Ursula Batchelder Stone
A young white woman with fair hair, seated outdoors in front of a stone building, wearing a dark top and striped skirt
Ursula Batchelder, from the 1922 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College
Born
Ursula Chase Batchelder

June 26, 1900
Faribault, Minnesota
DiedJuly 8, 1985
Occupation(s)College professor, business researcher

Ursula Batchelder Stone (June 26, 1900 – July 8, 1985) was an American business researcher, civic leader, and college professor. In 1929 she became the first woman to earn a PhD in business at an American university.

Early life and education

Ursula Chase Batchelder was born in Faribault, Minnesota, the daughter of Charles Spoor Batchelder and Mary Alzina Chase Batchelder.[1]

Batchelder graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1922,[2] and completed doctoral studies in business at the University of Chicago in 1929, with a dissertation titled "The Baking Industry with Special Reference to the Bread-Making Industry in Chicago."[3] She is considered the first woman to earn a PhD in business at an American university.[4][5][6]

Career

After graduate school, Stone and Rachel Marshall Goetz ran the Batchelder and Marshall Research Service, providing data analysis and research reports for businesses in Chicago.[1]

Stone was a member of the faculty of George Williams College, teaching economics and social science courses from 1939 to 1965.[7][8] She was co-author of The Baking Industry Under N. R. A. (1936) with Raleigh Webster Stone,[9] and Food Buying and Our Markets (1938) with Day Monroe.[10]

She was president of the Hyde Park League of Women Voters (LWV) from 1939 to 1941, president of the Cook County LWV from 1941 to 1944,[11][12] and president of the Illinois LWV.[13] She co-wrote the LWV's radio program, The Women Speak.[14] In 1952 she helped to organize and lead the Southeast Chicago Commission.[8][15] In 1960 she was named a distinguished alumna of the University of Chicago.[16]

Personal life

Batchelder married a University of Chicago professor, Raleigh Webster Stone, in 1928.[17] They had two children. Her husband died in 1969.[18] She died in 1985, aged 85 years, in Chicago.[19] Her papers are in the University of Chicago Library.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Guide to the Ursula Batchelder Stone Collection 1900-2001, University of Chicago Library Special Collections.
  2. ^ Bryn Mawr College, 1922 Class Book (1922 yearbook).
  3. ^ Stone, Ursula Batchelder (1929). The Baking Industry, with Special Reference to the Bread Baking Industry in Chicago. University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
  4. ^ "International Women's Day: Chicago Booth honors first woman to earn PhD in Business". The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  5. ^ Conn, Steven (2019-10-15). Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-4209-5.
  6. ^ Currie, Margaret (Winter 2023). "Celebrating 125 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact". Chicago Booth Magazine. 45 (1): 27.
  7. ^ "Faculty Honors Retiring Teacher". Chicago Tribune. 1965-04-04. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b "Ursula Stone, longtime civic leader". Chicago Tribune. 1985-07-10. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Stone, Raleigh Webster; Stone, Ursula Batchelder (1936). The Baking Industry Under N.R.A. University of Chicago Press.
  10. ^ Monroe, Day; Stone, Ursula Batchelder (1938). Food Buying and Our Markets. Borrows.
  11. ^ "Local Leagues of Women Voters to Draft Plans". Chicago Tribune. 1941-06-22. p. 104. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Voters League Plans a Study of Housing, Schools, and Health". Chicago Tribune. 1944-05-17. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Dr. Stone Talks of Life as Retirement Nears". Chicago Tribune. 1965-05-20. p. 14. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Consumers and Manufacturers to Give Views". Chicago Tribune. 1939-01-29. p. 85. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Foerstner, Abigail (1985-05-29). "'1st suburb' undergoes urban renewal in 1950s (cont.)". Chicago Tribune. p. 109. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "11 in Chicago Area Will Get Citizen Honor". Chicago Tribune. 1960-05-30. p. 33. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Foerstner, Abigail (1985-05-29). "It was Chicago's '1st Suburb'". Chicago Tribune. p. 106. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Obituary for Raleigh W. Stone". Chicago Tribune. 1969-05-01. p. 100. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Stone (death notice)". Chicago Tribune. 1985-07-10. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.

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