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Irene Ringwood Arnold
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Irene Ringwood, later Arnold, from her 1922 passport application
Born
Irene Cecile Ringwood

October 31, 1895
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
DiedJuly 28, 1988 (age 92)
Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)College professor, classics scholar

Irene Cecile Ringwood Arnold (October 31, 1895 – July 28, 1988) was an American classics scholar and educator. She taught Latin and Greek at Vassar College from 1920 to 1936, and headed the classics department at Bennett College from 1936 to 1960.

Early life and education

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Ringwood was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of John F. Ringwood and Mary T. McGeney Ringwood.[1] She and her sister Vera graduated from Vassar College in 1915.[2] She completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1927. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3][4]

Career

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Arnold taught Latin and Greek at Vassar College from 1920 to 1925, while she was a graduate student.[1][5][6] After earning her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor of Greek at Vassar from 1927 to 1936. From 1936[7] to 1960, she was head of the classics department at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York, and from 1960 until 1963 she was academic dean at Bennett.[4]

Arnold belonged to the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America,[4] and the London Society for Promotion of Hellenic Studies.[8] She established a prize for Latin students at Poughkeepsie High School, in memory of her late sister Vera, and a scholarship for Latin and ancient history students at Choate Rosemary Hall, in memory of her late husband.[4] In its later years, Bennett College had an "Arnold Society", a campus honor society named for Arnold.[9]

Publications

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Arnold's articles were published in scholarly journals including American Journal of Archaeology,[10][11][12] The Journal of Hellenic Studies,[13] and The Classical Weekly.[14]

  • Agonistic Features of Local Greek Festivals Chiefly from Inscriptional Evidence (1927)[15]
  • "Local Festivals of Euboea, Chiefly from Inscriptional Evidence" (1929)[10]
  • "Local Festivals at Delos" (1933)[11]
  • "Ares in Coronea" (1934)[13]
  • "Festival at Rhodes" (1936)[12]
  • "The Shield of Argos" (1937)[16]
  • "A Portrait of Greek Island Life" (1947)[14]
  • "Agonistic Festivals in Italy and Sicily" (1960)[17]
  • "Festival of Ephesus" (1972)[18]

Personal life

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In 1932, Ringwood married widower Herbert P. Arnold, head of the classics department at Choate Rosemary Hall.[19][20] Her husband died in 1954.[21] She died in 1988, at the age of 92, at her stepson's home in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts.[4] Bennett College closed in 1978, and the last campus structures were demolished in 2021 and 2022.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fellowship Won in City". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1923-03-15. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  2. ^ "Poughkeepsie Girls in Graduating Class". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1915-06-09. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-10-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Cook, Robert Cecil (1959). Who's who in American Education. Who's Who in American Education. p. 56.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Irene Ringwood Arnold". Poughkeepsie Journal. 1988-08-03. pp. 2B. Retrieved 2024-10-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Classical Teachers of Hudson Valley Meet". Vassar Miscellany News. 1925-11-25. p. 2 – via Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive.
  6. ^ "To Hold Conference at Vassar". Vassar Miscellany News. November 8, 1922. p. 3 – via Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive.
  7. ^ "Bennett School Adds New Courses". Millbrook Round Table. October 2, 1936. p. 1 – via Historical Newspapers, Hudson River Valley Heritage.
  8. ^ "Dr. Webb is Elected to Radio Committee". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1934-04-21. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-10-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Honors" Bennett College Faculty Handbook (1968-1969): 27. via New York Heritage DIgital Collections.
  10. ^ a b Ringwood, Irene C. (1929-07-01). "Local Festivals of Euboea, Chiefly from Inscriptional Evidence". American Journal of Archaeology. 33 (3): 385–392. doi:10.2307/498353. ISSN 0002-9114.
  11. ^ a b Arnold, Irene Ringwood (1933-07-01). "Local Festivals at Delos". American Journal of Archaeology. 37 (3): 452–458. doi:10.2307/498958. ISSN 0002-9114.
  12. ^ a b Arnold, Irene Ringwood (1936-10-01). "Festivals of Rhodes". American Journal of Archaeology. 40 (4): 432–436. doi:10.2307/498795. ISSN 0002-9114.
  13. ^ a b Arnold, Irene Ringwood (January 1934). "Ares in Coronea". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 54 (2): 206–207. doi:10.2307/626866. ISSN 2041-4099.
  14. ^ a b Arnold, Irene Ringwood (1947). "A Portrait of Greek Island Life". The Classical Weekly. 41 (5): 68–72. doi:10.2307/4342375. ISSN 1940-641X.
  15. ^ Ringwood, Irene Cecilie (1927). Agonistic Features of Local Greek Festivals Chiefly from Inscriptional Evidence: Part 1: Non-Attic Mainland and Adjacent Islands, Except Euboea ... Columbia university.
  16. ^ Arnold, Irene Ringwood (1937-07-01). "The Shield of Argos". American Journal of Archaeology. 41 (3): 436–440. doi:10.2307/498509. ISSN 0002-9114.
  17. ^ Arnold, Irene Ringwood. "Agonistic festivals in Italy and Sicily" American Journal of Archaeology 64, no. 3 (1960): 245-251.
  18. ^ Arnold, Irene Ringwood (1972-01-01). "Festivals of Ephesus". American Journal of Archaeology. 76 (1): 17–22. doi:10.2307/503607. ISSN 0002-9114.
  19. ^ "Class Notes: 1915" Vassar Quarterly (February 1933): 92.
  20. ^ "Irene Ringwood to Wed Herbert Arnold of Boston". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1932-11-12. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-10-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "H. P. Arnold, Former Choate Master, Dies". Record-Journal. 1954-07-12. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-10-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Callahan, Cloey (April 8, 2022). "Demolition almost complete on abandoned school in Millbrook". Times-Union.
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