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Esther Allen Gaw
An older white woman with grey hair, wearing a print blouse or dress
Esther Allen Gaw, from the 1943 yearbook of Ohio State University
BornDecember 28, 1879
Hudson, Ohio
DiedDecember 27, 1973 (aged 95)
Sonoma, California
Occupation(s)Psychologist, professor, college administrator
ParentClarence Emir Allen
RelativesFlorence Ellinwood Allen (sister), Bryant Tuckerman (cousin)

Esther Tuckerman Allen Gaw (December 28, 1879 – December 27, 1973) was an American psychologist and college administrator. She was Dean of Women at Ohio State University from 1927 to 1944.

Early life and education

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Esther Tuckerman Allen was born in Hudson, Ohio, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clarence Emir Allen and Corinne Tuckerman Allen. Her father was an educator, a lawyer and a Congressman, and her mother, a Smith College alumna, was an educational reformer and philanthropist. Her younger sister Florence Ellinwood Allen was a suffragist and a judge.[1] Physicist Louis B. Tuckerman was her uncle,[2] and his son, mathematician Bryant Tuckerman, was her cousin.

Allen graduated from Western Reserve University. She studied violin at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and earned a PhD at the University of Iowa in 1919.[3][4]

Career

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Gaw played violin and taught music in Salt Lake City as a young woman,[5] and was founder and conductor of the Salt Lake Woman's Orchestra in 1914.[6][7] She and two other women founded the University Club of Iowa City in 1917.[8][9] She taught at San Francisco State Teachers College, and was Associate Dean of Women at Mills College,[3][10] where she was also a professor of psychology.[11] She was the Dean of Women at Ohio State University from 1927[10] until 1944.[3][12][13] She was a speaker and lecturer on women's education and Latin America.[14][15][16] In 1939 she attended the Pan-American Union's Peace Conference held in Lima, Peru.[17][18]

In retirement, Gaw lived in California, where she was active in adult education and continued her international travels.[19] She donated her mother's papers to the Harvard Racliffe Institute in 1952.[20]

Publications

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Gaw published her academic research and writing in scholarly journals including Psychological Monographs,[21][22] The Journal of Higher Education,[23][24] The Journal of Educational Research,[25] Educational Research Bulletin,[26] The Psychological Clinic,[27] Bulletin of the Pan American Union,[28][29] and Pi Lambda Theta Journal.[30]

  • "A Revision of the Consonance Test" (1918)[22]
  • "The Talent Survey in our Music School" (1920)[31]
  • "A survey of musical talent in music school" (1922)[21]
  • "Some Individual Difficulties in the Study of Music" (1922)[25]
  • "Five Studies of the Music Tests" (1928)[32]
  • "Social Education" (1930)[23]
  • "Techniques for Social Education" (1930)[26]
  • "Teaching Student Assistants to Use Objective Aids in Their Interviews with Younger Students" (1930)[27]
  • "Advising Means Administration" (1933)[33]
  • "The University of Chile and its Summer School" (1938)[28]
  • "Education in Chile" (1938)[30]
  • "Five Women of South America: Pioneering Educators of Peru and Chile" (1939)
  • "We the Deans" (1940)[34]
  • "Heredia, Costa Rica" (1941)[29]
  • "Case-Study Techniques" (1943)[24]
  • "A National Institution: El Colegio Del Uruguay" (1944)[35]

Personal life

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Esther Allen married Henry Clinton Gaw in 1910. Their son was Emir Allen Gaw.[36] Henry Gaw died in 1912. She died in 1973, aged 93 years, in Sonoma, California.[37] Biologist Esther Gaw McLaughlin is her granddaughter and namesake.[38][39]

