A memorial service for Miss Anna Helen Tappan, age 83, academic dean emeritus of Western College, will be held Sunday at 3 PM in Western's Slimier Chapel. She died Tuesday at the Westover Retirement Home, after a long illness.
She was the ninth of eleven children of Anna (Grand-Girard) and David Stanton Tappan. Seven of Helen's siblings survived to adulthood. Miss Tappan's father was president of Miami University in Ohio from 1899 to 1902, and recently, the completed Tappan Hall was dedicated in his memory.
Miss Tappan was graduated with honors from Western College for Women in 1909, and began teaching mathematics at the college that fall. After graduate study at Cornell University, which awarded her an MA in 1912 and a PhD in 1914, she rose to the rank of professor and became head of the mathematics department. In 1927 she was named dean of women. She became academic dean in 1941, but resigned in 1944 to return to full-time teaching. She was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Western upon'her retirement on 1954.
She leaves two sisters, Dr. Margaret Tappan, Claremont, California, a retired religious education teacher and former dean of San Anselmo College; and Mrs. Julia Tappan Langsdorf, Pasadena, California, widow of former Miami of Ohio professor, Dr. William Bell Langsdorf; and by several nieces and nephews.
Friends are requested not to send flowers. Gifts may be made to the Helen Tappan Memorial Fund at Western College.
Obituary was in the November 11, 1971 edition of the Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio
She was the ninth of eleven children of Anna (Grand-Girard) and David Stanton Tappan. Seven of Helen's siblings survived to adulthood. Miss Tappan's father was president of Miami University in Ohio from 1899 to 1902, and recently, the completed Tappan Hall was dedicated in his memory.
Miss Tappan was graduated with honors from Western College for Women in 1909, and began teaching mathematics at the college that fall. After graduate study at Cornell University, which awarded her an MA in 1912 and a PhD in 1914, she rose to the rank of professor and became head of the mathematics department. In 1927 she was named dean of women. She became academic dean in 1941, but resigned in 1944 to return to full-time teaching. She was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Western upon'her retirement on 1954.
She leaves two sisters, Dr. Margaret Tappan, Claremont, California, a retired religious education teacher and former dean of San Anselmo College; and Mrs. Julia Tappan Langsdorf, Pasadena, California, widow of former Miami of Ohio professor, Dr. William Bell Langsdorf; and by several nieces and nephews.
Friends are requested not to send flowers. Gifts may be made to the Helen Tappan Memorial Fund at Western College.
Obituary was in the November 11, 1971 edition of the Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio
A memorial service for Miss Anna Helen Tappan, age 83, academic dean emeritus of Western College, will be held Sunday at 3 PM in Western's Slimier Chapel. She died Tuesday at the Westover Retirement Home, after a long illness.
She was the ninth of eleven children of Anna (Grand-Girard) and David Stanton Tappan. Seven of Helen's siblings survived to adulthood. Miss Tappan's father was president of Miami University in Ohio from 1899 to 1902, and recently, the completed Tappan Hall was dedicated in his memory.
Miss Tappan was graduated with honors from Western College for Women in 1909, and began teaching mathematics at the college that fall. After graduate study at Cornell University, which awarded her an MA in 1912 and a PhD in 1914, she rose to the rank of professor and became head of the mathematics department. In 1927 she was named dean of women. She became academic dean in 1941, but resigned in 1944 to return to full-time teaching. She was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Western upon'her retirement on 1954.
She leaves two sisters, Dr. Margaret Tappan, Claremont, California, a retired religious education teacher and former dean of San Anselmo College; and Mrs. Julia Tappan Langsdorf, Pasadena, California, widow of former Miami of Ohio professor, Dr. William Bell Langsdorf; and by several nieces and nephews.
Friends are requested not to send flowers. Gifts may be made to the Helen Tappan Memorial Fund at Western College.
Obituary was in the November 11, 1971 edition of the Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio
She was the ninth of eleven children of Anna (Grand-Girard) and David Stanton Tappan. Seven of Helen's siblings survived to adulthood. Miss Tappan's father was president of Miami University in Ohio from 1899 to 1902, and recently, the completed Tappan Hall was dedicated in his memory.
Miss Tappan was graduated with honors from Western College for Women in 1909, and began teaching mathematics at the college that fall. After graduate study at Cornell University, which awarded her an MA in 1912 and a PhD in 1914, she rose to the rank of professor and became head of the mathematics department. In 1927 she was named dean of women. She became academic dean in 1941, but resigned in 1944 to return to full-time teaching. She was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Western upon'her retirement on 1954.
She leaves two sisters, Dr. Margaret Tappan, Claremont, California, a retired religious education teacher and former dean of San Anselmo College; and Mrs. Julia Tappan Langsdorf, Pasadena, California, widow of former Miami of Ohio professor, Dr. William Bell Langsdorf; and by several nieces and nephews.
Friends are requested not to send flowers. Gifts may be made to the Helen Tappan Memorial Fund at Western College.
Obituary was in the November 11, 1971 edition of the Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio
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