Hope Tisdale Eldridge

Hope Tisdale Eldridge
Smiling young white woman with cropped dark hair, wearing a dress or blouse with a scooped and ruffled neckline
Hope Tisdale, from the 1925 yearbook of Barnard College
Born
Dorothy Hope Tisdale

June 18, 1904
Mobile, Alabama
DiedOctober 5, 1991
Occupation(s)Demographer, statistician

Dorothy Hope Tisdale Eldridge (June 18, 1904 – October 5, 1991) was an American physical educator, demographer, and statistician.

Early life and education

Hope Tisdale was born in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of Marion Eugene Tisdale and Helen M. Sturtevant Tisdale. She graduated from Barnard College in 1925.[1] She trained for a career as a physical educator at the Boston Central School of Hygiene and Physical Education. She later completed a master's degree at New York University in 1935, and doctoral studies in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942.[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Urbanization: A Study of the Process of Population Concentration in the United States and its Relation to Social Change".[3]

Career

Tisdale taught physical education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1927 to 1938. In the 1930s she worked with the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina, and became interested in demography and statistics. Pursuing that interest, she took a job as an analyst with the United States Census Bureau from 1942 to 1947,[4] and then with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She was editor of the UN's Demographic Yearbook beginning in 1950.

In 1952, Tisdale became a target of the Internal Security Subcommittee of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee,[5] and her refusal to cooperate with their questions[5] led to her dismissal from the UN.[6] She later sued,[7][8] and was awarded compensation from the United Nations for her firing.[9] She taught sociology at the University of Tampa in 1958.[10]

Selected publications

  • "The Process of Urbanization" (1942)[11][12]
  • The implications of regionalism to folk sociology, with illustrations from the Southern regions (1943)[13]
  • "Demographic Status of South America" (1945, with Halbert L. Dunn and Nora P. Powell)[14]
  • "The Changing Sex Ratio in the United States"[15]
  • Forecasts of the Population of the United States, 1945-1975 (1948, with Pascal Kidder Whelpton and Jacob S. Seigel)
  • Population policies: A survey of recent developments (1954)[16][17]
  • Still Digging: Interleaves from an Antiquary's Notebook (1955)[18]
  • The materials of demography: A selected and annotated bibliography (1959)[19]
  • Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870–1950. Vol. III, Demographic Analysis and Interrelations (1964, with Dorothy Swaine Thomas)[20][21]
  • "Demographic Analyses and Interrelations" (1964, with Dorothy Swaine Thomas)[22]
  • "Net Intercensal Migration for States and Geographic Divisions of the United States, 1950-1960: Methodological and Substantive Aspects" (1965)
  • "The Measurement of Internal Migration" (1966)[23]
  • "The estimation of intercensal migration from birth-residence statistics: A study of data for the United States, 1950 and 1960" (1968)
  • "The Estimation of Intercensal Migration from Birth-residence Statistics: A Study of Data for the United States, 1950 and 1960" (1968, with Yun Kim)[24]

Personal life

Hope Tisdale married translator and Romance languages professor Carey DeWitt Eldridge in 1942.[10][25] Hope Tisdale Eldridge died in 1991. Her papers are archived at Columbia University.[6]

References

  1. ^ Barnard College, Mortarboard (1925 yearbook): 166.
  2. ^ Burckel, Christian E. (1951). Who's who in the United Nations. C.E. Burckel and Associates. pp. 135–136.
  3. ^ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942-06-09). Commencement program.
  4. ^ "Husbands Aplenty Available in U.S.; Dr. Hope T. Eldridge Insists There Are More Single Men Than Women Who Seek Them". The New York Times. 1946-08-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  5. ^ a b United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1952). Activities of United States Citizens Employed by the United Nations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 4, 5.
  6. ^ a b "Hope T. Eldridge papers, 1939-1991, bulk 1950-1956". Columbia University Libraries Finding Aids. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  7. ^ UN Administrative Tribunal (1958). "Administrative Tribunal judgement no. 32 Case no. 41 : Eldridge against the Secretary-General of the United Nations". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ UN Administrative Tribunal (1958). "Administrative Tribunal judgement no. 39: Case no. 40: Eldridge against the Secretary-General of the United Nations". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "Four Fired from UN Jobs in Probe Are Awarded $43,230". The Sacramento Bee. 1953-10-20. p. 13. Retrieved 2021-10-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Sessions, Bonnie (1958-02-04). "Two Dr. Eldridges Teaching at U. of T." The Tampa Tribune. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-10-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Tisdale, Hope (1942). "The Process of Urbanization". Social Forces. 20 (3): 311–316. doi:10.2307/3005615. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 3005615.
  12. ^ Berry, Brian J. L.; Ltd, Macmillan Education (2015-12-26). The Human Consequences of Urbanisation. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-349-86193-4.
  13. ^ Eldridge, Hope Tisdale (1943). The Implications of Regionalism to Folk Sociology, with Illustrations from the Southern Regions.
  14. ^ Dunn, Halbert L.; Eldridge, Hope Tisdale; Powell, Nora P. (1945-01-01). "Demographic Status of South America". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 237 (1): 22–33. doi:10.1177/000271624523700104. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 144662332.
  15. ^ Eldridge, Hope Tisdale (1946). "The Changing Sex Ratio in the United States". The American Journal of Sociology. 52 (3). U.S. Census Bureau [custodian]: 224–234. doi:10.1086/219988. PMID 20276360. S2CID 33601693.
  16. ^ Eldridge, Hope T. (1954). Population policies: a survey of recent developments. Washington: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
  17. ^ Vance, Rupert B. (1955-10-01). "Population Policies: A Survey of Recent Developments. By Hope T. Eldridge. Washington, D. C: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1954. 153 pp. $2.00". Social Forces. 34 (1): 89. doi:10.2307/2574273. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 2574273.
  18. ^ Eldridge, Hope Tisdale (1955). Still Digging: Interleaves from an Antiquary's Notebook.
  19. ^ Eldridge, Hope T. (1959). The materials of demography: a selected and annotated bibliography. New York?: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
  20. ^ Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950: Demographic analyses and interrelations/ by Hope T. Eldridge and Dorothy Swaine Thomas with an introduction by Simon Kuznets. American Philosophical Society. 1964.
  21. ^ McInnis, R. M. (September 1965). "Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870–1950. Vol. III, Demographic Analysis and Interrelations. By Hope T. Eldridge and Dorothy Swaine Thomas, with introduction by Simon Kuznets. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1964. Pp. xxxv, 368. $6.00". The Journal of Economic History. 25 (3): 436–437. doi:10.1017/S0022050700057508. ISSN 1471-6372. S2CID 154894221.
  22. ^ Eldridge, Hope T.; Thomas, Dorothy Swaine (1964). Demographic Analyses and Interrelations.
  23. ^ Eldridge, Hope T. (1966). The Measurement of Internal Migration.
  24. ^ Eldridge, Hope Tisdale; Kim, Yun (1968). The Estimation of Intercensal Migration from Birth-residence Statistics: A Study of Data for the United States, 1950 and 1960. University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center.
  25. ^ "DeWitt Eldridge Wed to Miss Hope Tisdale". Chattanooga Daily Times. 1942-12-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-10-17 – via Newspapers.com.