Edna Duge
American educator (1902–1985)
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Edna Ella Duge (November 8, 1902 – April 25, 1985) was an American educator.[1] She was associated with the Institute of International Education for much of her career, as director of the Latin-American Department in the 1940s, and as director of the Alumni Relations Division in the 1960s.
Edna Duge | |
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Edna Duge, from the 1925 yearbook of Wellesley College | |
| Born | November 8, 1902 Greenwich, Connecticut |
| Died | April 25, 1985 (aged 82) Greenwich, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Educator |
Early life and education
Duge was from Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of John L. Duge and Mary A. Gerold Duge.[2] Her father was a carpenter; her father and both maternal grandparents were born in Germany. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1925.[3] She earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1946, with a thesis titled "José Vasconcelos: A Study of his Attitudes Towards the United States."[4]
Career
After college, Duge was secretary at the International Migration Service,[5] and executive secretary of the Institute de las Españas en los Estados Unidos at Columbia University.[6][7] She was secretary to Stephen P. Duggan, the director of the Institute of International Education in 1928, when she made a two-month tour of German colleges;[8] she was director of the institute's Latin-American Department in the 1940s.[9][10] She toured in South America for three months in 1940, meeting with educators and promoting student exchanges between the United States and Latin American countries.[11][12] In 1946, she was a co-author on the research report The Administration of Section Fourteen of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in Regard to Handicapped Workers: a Study in the Exercise of Administrative Discretion.[13] In 1949, she was one of fourteen Americans rescued from flooding and mudslides in Guatemala.[14]
Duge represented the Institute on a tour in Texas and Oklahoma in 1950.[15][16][17] She took particular interest in encouraging women to consider study-abroad programs.[18][19] In the 1960s she was head of the Institute's Alumni Relations Division, and conducted research on college study-abroad participation among American foreign service officers.[20]
Personal life
Duge died in 1985, aged 82 years, in Greenwich.