Philips, Frances Hurrey, 1909-1971

Frances Adelle Hurrey was born on August 4, 1909 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Charles D. Hurrey and Daisy Girton Hurrey. She attended Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey before coming to Mount Holyoke College in 1927. She spent her junior year abroad at the Universite de Nancy and the Sorbonne in France. She graduated in 1931 with a major in French and during the summer of 1931 she attended Montclair State Teacher's College. From 1931-1932 she taught French and Latin at the Brookside School in Montclair. From 1932-1933 she tutored French in Switzerland while attending the Universite de Geneve, and after returning to the United States in 1933, she received her M.A. in French from Columbia University in 1934. That same year she began teaching French at the Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey and held that position until she became principal in 1940. She remained its principal until 1951 when she retired. In the summer of 1935 she attended the Middlebury Summer Language School in Middlebury, Vermont and the following summer studied at the American Institute in Munich, Germany. On December 9, 1946 she married Dixon C. Philips, a graduate of Cornell University and the mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey from 1943 to 1947. She died at the age of eighty-one on December 4, 1971 in Hightstown, New Jersey.

From the guide to the Philips papers MS 0689., 1927-1935, 1927-1931, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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