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• 1 2020-03-04T15:51:21+00:00 1DB3 Box 24, Folder 31 1 Refugees plain 2020-03-04T15:51:21+00:00

  President Park, to whom I spoke about the matter me[an] while, has again indicated her strong interest and willingness [to] call on the Labor and State Departments, preferably together [with] some of the other [college] presidents. 

  Dear Mr. Hertz,
  
  Miss Park has asked me to write in reply to your letter regarding the steps taken at Bryn Mawr College to aid refugees. 
  
  In the last six years, three German refugees have held special appointments on the teaching staff of Bryn Mawr College, these appointments made possible through grants from the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars and from the Rockefeller Foundation as well through special gifts from individuals. The appointments were those of Dr. Emmy Noether who served as visiting professor of mathematics from 1933 until her death in the spring of 1935, Dr. Eva Fiesel who was Visiting Professor of Linguistics from 1936 until her death in May 1937 and Dr. Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer who is at present Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr.
  
  Last year Bryn Mawr was one of the first colleges to give aid in the form of scholarships to student refugees. In the autumn of 1938 a committee of students and faculty was organized to raise funds for scholarships for German refugees...

• 1 2020-03-04T15:51:39+00:00 Refugee scholars 1 plain 2020-03-04T15:51:39+00:00

  In the context of American colleges and universities in the 1930s, administrators and faculty alike tended to harbor racist and anti-Semitic beliefs, and American institutions often acted as complicit bystanders in the rise of the Nazi regime. Marion Park was unusual for her outspoken approach and willingness to fund Jewish refugee professors and students, and for doing so despite the financial challenges of the Great Depression. Among the refugee scholars Park brought to Bryn Mawr was celebrated mathematician Emmy Noether, who taught for one year before suddenly dying in 1935.