Theresa Jacobson Morse was born in Cedarhurst, N.Y. After graduating from Woodmere Academy (N.Y.) in 1926, she attended Barnard College for one year; she married Alan R. Morse (Harvard '19) in September 1927. TJM transferred to Radcliffe College as a "special student" and received her degree (A.B., Fine Arts) in 1934. The Morses lived in Brookline, Mass., and had three children: Edith Morse Greene Milender (born 1929), Ann Morse Cohen (born 1932) and Alan R., Jr. (born 1938). Alan Morse, Sr. died in 1980.
In 1942 TJM was hired as a consultant in the consumer division of the Office for Price Administration. From 1942 to 1945 she was a unit chief in the Wage Stabilization Division of Region I of the National War Labor Board. She was president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters (1948-1951), and sat on the board of the Brookline Housing Authority (1949-1974). Active in social service work for many years, she was chair of the Divisional Committee on Recreation, Informal Education and Group Work of United Community Services (now United Way). She received the Honorable John Perkins Award for outstanding service to children and youth in 1970. She was a Trustee of Hyams Foundation and President of A.C. Ratshesky Foundation for many years.
From the guide to the Papers, 1935-1951, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
