Bourne, Katherine D.
Biographical / Historical Note
Katherine Day Bourne born on September 11, 1938 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Schuyler Vandervort and Elsie Marie Day. She received a BS in Education from Keene Teachers College in 1960 and a Master of Education from Harvard University in 1984. Bourne was a teacher at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts from 1960 to 1961. From 1966-2006, she was the arts editor at the Bay State Banner in Boston, and the director of education at the Suffolk County House of Correction from 1979 to 1984. She was the lead critic at the Kay Bourne Arts Report since 2006, and an arts writer for Edge Publications. Bourne was also an adjunct scholar at Northeastern University since 2006. She was a National Endowment of the Humanities journalism fellow in 1978, and the recipient of the Melnea A. Cass award through the Greater Boston Young Men’s Christian Association in 1984. She was married to William Nettleton Bourne and had two children. She past away on January 31, 2021.