Dora Adele Shoemaker

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| birth_date = August 13, 1873

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = March 16, 1962

| death_place = Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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Dora Adele Shoemaker (August 13, 1873 – March 16, 1962) was an American educator, poet, and playwright.

Biography

Shoemaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1873.{{cite web |title=Dora Adele Shoemaker |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MR7N-Z54 |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=28 September 2022}} Her parents were Rachel H. Shoemaker and Jacob V. Shoemaker, founders of the National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia. Dora's brother, Frank W. Shoemaker, was the head of the Penn Publishing Company.

She was educated at Friends Select School and the National School of Elocution and Oratory (Bachelor of Elocution and Master of Oratory, 1915),{{cite book |last1=Howes |first1=Durward |title=American Women |date=1936 |publisher=Richard Blank Publishing Company |page=503 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cz8LAQAAIAAJ&q=Dora+Adele |access-date=28 September 2022 |language=en}} with further specialized instruction at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a master's degree at Marywood College (now Marywood University (Scranton, Pennsylvania).

From 1915, Shoemaker served as principal of the National School of Elocution and Oratory.{{cite book |title=American College and Private School Directory |date=1922 |publisher=Educational Bureau Publishing Company |page=215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dFlBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA215 |access-date=28 September 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} Renamed the Shoemaker School of Speech and Drama,{{cite news |title=Happy Birthday to – - Dora Adele Shoemaker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/171364951/?terms=National%20School%20of%20Elocution%20and%20Oratory&match=1 |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |via=Newspapers.com |date=13 August 1938 |page=8 |language=en}} its course offerings included journalism and radio technique.{{cite news |title=The Shoemaker School of Speech and Drama |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/171407967/?terms=Shoemaker%20School%20of%20Speech%20and%20Drama&match=1 |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |via=Newspapers.com |date=22 September 1938 |page=22 |language=en}} Shoemaker headed the school until the late 1930s. She was also a teacher at Marywood College, St. John's Catholic Junto (Philadelphia), and Neff Dramatic School (Philadelphia).{{cite news |title=Obituary, Dora Adele Shoemaker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110342001/obituary-dora-adele-shoemaker/ |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=19 March 1962 |pages=24}}

She was the author of Out O'Doors (poetry book), A Patron of Art (play, 1776) and A Fighting chance (play). She lectured on literary subjects and elocution.{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=Alfred Augustus |title=Who's who in the Lyceum |date=1906 |publisher=Pearson Bros. |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9u4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA160 |access-date=28 September 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}

Dora Adele Shoemaker died at her home in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1962.

Selected works

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A Patron of Art (1776)
A Fighting Chance, Or, For the Blue Or the Gray: A Play in Three Acts (1900) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=JmAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 Text])
The Girls of 1776: A Drama in Three Acts (1905) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hfZSvtPC_gUC Text])