College Mourns Fannie Jewett
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Death Claims Member of Board of Trustees
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Rockford College today mourned one of it’s most active and loyal alumnae and trustees. Fannie Jewett, 70, who died yesterday afternoon in her home in Short Hills, N.J., of a heart ailment after a week’s illness.
The wife of Dr. Frank B. Jewett, former vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph company, she had been a college trustee since 1935 and was a frequent visitor in Rockford. Her last visit here was in the first week of November.
Mrs. Jewett and her husband gave generously of their time to the college and made many gifts to the institution. Although residing nearly 1,000 miles away, she attended almost every board meeting of the college trustees.
Stunning Blow
“Her death was a stunning blow to the college because she was one of the most able and devoted of the college’s alumnae,” Dr. Mary Ashby Cheek, president of Rockford college, said of Mrs. Jewett. “She was interested in every phase of the college’s life and work, but most especially in maintaining high academic standards and in enhancing the welfare of students and faculty alike.”
Attorney William Lathrop, chairman of the college board of trustees, said, “There has been no trustee of the college, in all the years I have been connected with it, who has been a more loyal friend and devoted worker.”
Funeral services are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Mass., where the Jewetts maintained a summer home. Interment will be in the cemetery at Vineyard haven, Martha’s Vineyard.
Dr. Cheek and members of the New York alumnae chapter will attend the service as representatives of the college.
Memorial Services
It was recalled that the deaths of Mrs. Jewett and Martha Hillard MacLeish, another distinguished alumna of the college, occurred just a year apart as the college closed for Christmas holidays.
A memorial service will be conducted for Mrs. Jewett after students return from their Christmas vacation.
A descendant of old Vermont settlers, Mrs. Jewett was born January 25, 1878, on the Montague road homestead, southwest of Rockford, established by her grandfather, Shepherd Leach.
Mrs. Jewett graduated from Rockford College in 1899, receiving a fellowship which enabled her to study at the University of Chicago, where she received her doctorate in physics. She met Dr. Jewett while both were students at the university and in 1904 they became engaged. The wedding took place in the east December 28, 1905, while Dr. Jewett was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although she taught at Dearborn university, and Barnard college in New York City, she gave up a scientific career when she married Dr. Jewett, who until world war II, was in charge of A.T. & T research.
Alumnae Chapter Head
In addition to serving on the college board of trustees, she was eastern section chairman of the alumnae drive for funds for a student union, president of the New York Alumnae chapter of Rockford college and was active in planning the proposed new science building on the campus.
She was chairman of the alumnae session in connection with the college’s centennial in 1947 when six younger alumnae, distinguished in the field of science, spoke. At the session, Mrs. Jewett told of her work in the field of physics and mathematics.
Surviving besides her husband, are two sons, Harrison, a scientist at Brookhaven atomic research center, and Frank B., Jr., with the General Mills corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., two brothers, Leigh Frisbie, who lives on the old homestead, and Ray Frisbie, Ogilby road; two grandchildren, Bobbie and Terry, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Jewett, Jr.; a niece, Frances Frisbie Miller; two nephews, James and Willoughby Frisbie, and two cousins, Mrs. Irene Bartlett King and Loren B. Whitehead, president of the Rockford board of education.
The Register-Republic (Rockford, Illinois), December 18, 1948
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Death Claims Member of Board of Trustees
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Rockford College today mourned one of it’s most active and loyal alumnae and trustees. Fannie Jewett, 70, who died yesterday afternoon in her home in Short Hills, N.J., of a heart ailment after a week’s illness.
The wife of Dr. Frank B. Jewett, former vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph company, she had been a college trustee since 1935 and was a frequent visitor in Rockford. Her last visit here was in the first week of November.
Mrs. Jewett and her husband gave generously of their time to the college and made many gifts to the institution. Although residing nearly 1,000 miles away, she attended almost every board meeting of the college trustees.
Stunning Blow
“Her death was a stunning blow to the college because she was one of the most able and devoted of the college’s alumnae,” Dr. Mary Ashby Cheek, president of Rockford college, said of Mrs. Jewett. “She was interested in every phase of the college’s life and work, but most especially in maintaining high academic standards and in enhancing the welfare of students and faculty alike.”
Attorney William Lathrop, chairman of the college board of trustees, said, “There has been no trustee of the college, in all the years I have been connected with it, who has been a more loyal friend and devoted worker.”
