Katharine Cramer Angell

Katharine Cramer Angell (July 23, 1890 – July 22, 1983)[1] was one of two named founders of the Culinary Institute of America.[2]

Katharine Cramer Angell
Born
Katharine Cramer

(1890-07-23)July 23, 1890
Charlotte, North Carolina
DiedJuly 22, 1983(1983-07-22) (aged 92)
Ellsworth, Maine
Known forCo-founding the Culinary Institute of America
Spouse(s)

Early and personal life

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1890 to Bertha Hobart Cramer and Stuart Warren Cramer, an engineer and owner of mills, Katharine Cramer attended Queens College and Finch School.[1][2][3] She married Paul Woodman and had six children with him; he died in 1930, and she married James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, two years later. James died in 1949, 17 years after their marriage.[1] She chaired the Consumer Division of the State Defense Committee in World War II, and her eldest son died near the end of the war.[2]

Career

In 1946, Angell and Frances Roth, along with the New Haven Restaurant Association, helped found the New Haven Restaurant Institute. The school was later renamed the Culinary Institute of America.[2] Angell regarded the school as a memorial to her dead son.[4] Since the institute was accredited, students qualified for G.I. Bill payments, and Angell created a loan fund for students whose payments were late. She used her own money to help the institute and raised money for it. When the institute purchased a mansion in September 1947 for $75,000 to allow expansion of the school, she guaranteed the loan. She convinced the union of dining hall workers at Yale to allow the school to make meals for Yale athletes. From 1948 until her retirement in 1966, she chaired the board of the institute.[2][5]

In 1972 she was honoured with the Yale Medal.[2] Until her death she remained working with the Culinary Institute.[6]

Death

Angell died on July 22, 1983 at the age of 92 in Ellsworth, Maine at the Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, due to a pulmonary embolism.[1]

References
  1. "Katharine Angell Dies; Led Culinary Institute". The New York Times. 26 July 1983. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. Schiff, Judith (Jan–Feb 2008). "Angell of the CIA". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  3. Wildstein, Eric (27 September 2017). "Who is Katharine Cramer Angell?". Gaston Gazette. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. Altschuler, Glenn C.; Blumin, Stuart M. (2009). The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans. Oxford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0195182286.
  5. Geraci, Victor William; Demers, Elizabeth S. (2011). Icons of American Cooking. ABC-CLIO. p. 94. ISBN 9780313381324.
  6. Campbell-Schmitt, Adam (17 March 2017). "How Two Women Founded the Culinary Institute of America". Food & Wine. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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