References

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  1. ^ "Florence E. Allen". Dayton Daily News. 1917-10-21. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Louis B. Tuckerman". Physics Today. 15 (4): 107. 1962-04-01. doi:10.1063/1.3058113. ISSN 0031-9228.
  3. ^ a b c "Former Mills Dean Dr. Gaw". The San Francisco Examiner. 1973-12-30. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Dean Talks". The Pittsburgh Press. 1937-02-21. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "The Musicians". The Salt Lake Herald-Republican. 1913-09-14. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Salt Lake City Women Give Worthy Orchestral Concert". Musical America. 22 (3): 27. May 22, 1915 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ "Woman's Orchestra to Appear in Concert". The Salt Lake Tribune. 1914-04-05. p. 37. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ The University Club Iowa City. "Our History: Early History". The University Club Iowa City. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  9. ^ The University Club : 100th year celebration : 1917-2017. The University Club. 2017.
  10. ^ a b "New Dean of Women Enthusiastic About Work at Ohio State". The Ohio State Lantern. July 29, 1927. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  11. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1925). Individual Differences in Musical Sensitivity. Mills College.
  12. ^ "24 Co-Eds Named 1928 Frosh Guides by Dean Esther Gaw" Ohio State Lantern (June 5, 1928): 1.
  13. ^ "'Big Sister' Out Rules Dean Gaw". The Ohio State Lantern. October 6, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Esther Allen Gaw to Speak at Meet of College Women's Club". The Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette. 1928-01-08. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Mrs. Esther Allen Gaw Will Speak at Function Planned by College Women's Club". The Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette. 1931-05-23. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Dean Gaw to be Guest Speaker". Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. 1943-06-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Esther Allen Gaw Guest Speaker at Missionary Event". Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. 1939-06-02. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "University Group Hears Dean Gaw, Elects Officers". The Newark Advocate. 1941-04-29. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Callan, Mary Ann (1960-08-16). "Adviser Likes Counsel". The Los Angeles Times. p. 27. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Collection: Papers of Corinne Marie Tuckerman Allen, 1896-1927". Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  21. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1922). "A survey of musical talent in music school". Psychological Monographs. 31 (1): 128–156. doi:10.1037/h0093170. ISSN 0096-9753.
  22. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1918). "A revision of the consonance test". Psychological Monographs. 25 (2): 134–147. doi:10.1037/h0093116. ISSN 0096-9753.
  23. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1930). "Social Education". The Journal of Higher Education. 1 (1): 23–28. doi:10.2307/1974838. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1974838.
  24. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1943). "Case-Study Techniques". The Journal of Higher Education. 14 (1): 37–58. doi:10.2307/1975297. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1975297.
  25. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1922-05-01). "Some Individual Difficulties in the Study of Music". The Journal of Educational Research. 5 (5): 381–388. doi:10.1080/00220671.1922.10879266. ISSN 0022-0671.
  26. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1930). "Techniques for Social Education". Educational Research Bulletin. 9 (11): 289–323. ISSN 1555-4023. JSTOR 1470971.
  27. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (June 1930). "Teaching Student Assistants to Use Objective Aids in Their Interviews with Younger Students". The Psychological Clinic. 19 (4): 116–122. PMC 5138297. PMID 28909311.
  28. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen. "The University of Chile and its summer school." Bull. Pan Am. Union 72 (1938): 512.
  29. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen. "Heredia, Costa Rica." Bull. Pan Am. Union 75 (1941): 225.
  30. ^ a b Gaw, Esther Allen (1938). "Education in Chile". Pi Lambda Theta Journal. 17 (1): 1–2. ISSN 2374-3093. JSTOR 42915385.
  31. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1920) "The Talent Survey in Our Music School" Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 27(1), 227-228.
  32. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1928). "Five studies of the music tests". Psychological Monographs. 39 (2): 145–156. doi:10.1037/h0093343. ISSN 0096-9753.
  33. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1933). "Advising Means Administration". The Journal of Higher Education. 4 (4): 179–186. doi:10.2307/1975718. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1975718.
  34. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1940). "We the Deans". The Journal of Higher Education. 11 (5): 262–268. doi:10.2307/1974254. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1974254.
  35. ^ Gaw, Esther Allen (1944). Sagarna, Antonio (ed.). "A National Institution". The Journal of Higher Education. 15 (6): 337–338. doi:10.2307/1976828. ISSN 0022-1546. JSTOR 1976828.
  36. ^ "Elise Gregg Married to Dr. Emir A. Gaw; Ceremony Takes Place in Church at Waterbury, Conn., With Bride's Father Officiating". The New York Times. 1938-03-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  37. ^ "Obituary for Esther A. Gaw (Aged 93)". The Napa Valley Register. 1973-12-31. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  38. ^ "Three Brides-to-Be Announce their Plans to Marry". The San Francisco Examiner. 1964-01-09. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-09-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  39. ^ McLaughlin, Esther Gaw (1965). "An experimental study of the effects of varied photoperiod and water depth on leaf form in Megalodonta beckii". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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