Alice Palache Jones | |
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Born | Alice Helen Palache April 12, 1907 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Died | June 12, 1989 Mount Kisco, New York |
Occupation(s) | Bank executive, birth control advocate |
Parent | Charles Palache |
Relatives | Judith Palache Gregory (niece) |
Alice Helen Palache Jones (April 12, 1907 – June 12, 1989)[1] was an American banker.
Alice Helen Palache was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Palache and Helen Harrington Markham Palache. Her father was a Harvard professor and mineralogist; her mother was a teacher.[1]
Palache graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928,[2] and was close to her classmate, Katharine Hepburn.[3][4] The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and field hockey.[5] She was also active in dramatics and glee club,[6] and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year.[7]
Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with Margaret Sanger.[8][9] 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,[10] as senior vice president of the company.[11] During World War II, she was the company's acting chief executive.[12] She was also director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund.[8]
Later in life, Jones was a trustee of the North Salem Free Library, a member of the board of directors of Bryn Mawr College,[10] and chair of the North Salem Planning Board.[1]
Palache married advertising executive and cookbook author Russell Kennedy Jones in 1954, as his second wife; they met in 1932.[13] Russell Jones died in 1986.[14]
She died age 82 on June 12, 1989, in Mount Kisco, New York.[8]
Some of her papers are in the Palache Family Papers at Harvard's Schlesinger Library.[15] Her niece was editor Judith Palache Gregory.[15]