Irene Ringwood Arnold
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October 31, 1895
Irene Ringwood Arnold | |
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 Irene Ringwood, later Arnold, from her 1922 passport application | |
| Born | Irene Cecile Ringwood October 31, 1895 Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 28, 1988 (age 92) Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | College professor, classics scholar |
Irene Cecile Ringwood Arnold (October 31, 1895 – July 28, 1988) was an American classics scholar and educator. She taught Latin and Greek at Vassar College from 1920 to 1936, and headed the classics department at Bennett College from 1936 to 1960.
Ringwood was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of John F. Ringwood and Mary T. McGeney Ringwood.[1] She and her sister Vera graduated from Vassar College in 1915.[2] She completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1927. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3][4]
Career
Arnold taught Latin and Greek at Vassar College from 1920 to 1925, while she was a graduate student.[1][5][6] After earning her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor of Greek at Vassar from 1927 to 1936. From 1936[7] to 1960, she was head of the classics department at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York, and from 1960 until 1963 she was academic dean at Bennett.[4]
Arnold belonged to the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America,[4] and the London Society for Promotion of Hellenic Studies.[8] She established a prize for Latin students at Poughkeepsie High School, in memory of her late sister Vera, and a scholarship for Latin and ancient history students at Choate Rosemary Hall, in memory of her late husband.[4] In its later years, Bennett College had an "Arnold Society", a campus honor society named for Arnold.[9]