Susan Dorothea Long Quainton, Mount Holyoke graduate and educator, was born on January 25, 1936 in Los Angeles, California to Joseph Abraham Long and Theresia Monrovia Rustemeyer Long. She was raised with an older sister Theresia and a younger brother Donald in Southern California where her father worked as a manager for the Beverly Hills District of the Southern California Edison Company. She enrolled at Mount Holyoke College after winning the Seven Women's Colleges Scholarship in the fall of 1953. After graduating with honors in English from Mount Holyoke College, she was awarded the Marshall Scholarship and attended St. Hilda's College in Oxford, England, earning a B.A. First Class Honours Degree in English in 1959. In addition, she earned a M.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 1963. While attending St. Hilda's College, she met Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton, whom she married in Oxford in October 1958. Mr. Quainton was a Foreign Service Officer and a U.S. Ambassador in posts across the world. Accompanying her husband to his foreign posts, Mrs. Quainton held a variety of positions, including: Fifth Grade English Teacher at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1972); the Director for the United States Information Service sponsored English Language Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (July 1, 1974-December 15, 1975); an English Professor at the College Andre Malraux in Bangui in French Central Africa (October 1, 1977-June 12, 1978); an English Teacher at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1978-1981); a Lower School Secretary at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1982); and a High School English Teacher at the American-Nicaraguan School in Managua, Nicaragua (August 1982-January 1984). The Quaintons had two daughters and one son.
From the guide to the Susan Long Quainton Papers MS 0860., 1953-1957, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)
