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Davis, Kate Elizabeth Ball, -2002

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Biography

Kate Elizabeth Ball graduated from Greenwich Academy in Connecticut in 1935, Vassar College in 1939, and New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she received her master's degree. She taught at Garrison Forest School and held several war-related jobs in the early 1940s before coming to Nightingale. Miss Ball taught history/geography and English to Middle and Upper School students, advised Harvey House, and taught music classes and conducted the Glee Club.

Miss Ball married Charles Stevenson Davis and became known as Mrs. Davis in September 1948. She had one son, Charles Jr. Mrs. Davis retired from Nightingale in spring 1967 and lived in Orleans, Massachusetts, where she died in September 2002.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Photographs of Glee Club rehearsing with Mrs. Davis, 1964 - 1966

 File — Box: 07006
Identifier: 007 003 014 03 0005
Scope and Contents From the Series: Music Records include photographs of music classes and concerts, Glee Club members and events, and students playing instruments and singing; concert invitations, fliers, programs, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to the music program; and sound recordings of concerts. Lower School music presentations that also include dance, drama, or other collaborations are included in this series. Because travel was a large component of the Glee Club program at one time, records...
Dates: 1964 - 1966

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