Juliet Greer

Juliet Greer
A white woman with dark hair in an updo, wearing a high-collared dark dress
Juliet Greer, from the 1908 yearbook of Oregon State University
BornDecember 28, 1871
Rochester, Pennsylvania
DiedDecember 12, 1942
Woodford Forest, Virginia
Other namesJuliette Greer, Juliet G. Bridwell
Occupation(s)Science educator, college dean, home economist

Juliet Greer Bridwell (December 28, 1871 – December 12, 1942) was an American home economist and college professor. She was dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art at Oregon State University from 1908 to 1911.

Early life and education

Greer was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Howard Greer and Aberilla Ecoff Greer.[1] She graduated from Vassar College, where she was president of the class of 1895.[2] She pursued further studies at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University.[3] Her youngest sister, Florence Greer, was a fellow Vassar alumna, and a noted educator as principal of Brooklyn Heights Seminary.[4]

Career

Greer taught physics and biology at Pratt Institute from 1898[5] to 1908. She joined the faculty at Oregon State University (then known as Oregon Agricultural College, or OAC),[6] as dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art, in 1908.[7] She resigned from OAC in 1911,[8] along with her four assistants.[9][10] She was succeeded as dean at OAC by Henrietta W. Calvin.[11]

In 1916, she joined the faculty at Brooklyn Heights Seminary, as a science teacher.[12] She also read one of her husband's professional papers at the Pacific Slope Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego that year.[13] She was still associated with the Brooklyn school in the early 1930s,[14] before her sister's death and the school's closure in 1933.[4]

In the 1930s, Bridwell was an officer of the Progressive Citizens of Georgetown.[15]

Personal life

Greer lived in Los Angeles, caring for her ailing mother,[16] before she married entomologist John Colburn Bridwell in 1912.[17] They had a daughter, also named Juliet Greer Bridwell, born in 1918 in Honolulu, when Bridwell was 43 and her husband was assistant entomologist at the Hawaii Board of Agriculture and Forestry.[18] She died in 1942, at age 70, from a heart attack, at her home near Washington, D.C.[19][20][21]

References

  1. ^ "Mrs. Howard Greer Dies". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1926-01-25. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "June 11, 1895". A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  3. ^ "Preparing for Great Year". The Weekly Gazette-Times. 1908-08-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "Florence Greer, Heights Seminary Principal, is Dead". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1933-07-21. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  5. ^ "Personals". Vassar Miscellany. 27 (9): 479. June 1898.
  6. ^ "New Domestic Science Teacher at O. A. C." Statesman Journal. 1908-08-16. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Greer, Juliet (1908). "Report of the Dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art". Biennial Report of the President of the Oregon State Agricultural College, 1906-1908: 120–125.
  8. ^ "Dean of Domestic Science Resigns". Albany Democrat-Herald. 1911-04-12. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Raber, Elta (May 1913). "Resume of Work in D. S. & A. in O. A. C." The Oregon Countryman. 5 (8): 46–47.
  10. ^ “Juliet Greer” Special Collections & Archives Research Center, accessed October 5, 2023.
  11. ^ "Mrs. Calvin Succeeds Miss Greer". The Weekly Gazette-Times. 1912-02-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "New Members of Faculty Appointed by Trustees of Brooklyn Heights Seminary". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1916-06-22. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Will Read Paper on Coast". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1916-08-05. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Seminary to Move; Heights Institution Takes New Quarters in Fall of 1932". Times Union. 1931-09-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Officers Elected by Citizens' Group". Evening star. 1934-10-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Alumnae Bulletin". Vassar Miscellany. 61 (9): 811. July 1912.
  17. ^ Curran, C. Howard; Bryan, E. H. (1926-03-01). "African Syrphidæ Collected by J. C. Bridwell". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 19 (1): 82–84. doi:10.1093/aesa/19.1.82. ISSN 1938-2901.
  18. ^ "John C. Bridwell Safe". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1915-09-24. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Virginia Woman Dies Shopping in D. C. Store". Evening star. 1942-12-13. p. 24. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Mrs. J. C. Bridwell, Former Teacher". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1942-12-17. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Mrs. John Bridwell". The New York Times. December 17, 1942. p. 37. Retrieved 2023-10-07.