Edna Duge
Edna Duge | |
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![]() Edna Duge, from the 1925 yearbook of Wellesley College | |
Born | November 8, 1902 Greenwich, Connecticut |
Died | April 25, 1985 Greenwich, Connecticut |
Occupation | Educator |
Edna Ella Duge (November 8, 1902 – April 25, 1985) was an American educator.[1] She was associated with the Institute of International Education for much of her career, as director of the Latin-American Department in the 1940s, and as director of the Alumni Relations Division in the 1960s.
Early life and education
[edit]Duge was from Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of John L. Duge and Mary A. Gerold Duge.[2] Her father was a carpenter; her father and both maternal grandparents were born in Germany. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1925.[3] She earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1946, with a thesis titled "José Vasconcelos: A Study of his Attitudes Towards the United States."[4]
Career
[edit]After college, Duge was secretary at the International Migration Service,[5] and executive secretary of the Institute de las Españas en los Estados Unidos at Columbia University.[6][7] She was secretary to Stephen P. Duggan, the director of the Institute of International Education in 1928, when she made a two-month tour of German colleges;[8] she was director of the institute's Latin-American Department in the 1940s.[9][10] She toured in South America for three months in 1940, meeting with educators and promoting student exchanges between the United States and Latin American countries.[11][12] In 1946, she was a co-author on the research report The Administration of Section Fourteen of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in Regard to Handicapped Workers: a Study in the Exercise of Administrative Discretion.[13] In 1949, she was one of fourteen Americans rescued from flooding and mudslides in Guatemala.[14]
Duge represented the Institute on a tour in Texas and Oklahoma in 1950.[15][16][17] She took particular interest in encouraging women to consider study-abroad programs.[18][19] In the 1960s she was head of the Institute's Alumni Relations Division, and conducted research on college study-abroad participation among American foreign service officers.[20]
Personal life
[edit]Duge died in 1985, aged 82 years, in Greenwich.
References
[edit]- ^ In cases of possible confusion, the middle initial of her name is helpful; Edna E. Duge also had a sister-in-law named Edna M. Duge, and a niece named Edna A. Duge.
- ^ "Mrs. John L. Duge; Native of Detroit was 83". The Daily Item. 1956-07-10. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wellesley College, Legenda (1925 yearbook): 29.
- ^ Barrett, L. Lomas (1948). "Theses Dealing with Hispano-American Language and Literature -- 1947". Hispania. 31 (2): 157–160. doi:10.2307/334146. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 334146.
- ^ "Members of 1925 Engage in Non-Teaching Occupations". Wellesley College News. October 22, 1925. p. 6. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
- ^ "Columbia Centre of Spanish Sought; Movement to Erect a House Is Started by the Instituto de las Espanas". The New York Times. 1926-11-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ Sparkman, Colley Fredward (1926). Games for Spanish Clubs. Instituto de las Españas.
- ^ "Students on German Tour; Ten Sall Tomorrow as Guests of the Carl Schurz Vereinigung". The New York Times. 1928-06-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ Affairs, United States Office of Inter-American (1943). Guide to the Inter-American Cultural Programs of Non-government Agencies in the United States. The Office.
- ^ Kropf, Simone Petraglia (August 2020). "Circuitos da boa vizinhança. Diplomacia cultural e intercâmbios educacionais entre Brasil e Estados Unidos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial" [Good Neighbor Circuits: Cultural Diplomacy and Educational Exchange Between Brazil and the United States During World War II]. Varia Historia. 36 (71): 531–568. doi:10.1590/0104-87752020000200010. ISSN 1982-4343. S2CID 219934382.
- ^ "SAYS U.S. EDUCATION AIDS LATIN-AMERICANS; Miss Duge Asserts They Hold Best Jobs and Also Help Us". The New York Times. 1940-12-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
- ^ "The More the Better". The Daily News Leader. 1940-12-26. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Durkin, Thomas J.; Durnell, Barbara H.; Duge, Edna Ella; Dugas, Helen B.; Dubester, Henry J.; Dougherty, James F.; Dudek, Louis; Dunn, Margaret M.; Dowling, Mrs Betty Brockway (1946). The Administration of Section Fourteen of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in Regard to Handicapped Workers: a Study in the Exercise of Administrative Discretion.
- ^ "Greenwich Woman Saved from Flood Area in Guatemala". Hartford Courant. 1949-10-23. p. 32. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "UT Foreign Students Enjoy Grants from Many Sources". Austin American. December 12, 1950. p. 26 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Miss Edna Duge to Consult Foreign Students". The Megaphone. December 1, 1950. p. 1. Retrieved April 26, 2022 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Edna Duge to Visit, Speak on Campus December 10-11". The Chickasha Star. 1950-12-07. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Edna Duge to Interview OCW Students". The Chickasha Daily Express. 1950-12-10. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Educator Visits TSCW Campus". Denton Record-Chronicle. 1950-12-07. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wolfe, Glenn C. (January 1966). "IIE Contributes to U.S. Foreign Affairs". Department of State News Letter. 57: 11–12, 41.