Emily Sibley, 1888-1979

Emily Sibley, home economist, was born on October 17, 1888, the daughter of Henry Clark and Bertha (Heidenreich) Sibley, and grew up in Cambridge. She attended the Berkeley Street School and received her AB from Radcliffe in 1911 and her BS in home economics from Simmons College in 1913. She taught home economics at the House among the Pines, Norton, Mass. (1913-1915) and at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (1915-1919). In 1916 she took a summer course at Columbia Teacher's College and in the summer of 1918 taught a course in Dietetics at the Vassar College Nurses Training Center. In 1919 she moved back to her parents' home and took a temporary job at the Garland School of Homemaking. From 1920 until it closed in 1950 she taught home economics part-time at the Choate School in Brookline, Mass. She then taught a course in nutrition at the New England Hospital (1950) and the Holy Ghost Hospital (1950-1953).

ES was active in her church, the First Parish Unitarian, Cambridge, served as board member and on the Admissions Committee of the Cambridge Home for the Aged, 1954-1971, and was on the board of the Red Cross in Cambridge. She was a member of the Radcliffe Club of Boston and of the League of Women Voters, was editor of the Class of 1922 notes, and frequently represented her class at Radcliffe functions.