Orlie Pell
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![]() Orlie Pell, from the 1922 Bryn Mawr yearbook | |
Born | Orlie Anna Haggerty Pell December 13, 1900 Paris, France |
Died | April 11, 1975 Clinton Township, New Jersey |
Occupation | Pacifist, philosopher, activist |
Orlie Pell (December 13, 1900 – April 11, 1975) was an American pacifist, philosopher, and activist.
Early life[]
Orlie Anna Haggerty Pell was born in Paris in 1900, and raised in New York City, the daughter of American parents Howland Haggerty Pell and Mary W. Willetts Pell.[1] Her father was a stock broker.[2] She was part of the prominent extended Pell family that included Claiborne Pell, Stephen Hyatt Pell, William Ferris Pell, and Duncan Pell, among others.[3][4]
Pell attended St. Timothy's School in Catonsville, Maryland, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1922.[5] The following year, she completed a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[6] She completed doctoral studies in philosophy at Columbia University in 1930, with a dissertation titled "Value Theory and Criticism".[7]
Career[]
Pell was a philosophy professor and trustee at Hollins College in Virginia.[6][8] Later in life she taught political science at Bryn Mawr College.[9] Her academic writing appeared in journals including Adult Education Quarterly;[10] she also wrote for The Woman Today and other publications on workers' rights.[11]
During the 1930s, Pell was involved with the Association of Unemployed Single Women,[12][13] and taught at the Summer School for White-Collar Workers in Chicago,[4] and at a Summer School for Office Workers in Oberlin, Ohio, funded by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).[14][15] At the latter, she came under press scrutiny when she admitted that the summer students sang "The Internationale" and other songs associated with communism.[16]
She was the US president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1957 to 1961,[17] and attended international meetings of the WILPF in Copenhagen, Birmingham, and Stockholm, and represented the League at the United Nations.[18][19] She served on the national board of the Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA).[4]
Pell served on the executive board of the National Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy.[6][20] She was a member of the Civil Defense Protest Committee, with Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, Ralph DiGia, Ammon Hennacy, A.J. Muste, James Peck and .[21] Pell was president of the League of Women Voters of Hunterdon County from 1966 to 1967,[22] and president of the Raritan Township Citizens' Housing Corporation, to secure affordable housing for senior residents.[3][9][23]
Personal life and legacy[]
Pell died in 1975, aged 74 years, in Clinton Township, New Jersey.[3] Her papers are archived at Rutgers University.[20] The papers of the Civil Defense Protest Committee are in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.[21] Video of a 1974 interview featuring Pell, , and Hilda Worthington Smith, speaking about their experiences at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, was released on DVD in 2011.[24] The city of Lambertville, New Jersey has a Dr. Orlie Pell Fund for emergency relief.[25]
References[]
- ^ "Orlie Pell". Women In Peace. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "HOWLAND H. PELL, A RETIRED BROKER; Ex-Member of Stock Exchange Here Dies at 74mWas Long Active in Naval Affairs". The New York Times. 1949-06-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Dr. Orlie Pell, 74, Housing Advocate". The Courier-News. 1975-04-18. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c McCarthy, Jula (1942-10-03). "Grime Glamour Hard on White-Collar Girl". Daily News. p. 233. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bryn Mawr College, Yearbook (1922): 113.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Peace Group President Will Speak in City". The Capital Times. 1958-05-15. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers,com.
- ^ "Dissertations". Research Pragmatism Cybrary. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Hollins College Has Re-Elected All Officers". The Times Dispatch. 1945-06-24. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Orlie Pell Set Good Example". The Courier-News. 1975-04-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Pell, Orlie A. H. (1952-04-01). "Social Philosophy at the Grass Roots The Work of the AEA'S Committee on Social Philosophy". Adult Education. 2 (4): 123–124. doi:10.1177/074171365200200401. ISSN 0001-8481. S2CID 145647610.
- ^ Pell, Orlie A. H. (July 1937). "The Office Workers are Awake" The Woman Today 2(3): 7, 22.
- ^ "Reds Badger La Guardia on Relief Work". Chicago Tribune. 1934-01-03. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "200 Single Women Tell CWA of Dire Need for Work". Daily News. 1933-12-08. p. 430. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Oberlin Awaiting Verdict". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1934-08-14. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Claims 'Red' Literature at FERA Schools". Palladium-Item. 1934-09-19. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Songs Sung in Fun". The Indianapolis Star. 1934-08-15. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hunter, John Patrick (1958-05-22). "H-Bomb Fear Seen as Spur to Peace". The Capital Times. p. 24. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Peace League to Hear Talk". Lansing State Journal. 1961-05-07. p. 32. Retrieved 2021-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Kennedy Foreign Policy Praised in Speech Here". The Ithaca Journal. 1961-05-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Inventory of the Orlie Pell Papers". Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Collection: Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records". Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Tri College Libraries Archives. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "AAUW to Hear LWV President". The Courier-News. 1967-10-14. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Seniors Housing Group Formed". The Courier-News. 1972-07-01. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-06-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Rutgers University.; Smith, Hilda (2011). Orlie Pell, Hilda Smith, and Eleanor Coit : workers education in the U.S. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.
- ^ "Dr. Orlie Pell Fund, Inc". City of Lambertville. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- 1900 births
- 1975 deaths
- American pacifists
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- Bryn Mawr College faculty
- Hollins University faculty
- Anti-nuclear activists
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- American philosophy academics
- Pell family