Alice Helen Palache Jones (April 12, 1907 – June 12, 1989)
was an American banker.
Background
Alice Helen Palache was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...
, the daughter of
Charles Palache
Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer. In his time, he was one of the most important mineralogists in the United States.
Background
Charles Palache came from the Pallache family ...
and Helen Harrington Markham Palache. Her father was a Harvard professor and
mineralogist
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...
; her mother was a teacher.
Palache graduated from
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...
in 1928, and was close to her classmate,
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress in film, stage, and television. Her career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over 60 years. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited perso ...
. The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and
field hockey
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. She was also active in dramatics and glee club, and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year.
Career
Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control ...
.
In 1933, she began working at the
Fiduciary Trust Company of New York as a trainee. She worked at the Fiduciary Trust Company until her retirement in 1974,
as senior vice president of the company. During
World War II
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, she was the company's acting chief executive. She was also director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund.
Later in life, Jones was a trustee of the
North Salem Free Library, a member of the board of directors of Bryn Mawr College,
and chair of the North Salem Planning Board.
Personal life and death
Palache married advertising executive and cookbook author Russell Kennedy Jones in 1954, as his second wife; they met in 1932. Russell Jones died in 1986.
She died age 82 on June 12, 1989, in
Mount Kisco, New York
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.
Legacy
Some of her papers are in the Palache Family Papers at Harvard's
Schlesinger Library
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.
Her niece was editor
Judith Palache Gregory
Judith Palache Gregory (1932–2017), also known as Judith Gregory, was an American writer, counselor, educator, and permaculturalist, who served as executor for Dorothy Day after lifelong friendship that began with her editing for the ''Catholic W ...
.
See also
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Charles Palache
Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer. In his time, he was one of the most important mineralogists in the United States.
Background
Charles Palache came from the Pallache family ...
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Judith Palache Gregory
Judith Palache Gregory (1932–2017), also known as Judith Gregory, was an American writer, counselor, educator, and permaculturalist, who served as executor for Dorothy Day after lifelong friendship that began with her editing for the ''Catholic W ...
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Pallache family
"Pallache" – also de Palacio(s), Palache, Palaçi, Palachi, Palacci, Palaggi, and many other variations (documented below) – is the surname of a prominent, Ladino-speaking, Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula, who spread mostl ...
References
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1907 births
1989 deaths
People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
American bankers
Women bankers
Bryn Mawr College alumni
People from North Salem, New York