Dorothy Carolin Bacon Explained

Dorothy Carolin Bacon
Birth Date:February 25, 1902
Birth Place:Beloit, Wisconsin
Death Date:November 8, 1998
Death Place:Meriden, Connecticut
Occupation:Economist, college professor
Relatives:Ruth E. Bacon (sister)

Dorothy Carolin Bacon (February 25, 1902 – November 8, 1998) was an American economist and college professor. She was an economics professor at Smith College for over thirty years, beginning in 1927, and worked for various federal agencies during her career. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1956 and 1957, studying credit institutions in the Philippines.

Early life and education

Bacon was born in Beloit, Wisconsin,[1] the daughter of George Preston Bacon and Hannah Churchill Bacon. Her father was a physics professor and dean of engineering at Tufts University, and her mother worked as a nurse during the 1918 influenza pandemic.[2] Her younger sister was Ruth E. Bacon, a foreign service officer.[3] [4] The sisters were close, and Dorothy Bacon shopped for Ruth Bacon's work wardrobe when she was a diplomat.[5]

Bacon attended Simmons College from 1918 to 1919, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1922. She stayed at Radcliffe to earn a master's degree in 1924,[6] and a PhD in economics in 1928,[7] with a dissertation titled "Maladjustment of Prices with Special Reference to the Wholesale Prices of Commodities in the United States; 1890-1896".[8]

Career

Bacon was a professor of economics at Vassar College from 1924[9] to 1926,[10] and at Smith College from 1927 into the 1960s.[11] [12] [13] She wrote Recent Economic History of Five Towns (1937).[14] She served on an awards committee of the American Association of University Women in 1940.[15]

In the 1930s, Bacon worked for the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In 1939, she was among the "leading instructors in economics" who signed a letter opposing a sales tax in Massachusetts.[16] In the 1940s, she worked for the Office of Price Administration. She consulted for the Brookings Institution in the 1950s, and worked with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines from 1956 to 1957.[17]

Publications

Personal life

Bacon died in 1998, aged 96 years, in Meriden, Connecticut. Her grave is with her parents' graves, at Shawsheen Cemetery in Massachusetts.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Who's who in Massachusetts. 1940. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin. 38. en.
  2. News: 1954-07-04. Mrs. Hannah Bacon. 12. The Boston Globe. 2022-01-21. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: George Preston Bacon Papers. live. 2022-01-20. Tufts Digital Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20201021230824/https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/eads/mc87q1752/fa . 2020-10-21 .
  4. News: 1929-05-15. Name Prof Bacon as Dean at Tufts. 8. The Boston Globe. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: Stephenson. Malvina. 1968-04-30. East Asian Diplomacy is her Dish of Tea. 11. The Record. 2022-01-21. Newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Collier. Irwin. 2020-11-29. Radcliffe Economics Ph.D. Alumna, Dorothy Carolin Bacon, 1928. live. 2022-01-20. Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20201129211211/http://www.irwincollier.com/radcliffe-economics-ph-d-alumna-dorothy-carolin-bacon-1928/ . 2020-11-29 .
  7. News: 1928-03-06. Radcliffe Awards 29 Women Degrees. 11. The Boston Globe. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  8. Book: Bacon, Dorothy Carolin. Price Maladjustment with Special Reference to Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1890-1896. 1928. Radcliffe College. en.
  9. November 1, 1924. Faculty Appointments. Vassar Quarterly. 10. 49. Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive.
  10. News: 1926-06-09. List of Promotions Announced at Vassar. 2. Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1963-04-12. Smith Club to Hear Professor. 20. Fitchburg Sentinel. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1947-05-08. Miss Bacon to Address Area Smith Club. 28. The Times Record. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1963-10-30. Women Educators to Meet Saturday. 37. The Bridgeport Post. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  14. Book: Bacon, Dorothy C.. Recent Economic History of Five Towns. 1937. Smith College. en.
  15. News: 1940-02-04. War Interrupts the Work of A.A.U.W. Scholars. 11. Battle Creek Enquirer. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1939-02-22. Ten Williams Teachers Opposed to Sales Tax. 2. The North Adams Transcript. 2022-01-20. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1966-01-11. Smith College Club. 14. Hartford Courant. 2022-01-21. Newspapers.com.
  18. Bacon. Dorothy C.. January 1926. A Monthly Index of Commodity Prices, 1890–1900. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 8. 4 . 177–183. 10.2307/1926876. 1926876.
  19. Bacon. Dorothy C.. 1928-09-01. The Significance of Fixed-Base and Link Relatives in Studies of Price Stability—a Comment on the Behavior of Prices. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 23. 163. 274–281. 10.1080/01621459.1928.10503022. 0162-1459.
  20. Book: United States Department of State External Research Division. External Research: ERS.. 1960. 14. en.
  21. Book: United States Department of State External Research Division. Asia. 1965. U.S. Government Printing Office. 113. en.

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