Evangeline Papageorge
Evangeline Thomas Papageorge (December 1, 1906 – September 15, 2001) was an American biochemist and college professor, born in Istanbul. She was the first woman to hold a full-time appointment on the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, and later served as the school's dean of students.
Early life and education
[edit]Papageorge was born in Istanbul, the daughter of Tomas Papageorgiou and Maria Hatzidemetriou. Her father was a Greek Orthodox priest.[1] She moved to the United States in 1910 with her family, settling first in New Jersey and later in Georgia. Her father died in 1927. She earned a degree in chemistry from Agnes Scott College in 1927,[2][3] a master's degree from Emory University in 1929, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1937.[4] Her dissertation was titled "Studies in the intermediary metabolism of phenylalanine."
Career
[edit]Papageorge taught chemistry at Emory University School of Medicine from 1929 to 1956, and was the school's first full-time female faculty member. She was also the school's first female administrator, as the dean of students from 1956[5] until she retired in 1975.[6][7] "I represent a mother figure to the students," she explained of her administrative work in the 1960s. "They feel freer to talk to me about things that matter."[8]
Papageorge was named "Atlanta Woman of the Year in Education" for 1952.[5][9] In 1966 she received the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory.[1] She received the Emory Medical Alumni Association's Award of Honor in 1971. A scholarship was established in her name in 1975,[7] and the Emory Medical Alumni Association established the Evangeline Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, in tribute to her career.[10]
Papageorge acted with the Emory Players, and was the first woman president of the parish council at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta.[11]
Publications
[edit]Papageorge's research on vitamins[12] was published in academic journals including Science,[13] Experimental Biology and Medicine,[14] Academic Medicine,[15] The Journal of Nutrition,[16][17] The Journal of Biological Chemistry,[18] The American Journal of Medical Technology,[19] and Endocrinology.[20]
- "Excretion of Homogentisic Acid After Oral Administration of Phenylalanine to Alcaptonuric Subjects" (1938, with Moses M. Fröhlich and Howard Bishop Lewis)[14]
- "An Experiment in Teaching Freshman Medical Students" (1945, with John H. Venable)[15]
- "A Study of the Fasting-Hour Excretion of Thiamine in the Urine of Normal Subjects: One Figure" (1947, with George T. Lewis)[16]
- "Fluorophotometric Determination of Rutin and Other Flavones" (1947, with Anthony J. Glazko, Foster Adair, and George T. Lewis)[13]
- "The Effect of Oral Administration of Rutin on Blood, Liver and Adrenal Ascorbic Acid and on Liver and Adrenal Cholesterol in Guinea Pigs" (1949, with George Lee Mitchell Jr.)[17]
- "Effect of hyperinsulinism on brain phospholipide" (1951, with Eva C. McGhee, Walter Lyon Bloom, and George T. Lewis)[18]
- "Adrenal glycogen in the guinea pig and in the white rat" (1955, with N. L. Noble)
- "Loss of adrenal glycogen in the rat following stress or treatment with various hormones" (1955, with N. L. Noble)[20]
- "Determination of blood cholesterol" (1955)[19]
Personal life
[edit]Papageorge lived with her sister Calomira "Callie" C. Canaris, a medical technologist, for many years. She died from lymphatic leukemia in 2001, at the age of 94, in Atlanta.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dr. Evangeline Papageorge Awarded Jefferson Medal at Emory Medical". The Atlanta Constitution. 1966-09-20. p. 16. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Agnes Scott College, Silhouette (1927 yearbook): 105. via Internet Archive
- ^ "Agnes Scott Career Talk". The Atlanta Journal. 1952-01-15. p. 29. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A Teacher First" Emory Magazine 77(4)(Winter 2002).
- ^ a b Gwin, Yolande (1956-07-08). "Vivacious Dr. Papageorge Has 'Bubbling Personality'". The Atlanta Journal. p. 77. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Paving a Path: Women of Emory Making History". Emory University Advancement and Alumni Engagement. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ a b Yearley, Midge (1975-05-06). "She's a Major Figure at Emory Medical School". The Atlanta Journal. p. 26. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Martin, Harold H. (2010-04-15). Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s. University of Georgia Press. p. 521. ISBN 978-0-8203-3136-2.
- ^ Barnwell, Katherine (1953-01-18). "Dr. Papageorge Education WOTY". The Atlanta Journal. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Evangeline T. Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award". Emory School of Medicine. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ a b Powell, Kay (2001-09-18). "Dr. Evangeline T. Papageorge, educator at Emory". The Atlanta Constitution. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Neal, Willard (1943-04-18). "Vitamin Hunters". The Atlanta Journal. p. 71. Retrieved 2024-04-16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Glazko, Anthony J.; Adair, Foster; Papageorge, Evangeline; Lewis, George T. (1947-01-10). "Fluorophotometric Determination of Rutin and Other Flavones". Science. 105 (2715): 48. Bibcode:1947Sci...105...48G. doi:10.1126/science.105.2715.48. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17797194.
- ^ a b Papageorge, E. T.; Frohlich, M. M.; Lewis, H. B. (1938-06-01). "Excretion of Homogentisic Acid After Oral Administration of Phenylalanine to Alcaptonuric Subjects". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 38 (5): 742–745. doi:10.3181/00379727-38-10002. ISSN 1535-3702.
- ^ a b Venable, John H.; Papageorge, Evangeline (November 1945). "An Experiment in Teaching Freshman Medical Students*". Academic Medicine. 20 (6): 349. doi:10.1097/00001888-194511000-00002. ISSN 1040-2446. PMID 21003748.
- ^ a b Papageorge, Evangeline; Lewis, George T. (1947-09-01). "A Study of the Fasting-Hour Excretion of Thiamine in the Urine of Normal Subjects: One Figure". The Journal of Nutrition. 34 (3): 301–310. doi:10.1093/jn/34.3.301. ISSN 0022-3166.
- ^ a b Papageorge, Evangeline; Mitchell, George Lee (1949-04-01). "The Effect of Oral Administration of Rutin on Blood, Liver and Adrenal Ascorbic Acid and on Liver and Adrenal Cholesterol in Guinea Pigs". The Journal of Nutrition. 37 (4): 531–540. doi:10.1093/jn/37.4.531. ISSN 0022-3166.
- ^ a b McGhee, Eva C.; Papageorge, Evangeline.; Bloom, Walter.Lyon.; Lewis, George T. (May 1951). "Effect of hyperinsulinism on brain phospholipide". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 190 (1): 127–132. doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)56053-1. ISSN 0021-9258.
- ^ a b Papageorge, Evangeline (1955). "Determination of blood cholesterol". The American Journal of Medical Technology. American Society for Medical Technology. pp. 94–97.
- ^ a b Noble, Nancy Lee, and Evangeline Papageorge. "Loss of adrenal glycogen in the rat following stress or treatment with various hormones." Endocrinology 57, no. 4 (1955): 492-497.
External links
[edit]- A photograph of Evangeline Papageorge in 1955, from the National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
- A photograph of Evangeline Papageorge, from the Digital Public Library of America