Katharine Taylor

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Katharine Taylor: Educator

Born in June 24, 1888 in Hartford, Connecticut. Attended local elementary schools; secondary school at the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago; Vassar College, A.B., 1910; University of Michigan, M.A., 1911. Instructor in English at Vassar College, 1913-1916; member of the faculty of the Parker School, Chicago, from 1916-1921.

Director of the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, 1921-1949. Chairman of Education and Child Care Project in Germany of Unitarian Service Committee, 1949-1953. Consultant to New World Foundation, 1955-1976; consultant to International Schools Foundation, 1959-1960.

Board Memberships: Vassar College, Francis W. Parker School, Children to Palestine, New World Foundation.

Died March 12, 1979, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From the guide to the Papers, 1912-1976, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

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