Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Sauer, Anne

Branco, Jessica

Bennett, John

Crowley, Zachary

2000

Schmalz, Esther (Fowler), 1900-1986

 

Esther Fowler Schmalz (d. 1986), J1923, served as an alumnae trustee from 1940-50. Schmalz House, located at 11 Whitfield Road, was named in her honor.

As an undergraduate, Schmalz was the commencement speaker for Jackson College in 1923, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Athletic Association and recipient of the Class of 1898 Scholarship. She was also a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan.

Schmalz worked as director of study groups for the League of Women Voters and supported the education of women by serving as state vice-president of the Boston Branch of the American Association of University Women and as membership chairman of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women.

Schmalz served two five-year terms as an alumnae trustee of the college, beginning in 1940, and also was a member of the visiting committee of Jackson College and the executive board of Tufts alumnae.

Schmalz died February 13, 1986 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was married to Carl N. Schmalz, with whom she had two sons.

Source: TC Summer 1986; PRS1; TCAB, February 1941

 
 
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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
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