Kalma, Susan Hitchcock, 1943-2003

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Susan Martine Hitchcock was born in Middlebury, Vermont on September 13, 1943 to Harold Hitchcock, a Middlebury College professor, and Grace Cutter Hitchcock, a registered nurse. She attended Middlebury Union High School and then Mount Holyoke from 1961-1965, majoring in zoology. She married Dennis Leslie Kalma of Illinois in May 1966, studied anatomy at Yale University, and taught biology at a private high school in New Haven, Connecticut. She spent about a year traveling in Panama with her husband, returning to Connecticut in 1969. In 1970 she began volunteering at Planned Parenthood of New Haven and received her M.A.T. in biology from Quinnipiac University in 1971. Also in that year she started working at the Cedarhurst School (with Yale Psychiatric Institute) as a part-time teacher of Living Skills. She was Director of the George F. Paton Health Center at Middlebury College from 1982-1985. From 1986-1991 she was an assistant professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland School of Nursing. During the remainder of the 1990s she served as a Nursing Education Consultant in Tanzania and a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Kryghistan. This return to health education took also took her to Central America, Canada, and Africa. At the time of her death in 2003, she was a nurse practicioner at the United States embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.

From the guide to the Susan Hitchcock Kalma Papers MS 0815., 1959-1965, 1982-2003, 1959-1965)., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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