Ladies Library Association Member Autobiographies, 1976
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICASKLE TCHESO F THE MEMBEROS F
THE LADIES' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
MRS. ARNO BADER
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Marian Hernarii-'...,Bader. I -was born in 1903 in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and oecame'a practitioner, if never a
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master, of many diverse crafts. Starting with a rebellion
against giving "Elocution Readings" all over Grand Rapids,
I studied the violin and went on to teaching Public School
music in Kent City, Redford, and Muskegon, leaving there
to be married to Arno L. Bader, who was on his way to becoming
a Professor in the English Department of this University.
My first "job" in Ann Arbor was work at the Charging
Desk of the University Library. The "Great Depression" was
well ,mder way, and I was ecstatic to be earning 15¢ an
hour. I then became a secretary in the Graduate School,
and left that position to go with my husband, who had been
invited to teach at the Central Government University in
Nanking, China. These were some of the most happy and fascinating
and learning years in my life. When we came back,
I took over the House Directorship of the just-opened new
Rackham Building into which the Graduate School had moved.
This position I left to undertake a bigger one, raising
two boys. When the boys left home to go to colleges, I
undertook to organize an Archive of photographs of Chinese,
Japanese, and Indian art objects and paintings for the Department
of History of Art. When this was established, I
decided to follow an old interest in working with gold and
silver and after some hard work was admitted to the Silversmith's
Guild. I find this a most satisfying vocation and
avocation at which I am still learning and working.
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MRS. GEORGE G. CAMERON
Margaret (Fairbank) Bell Cameron. I was born December,
1916, in Winnetka, Illinois, the third of four daughters
of Nathalie (Fairbank) and Laird Bell. Was schooled in
Winnetka, had one year in Florence before entering Bryn
Mawr College, where I majored in art history, class of 1939.
Attended the School of the Art, Institute of Chicago until
World War II duties called, and thereafter I worked at the
British War Relief and the Red Cross Arts and Skills Corps
at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. After the war I
continued at art school, joined the Board of the Chicago
Orchestral Association and the Winnetka Red Cross. In 1952
I took the job of administrative assistant to the Director
of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, which
involved me in diverse and intriguing duties, and fascinating
near-eastern travel.
In 1956 I married George Glenn Cameron, then Chairman of
the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of
Michigan, and Emeritus since 1974. After a "Fullbright
Year" of living in Gottigen, Germany, and modest travel in
Europe and back to Iran, we returned to Ann Arbor and proceeded
to have Elizabeth Bell Cameron, born in 1958 and now
at Bryn Mawr, and Mary Margaret, born in 1959.
Ann Arbor activities in those years were largely domestic,
the Democratic Women's Club, the PTA, Girl Scouts,
Cookie Chairman, etc., coming in their proper time. I was
elected to the Board of Trustees of Carleton College,
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Northfield, Minnesota, in 1955, the year my father retired
from the Board of which he had been Chairman (as had his
father before him, and his grandfather, too, so I'm fourth
generation).
I joined the Ann Arbor Ladies' Library Association in
1962; the Board of Greenhills School in 1968; the Board of
the University of Chicago in 1970; and the Board of Bryn
Mawr College in 1976, the same year I joined the Board of
the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Our travels have taken
us to the Dominican Republic, Italy, the Amazon and Western
South America, Greece, Paris and England, and three times to
Iran--the last time (1974) escorting my three sisters and
their spouses to Persepolis where George had been chief
epigrapher in 1939.
MISS ELEANORS . COLLINS
Eleanor S. Collins. Born March 5, 1908. Attended
Rochester, New York public schools; received B.S. degree in
Library Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts,
1931; A.B. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1941.
Held position as art reference librarian, Rochester
Public Library and Smith College 1931-1941. Curator of
Slides and Photographs Chicago Art Institute 1941-1944 and
The History of Art Department, The University of Michigan,
1946-1973. Acted as consultant in organization of slide
collection of the Honolulu Academy of Art during summer of
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1962. Member of connnittee developing the Slide and Photograph
Section of the College Art Association 1968-1969.
Upon retirement in 1973 was awarded a very generous
travel grant by the University, and a Graduate Student
Scholarship Fund for the academic year 1973-1974 was established
in my name.
