Hettie Belle Ege
Hettie Belle Ege | |
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 Hettie Belle Ege, during her term as acting president of Mills College, from a 1915 publication | |
| Born | March 31, 1861 Erie, Illinois |
| Died | November 19, 1942 (aged 81) Oakland, California |
| Other names | Hettie Ege, Hetty Ege, Hetty Belle Ege |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematics professor, college dean |
Hettie Belle Ege (March 31, 1861 – November 19, 1942) was an American professor of mathematics. From 1914 to 1916, she was the acting president of Mills College.
Early life[edit]
Ege was born in Erie, Illinois on March 31, 1861, the daughter of Joseph Arthur Ege and his second wife, Catherine Rebecca Reisch Ege. Her parents were both from Pennsylvania; her father died the year she was born, and her mother remarried in 1869.[1] She attended Western College in Oxford, Ohio, graduating in 1886; she later graduated from Mills College in 1903, with further studies at the University of Chicago, the University of Munich, and the University of California.[2]
Career[edit]
Ege taught school in Ohio and Colorado as a young woman. From 1895 to 1930,[3] she was a professor of mathematics and Dean of Women at Mills College.[4] She also coached the Mills College basketball team.[5][6] From 1914 to 1916, she was the college's acting president.[2][7] "Since Mills is to California what Wellesley is to the East," explained a California magazine in 1915, "it is most apparent that the leading spirit of the institution is a dominant figure in the educational activities of the state."[8]
In 1918, she chaperoned a unit of 28 Mills students in the Woman's Land Army, providing ranch labor during wartime shortages.[9] In 1920, the college marked her twenty-five years at Mills with a presentation and convocation.[10][11] At the festivities marking the school's founder's centennial in 1925, Ege received an honorary doctorate.[12]
After her retirement in 1930,[13] she spent some time in Cambridge, in England.[14] She was a regular guest at Mills College events[15] and alumnae gatherings: in 1933 she was honored as the college's dean emerita, alongside president Aurelia Henry Reinhardt and physician Mariana Bertola, at an annual breakfast of the Mills Club of San Francisco.[16]
Death[edit]
Ege died November 19, 1942, aged 81 years, in Oakland, California.[17][18] Her grave is on the campus of Mills College, and there is a dormitory named for Ege at Mills.[19][20]
References[edit]
- ^ Ege, Thompson Prettyman (1911). History and genealogy of the Ege family in the United States, 1738-1911. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Harrisburg, Pa., The Star Printing Company. pp. 98.
- ^ a b College, Mills (1916). Catalogue ... Frank Eastman, book and job printer. pp. 11, 12.
- ^ "Mills College Professor Dies". Santa Cruz Sentinel. November 21, 1942. p. 8. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "War Work is Women's Mass Meeting Topic". Oakland Tribune. June 11, 1918. p. 4. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Photograph of the Mills Seminary basketball team". Online Archive of California. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
- ^ "Calisphere: Photograph of the Mills Seminary basketball team". Calisphere. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
- ^ Gibbons, Vernette Lois (1929). "The Institution of the Zeta Chapter of California". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. 7 (4): 232–239. ISSN 2373-0331. JSTOR 42914185.
- ^ Ege, Hettie B. (July 1915). "Education for Young Women in California". California's Magazine Quarterly. 1: 391–393, image 392.
- ^ "Mills Girls Organize for Ranch Labor". Oakland Tribune. May 19, 1918. p. 44. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mills College Founders Day Rites Today". The San Francisco Examiner. October 8, 1920. p. 2. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mills College Celebrates Founders' Day, Honors Dean". Oakland Tribune. October 8, 1920. p. 11. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mills Observes its Centennial". Oakland Tribune. October 2, 1925. p. 1. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mills College Dean to Retire". Oakland Tribune. June 11, 1930. p. 16. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mills College Dean Aids Fund". Oakland Tribune. January 26, 1931. p. 5. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Ege Will Be Entertained". Oakland Tribune. November 15, 1936. p. 38. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Untitled society item". Oakland Tribune. April 14, 1933. p. 21. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "Hettie Belle Ege". The Dispatch. November 30, 1942. p. 17. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Hettie Ege, Dean Emeritus of Mills, Dies in Sleep". Oakland Tribune. November 20, 1942. p. 25. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Housing for UC Berkeley Students". Housing | Inside Mills. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
- ^ "Mills Halls Dedication Rites Slated". Oakland Tribune. October 25, 1970. p. 17. Retrieved September 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
