Dorothy Carolin Bacon

Dorothy Carolin Bacon (February 25, 1902 – November 8, 1998) was an American economist and college professor. She was an economics professor at Smith College for over thirty years, beginning in 1927, and worked for various federal agencies during her career. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1956 and 1957, studying credit institutions in the Philippines.

This article is about the American economist. For the American lawn bowler, see Dorothy Bacon.
Dorothy Carolin Bacon
A young white woman wearing an academic mortar-board cap and a white lace-trimmed collar over an academic gown
Dorothy Carolin Bacon, from the 1922 yearbook of Radcliffe College
BornFebruary 25, 1902
Beloit, Wisconsin
DiedNovember 8, 1998
Meriden, Connecticut
Occupation(s)Economist, college professor
RelativesRuth E. Bacon (sister)

Early life and education

Bacon was born in Beloit, Wisconsin,[1] the daughter of George Preston Bacon and Hannah Churchill Bacon. Her father was a physics professor and dean of engineering at Tufts University, and her mother worked as a nurse during the 1918 influenza pandemic.[2] Her younger sister was Ruth E. Bacon, a foreign service officer.[3][4] The sisters were close, and Dorothy Bacon shopped for Ruth Bacon's work wardrobe when she was a diplomat.[5]

Bacon attended Simmons College from 1918 to 1919, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1922. She stayed at Radcliffe to earn a master's degree in 1924,[6] and a PhD in economics in 1928,[7] with a dissertation titled "Maladjustment of Prices with Special Reference to the Wholesale Prices of Commodities in the United States; 1890-1896".[8]

Career

Bacon was a professor of economics at Vassar College from 1924[9] to 1926,[10] and at Smith College from 1927 into the 1960s.[11][12][13] She wrote Recent Economic History of Five Towns (1937).[14] She served on an awards committee of the American Association of University Women in 1940.[15]

In the 1930s, Bacon worked for the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In 1939, she was among the "leading instructors in economics" who signed a letter opposing a sales tax in Massachusetts.[16] In the 1940s, she worked for the Office of Price Administration. She consulted for the Brookings Institution in the 1950s, and worked with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines from 1956 to 1957.[11][17]

Publications
  • "A Monthly Index of Commodity Prices, 1890–1900" (1926)[18]
  • "The Significance of Fixed-Base and Link Relatives in Studies of Price Stability—a Comment on the Behavior of Prices" (1928)[19]
  • Recent Economic History of Five Towns (1937)[14]
  • "New Credit Patterns for the Rise from Colonialism: The Case of the Philippines" (1959)[20]
  • "New Credit Institutions for New Nations: The Case of the Philippines" (1965)[21]

Personal life

Bacon died in 1998, aged 96 years, in Meriden, Connecticut. Her grave is with her parents' graves, at Shawsheen Cemetery in Massachusetts.[6]

References
  1. Who's who in Massachusetts. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin. 1940. p. 38.
  2. "Mrs. Hannah Bacon". The Boston Globe. 1954-07-04. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-01-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "George Preston Bacon Papers". Tufts Digital Library. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  4. "Name Prof Bacon as Dean at Tufts". The Boston Globe. 1929-05-15. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Stephenson, Malvina (1968-04-30). "East Asian Diplomacy is her Dish of Tea". The Record. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-01-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Collier, Irwin (2020-11-29). "Radcliffe Economics Ph.D. Alumna, Dorothy Carolin Bacon, 1928". Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  7. "Radcliffe Awards 29 Women Degrees". The Boston Globe. 1928-03-06. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Bacon, Dorothy Carolin (1928). Price Maladjustment with Special Reference to Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1890-1896. Radcliffe College.
  9. "Faculty Appointments". Vassar Quarterly. 10: 49. November 1, 1924 – via Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive.
  10. "List of Promotions Announced at Vassar". Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. 1926-06-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Smith Club to Hear Professor". Fitchburg Sentinel. 1963-04-12. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Miss Bacon to Address Area Smith Club". The Times Record. 1947-05-08. p. 28. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Women Educators to Meet Saturday". The Bridgeport Post. 1963-10-30. p. 37. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Bacon, Dorothy C. (1937). Recent Economic History of Five Towns. Smith College.
  15. "War Interrupts the Work of A.A.U.W. Scholars". Battle Creek Enquirer. 1940-02-04. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Ten Williams Teachers Opposed to Sales Tax". The North Adams Transcript. 1939-02-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Smith College Club". Hartford Courant. 1966-01-11. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. Bacon, Dorothy C. (January 1926). "A Monthly Index of Commodity Prices, 1890–1900". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 8 (4): 177–183. doi:10.2307/1926876. JSTOR 1926876.
  19. Bacon, Dorothy C. (1928-09-01). "The Significance of Fixed-Base and Link Relatives in Studies of Price Stability—a Comment on the Behavior of Prices". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 23 (163): 274–281. doi:10.1080/01621459.1928.10503022. ISSN 0162-1459.
  20. United States Department of State External Research Division (1960). External Research: ERS. p. 14.
  21. United States Department of State External Research Division (1965). Asia. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 113.
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