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Babbitt, Ethel Berner

 Person

Biographical / Historical Note

Ethel Berner Babbitt (1898-1974) grew up in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and attended Emerson College for oratory studies, where she served as a sophomore class officer and worked on the yearbook editing team of the Emersonian before graduating in 1920. After graduation, Berner married Charles Babbitt of Nashua, New Hampshire, an ophthalmologist who owned a business fitting and grinding lenses for eyeglasses. In Nashua, Ethel Babbitt organized an amateur theatre group called the Nashua Players, which performed throughout the mid-1930s and into the 1940s. The Babbitts had two daughters, Ethel Jean and Carol “Cay” Babbitt. They kept a summer farm called Elmcroft, overlooking the Starr King range of the White Mountains from Jefferson, New Hampshire, in exchange for Ethel’s care of the home’s elderly resident.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ethel Berner Babbitt Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 044
Scope and Contents

The Ethel Berner Babbitt Collection consists of materials related to the life of Emerson College alumna Ethel Berner Babbitt, including schoolbooks, photograph albums, scrapbooks, manuscripts, and written personal correspondence.

Dates: 1916 - 1952

Kappa Gamma Chi Reunion Photo Album, 1952

 Item — Document case MSS 044 Box 01: Series MSS 044-2; Series MSS 044-3
Identifier: MSS 044-2-2
Scope and Contents

The folder contains a handwritten title describing its contents as the 50th reunion of the Emerson College Kappa Gamma Chi sorority on June 6, 1952. The album holds 16 photographs of Babbitt and her college friends, which are glued to the inside of the cover with adhesive. Most photos can be lifted to expose the names of those pictured.

Dates: 1952

Liberty War Scrapbook, 1918

 Item — Flat box MSS 044 Box 02: Series MSS 044-1; Series MSS 044-2; Series MSS 044-3
Identifier: MSS 044-2-1
Scope and Contents

The Liberty War Scrap Book is a hardbound canvas book containing newspaper clippings adhered to or loosely pressed between the pages. Content deals exclusively with the events of World War I beginning in January 1918.

Dates: 1918

Scrapbooks and Photo Albums, 1918 - 1952

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 044-2
Scope and Contents

This series consists of a World War I scrapbook of news clippings constructed while Ethel Berner Babbitt was a student at Emerson, as well as a photograph album created for her sorority reunion in 1952.

Dates: 1918 - 1952