Esther Allen Gaw Explained

Esther Allen Gaw
Birth Date:December 28, 1879
Birth Place:Hudson, Ohio
Death Date:December 27, 1973 (aged 95)
Death Place:Sonoma, California
Occupation:Psychologist, professor, college administrator
Parents:Clarence Emir Allen
Relatives:Florence Ellinwood Allen (sister), Bryant Tuckerman (cousin)

Esther Tuckerman Allen Gaw (December 28, 1879 – December 27, 1973) was an American psychologist and college administrator. She was Dean of Women at Ohio State University from 1927 to 1944.

Early life and education

Esther Tuckerman Allen was born in Hudson, Ohio, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clarence Emir Allen and Corinne Tuckerman Allen. Her father was an educator, a lawyer and a Congressman, and her mother, a Smith College alumna, was an educational reformer and philanthropist. Her younger sister Florence Ellinwood Allen was a suffragist and a judge.[1] Physicist Louis B. Tuckerman was her uncle,[2] and his son, mathematician Bryant Tuckerman, was her cousin.

Allen graduated from Western Reserve University. She studied violin at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and earned a PhD at the University of Iowa in 1919.[3] [4]

Career

Gaw played violin and taught music in Salt Lake City as a young woman,[5] and was founder and conductor of the Salt Lake Woman's Orchestra in 1914.[6] [7] She and two other women founded the University Club of Iowa City in 1917.[8] [9] She taught at San Francisco State Teachers College, and was Associate Dean of Women at Mills College,[10] where she was also a professor of psychology.[11] She was the Dean of Women at Ohio State University from 1927 until 1944.[12] [13] She was a speaker and lecturer on women's education and Latin America.[14] [15] [16] In 1939 she attended the Pan-American Union's Peace Conference held in Lima, Peru.[17] [18]

In retirement, Gaw lived in California, where she was active in adult education and continued her international travels.[19] She donated her mother's papers to the Harvard Racliffe Institute in 1952.[20]

Publications

Gaw published her academic research and writing in scholarly journals including Psychological Monographs,[21] [22] The Journal of Higher Education,[23] [24] The Journal of Educational Research,[25] Educational Research Bulletin,[26] The Psychological Clinic, Bulletin of the Pan American Union,[27] [28] and Pi Lambda Theta Journal.

