Elizabeth Kemper Adams Explained

Elizabeth Kemper Adams
Birth Date:24 October 1872
Birth Place:Nashotah, Wisconsin, U.S.
Death Place:Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.
Resting Place:Conway, Massachusetts, U.S.
Relatives:Jackson Kemper (great-grandfather)
Education:Kemper Hall
Alma Mater:Vassar College
University of Chicago
Thesis Title:The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology
Thesis Year:1904

Elizabeth Kemper Adams (October 24, 1872 – December 14, 1948) was an American psychologist and historian of education. She was a professor of philosophy and first head of the education department at Smith College from 1911 to 1916. In the 1920s, she was national educational secretary of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Early life

Adams was born in Nashotah, Wisconsin,[1] the daughter of Francis (Frank) Kemper Adams and Mary Lee Whiting Adams. Her great-grandfather was Jackson Kemper, an Episcopal bishop in early Wisconsin.[2] She graduated from Kemper Hall in 1889,[3] and from Vassar College in 1893, and completed doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1904. Her dissertation was titled "The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology".[4] [5]

Career

Adams taught at Kemper Hall, Western Reserve University and Vassar College as a young woman.[6] She served as an alumna trustee of Vassar College.[7] She also wrote poetry published in The Atlantic.[8] [9] She joined the faculty at Smith College as a philosophy professor in 1905, and became the first director of the school's education department in 1911. She retired from Smith College in 1916.

After Smith, Adams continued doing research and giving lectures on women's education.[10] During World War I she worked in the United States Employment Service in Washington, D.C.,[11] [12] and published a study of women in professional employment for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in 1921.[13] [14]

Adams was educational secretary of the Girl Scouts' national organization in the 1920s.[15] She spoke to the Eleventh Recreation Congress on "The Energies of Girls" in 1924,[16] traveled nationally, including to Hawaii, as a Girl Scouting leader in 1924,[17] and co-wrote a study of leadership training for the Girl Scouts in 1927.

Publications

Personal life

Adams died in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1948,[25] at the age of 76, after a long illness. Her grave is in Conway, Massachusetts.[26] The historical society in Conway has an unpublished manuscript of later poetry by Adams.[27]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1948-12-15 . Obituary for Elizabeth K. Adams (Aged 76) . 35 . The Boston Globe . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Jackson Kemper . 2022-09-23 . Anglican History.
  3. News: 1910-06-07 . Are Given Degrees . 1 . Kenosha News . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Collection: Elizabeth Kemper Adams Papers . 2022-09-23 . Smith College Finding Aids.
  5. Book: Castronovo, Russ . Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era . 2009-05-15 . University of Chicago Press . 978-0-226-09630-8 . 10–12 . en.
  6. News: 1904-06-16 . Honor Miss Adams . 1 . Kenosha News . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  7. May 1919 . Contemporary Notes . Vassar Quarterly . 4 . 3 . 21.
  8. Web site: Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . 1904-07-01 . The Lift of the Heart . 2022-09-23 . The Atlantic . en.
  9. Web site: Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . 1907-10-01 . I Died This Year Though Still I Glimpse the Sun . 2022-09-23 . The Atlantic . en.
  10. News: 1920-04-21 . Dr. Elizabeth Kemper Adams to be Speaker at W.C.D. Commencement . 4 . Newark Post . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1924-01-29 . Co-Eds to Hear Vocation Expert . 1 . The Oklahoma Daily . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Eyre . Mary Brooks . 1925 . New Methods of Examination . The American Journal of Nursing . 25 . 1 . 35–42 . 10.2307/3409572 . 3409572 . 0002-936X.
  13. Book: Adams, Elizabeth Kemper . Women Professional Workers: A Study Made for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union . 1921 . Macmillan . en.
  14. Book: Huneault . Kristina . Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970 . Anderson . Janice . 2012 . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP . 978-0-7735-3966-2 . 3 . en.
  15. News: 1925-03-05 . Girls' Leader is Honor Guest . 17 . Star-Gazette . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  16. Pangburn . Weavery . December 1924 . The Eleventh Recreation Congress . The Playground . 18 . 9 . 517.
  17. News: 1924-03-23 . Girl Scouts . 14 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  18. Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . February 1901 . To Master Edmund Rostand . The Vassar Miscellany . 30 . 5 . 227–228.
  19. 10.1086/453339 . Some Fundamentals in the Teaching of Written Composition . 1904 . Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . The Elementary School Teacher . 4 . 6 . 391–406 . 144305612 . free .
  20. Book: Adams, Elizabeth Kemper . The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology ... . 1906 . University of Chicago Press . en.
  21. Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . April 1910 . The Psychological Gains and Losses of the College Woman . Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae . 3 . 21 . 11–27.
  22. Adams, Elizabeth Kemper (April 1912). "The Vocational Opportunities of the College of Liberal Arts" Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae 5(3): 256-266.
  23. Adams . Elizabeth Kemper . May 1923 . Girl Scouts Stand for Health . Mother and Child . 4 . 5 . 199–204.
  24. Adams, Elizabeth Kemper. The energies of girls. Girl Scouts, Incorporated, 1925.
  25. News: 1948-12-15 . Elizabeth K. Adams Dies in Brattleboro . 4 . The Bennington Evening Banner . 2022-09-23 . Newspapers.com.
  26. News: 1948-12-15 . Obituary for Elizabeth K. Adams (Aged 76) . 35 . The Boston Globe . 2022-09-23.
  27. https://conwaymasshistory.org/items/show/1037 “"Conway and Other Poems," by Elizabeth Kemper Adams,”

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