Katharine Cramer Angell
{{short description|Co-founder of the Culinary Institute of America}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Katharine Cramer Angell
|birth_name = Katharine Cramer
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|07|23}}
|birth_place = Charlotte, North Carolina
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|07|22|1890|07|23}}
|death_place = Ellsworth, Maine
|spouse = {{ubl
|{{marriage |Paul Woodman||1930|end = died}}
|{{marriage |James Rowland Angell|1932|1949|end = died}}
}}
|known_for = Co-founding the Culinary Institute of America
}}
Katharine Cramer Angell (July 23, 1890 – July 22, 1983){{cite news |title=Katharine Angell Dies; Led Culinary Institute |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/26/obituaries/katharine-angell-dies-led-culinary-institute.html |accessdate=October 9, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=July 26, 1983 |language=en}} was one of two named founders of the Culinary Institute of America.{{cite magazine |last1=Schiff |first1=Judith |title=Angell of the CIA |url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/1963 |accessdate=October 9, 2018 |magazine=Yale Alumni Magazine |date=Jan–Feb 2008}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Wildstein |first1=Eric |title=Who is Katharine Cramer Angell? |url=http://www.gastongazette.com/news/20170927/who-is-katharine-cramer-angell |accessdate=October 9, 2018 |work=Gaston Gazette |date=September 27, 2017 |language=en}}
She married merchant{{cite news |title=Obituary – Woodman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/173287467/?terms=paul%20woodman&match=1 |access-date=May 16, 2021 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |quote=cotton yarn merchant |date=October 9, 1930 |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |page=6}} Paul Woodman in 1915,{{cite book |title=Report by Harvard University. Class of 1877 Secretary's report. |date=1885–1932 |publisher=Harvard university |page=319 |url=https://archive.org/details/7threportclass1877harvuoft/page/n453 |access-date=May 16, 2021}} and had six children with him; he died in 1930. A wealthy widow,{{cite news |title=Yale Prexy Reported Betrothed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/53064827/ |access-date=May 16, 2021 |work=The Daily Republican |date=June 28, 1932 |location=Monongahela, Pennsylvania |page=3 |quote=Mrs. Katherine Cramer Woodman, wealthy Ardmore, Pa., widow}} she married James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, two years later. James died in 1949, 17 years after their marriage.
She chaired the Consumer Division of the State Defense Committee in World War II, and her eldest son, Edward, died near the end of the war. Angell channeled her grief into helping returning war veterans with employment skills.
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. Angell regarded the school as a memorial to her dead son.{{cite book |last1=Altschuler |first1=Glenn C. |last2=Blumin |first2=Stuart M. |title=The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans |date=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195182286 |page=[https://archive.org/details/gibillnewdealfor00alts/page/165 165] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/gibillnewdealfor00alts/page/165 }} 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.{{cite book |last1=Geraci |first1=Victor William |last2=Demers |first2=Elizabeth S. |title=Icons of American Cooking |date=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313381324 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcwcIuRury0C&pg=PA94 |page = 94}}
In 1972 she was honoured with the Yale Medal. Until her death she remained working with the Culinary Institute.{{cite magazine|title = How Two Women Founded the Culinary Institute of America|url = https://www.foodandwine.com/news/culinary-institute-america-founders-women|magazine = Food & Wine|first = Adam|last = Campbell-Schmitt|date = March 17, 2017|access-date = October 9, 2018|archive-date = October 27, 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181027143610/https://www.foodandwine.com/news/culinary-institute-america-founders-women|url-status = dead}}
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.
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