Funeral services are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Mass., where the Jewetts maintained a summer home. Interment will be in the cemetery at Vineyard haven, Martha’s Vineyard.
Dr. Cheek and members of the New York alumnae chapter will attend the service as representatives of the college.
Memorial Services
It was recalled that the deaths of Mrs. Jewett and Martha Hillard MacLeish, another distinguished alumna of the college, occurred just a year apart as the college closed for Christmas holidays.
A memorial service will be conducted for Mrs. Jewett after students return from their Christmas vacation.
A descendant of old Vermont settlers, Mrs. Jewett was born January 25, 1878, on the Montague road homestead, southwest of Rockford, established by her grandfather, Shepherd Leach.
Mrs. Jewett graduated from Rockford College in 1899, receiving a fellowship which enabled her to study at the University of Chicago, where she received her doctorate in physics. She met Dr. Jewett while both were students at the university and in 1904 they became engaged. The wedding took place in the east December 28, 1905, while Dr. Jewett was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although she taught at Dearborn university, and Barnard college in New York City, she gave up a scientific career when she married Dr. Jewett, who until world war II, was in charge of A.T. & T research.
Alumnae Chapter Head
In addition to serving on the college board of trustees, she was eastern section chairman of the alumnae drive for funds for a student union, president of the New York Alumnae chapter of Rockford college and was active in planning the proposed new science building on the campus.
She was chairman of the alumnae session in connection with the college’s centennial in 1947 when six younger alumnae, distinguished in the field of science, spoke. At the session, Mrs. Jewett told of her work in the field of physics and mathematics.
Surviving besides her husband, are two sons, Harrison, a scientist at Brookhaven atomic research center, and Frank B., Jr., with the General Mills corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., two brothers, Leigh Frisbie, who lives on the old homestead, and Ray Frisbie, Ogilby road; two grandchildren, Bobbie and Terry, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Jewett, Jr.; a niece, Frances Frisbie Miller; two nephews, James and Willoughby Frisbie, and two cousins, Mrs. Irene Bartlett King and Loren B. Whitehead, president of the Rockford board of education.
The Register-Republic (Rockford, Illinois), December 18, 1948
College Mourns Fannie Jewett
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Death Claims Member of Board of Trustees
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Rockford College today mourned one of it’s most active and loyal alumnae and trustees. Fannie Jewett, 70, who died yesterday afternoon in her home in Short Hills, N.J., of a heart ailment after a week’s illness.
The wife of Dr. Frank B. Jewett, former vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph company, she had been a college trustee since 1935 and was a frequent visitor in Rockford. Her last visit here was in the first week of November.
Mrs. Jewett and her husband gave generously of their time to the college and made many gifts to the institution. Although residing nearly 1,000 miles away, she attended almost every board meeting of the college trustees.
Stunning Blow
“Her death was a stunning blow to the college because she was one of the most able and devoted of the college’s alumnae,” Dr. Mary Ashby Cheek, president of Rockford college, said of Mrs. Jewett. “She was interested in every phase of the college’s life and work, but most especially in maintaining high academic standards and in enhancing the welfare of students and faculty alike.”
Attorney William Lathrop, chairman of the college board of trustees, said, “There has been no trustee of the college, in all the years I have been connected with it, who has been a more loyal friend and devoted worker.”
Funeral services are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Mass., where the Jewetts maintained a summer home. Interment will be in the cemetery at Vineyard haven, Martha’s Vineyard.
Dr. Cheek and members of the New York alumnae chapter will attend the service as representatives of the college.
Memorial Services
It was recalled that the deaths of Mrs. Jewett and Martha Hillard MacLeish, another distinguished alumna of the college, occurred just a year apart as the college closed for Christmas holidays.
A memorial service will be conducted for Mrs. Jewett after students return from their Christmas vacation.
A descendant of old Vermont settlers, Mrs. Jewett was born January 25, 1878, on the Montague road homestead, southwest of Rockford, established by her grandfather, Shepherd Leach.
Mrs. Jewett graduated from Rockford College in 1899, receiving a fellowship which enabled her to study at the University of Chicago, where she received her doctorate in physics. She met Dr. Jewett while both were students at the university and in 1904 they became engaged. The wedding took place in the east December 28, 1905, while Dr. Jewett was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although she taught at Dearborn university, and Barnard college in New York City, she gave up a scientific career when she married Dr. Jewett, who until world war II, was in charge of A.T. & T research.