Am continuing to live contentedly in Ann Arbor and doing
some volunteer work for the University.
MRS. CAMEROHNA IGHT
Isabel Hubbard Haight. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan,
June 5, 1908, daughter of Evan Davies Hubbard and Grace
Fountain Hubbard. Battle Creek High School (1925). Attended
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, and the University of
Michigan (A.B., 1929; M.A., 1935). Assistant Curator,
Division of Fine Arts, University of Michigan 1929-1939.
In 1936 married Dr. Cameron Haight (died 1970). Children:
Robert Cameron Haight (Physicist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)
and Elizabeth (Mrs. Irvine D. Flinn) (Junior Museum,
Metropolitan Museum of Art).
MISS HELEN B. HALL
Helen B. Hall. I was born in Urbana, Illinois, but
have lived in Ann Arbor since the age of three, at which
time my father returned to the University of Michigan as
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Registrar and Professor of Mathematics. I graduated from
the Ann Arbor High School and then attended the University,
earning B.A. and M.A. degrees as a French major, with English
and History of Art as minors. In my senior year I was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa.
My junior university year was spent in France, at the
Lycees in Tours and Versailles, on a Franco-American Exchange
Scholarship, and this experience gave me a life-long
interest in European travel. Attendance at two graduate
summer sessions at the Institute of Art and Archaeology of
the University of Paris, the first on a scholarship earned
for me a Brevet d'Art de la Sorbonne. Another summer of
study was spent at Princeton University at a special seminar
in Islamic Studies.
The University of Michigan was my only employer, from
graduation to retirement. After four years in the Recorder's
Office, I was offered a position in History of Art and I
spent sixteen years as Curator in the Institute of Fine Arts
in charge of the Photograph Study Room. When the Museum of
Art was officially established at the University in 1946, I
became Curator of the Collections and enjoyed the challenge
of museum work for twenty-four years, until my retirement
at the end of 1970. Museums and libraries, art and books,
have always been my main interests. A member of the Board
of the Ladies' Library Association since 1948, I have
especially enjoyed serving two terms as President and
several times on the Book Selection Committee. It has been
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particularly gratifying to see the collection of art books
grow to such excellence at the Ann Arbor Public Library,
thanks to the continuing gene~osity and devoted work of the
Ladies' Library Association.
MRS. KIRBY T. HALL
Kirby Thompson Hall (Mrs.). Born 1931, Chicago, Illinois;
1935-42, Moorestown (New Jersey) Friends School;
1942-49, Miss Fine's School, Princeton, New Jersey; 1949-
52, 1954-55, Radcliffe College, B.A.; married to Donald
Hall (poet, journalist, and University of Michigan English
professor, 1957-1975); 1954, son, Donald Andrew Hall III;
1959, daughter, Philippa Kirby Hall; 1968, M.S.W. from
University of Michigan; 1968-present, employed part-time
at Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Michigan Medical
Center. 1969-present, private practice of psychoanalytically
oriented psychotherapy with adult patients.
MRS. JOSEPH P. HAYDEN
Elizabeth Olivia Hall Hayden. Born at 1530 Hill
Street, Ann Arbor, November 12, 1895, where I am still
living. The house, built in 1848, was on farm land, and
we had three ponies, two cows, chickens and fruit trees.
I was educated in public schools. Entered the University
in 1915. Had one year at Simmons College in Boston.
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At the Apostles Club dances I met Joe Hayden of the
Political Science Department.
of the Michigan Naval Militia ..
He was one of the organizers
Shortly after war was declared,
we were married on August 25, 1917. While he was
in France, our first child, Elizabeth Douglas, was born in
August, 1918. He returned to continue teaching in March,
1919, and Mary Ralston joined the family in July, 1920.
In June, 1922, my husband became an exchange professor
at the University of the Philippines. Returned to Ann
Arbor the following year. A son, Ralston, was born in
June, 1924. In 1930-31, we spent a year in Manila while
he did research. He was appointed Vice-Governor and Secretary
of Public Instruction in 1930, which gave us scope
for visiting out-of-the-way places. In 1935, we were present
at the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth.
