Juliet Greer Explained

Juliet Greer
Birth Date:December 28, 1871
Birth Place:Rochester, Pennsylvania
Death Date:December 12, 1942
Death Place:Woodford Forest, Virginia
Other Names:Juliette Greer, Juliet G. Bridwell
Occupation:Science educator, college dean, home economist

Juliet Greer Bridwell (December 28, 1871 – December 12, 1942) was an American home economist and college professor. She was dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art at Oregon State University from 1908 to 1911.

Early life and education

Greer was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Howard Greer and Aberilla Ecoff Greer.[1] She graduated from Vassar College, where she was president of the class of 1895.[2] She pursued further studies at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University.[3] Her youngest sister, Florence Greer, was a fellow Vassar alumna, and a noted educator as principal of Brooklyn Heights Seminary.[4]

Career

Greer taught physics and biology at Pratt Institute from 1898[5] to 1908. She joined the faculty at Oregon State University (then known as Oregon Agricultural College, or OAC),[6] as dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art, in 1908.[7] She resigned from OAC in 1911,[8] along with her four assistants.[9] [10] She was succeeded as dean at OAC by Henrietta W. Calvin.[11]

In 1916, she joined the faculty at Brooklyn Heights Seminary, as a science teacher.[12] She also read one of her husband's professional papers at the Pacific Slope Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego that year.[13] She was still associated with the Brooklyn school in the early 1930s,[14] before her sister's death and the school's closure in 1933.

In the 1930s, Bridwell was an officer of the Progressive Citizens of Georgetown.[15]

Personal life

Greer lived in Los Angeles, caring for her ailing mother,[16] before she married entomologist John Colburn Bridwell in 1912.[17] They had a daughter, also named Juliet Greer Bridwell, born in 1918 in Honolulu, when Bridwell was 43 and her husband was assistant entomologist at the Hawaii Board of Agriculture and Forestry.[18] She died in 1942, at age 70, from a heart attack, at her home near Washington, D.C.[19] [20] [21]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1926-01-25 . Mrs. Howard Greer Dies . 3 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: June 11, 1895 . 2023-10-06 . A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College.
  3. News: 1908-08-18 . Preparing for Great Year . 1 . The Weekly Gazette-Times . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1933-07-21 . Florence Greer, Heights Seminary Principal, is Dead . 11 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2023-10-06.
  5. June 1898 . Personals . Vassar Miscellany . 27 . 9 . 479.
  6. News: 1908-08-16 . New Domestic Science Teacher at O. A. C. . 2 . Statesman Journal . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  7. Greer . Juliet . 1908 . Report of the Dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art . Biennial Report of the President of the Oregon State Agricultural College, 1906-1908 . 120–125.
  8. News: 1911-04-12 . Dean of Domestic Science Resigns . 4 . Albany Democrat-Herald . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Raber . Elta . May 1913 . Resume of Work in D. S. & A. in O. A. C. . The Oregon Countryman . 5 . 8 . 46–47.
  10. http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/items/show/32781 “Juliet Greer”
  11. News: 1912-02-02 . Mrs. Calvin Succeeds Miss Greer . 1 . The Weekly Gazette-Times . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1916-06-22 . New Members of Faculty Appointed by Trustees of Brooklyn Heights Seminary . 10 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1916-08-05 . Will Read Paper on Coast . 9 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1931-09-26 . Seminary to Move; Heights Institution Takes New Quarters in Fall of 1932 . 6 . Times Union . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1934-10-02 . Officers Elected by Citizens' Group . 3 . Evening star . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  16. July 1912 . Alumnae Bulletin . Vassar Miscellany . 61 . 9 . 811.
  17. Curran . C. Howard . Bryan . E. H. . 1926-03-01 . African Syrphidæ Collected by J. C. Bridwell . Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 19 . 1 . 82–84 . 10.1093/aesa/19.1.82 . 1938-2901.
  18. News: 1915-09-24 . John C. Bridwell Safe . 7 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  19. News: 1942-12-13 . Virginia Woman Dies Shopping in D. C. Store . 24 . Evening star . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1942-12-17 . Mrs. J. C. Bridwell, Former Teacher . 15 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2023-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
  21. News: December 17, 1942 . Mrs. John Bridwell . en . 37 . The New York Times . 2023-10-07.

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