Personal life

Esther Allen married Henry Clinton Gaw in 1910. Their son was Emir Allen Gaw.[36] Henry Gaw died in 1912. She died in 1973, aged 93 years, in Sonoma, California.[37] Biologist Esther Gaw McLaughlin is her granddaughter and namesake.[38] [39]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1917-10-21 . Florence E. Allen . 16 . Dayton Daily News . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  2. 1962-04-01 . Louis B. Tuckerman . Physics Today . 15 . 4 . 107 . 10.1063/1.3058113 . 0031-9228. free .
  3. News: 1973-12-30 . Former Mills Dean Dr. Gaw . 12 . The San Francisco Examiner . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1937-02-21 . Dean Talks . 23 . The Pittsburgh Press . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1913-09-14 . The Musicians . 3 . The Salt Lake Herald-Republican . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  6. May 22, 1915 . Salt Lake City Women Give Worthy Orchestral Concert . Musical America . 22 . 3 . 27 . Internet Archive.
  7. News: 1914-04-05 . Woman's Orchestra to Appear in Concert . 37 . The Salt Lake Tribune . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Web site: The University Club Iowa City . Our History: Early History . 2022-09-06 . The University Club Iowa City . en-US.
  9. Book: The University Club : 100th year celebration : 1917-2017 . 2017 . The University Club.
  10. News: July 29, 1927 . New Dean of Women Enthusiastic About Work at Ohio State . 1, 4 . The Ohio State Lantern . September 6, 2022.
  11. Book: Gaw, Esther Allen . Individual Differences in Musical Sensitivity . 1925 . Mills College . en.
  12. https://osupublicationarchives.osu.edu/?a=d&d=LTN19280605-01.2.10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- "24 Co-Eds Named 1928 Frosh Guides by Dean Esther Gaw"
  13. News: October 6, 1937 . 'Big Sister' Out Rules Dean Gaw . 1 . The Ohio State Lantern . September 6, 2022.
  14. News: 1928-01-08 . Mrs. Esther Allen Gaw to Speak at Meet of College Women's Club . 14 . The Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1931-05-23 . Mrs. Esther Allen Gaw Will Speak at Function Planned by College Women's Club . 8 . The Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1943-06-01 . Dean Gaw to be Guest Speaker . 4 . Lancaster Eagle-Gazette . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1939-06-02 . Esther Allen Gaw Guest Speaker at Missionary Event . 4 . Lancaster Eagle-Gazette . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1941-04-29 . University Group Hears Dean Gaw, Elects Officers . 6 . The Newark Advocate . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  19. News: Callan . Mary Ann . 1960-08-16 . Adviser Likes Counsel . 27 . The Los Angeles Times . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  20. Web site: Collection: Papers of Corinne Marie Tuckerman Allen, 1896-1927 . 2022-09-06 . Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library.
  21. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1922 . A survey of musical talent in music school. . Psychological Monographs . en . 31 . 1 . 128–156 . 10.1037/h0093170 . 0096-9753.
  22. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1918 . A revision of the consonance test. . Psychological Monographs . en . 25 . 2 . 134–147 . 10.1037/h0093116 . 0096-9753.
  23. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1930 . Social Education . The Journal of Higher Education . 1 . 1 . 23–28 . 10.2307/1974838 . 1974838 . 0022-1546.
  24. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1943 . Case-Study Techniques . The Journal of Higher Education . 14 . 1 . 37–58 . 10.2307/1975297 . 1975297 . 0022-1546.
  25. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1922-05-01 . Some Individual Difficulties in the Study of Music . The Journal of Educational Research . 5 . 5 . 381–388 . 10.1080/00220671.1922.10879266 . 0022-0671.
  26. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1930 . Techniques for Social Education . Educational Research Bulletin . 9 . 11 . 289–323 . 1470971 . 1555-4023.
  27. Gaw, Esther Allen. "The University of Chile and its summer school." Bull. Pan Am. Union 72 (1938): 512.
  28. Gaw, Esther Allen. "Heredia, Costa Rica." Bull. Pan Am. Union 75 (1941): 225.
  29. Gaw, Esther Allen (1920) "The Talent Survey in Our Music School" Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 27(1), 227-228.
  30. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1928 . Five studies of the music tests. . Psychological Monographs . en . 39 . 2 . 145–156 . 10.1037/h0093343 . 0096-9753.
  31. Gaw . Esther Allen . June 1930 . Teaching Student Assistants to Use Objective Aids in Their Interviews with Younger Students . The Psychological Clinic . 19 . 4 . 116–122 . 5138297 . 28909311.
  32. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1933 . Advising Means Administration . The Journal of Higher Education . 4 . 4 . 179–186 . 10.2307/1975718 . 1975718 . 0022-1546.
  33. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1938 . Education in Chile . Pi Lambda Theta Journal . 17 . 1 . 1–2 . 42915385 . 2374-3093.
  34. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1940 . We the Deans . The Journal of Higher Education . 11 . 5 . 262–268 . 10.2307/1974254 . 1974254 . 0022-1546.
  35. Gaw . Esther Allen . 1944 . Sagarna . Antonio . A National Institution . The Journal of Higher Education . 15 . 6 . 337–338 . 10.2307/1976828 . 1976828 . 0022-1546.
  36. News: 1938-03-20 . Elise Gregg Married to Dr. Emir A. Gaw; Ceremony Takes Place in Church at Waterbury, Conn., With Bride's Father Officiating . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-09-06 . 0362-4331.
  37. News: 1973-12-31 . Obituary for Esther A. Gaw (Aged 93) . 10 . The Napa Valley Register . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  38. News: 1964-01-09 . Three Brides-to-Be Announce their Plans to Marry . 20 . The San Francisco Examiner . 2022-09-06 . Newspapers.com.
  39. McLaughlin . Esther Gaw . 1965 . An experimental study of the effects of varied photoperiod and water depth on leaf form in Megalodonta beckii. .

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