Tano Jodai Japanese Women's College University Collection, 1956-1982

Summary

Abstract:
The Tano Jodai Japanese Women's College Collection primarily contains letters between Jane Morgan, Eleanor Martin, and Tano Jodai, relating to the history of Wells College and its interactions with the Japanese Women's College University from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. The collection also contains numerous newspaper clippings and additional miscellaneous items related to each of the colleges and their histories together.
Extent:
.5 linear feet .5 boxes
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The Tano Jodai Japanese Women's College Collection primarily contains letters between Jane Morgan, Eleanor Martin, and Tano Jodai, relating to the history of Wells College and its interactions with the Japanese Women's College University from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. The collection also contains numerous newspaper clippings and additional miscellaneous items related to each of the colleges and their histories together.

Biographical / historical:

Tano Jodai was born on July 3rd 1886 in Daito Machi, Japan. After graduating from high school she went to the Japan Women's College. She took English classes and was encouraged to make international friends. She graduated from college in 1910. Dr. Inazo Nitobe had done a lecture at Wells and suggested that Tano Jodai go to Wells, despite the fact that studying abroad from Japan was a rarity at that time. Tano Jodai waited but was at Wells by September 1913, on a scholarship from Mrs. Carpenter. She specialized in English and graduated from Wells with a Master of Arts degree in June 1917. Thereafter she returned to Japan to teach English. After returning to America in 1924 she studied literature at Graduate School of the University of Michigan, and then at Cambridge University in Connecticut. By 1927 she·'was back at the Japan Women's University as the chairman of the English department. In 1949 she returned to the states to study university administration at Smith College. She was one of the first of three Japanese women allowed to leave Japan after World War II. By 1950 she had returned and was the Academic Dean of the Japanese Women's College University, and in March 1956 was elected president of Japanese Women's College University. She retired in 1965. Throughout her life she retained a close connection with Wells, even having a 50 year reunion with the class she graduated with. Her death is unknown.

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Requests for permission to publish material from Tano Jodai Japanese Women's College University Collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility.of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Location of this collection:
170 Main St
Aurora, NY 13026, United States
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