Vera Mikol Explained

Vera Mikol
Other Names:Vera Mikol Wiese, Vera M. Schuyler
Birth Date:November 28, 1899
Birth Place:Chelsea, Massachusetts
Death Date:1982 (aged 82)
Death Place:Santa Barbara, California
Occupation:Journalist, researcher
Spouse(S):Ernst Wiese, Robert Livingston Schuyler

Vera Mikol (November 28, 1899 – 1982), also known as Vera Mikol Wiese and Vera M. Schuyler, was an American journalist and researcher.

Early life and education

Vera Mikol was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of David and Lillie Mikol. Her father was a close acquaintance of William Morris, and active in socialist politics in Boston;[1] he was a leader of the Ladies' Tailors and Dressmakers' Association of America,[2] and he worked as an interpreter for labor leader Samuel Gompers. Her younger sister, Bettina, married David Sinclair, the son of novelist Upton Sinclair.[3]

At age 11, Mikol wrote a four-act play, The Distinguished Princess, which was produced at her school.[4] She graduated from Girls' High School in Boston in 1916.[5] She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1920.[6] She was secretary of the Radcliffe College chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.[7] She wrote a story, "The Tower by the Sea", for The Harvard Magazine.[8] She won a scholarship for further studies in France,[9] at the Lycée Jeanne Hachette and the Sorbonne.[10]

After France, she made further studies in Germany and at Columbia University.[11] She was listed as a graduated student in education at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1939.[12]

Career

In 1926, Mikol was executive assistant to George E. G. Catlin, who chaired a committee studying the "social consequences of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" for the Social Science Research Council.[13] From 1930 to 1931, she was a Research Fellow with the Social Science Research Council.

MIkol was a reporter for the New York Daily News,[14] [15] and reported on archaeological finds in Egypt for The New York Times and the Montreal Gazette in 1930.[16] [17] [18] In 1931 she was in Naples, studying piano and possibly working for the United States Foreign Service.[19] She taught in the journalism program at Los Angeles City College.[20]

Mikol was the uncredited research director on dozens of Hollywood films in 1945 and 1946,[21] many of them westerns, thrillers, or comedies. In the 1950s, she presented her research on composer Sigismund Thalberg at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society.[22] She was active in the Los Angeles chapters of Theta Sigma Phi[23] and the Radcliffe Club.[24] [25] Later in life she lived in Palm Springs, and was active in the Opera Guild[26] and the Coachella Valley chapter of the Dickens Fellowship.[27] [28] In the 1970s, she was traveling often, and writing for "golf and art magazines."[29]

Personal life and legacy

Mikol married twice.[30] Her first husband was Austrian journalist Ernst Wiese in 1937.[31] They divorced in 1939.[32] She was living in Pacific Palisades, California in 1957. Her second husband was journalist Robert Livingston Schuyler. She died in Santa Barbara, California in 1982, aged 82 years. The Harvard Radcliffe Institute awards a Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship, named in her memory; novelist Geraldine Brooks, novelist Mako Yoshikawa, historian Steven Zipperstein, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and mathematician Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas are among its past recipients.[33] [34] [35]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1908-02-09 . Cheers for Mr. Haywood . 11 . The Boston Globe . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1912-01-10 . Fashionable Shape is the 'Stovepipe' . 3 . The Buffalo Enquirer . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1928-10-03 . David Sinclair, Son of Upton Sinclair, and Prominent in University Activities, Wed . 11 . The Capital Times . 2022-03-18 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1911-06-21 . Brilliant Pupil of the Boston Schools . 9 . The Boston Globe . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1916-06-22 . Graduation at Girls' High School . 9 . The Boston Globe . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Radcliffe College, Radcliffe 1920 (1920 yearbook): 56.
  7. December 1919 . College Notes . The Socialist Review . 60.
  8. Mikol . Vera . November 1919 . The Tower by the Sea . The Harvard Magazine . 1 . 7–8.
  9. News: 1920-06-20 . Honored at Radcliffe . 7 . The Boston Globe . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: January 4, 1921 . Extract from Vera Mikol's Letter . 4 . The Radcliffe News . March 17, 2022.
  11. Book: Social Science Research Council (U.S.) . Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951 . 1951 . The Council . 266 . en.
  12. Book: University of California . Register - University of California . 1939 . University of California Press . 122 . en.
  13. https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2807 Social Science Research Council committee records
  14. News: 1937-09-17 . Thinks Italy has Liability in Ethiopia . 4 . Hartford Courant . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1923-05-13 . Little Theatre Dramatists are a Gloomy Crew . 173 . Daily News . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: Mikol . Vera . 1930-04-04 . Find Hold-up Story of 4,000 Years Ago; Members of the Harvard and Catholic University Group Unearth Ancient Records . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-17 . 0362-4331.
  17. News: Mikol . Vera . 1930-03-14 . New Find Confirms Origin of Alphabet; Tablets in Sinai Desert Link Egyptian Hieroglyphs With Phoenician Characters . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-17 . 0362-4331.
  18. News: Mikol . Vera . 1930-03-23 . Sinai Smelteries of 2000 B.C. Found; American Archaeologists Discover Copper and Turquoise Lured Egyptians and Semites . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-17 . 0362-4331.
  19. Mikol . Vera . May–June 1957 . Thalberg's 'Erard': A Discovery . Etude . 75 . 8 . Internet Archive.
  20. News: March 11, 1941 . Four Collegians Attend Annual Newspaper Day . 2 . Los Angeles Collegian.
  21. Book: American Film Institute . AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States . 1999 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-21521-4 . 257, 539, 754 . en.
  22. Mikol . Vera . 1958 . The Influence of Sigismund Thalberg on American Musical Taste, 1830-1872 . Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . 102 . 5 . 464–468 . 985592 . 0003-049X.
  23. News: 1938-06-08 . Theta Sigma Alumnae Meet . 11 . Daily News . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  24. News: 1952-10-27 . Vera Mikol to Speak . 12 . Los Angeles Evening Citizen News . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  25. News: 1953-05-12 . Patio Level Pool . 39 . Mirror News . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  26. News: 1969-10-30 . Opera Guild Goes Gala for Opener . 8 . The Desert Sun . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  27. News: 1969-02-04 . Annual Dickens Fete Set by Scholarship . 4 . The Desert Sun . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  28. News: 1969-02-05 . Roast Beef for Dickens Club . 5 . Palm Desert Post . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  29. News: 1972-05-22 . New Search as Passengers Relive QE2's Dunkirk Spirit . 6 . The Guardian . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  30. Web site: Mikol, Vera [Mrs. Ernest Wiese] (Mrs. Robert L. Schuyler), 1916-1945 ]. 2022-03-17 . Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  31. News: 1937-09-30 . Reich Hopes to get Ethiopia, Motorcycle Tourist Asserts . 21 . The Boston Globe . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  32. News: 1939-05-12 . Divorce Suits Filed . 18 . The Los Angeles Times . 2022-03-17 . Newspapers.com.
  33. Web site: Harrison . Pat . 2006-04-27 . Making fiction from fact . 2022-03-17 . Harvard Gazette . en-US.
  34. Web site: Mako Yoshikawa . 2022-03-17 . Penguin Random House Canada . English.
  35. Web site: Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas . 2022-03-17 . Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . en.

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