Evangeline Papageorge Explained

Evangeline Papageorge
Birth Date:December 1, 1906
Birth Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Death Date:September 15, 2001 (age 94)
Death Place:Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation:Biochemist, college professor

Evangeline Thomas Papageorge (December 1, 1906 – September 15, 2001) was an American biochemist and college professor, born in Istanbul. She was the first woman to hold a full-time appointment on the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, and later served as the school's dean of students.

Early life and education

Papageorge was born in Istanbul, the daughter of Tomas Papageorgiou and Maria Hatzidemetriou. Her father was a Greek Orthodox priest.[1] She moved to the United States in 1910 with her family, settling first in New Jersey and later in Georgia. Her father died in 1927. She earned a degree in chemistry from Agnes Scott College in 1927,[2] [3] a master's degree from Emory University in 1929, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1937.[4] Her dissertation was titled "Studies in the intermediary metabolism of phenylalanine."

Career

Papageorge taught chemistry at Emory University School of Medicine from 1929 to 1956, and was the school's first full-time female faculty member. She was also the school's first female administrator, as the dean of students from 1956[5] until she retired in 1975.[6] [7] "I represent a mother figure to the students," she explained of her administrative work in the 1960s. "They feel freer to talk to me about things that matter."[8]

Papageorge was named "Atlanta Woman of the Year in Education" for 1952.[9] In 1966 she received the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory. She received the Emory Medical Alumni Association's Award of Honor in 1971. A scholarship was established in her name in 1975, and the Emory Medical Alumni Association established the Evangeline Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, in tribute to her career.[10]

Papageorge acted with the Emory Players, and was the first woman president of the parish council at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta.[11]

Publications

Papageorge's research on vitamins[12] was published in academic journals including Science, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Academic Medicine, The Journal of Nutrition, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The American Journal of Medical Technology, and Endocrinology.

Personal life

Papageorge lived with her sister Calomira "Callie" C. Canaris, a medical technologist, for many years. She died from lymphatic leukemia in 2001, at the age of 94, in Atlanta.

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Notes and References

  1. News: 1966-09-20 . Dr. Evangeline Papageorge Awarded Jefferson Medal at Emory Medical . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Constitution . 16 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Agnes Scott College, Silhouette (1927 yearbook): 105. via Internet Archive
  3. News: 1952-01-15 . Agnes Scott Career Talk . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Journal . 29 . Newspapers.com.
  4. https://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/winter2002/precis_six.html "A Teacher First"
  5. News: Gwin . Yolande . 1956-07-08 . Vivacious Dr. Papageorge Has 'Bubbling Personality' . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Journal . 77 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Paving a Path: Women of Emory Making History . 2024-04-16 . Emory University Advancement and Alumni Engagement . en.
  7. News: Yearley . Midge . 1975-05-06 . She's a Major Figure at Emory Medical School . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Journal . 26 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Book: Martin, Harold H. . Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s . 2010-04-15 . University of Georgia Press . 978-0-8203-3136-2 . 521 . en.
  9. News: Barnwell . Katherine . 1953-01-18 . Dr. Papageorge Education WOTY . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Journal . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: Evangeline T. Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award . 2024-04-16 . Emory School of Medicine.
  11. News: Powell . Kay . 2001-09-18 . Dr. Evangeline T. Papageorge, educator at Emory . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Constitution . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: Neal . Willard . 1943-04-18 . Vitamin Hunters . 2024-04-16 . The Atlanta Journal . 71 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Papageorge . E. T. . Frohlich . M. M. . Lewis . H. B. . 1938-06-01 . Excretion of Homogentisic Acid After Oral Administration of Phenylalanine to Alcaptonuric Subjects . Experimental Biology and Medicine . en . 38 . 5 . 742–745 . 10.3181/00379727-38-10002 . 1535-3702.
  14. Venable . John H. . Papageorge . Evangeline . November 1945 . An Experiment in Teaching Freshman Medical Students* . Academic Medicine . en-US . 20 . 6 . 349 . 10.1097/00001888-194511000-00002 . 21003748 . 1040-2446. free .
  15. Papageorge . Evangeline . Lewis . George T. . 1947-09-01 . A Study of the Fasting-Hour Excretion of Thiamine in the Urine of Normal Subjects: One Figure . The Journal of Nutrition . 34 . 3 . 301–310 . 10.1093/jn/34.3.301 . 0022-3166.
  16. Glazko . Anthony J. . Adair . Foster . Papageorge . Evangeline . Lewis . George T. . 1947-01-10 . Fluorophotometric Determination of Rutin and Other Flavones . Science . en . 105 . 2715 . 48 . 10.1126/science.105.2715.48 . 17797194 . 1947Sci...105...48G . 0036-8075.
  17. Papageorge . Evangeline . Mitchell . George Lee . 1949-04-01 . The Effect of Oral Administration of Rutin on Blood, Liver and Adrenal Ascorbic Acid and on Liver and Adrenal Cholesterol in Guinea Pigs . The Journal of Nutrition . 37 . 4 . 531–540 . 10.1093/jn/37.4.531 . 0022-3166.
  18. McGhee . Eva C. . Papageorge . Evangeline. . Bloom . Walter.Lyon. . Lewis . George T. . May 1951 . Effect of hyperinsulinism on brain phospholipide . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 190 . 1 . 127–132 . 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)56053-1 . 0021-9258. free .
  19. Noble, Nancy Lee, and Evangeline Papageorge. "Loss of adrenal glycogen in the rat following stress or treatment with various hormones." Endocrinology 57, no. 4 (1955): 492-497.
  20. Book: Papageorge, Evangeline . The American Journal of Medical Technology . 1955 . American Society for Medical Technology . 94–97 . en . Determination of blood cholesterol.

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