141.
  17. Franck . Dorothea Seelye . 1952 . Pakhtunistan: Disputed Disposition of a Tribal Land . Middle East Journal . 6 . 1 . 49–68 . 4322356 . 0026-3141.
  18. Franck . Dorothea Seelye . January 1953 . The American School at Tangier . Foreign Service Journal . 30 . 1 . 25–26.
  19. Nesin . Aziz . Franck . Dorothea Seelye . 1958 . Tales . The Phylon Quarterly . 19 . 4 . 388–396 . 10.2307/273102 . 273102 . 0885-6826.
  20. Franck, Dorothea Seelye. "Turkish Women in Engineering" Christian Science Monitor (July 29, 1961): 5. via Internet Archive
  21. Book: Crawford . Vaughn Emerson . Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Palace Reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and Ivory Carvings from Nimrud . Harper . Prudence Oliver . Pittman . Holly . 1980 . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 978-0-87099-260-5 . 40–48 . en.
  22. Web site: Karen A. Franck . 2022-09-15 . Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center.
  23. Web site: Killgore . Andrew I. . April 1989 . In Memoriam: Dorothea Seelye Franck . 2022-09-14 . WRMEA . en-gb.

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