Dippel, Rosalie Peppler, 1911-2001

Leona Rosalie Peppler was born on September 4, 1911 in Newark, New Jersey to Nelson H. Peppler, a construction engineer and Leona Coe Peppler. After attending public schools in Caldwell and Glen Ridge, New Jersey, she went to Mount Holyoke College between 1929-1933, graduating with a degree in religion and a minor in astronomy. She was briefly employed as a file clerk at Cum and Foster fire insurance agency and from 1933-1935 worked as a secretary with the Chase National Bank. She subsequently worked as a secretary to the principal of Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and to the head of the Community Development and Maintenance for the Federal Resettlement Administration in Washington, D.C. From 1935-1942 she worked as executive secretary to the vice president of Beneficial Management Corporation in Newark, N.J. In September 1939 she married John Willard Dippel, and attorney and they had two children. She died at the age of eighty-nine on May 5, 2001 in Brunswick, Maine.

Dippel, Rosalie Peppler, 1911-2001; student. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1933.