Lolita Huning Pooler Explained

Lolita Huning Pooler
Birth Name:Dolores Huning
Birth Date:October 21, 1889
Birth Place:Los Lunas, New Mexico, U.S.
Death Date:October 12, 1966 aged 76)
Death Place:Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation:Folklorist, educator

Dolores "Lolita" Huning Pooler (October 21, 1889 – October 1966) was an American educator and folklorist, based in New Mexico. She was one of the founders of the New Mexico Folklore Society, and on the staff of the San Jose Project, an experimental school in the 1930s.

Early life and education

Huning was born in Los Lunas, New Mexico[1] the daughter of rancher Louis Huning and Henrike "Henny" Busch Huning.[2] Her parents, both born in Germany, socialized with Charles Fletcher Lummis, Adolph Bandelier, Anton Docher, and others interested in the history and culture of the American Southwest.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of New Mexico in 1929, and a master's degree in 1932, with a thesis titled "Gregory Martinez Sierra: A Study of His Women Characters". She was a charter member of the University of New Mexico chapter of Phi Mu.[4] [5]

Career

Pooler taught school as a young woman. In 1931 she was one of the five founding members of the New Mexico Folklore Society.[6] [7] She taught Spanish and German at the University of New Mexico and the Sandia Girls School[8] in the 1930s, and joined archaeological excavations at Chaco Canyon and the Alameda Pueblo.[9] She was on the staff of the San Jose Project, an experimental school program working on issues of bilingual and bicultural education in rural New Mexico.[10] [11]

Pooler was co-director of the Spanish Language Workshop at the University of New Mexico during World War II,[12] and remained active in the leadership of the New Mexico Folklore Society through the late 1940s.[13] [14] She taught Spanish at Manzano Day School in the 1940s and 1950s.[15] [16]

Publications

Pooler's work appeared in academic journals including New Mexico Quarterly and Western Folklore. She also contributed to a collection, Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico (1956).[17]

Personal life

Huning married forest manager Frank Clay Winsor Pooler in 1913.[24] They had a son Clay, and a daughter, Louise. Her husband died in 1960, and she died in 1966, at the age of 76, in Albuquerque.[25]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lucas. Urith . 1963-08-08 . Member of Pioneer Family Prepares Exhibit at Family Museum . Newspapers.com . 2024-03-09 . The Albuquerque Tribune . 17.
  2. News: 1913-01-04 . Pooler-Huning Wedding Next Wednesday Coming Society Event of Paramount Interest . 2024-03-09 . Newspapers.com . The Evening Herald . 7.
  3. Book: Keleher . Julia . The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher; Facsimile of the 1940 Edition . Chant . Elsie Ruth . 2009-03-14 . Sunstone Press . 978-1-61139-197-8 . en.
  4. News: 1966-10-13 . Member of Pioneer Family Dies in City . 2024-03-09 . The Albuquerque Tribune . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: March 7, 1963 . Phi Mu Alumnae . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 9 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  6. News: 1971-04-25 . Folklore Society Plans to Celebrate 40th Year . 2024-03-09 . Albuquerque Journal . 26 . Newspapers.com.
  7. Web site: Collection: New Mexico Folklore Society Records . 2024-03-09 . New Mexico Archives Online.
  8. Smith, Rebecca W. "Los Paisanos." New Mexico Quarterly 6, no. 4 (1936): 23.
  9. Book: Browman, David L. . Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology. 188–189 . 2013-06-01 . U of Nebraska Press . 978-0-8032-4547-1 . en.
  10. Book: Getz, Lynne Marie . Schools of their own : the education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940 . 1997 . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-8263-1812-1 . 74.
  11. Tireman . L. S. . Sedillo Brewster . Mela . Pooler . Lolita . November 1933 . The San Jose Project . The New Mexico Quarterly . 3 . 4 . 207–216 . Internet Archive.
  12. News: July 17, 1945 . Mexican Churches to be Discussed . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 5 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  13. News: November 11, 1947 . Ballad Records to be Presented . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 5 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  14. News: May 30, 1950 . Folklore Society Met May 13 in Albuquerque . March 9, 2024 . Lovington Leader . 3 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  15. News: August 24, 1946 . Staff Named for Manzano . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 7 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  16. News: May 29, 1956 . Day School Head Will Entertain at Luncheon . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 8 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  17. News: August 29, 1954 . Hispanic Folklore is Subject of UNM Publication by Robb . March 9, 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 29 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  18. Pooler . Lolita . 1930-01-01 . Cuentos populares españoles de Nuevo México . Spanish and Portuguese ETDs.
  19. Pooler, Lolita H. "La Bruja" New Mexico Quarterly 2(3)(1932).
  20. Huning, Dolores and Irene Fisher. "Three Spanish Folk Tales" New Mexico Quarterly 6(1)(1936).
  21. Pooler, Lolita H. "Alameda Pueblo Ruins" El Palacio 47(4)(April 1940): 84-88.
  22. Pooler . Lolita H. . 1951 . New Mexican Folk Tales . Western Folklore . 10 . 1 . 63–71 . 10.2307/1496633 . 1496633 . 0043-373X.
  23. Pooler . Lolita Huning . 1956 . Spanish Folk Tales . Western Folklore . 15 . 2 . 102–105 . 10.2307/1497485 . 1497485 . 0043-373X.
  24. News: 1913-01-05 . Young Set Fete a Bride Elect . 2024-03-09 . Albuquerque Journal . Newspapers.com. 10.
  25. News: 1966-10-14 . Rosary is Today for Lolita Pooler . 2024-03-09 . Albuquerque Journal . Newspapers.com. 72.

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