Alice Sturges (Blackmer) Skinner (abt. 1925 - 2010)

Born about 1925 in California, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Alice was a daughter of Rev. Franklin H. Blackmer and Carolyn (Joerndt) Blackmer.

The 1940 U.S. Census recorded 41-year-old Franklin Blackmer living on Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with wife Carolyn Blackmer, 40, daughter Alice, 14, and sons David, 13, and John, 5. Franklin was born in Massachusetts, Carolyn in Illinois, Alice in California, David in Ohio, and John in Massachusetts. Franklin had a 4-year college education; his occupation was recorded as "Cl" in "church." The family had lived in the same place in 1935.^[1]

Alice Blackmer Skinner received an A.B. from Radcliffe College (1945), M.S.W. from the University of Minnesota (1951), and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University (1977). ^[2]

She was married in 1946 to Charles Wickham Skinner, Jr., known as Wickham Skinner. He was a professor at Harvard Business School and in the Harvard Radcliffe Program for Business Administration. They lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Florida; Concord and Weston, Massachusetts; and after retirement they settled in Maine. ^[2]

Alice Skinner was president of the Swedenborgian Foundation. She was active in Radcliffe College alumnae affairs. In 1969-1971 she was co-chair, with Barbara Voss, of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Study Committee on Merger (1969-1971). Their report recommended a partial merger of Harvard and Radcliffe, instead of a full corporate merger, as had been proposed. As a result, in 1971, Radcliffe remained a separate corporation with its own students, endowment, and programs, while merging some functions and delegating responsibility for housing, academics, and extracurricular activities to Harvard. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9M1-H7LR?cc=2000219&wc=QZXB-ZNR%3A790102901%2C794259501%2C799235401%2C799248501 : accessed 14 March 2019), Massachusetts > Middlesex > Cambridge City, Cambridge, Ward 6 > 16-82 Cambridge City Ward 6 (Tract 17 - part), New Church Theological School > image 20 of 26; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Knowles, Jane S. Overview of Papers of Alice Blackmer Skinner, 1961-1972: A Finding Aid. SC-140. Radcliffe College Archives, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University. 1998.