Alice Palache Jones

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| name = Alice Palache Jones

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| caption = Alice Palache, from the 1928 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College

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| birth_name = Alice Helen Palache

| birth_date = April 12, 1907

| birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts

| death_date = June 12, 1989

| death_place = Mount Kisco, New York

| occupation = Bank executive, birth control advocate

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| parents = Charles Palache

| relatives = Judith Palache Gregory (niece)

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Alice Helen Palache Jones (April 12, 1907 – June 12, 1989){{Cite web|title=Alice (Palache) Jones|url=https://www2.cambridgema.gov/Historic/CWHP/bios_j.html|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Cambridge Women's Heritage Project Database, J}} was an American banker.

Background

Alice Helen Palache was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Palache and Helen Harrington Markham Palache. Her father was a Harvard professor and mineralogist; her mother was a teacher.

Palache graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928,{{Cite news|date=1927-04-24|title=Student Groups Elect at Bryn Mawr College|pages=7|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80571358/student-groups-elect-at-bryn-mawr/|access-date=2021-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}} and was close to her classmate, Katharine Hepburn.{{Cite news|last=Seltzer|first=Ruth|date=1977-11-08|title=Ahoy for the Maritime Museum|pages=24|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8284307/william-meyle-jr-1977/|access-date=2021-06-30}}{{Cite book|last=Karbo|first=Karen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npvJ5ONWW5UC&dq=Palache+Hepburn&pg=PA60|title=How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great|date=2008-12-12|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-1-59691-980-8|pages=60|language=en}} The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and field hockey.Bryn Mawr College, [https://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=bmc_yearbooks The Book of 1928] (yearbook, 1928). She was also active in dramatics and glee club,{{Cite news|date=1925-11-29|title=Stars of College Play|pages=11|work=Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80574956/stars-of-college-play/|access-date=2021-07-01|via=Newspapers.com}} and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year.{{Cite news|date=1927-04-26|title=Cambridge Girl Chosen President of Bryn Mawr Undergraduate Ass'n|pages=5|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80571412/cambridge-girl-chosen-president-of-bryn/|access-date=2021-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}}

Career

Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with Margaret Sanger.{{Cite web|title=National Committee on Federal Legislation on Birth Control|url=https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/aboutms/organization_ncflbc/|access-date=2021-07-01|website=The Margaret Sanger Papers Project}} In 1933, she began working at the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York as a trainee. She worked at the Fiduciary Trust Company until her retirement in 1974,{{Cite news|last=Jablow|first=Paul|date=1974-09-19|title=Students to Run Endowment|pages=94|work=The Miami Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80571472/students-to-run-endowmentpaul-jablow/|access-date=2021-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}} as senior vice president of the company.{{Cite news|last=Gould|first=Leslie|date=1952-07-21|title=Behind the News|pages=4|work=The News Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80573613/behind-the-newsleslie-gould/|access-date=2021-07-01|via=Newspapers.com}} During World War II, she was the company's acting chief executive.{{Cite web|title=Our History|url=https://www.fiduciarytrust.com/ftci-history/history-landing-page|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Fiduciary Trust Company International|language=en}} She was also director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund.{{Cite news|date=1989-06-13|title=A. P. Jones, 82, Ex-Banker, Dies|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/13/obituaries/a-p-jones-82-ex-banker-dies.html|access-date=2021-06-30|issn=0362-4331}}

Later in life, Jones was a trustee of the North Salem Free Library, a member of the board of directors of Bryn Mawr College, and chair of the North Salem Planning Board.

Personal life and death

Palache married advertising executive and cookbook author Russell Kennedy Jones in 1954, as his second wife; they met in 1932.{{Cite book|last=Leaming|first=Barbara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaUrTpEf4qgC&dq=Alice+Palache+Jones&pg=PA426|title=Katharine Hepburn|date=2004|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-87910-293-7|pages=426–427|language=en}} Russell Jones died in 1986.{{Cite news|date=1986-10-07|title=Obituary for Russell K. Jones (Aged 89)|pages=15|work=The Journal News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80574220/obituary-for-russell-k-jones-aged-89/|access-date=2021-07-01|via=Newspapers.com}}

She died age 82 on June 12, 1989, in Mount Kisco, New York.

Legacy

Some of her papers are in the Palache Family Papers at Harvard's Schlesinger Library.{{Cite web|title=Jones, Alice (Palache), 1907-1954, n.d. (13 folders); in the Papers of the Palache Family, 1839-2004|url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/archival_objects/1483607|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Hollis}} Her niece was editor Judith Palache Gregory.