Alice Van Ess Brewer Papers 1937-2006

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Alice Van Ess Brewer Papers 1937-2006

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Brewer, Alice Firman Van Ess. 1919-2006; student, secretary, Naval Lieutenant, United States Foreign Service assistant. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1941. Papers consist of correspondence with her parents from 1937-1940, course records, documents concerning the Young Women's Christian Association summer camp at Silver Bay, New York, memorabilia, biographical information, and photographs. Primarily documenting her social and academic life as a Mount Holyoke College student. Also includes letters by her parents, Dorothy Firman Van Ess and John Van Ess, discussing their activities as educational missionaries in Basrah (now Basra), Iraq.

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Alice Firman Van Ess, a student, secretary, United States Naval Lieutenant and United States Foreign Service assistant was born December 26, 1919 in Basrah (now Basra), Iraq. The daughter of American educational missionaries Dorothy Firman Van Ess and John Van Ess, she attended schools in India, Switzerland and New Jersey before graduating from Northfield (Massachusetts) Seminary in 1937. She went to Mount Holyoke College from 1937-1941, earning a B.A. in religion. She attended a business school...

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The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Mount Holyoke College was established in October, 1893 to encourage the development of Christian character in its members and the prosecution of active Christian work both on and off campus. It was modeled after similar organizations in the United States and Great Britain and affiliated with the national YWCA of the United States. Students, faculty, and alumnae could belong to the organization and members engaged in a wide range of r...

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