In 1941, Joe joined General MacArthur's staff as a
civilian advisor on Philippine affairs, and we lived for two
years in Washington. Served in Brisbane; entered Leyte
with MacArthur in 1944. While in Washington to conclude
his assignment in 1945, he suffered a stroke and died in
Walter Reed Hospital.
Our daughter, Elizabeth, has lived mostly on the West
Coast; Mary, in Wyoming with her rancher-lawyer husband;
and Ralston on Long Island. They have given us twelve
grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
I have traveled rather widely, in all kinds of conveyances--
by ship, by car, by truck, by small boats, by horse-
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back, dugout canoe, by plane and on foot in the mountains
of the Philippine Islands. We have bowled along broad highways
and traversed steep paths.and trails. In New Guinea,
jet boat alternated with small planes. We have met people
in all walks of life, mostly concerned with government in
one way or another. Through it all I have been happy to
know that I have a secure base at 1530 Hill Street, Ann Arbor.
MRS. DAVID HUNTINGTON
Trudy (Abbie Gertrude Enders) Huntington. Both my
parents were ready to begin their last year of graduate
studies at the University of Michigan when I was born in
1926. They spent the summer at the home of my grandmother,
a doctor in Wooster, Ohio, who delivered me in time for
them to return to classes in the fall.
Most of my childhood was spent twelve miles outside of
Philadelphia in the small (pop. 4,000) college town of
Swarthmore where my father taught zoology at the college and
my mother taught in the elementary school. Although I have
only one brother, our family increased d~ring World War
II when two English children, a French girl, and two cousins
(whose father was killed doing military research) moved in
with us. I alternated between Swarthmore and Oberlin
College, enjoying the extra-curricular activities as much
as the academic. At nineteen I entered graduate school in
genetics. I co-authored one paper, "The Frequencies of
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Twins, Relative to Age of Mothers, in American Populations,"
before leaving to work in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. From 1948
to 1950, I taught biology at the Amerikan Kiz Koleji in
Istanbul, Turkey. After three years of exotic work experience
and travel, I returned to graduate school. I received
a Master's Degree in Conservation of Natural Resources and
an inter-departmental Ph.D. in Social Science from Yale.
David Carew Huntington and I were married in 1951 and
had our only daughter while we were graduate students. Our
two sons were born when he was teaching History of Art at
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
In 1966 we moved to Ann Arbor when my husband joined
the University of Michigan faculty. I have continued with
field work and writing in anthropology, co-authoring with
John Hostetler, The Hutterites in North America and Children
in Amish Society and publishing various articles primarily
on child-rearing, education, and family organization.
Many of my outside interests are related to my Quaker
beliefs. For six years I was on the Board of Trustees of
Friends School in Detroit and I have worked with peace activists
all my life. During and following the Vietnam War,
I spent about one day a week at the Federal Prison in Milan
visiting men who were sentenced for selective service or
"political" violations (and, as I found it impossible to
ignore them, also working with other prisoners).
At the present time I am engaged in a study of the relationship
of family size to religious beliefs and economic
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pressures in a small, rural population which is experiencing
the pressures of urbanization. This research focuses on a
tiny, but identifiable microcosm of the problems which I
expect will continue to face the world during the next hundred
years: Can regional and world populations humanely
achieve a satisfactory equilibrium with the natural resources,
an equilibrium that will enable individuals to
live out their lives with health and dignity?
MRS. PERRY R. INNES
Joan Badgely Innes. I was born and brought up in Ann
Arbor, leaving it briefly during the high school years to
attend boarding school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. I then·
entered the University of Michigan and graduated in 1951,
having majored in the French language. My wise father
urged me to take an extra year to receive a Teacher's Certificate
in elementary education, so that at least I had a
marketable skill.
I taught kindergarten in Ann Arbor for two years, was
married to my husband, Perry Innes, and since then have
been busily engaged in raising four children, enjoying the
sport of tennis, and sitting in on many fine classes in the
department of Art History at the University of Michigan.
I have served on the Board of the Friends of the Library,
the Library Advisory Committee, and am now to serve
on the Board of the Friends of the Museum.
