Hall, Ruth Tenny, 1907-1997

Student; Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1929. Daughter of Grace Webb Tenny, MHC class of 1904.

From the description of Hall papers, 1923-1997 (bulk 1925-1929). (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 50448714

Ruth Hana Tenny was born on June 23, 1907 in Kyoto, Japan to Charles and Grace Webb Tenny (Mount Holyoke Class of 1904). She was the 1904 "class baby", (the first girl born to a member of the class). Charles Tenny was a Baptist missionary in Japan. Grace Tenny died in childbirth in 1910, and Hall lived in Japan with her father and stepmother Elizabeth Pettee Tenny (Mount Holyoke Class of 1905) until 1923. She then lived with her maternal grandparents Henry and Ella Webb in Rochester, New York, where she graduated from high school in 1925. Hall entered Mount Holyoke College in 1925 and received her B.A. in 1929. She spent one year teaching at the American School in Yokohama, Japan and returned to the United States to study at the Rochester Business Institute. In 1931 she became the Home Lighting Specialist for the Brooklyn Edison Company in New York and was appointed lecturer-in-charge for the same company in 1936. In June 1932 she married Frederick R. Hall, a 1931 graduate of Yale College, and they had one child. Hall began to teach in the New Jersey Public School system in 1944 and received her Secondary Teaching Certificate from the College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey in 1948. She became a lecturer in education at the College of St. Elizabeth in 1969 and retired in 1970. She died at the age of ninety on September 27, 1997 in Alexandria, Virginia.

From the guide to the Hall papers MS 0619., 1923-1997, 1925-1929, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)