Lippincott, Gertrude Lawton.

Gertrude Lippincott (neé Lawton) was born in St. Paul (Minnesota) on June 29, 1913. She was educated at the University of Minnesota High School (Minneapolis, Minnesota). She attended the University of Minnesota, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1935. She married Benjamin Evans Lippincott (1902-1988), a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, in 1934. In 1943 she completed a Master of Arts in education with an emphasis on dance at New York University.

She studied dance at the University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Bennington School of Dance (Bennington College, South Hadley, Vermont), and New York University. She studied with Hans Wiener in Boston (Massachusetts), Leslie Burrows in London, and Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm in New York.

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