Idabelle Yeiser
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Idabelle Yeiser | |
|---|---|
 Idabelle Yeiser, from the 1920 yearbook of Montclair State Normal School | |
| Born | about 1900 |
| Died | September 24, 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, college professor, writer, poet |
Idabelle Yeiser (born c. 1900, died 24 September 1954) was an American woman poet, writer, and educator, who was part of the New Negro Movement in Philadelphia.[1][2][3]
Yeiser was the daughter of John G. Yeiser, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[4] She graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1918,[5] and from the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair in 1920.[6] She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, with further studies in Paris and Madrid.[7][8] In 1940, she earned a doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University.[9] Yeiser was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [10]
Career
Yeiser taught school and private language classes[11] in Camden, New Jersey, and in Philadelphia.[12] She was known for teaching with puppets.[13] She was an education professor at Dillard University from 1943 to 1946,[9][14] was a professor of education at Cheyney College in 1950,[15] and was an assistant professor of education at Brooklyn College in the 1950s.[16]
In the 1930s, Yeiser was a prize-winning horsewoman in Philadelphia.[17] She was an interviewer with the Mississippi Health Project, working with Melva L. Price and Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, among others.[18] In 1945, she was a consultant to the Oklahoma City Negro Teachers' Institute.[19]
Yeiser was active in the peace movement. She was a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and in the early 1930s had a newspaper column in the Philadelphia Tribune, titled "Peace Corner."[20] In summer 1947, she was one of six American representatives at a UNESCO seminar in France.[21][22]