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MRS. HAYWARKDE NISTON
Roberta Cannell Keniston. Born Rockford, Illinois,
March 3, 1908. Ph.B., University of Chicago 1927; AMLS,
University of Michigan 1951. On June 16, 1928, married
Hayward Keniston, Professor of the Spanish language at the
University of Chicago, later Chairman of the Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures, and Dean of the College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of
Michigan; children, Kenneth and Marjorie (Mrs. J. Richard
McIntosh).
Professional career: Reference Librarian, Ann Arbor
Public Library; Head of the Undergraduate Library, the
University of Michigan; Associate Director of the Library,
Eastern Michigan University; participant in various library
organizations and committees; Council member, American
Library Association; member, American Association of University
Professors. Retired in 1973.
In retirement: Volunteer Archivist, Michigan Historical
Collections/Bentley Historical Library, the University of
Michigan; member of Wednesday Luncheon Group of Librarians,
Ladies' Library Association, a Monday Reading Club, The
Friday Breakfast Group of Librarians; travel frequently;
read constantly; attend many concerts and plays; active
grandmother of five Keniston and McIntosh children.
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MRS. ROBERT E. MELLENCAMP
Etmna H. Mellencamp. Birthplace: New York City, February
22, 1918. Elementary and Secondary Schooling in California,
Pennsylvania, and New York. University degrees: A.B. (1939),
M.A. (1947), Ph.D. (1956), M.Lib.Sci. (1967).
Married in my third year as an Undergraduate when it
was not at all fashionable to do so. Worked during Second
World War in the American Red Cross and for the U. S. Army.
Post-war years: Theatrical costumer and art historian in
the University of Michigan, academic and professional theatrical
productions. Became a member of Professional Theatrical
Designers' Union in 1949 with several costume shows
on Broadway. With two young boys (born 1950 and 1954),
found it more practicable to do costumes for short professional
seasons, i.e., 4 to 8 weeks each, which I did for
about 25 years.
In this year, 1977, I am collecting material for a
monograph on the British painter, Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-
1873) which may be completed in the next 100 years. I have
published one short article on his early work thus far,
which is being re-printed in England. I_ would give a lot
to know what you of the 21st century think of Sir Edwin as
a painter.
MRS. JAMES L. O'BRIEN, JR.
Rosemary O'Brien. I was born and grew up in South
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Bend, Indiana, where my father, a surgeon, practiced for
nearly fifty years. I was educated for the most part in
convent schools, and at St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana,
from which I received a B.A. in 1948. I met my husband at
Notre Dame during the Second World War, when he was a Navy
student. After he graduated from the schools of Engineering
and Law, we were married, and now have three grown children;
Anne, who has a Mater's Degree in Social work from the
University of Michigan, and works in Princeton, New Jersey;
David, a student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
New Jersey; and Dennis, a student at Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana.
I have lived for a number of years in Ann Arbor with
the exception of seven years' residence in Princeton, New
Jersey, while my husband worked in New York at the International
Division of the Bendix Corporation of which he
is Vice-President and Group Executive for the Far East.
In Princeton, I worked as Registrar of the Historical Society;
Field Director of the Princeton Historic District Project;
and was a founder of the Friends of the Princeton
Environment. For three years I was Chairman of the Princeton
Environmental Commission, which has responsibility for the
maintenance of public open spaces and the development of
environmental planning and legislation in Princeton.
Since returning to Ann Arbor in 1974, I have been studying
as a Master's Degree candidate in the University of
Michigan Department of Asian Studies, working primarily in
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the area of Japanese studies. My husband and I are fortunate
enough to travel extensively in many parts of the
world, and spend a short time-each year in the Middle East
or in Southeast Asia.
I have served in the past on the Ann Arbor Public
Library Advisory Board, and now, in addition to membership
in the Ladies' Library Association, I act as fund raiser
for the Center for Continuing Education of Women at the
University, and as Chairman of the Pigeon River Defense
Fund.
MRS. ROBERT M. ONEAL
Zibbie Oneal. I was born and brought up in Omaha,
Nebraska, attended Stanford University until my Junior year,
at which point I met and married my husband, Robert Oneal.
