Katharine Ann Taylor papers and interviews

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2878

Scope and content

Papers from Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which Taylor was a director; taped interviews by William W. Cutler III (graduate assistant in history at Cornell University) with Taylor, June 28, 1966, April 18, July 7, and November 11, 1967, and April 12, 1968; and transcripts of the interviews.

Dates

[1921?]-1968.

Creator

Taylor, Katharine Ann, 1888-1979. (Person)
Cutler, William W., III (Person)

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

No part of the interviews may be cited or quoted without written permission of the donor's literary collaborator and executor..

Biographical / Historical

Katharine Taylor was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 24, 1888. She earned an A.B. from Vassar College in 1910 and an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1911. She taught English at Vassar from 1913-1916; was on the faculty of the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago from 1916-1921; and was Director of the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1921-1949. She was Chairman of the Education and Child Care Project in Germany of the Unitarian Service Committee, 1949-1953; consultant to the New World Foundation, 1955-1976; and consultant to the International Schools Foundation, 1959-1960. She died in Cambridge on March 12, 1979.