Occupation:
International secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and
later continental secretary for South America of the same organization.
Notes: Charles wrote a chapter of
the International Review of Missions vol 6
(1917) discussing Oriental Students in North America. In 1948, Charles
spoke in the "Mind of the Americas" lecture series in Winter
Park, Florida, on the topic of "America's Role in Christian World
Education". A biography printed in Winter Park Topics on 2 January 1948
introduces Charles to the lecture series: CHARLES
DUBOIS HURREY, graduate of the University of Michigan, has pursued post
graduate studies in Europe and South America. Before he was thirty
years of age he had spent five months in China, Japan and the
Phillipines, four months in Europe and some time in Argentina and
Brazil; he made his home in Argentina for three years. The
International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. appointed him as its first
Traveling Secretary for the continent of South America. In 1911 he was chosen
as Executive Secretary of the student division of the international
Y.M.C.A., with headquarters in New York; his duties in this office took
him to most of the colleges and universities, in every state in the
Union.
In World War I he served as Associate National Director of the "Y" with
the armed forces in Italy. From 1920 to 1924, he was a Secretary of the
Worlds Student Christian Federation, associated with Dr. John R. Mott.
During this period
Mr. Hurrey made a journey around the world, visiting Europe, the Near
East, India, China, New Zealand, Australia, South and Central America.
He has devoted twenty-three years, as Director of an international
Committee and Staff, to the promotion of friendly relations among
foreign students in the United States. As a visitor to fifty-five different
countries, Mr. Hurrey has been an official delegate to many notable
conventions of youth, in China, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland,
Panama and Peru. Rotary International engaged him for four successive years, as a
speaker in Inter-American Institutes, from coast to coast. Although
officially retired, Mr. Hurrey is at present Chairman of the lecture
series: "Mind of the Americas," of Rollins College, president of the
New York Chapter of retired "Y" secretaries of North America, and
president of the Dunworkin Club, of Montclair, N. J., his home town.
Education:
Frances attended Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey before
coming to Mount Holyoke College in 1927. She spent her junior year
abroad at the Université de Nancy and the Sorbonne (Université de
Paris) in France. She graduated in 1931 with a major in French and
during the summer of 1931 she attended Montclair State Teacher's
College. From 1932-1933 she tutored French in Switzerland while
attending the Université de Genève, and after returning to the United
States in 1933, she received her M.A. in French from Columbia
University in 1934.
Married:
Dixon C. Philips on 9
December 1946. Dixon was born on 9 November 1894, in Plainfield, New
Jersey, the son of Horace and Elizabeth Philips. He graduated from
Cornell University with a B.Chem in 1916. The Cornell Alumni News of 29 March 1917
notes that "Dixon C. Philips has changed his address from Orange to 976
Kensington Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. He has left the employment of the
Arlington Company and is now with the Booth Chemical Company, a concern
recently formed to manufacture a new substance similar to alum which is
used extensively for water purification. The plant will be situated at
Townley, N. J." Dixon was mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey from
1943 to
1947. Dixon died on 12 April 1992, in New Jersey. 1900:
935 Park Avenue, Plainfield, Union county, New Jersey 1920:
976 Kensington Avenue, Plainfield, Union county, New Jersey
Occupation: School teacher
and principal. In 1934 Frances began teaching French at the Hartridge
School in Plainfield, New Jersey and held that position until she
became principal in 1940. She remained its principal until 1951 when
she retired.
Death: 4 December
1971, in Hightstown, New Jersey,
United States
Notes: A
collection of biographical material
consisting correspondence, a photograph album and photographs from
the period 1927 to 1931, while she was an undergraduate at Mount
Holyoke College, is now stored at the Mount Holyoke College Archives
and Special Collections. The following biography is attached to the
papers: Frances Adelle Hurrey was born on
August 4, 1909 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Charles D. Hurrey and
Daisy Girton Hurrey. She attended Montclair High School in Montclair,
New Jersey before coming to Mount Holyoke College in 1927. She spent
her junior year abroad at the Université de Nancy and the Sorbonne
(Université de Paris) in France. She graduated in 1931 with a major in
French and during the summer of 1931 she attended Montclair State
Teacher's College. From 1931-1932 she taught French and Latin at the
Brookside School in Montclair. From 1932-1933 she tutored French in
Switzerland while attending the Université de Genève, and after
returning to the United States in 1933, she received her M.A. in French
from Columbia University in 1934. That same year she began teaching
French at the Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey and held that
position until she became principal in 1940. She remained its principal
until 1951 when she retired. In the summer of 1935 she attended the
Middlebury Summer Language School in Middlebury, Vermont and the
following summer studied at the American Institute in Munich, Germany.
On December 9, 1946 she married Dixon C. Philips, a graduate of Cornell
University and the mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey from 1943 to 1947.
She died at the age of eighty-one on December 4, 1971 in Hightstown,
New Jersey.
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