We came to Ann Arbor in 1957 when he became an intern at
the Pniversity Medical Center and we have remained here.
After having two children, I went back to school at
the University of Michigan to complete a B.A. in English.
At about the same time I began to write_ children's books,
two of which have been published, and to try my hand at
free-lance article writing. I now spend the greatest part
of my time in this endeavor.
I've been associated with a variety of organizations
in the community in various capacities. At present, I am
a trustee of Greenhills School; a member of the University
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Musical Society Advisory Committee; and, perhaps most delightedly,
a member of the Ladies' Library Association.
MRS. HOWARDH . PECKHAM
Dorothy H. Peckham. On July 5, 1908, my twin brother
and I were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Koth in Battle Creek,
Michigan. I lived there until graduating from high school
with the exception of four years spent in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
After graduating from Western State Teacher's College
(now Western State University) in Kalamazoo, I taught social
studies in Lowell, Michigan Junior High School. Howard
Peckham of Lowell, Michigan and I were married in July,
1936, shortly after his appointment as Curator of Manuscripts
at the W. L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
We moved to Indianapolis in 1945 when Howard became Director
of the Indiana State Historical Bureau. In 1953, we returned
to Ann Arbor upon his appointment as Director of the Clements
Library.
Our son, Stephen, graduated from the University of
Michigan and is now with the Kentucky State Educational
T. V. Center in Lexington. Angela, our daughter, graduated
from Hanover College in Indiana and received her Master's
from the University of Utah. She is married to Thomas
Hewett, who teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
They have presented us with two grandchildren.
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Over the years I have pursued several hobbies. In doing
research on early cookery, I began collecting early American
cookbooks, so have acquired a very fine collection dating
from 1796 until the early 1900's. My other hobby has been
collecting representative patterns of early glassware made
in Indiana, and I now own a sizable collection of this
glassware.
The month of April, 1977, marks a new milestone in our
lives when Howard retires from the Clements Library and we
move to a new home in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Carol Plumer.
birthplace in 1901.
MRS. JAMES M. PLUMER
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York was my
Later I lived in New Jersy; went to
Wellesley College and then to Columbia; was a missionary
school teacher in India for five years.
I was married in Shanghai and we lived in China for
some years; two children were born there. Then for many
years I have lived in Ann Arbor where my husband taught Far
Eastern Art at the University until his death, with a year's
leave in Japan where he was in charge of the preservation of
art objects under the Occupation after the war.
My interests have been Oriental Art, the Ladies' Library
Association, Wellesley College, St. Clare's Church, and
numerous volunteer activities. Mine has been an extraordinarily
interesting and happy life amidst dear and good friends.
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MRS. MILLARDH . PRYOR
Mary Theodora Pryor. Born New York City. Attended
grade school in New York and L_os Angeles; Girls' High School,
Brooklyn, New York; Bachelor of Journalism 1929 from University
of Missouri.
Editor, Madison Eagle, Madison, New Jersey; reporter,
Honolulu Advertiser; reporter and Women's editor, Shanghai
Evening Post and Mercury; Far Eastern correspondent of New
York Sun; reporter, Paris Edition of the Chicago Tribune;
free lance features to various papers in the United States;
numerous detective stories sold to magazines under nom de
plume.
Married May 13, 1931 to Millard H. Pryor, a manufacturer.
Twin sons born April 23, 1933 - Millard H. Pryor, Jr., president
of Lydall, Inc., a conglomerate based in Hartford,
Connecticut; and Frederic L. Pryor, Professor of Economics
at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Three
grandchildren.
Have lived in Ann Arbor since 1958. Volunteer work at
University Hospital; member of the Board of Spaulding for
Children, a private adoption agency for hard-to-place children;
League of Women Voters; member of Council of Friends
of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; newly elected
member of the Board of the Ann Arbor Symphony; member of
Friends of the Library; and best of all, member of the Ladies'
Library Association. Latest enthusiam is taking courses in
silver jewelry making, Spanish and writing at the Institute
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of San Miguel de Allenda in Mexico during the winter months.
Reading, traveling, writing, and doing cross-word puzzles
and double acrostics occupy the rest of my time.
