Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Sarah Elizabeth Briggs.
Born on 23 Oct 1863 in Illinois.42 Sarah Elizabeth died on 14 May 1937; she was 73.42 Buried in Norwell, MA.42
Sarah Elizabeth “dropped her unused name of Sarah after reaching maturity. After a year in a small private class, she entered the Rice Primary School on Appleton Street, Boston, and was chosen to read to the Grand Duke Alexis when he visited Boston on his tour around the world. The city fathers were very proud of their newest school, and brought the youthful Russian to see how a democracy educated its children. On the completion of her course at the Rice School, Elizabeth went to the Franklin Grammar School, then to the Girls Latin School under Mr. John Tetlow, famous for sending his pupils into college with many honors. Her education was continued at the Harvard Annex, the predecessor of Radcliffe College, followed by a postgraduate year at Cornell University, 1890-91, for the degree of AM. After Radcliffe established a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1914, Elizabeth was elected a member. During 1889 and 1890 she taught History and English at the Cambridge School established by Mr. Arthur Gilman. AFter the year at Cornell, she taught for twenty years, 1891 to 1911, at the Sachs School for Girls, 116 West 59th Street, New York City, her subjects being history, government and general literature. Teaching was continued at the Horace Mann School of Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1911 to 1929, on subjects preparatory for the College Entrace Examination Board. For this Board, during about fifteen years, she was in different years a reader, examiner, and head reader in history (head readers in all subjects were usually men from the colleges). Elizabeth Briggs was president of the Girls Latin School Alumnae Association one year in the 1880’s; president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association 1893-1923; president and founder of the Radcliffe Club of New York 1901; president of the Women’s University Club of New York 1907; associate (i.e., trustee) of Radcliffe College, three terms, 1904-13. After leaving New York in 1929, she lived for three years with the family of her cousin, Herbert Nash, 245 Newbury Street, Boston. In Sept. 1932 she moved to 11 Story Street Cambridge. Her clubs ar the Radcliffe Club of Boston and the College Club.”42