Miss Elizabeth Parmelee

Miss Parmelee was among the first three women to earn a masters in education from Harvard (in 1930). Her story was described by historian David McCullough in his Commencement Address at Wheaton College on May, 18, 2002.
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/cr/cr2002/keynote/home.html
Miss Parmelee retired the same year I was born (1969).
I visited with Miss Parmelee in a Providence nursing home every Sunday for three years. We talked about the "dream" to transform the long-term care system.

Miss Parmelee passed on in January, 2004 at the age of 98.

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• long-term
• care
• elderly
• aging
• wisdom
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[joeya2006]

Thanks for your comment, but this is a different Miss Elizabeth Parmelee than the Calhoun School Miss Parmelee. She lived and worked in Rhode Island her entire life.

[Bunny2953]

Years ago I was a student at The Calhoun School in NYC. I remember Miss Parmelee as a tall, angular woman with a surprisingly sunny smile that we saw too little of. For all of her great height, she was less intimidating than Mrs. Cosmey who could be a veritable tartar!

[paradiddle1]

"Am I wrong or is the dream right?" Thanks for this post...

[smokeyinksmudge]

Wow....

[fidocancan]

pity you don't have video, though what she says is much more important... why can't we make use of our elders?... you don't quite appear to follow her line of thinking accurately, but i assume this is my mistake as you must have developed a good form of communication with her over the three years... she lives now in you, my friend, her wisdom has been passed on