Born:
MRS. W. SCOTT WESTERMAN
Marcine Percy Westerman
Lima, Ohio
Graduated:
Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A.; Phi Beta Kappa
Northwestern University, M.A.
Professional Experiences:
Psychologist in University of Michigan Clinics
Social Group Work agency executive
Girl Scouts of U.S.A.
Retired Senior Volunteer Program
Admissions Counselor University of Michigan
Admissions Counselor Eastern Michigan University
Community Affiliations:
League of Women Voters Board
Planned Parenthood Board
International Neighbors English Conversation Leader
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Program Committee,
Membership Committee
Ann Arbor Library Advisory Committee
Ann Arbor Design Review Board
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Volunteer Action Center coordinator, counselor
Elder of Session, First Presbyterian Church
Mortar Board Alumnae advi_sor to Collegiate Chapters
at University of Michigan; at Eastern Michigan
University
MRS. HAROLDE . WETHEY
Alice Sunderland Wethey. Born Ann Arbor, Michigan,
June 12, 1910, daughter of Professor Edson R. Sunderland
at the University of Michigan Law School and Hannah Dell
Read Sunderland from Shenandoah, Iowa. Ann Arbor Public
Schools; College de la Guilde, Paris, 1924; diploma with
high honor Ann Arbor High School, 1927.
University of Michigan undergraduate honors: Alpha
Lambda Delta, freshman honorary sorority; Wyvern, junior
honor society for campus activities; Phi Beta Kappa 1930;
Phi Kappa Phi 1931; member of Kappa Delta, social sorority;
A.B. University of Michigan, with majors in history and
French, 1931; University of Munich, 1931-32; Sorbonne, Paris,
1932-33; M.A. in history, University of Michigan, 1934;
further graduate education at Columbia and Harvard; M.A. in
history of art, Harvard, 1944; Ph.D., 1946. Assistant professor
of the history of art, 1946-47, University of Texas.
1948, married Harold E. Wethey, professor of the history of
art, University of Michigan. One son, David Sunderland,
born 1950.
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Articles on the early medieval church of St.-Benigne
of Dijon, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
1957 and 1958; bibliography of Edson R. Sunderland, Michigan
Law Review, Vol. 58, 1959, pp. 41-54; "Herrera Barnuevo and
his Chapel in the Descalzas Reales" (with H. E. Wethey),
Art Bulletin, Vol. 48, 1966, pp. 15-25, 29 illus.; several
signed essays on 16th-century heraldry and one on 16th-century
clocks in H. E. Wethey, Titian, Vol. III, 1975.
Member of the Ladies' Library Board since 1951; secretary,
1954-58; chairman of the book committee 1960-63; president,
1965-66; treasurer since 1973.
MRS. ELLIS WUNSCH
Ann Donald Wunsch. Was born in Detroit, Michigan, on
December 12, 1922, the first child of Dr. and Mrs. Douglas
Donald. I attended the Liggett School from kindergarten
until graduation in 1939, after which I attended Vassar
College, graduating in 1943.
Since the country was at war, my first job consisted of
the editing of training films for the armed forces, following
which I worked for the Detroit News.
In 1947 I was married to Ellis Andrews Wunsch, then
a graduate student at the University of Michigan. In 1948
our first son was born, and the same year we left for France
where my husband finished the work for his doctoral degree
on a Fullbright Fellowship. From this period, I date my
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interest in the History of Art, but it was not until 1960
that I was able to return for graduate study. The years
between were spent on our farm· on Old Mission Peninsula,
where our three younger children were born.
In 1959 we returned to Ann Arbor. I began graduate
work with the History of Art Department, served for four
years as a Teaching Fellow, finished my Master's Degree
and started upon the doctoral. This course of study was
interrupted by five years of teaching in the Art Department
of Eastern Michigan University. In 1974, I returned to
work on the degree, but with a change in direction. For
the past several years I have been working informally on a
study of iconographic problems in Mesoamerican art. As a
consequence, upon my return to the University of Michigan,
I have divided my studies between the departments of Anthropology
and History of Art, and am at the moment working on
my dissertation--Iconographic Problems of the Formative
Period in Mesoamerica.
Three of our children have graduated from college. Our
youngest will start in 1977.
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