Alumnae Chapter Head
In addition to serving on the college board of trustees, she was eastern section chairman of the alumnae drive for funds for a student union, president of the New York Alumnae chapter of Rockford college and was active in planning the proposed new science building on the campus.
She was chairman of the alumnae session in connection with the college’s centennial in 1947 when six younger alumnae, distinguished in the field of science, spoke. At the session, Mrs. Jewett told of her work in the field of physics and mathematics.
Surviving besides her husband, are two sons, Harrison, a scientist at Brookhaven atomic research center, and Frank B., Jr., with the General Mills corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., two brothers, Leigh Frisbie, who lives on the old homestead, and Ray Frisbie, Ogilby road; two grandchildren, Bobbie and Terry, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Jewett, Jr.; a niece, Frances Frisbie Miller; two nephews, James and Willoughby Frisbie, and two cousins, Mrs. Irene Bartlett King and Loren B. Whitehead, president of the Rockford board of education.
The Register-Republic (Rockford, Illinois), December 18, 1948
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Death Claims Member of Board of Trustees
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Rockford College today mourned one of it’s most active and loyal alumnae and trustees. Fannie Jewett, 70, who died yesterday afternoon in her home in Short Hills, N.J., of a heart ailment after a week’s illness.
The wife of Dr. Frank B. Jewett, former vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph company, she had been a college trustee since 1935 and was a frequent visitor in Rockford. Her last visit here was in the first week of November.
Mrs. Jewett and her husband gave generously of their time to the college and made many gifts to the institution. Although residing nearly 1,000 miles away, she attended almost every board meeting of the college trustees.
Stunning Blow
“Her death was a stunning blow to the college because she was one of the most able and devoted of the college’s alumnae,” Dr. Mary Ashby Cheek, president of Rockford college, said of Mrs. Jewett. “She was interested in every phase of the college’s life and work, but most especially in maintaining high academic standards and in enhancing the welfare of students and faculty alike.”
Attorney William Lathrop, chairman of the college board of trustees, said, “There has been no trustee of the college, in all the years I have been connected with it, who has been a more loyal friend and devoted worker.”
Funeral services are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Mass., where the Jewetts maintained a summer home. Interment will be in the cemetery at Vineyard haven, Martha’s Vineyard.
Dr. Cheek and members of the New York alumnae chapter will attend the service as representatives of the college.
Memorial Services
It was recalled that the deaths of Mrs. Jewett and Martha Hillard MacLeish, another distinguished alumna of the college, occurred just a year apart as the college closed for Christmas holidays.
A memorial service will be conducted for Mrs. Jewett after students return from their Christmas vacation.
A descendant of old Vermont settlers, Mrs. Jewett was born January 25, 1878, on the Montague road homestead, southwest of Rockford, established by her grandfather, Shepherd Leach.
Mrs. Jewett graduated from Rockford College in 1899, receiving a fellowship which enabled her to study at the University of Chicago, where she received her doctorate in physics. She met Dr. Jewett while both were students at the university and in 1904 they became engaged. The wedding took place in the east December 28, 1905, while Dr. Jewett was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although she taught at Dearborn university, and Barnard college in New York City, she gave up a scientific career when she married Dr. Jewett, who until world war II, was in charge of A.T. & T research.
Alumnae Chapter Head
In addition to serving on the college board of trustees, she was eastern section chairman of the alumnae drive for funds for a student union, president of the New York Alumnae chapter of Rockford college and was active in planning the proposed new science building on the campus.
She was chairman of the alumnae session in connection with the college’s centennial in 1947 when six younger alumnae, distinguished in the field of science, spoke. At the session, Mrs. Jewett told of her work in the field of physics and mathematics.
Surviving besides her husband, are two sons, Harrison, a scientist at Brookhaven atomic research center, and Frank B., Jr., with the General Mills corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., two brothers, Leigh Frisbie, who lives on the old homestead, and Ray Frisbie, Ogilby road; two grandchildren, Bobbie and Terry, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Jewett, Jr.; a niece, Frances Frisbie Miller; two nephews, James and Willoughby Frisbie, and two cousins, Mrs. Irene Bartlett King and Loren B. Whitehead, president of the Rockford board of education.
The Register-Republic (Rockford, Illinois), December 18, 1948
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