Lucile Hoerr Charles
{{short description|American college professor}}
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| caption = Lucile Hoerr Charles, from the 1951 yearbook of East Carolina University
| birth_name = Lucile Marie Hoerr
| birth_date = August 13, 1903
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = March 7, 1965 (aged 61)
| death_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
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| occupation = College professor, theatre professional, folklorist
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Lucile Marie Hoerr Charles (August 13, 1903 – March 7, 1965) was an American college professor, theatre professional, and folklorist. She was the first director of dramatic arts at East Carolina University. Her scholarship focused on clowns, and on drama as an aspect of naming and other rituals. Later in life, she wrote about her own medical issues, and promoted a slower, gentler way to remove adhesive bandages.
Early life and education
Hoerr was born in Chicago, the daughter of Charles Ferdinand Hoerr and Lillie Anna Sophia Obermann Hoerr. Her younger brother Stanley became a prominent surgeon.[https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/57/6/527.full.pdf "Stanley O. Hoerr, MD (1909–1990)"] Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (September 1990): 527-528. She studied piano as a girl, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930, where she wrote for the Daily Maroon.{{Cite news |date=1923-11-19 |title=Comment and Opinion: Oh, Pshaw, Lucile! |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-muscatine-journal-comment-and-opinio/143286663/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The Muscatine Journal |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}} She earned master's degrees from Columbia University in 1941, and Yale University in 1942. She completed her Ph.D. in educational psychology at Yale in 1943. From 1955 to 1957, she held a Bollingen Foundation fellowship for further study at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich.{{Cite web |last=Rives|first=Ralph Hardee|date=1979|title=Charles, Lucile Marie Hoerr |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/charles-lucile |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=NCpedia}}
Hoerr began using her father's first name, Charles, as her surname in adulthood.
Career
Charles worked at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City from 1930 to 1934,{{Cite news |date=1934-05-25 |title=Dramatic Expert Coming; Miss Lucile H. Charles Will Address Unity Club |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ridgewood-herald-dramatic-expert-com/143286851/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The Ridgewood Herald |pages=18 |via=Newspapers.com}} and taught at the American Peoples College in Europe from 1934 to 1936.{{Cite journal |date=February 24, 1934 |title=The American Peoples College in Europe |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_usa-today_1934-02-24_39_1000/page/236/mode/2up?q=%22Lucile+Hoerr+Charles%22 |journal=School and Society |volume=39 |issue=1000 |pages=237–238 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=February 1935 |title=And for a Backdrop, the Tyrolean Alps! |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_recreation_1935-02_28_11/page/540/mode/2up?q=%22Lucile+Hoerr+Charles%22 |journal=The Playground |volume=28 |issue=11 |pages=541–543 |via=Internet Archive}} She worked in the drama and speech department at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1937 to 1939. She also produced a radio drama series, The Land of Plenty, while she was based in New York City, and appeared in a Broadway show, Life Begins (1933).
Charles was on the faculty of Mary Washington College from 1943 to 1946, then became a professor of English at East Carolina University.East Carolina University, [https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/15356 The Tecoan] (1951 yearbook): 16. She became a full professor in 1959. As the school's first director of dramatic arts,{{Cite news |date=1970-03-15 |title=The Story Lives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer-the-story-lives/143287193/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The News and Observer |pages=72 |via=Newspapers.com}} she directed three major plays per term and weekly one-act plays, and produced radio shows. She founded the Eastern Regional Play Festival, held on campus and welcoming theatre professionals from throughout the region. She also directed an annual children's play at East Carolina Playhouse.{{Cite news |date=1965-03-09 |title=ECC Professor Dies in Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer-ecc-professor-dies/143286362/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The News and Observer |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Publications
- "Snaring the Elusive Broadway Job" (1930){{Cite news|last=Charles|first=Lucile Hoerr |title=Snaring the Elusive Broadway Job |date=October 5, 1930 |pages=155, 156|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1930/10/05/118386886.html |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}
- "So You're Going on the Stage" (1931)Charles, Lucile Hoerr. "So You're Going on the Stage" Theatre Magazine (January 1931).
- "And for a Backdrop the Tyrolean Alps!" (1935)
- "The Clown's Function" (1945){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=1945 |title=The Clown's Function |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/535333 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=58 |issue=227 |pages=25–34 |doi=10.2307/535333 |jstor=535333 |issn=0021-8715}}
- "Growing up Through Drama" (1946){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=1946 |title=Growing up Through Drama |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/536248 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=59 |issue=233 |pages=247–262 |doi=10.2307/536248 |jstor=536248 |issn=0021-8715}}{{Cite news |date=1946-10-10 |title=Article Published |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-article-published/143287103/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=News and Record |pages=10}}
- "Regeneration Through Drama at Death" (1948){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=1948 |title=Regeneration Through Drama at Death |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/536125 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=61 |issue=240 |pages=151–174 |doi=10.2307/536125 |jstor=536125 |issn=0021-8715}}
- "Drama in First-Naming Ceremonies" (1951){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=1951 |title=Drama in First-Naming Ceremonies |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/536100 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=64 |issue=251 |pages=11–35 |doi=10.2307/536100 |jstor=536100 |issn=0021-8715}}
- "Drama in Shaman Exorcism" (1953){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=1953 |title=Drama in Shaman Exorcism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/537324 |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=66 |issue=260 |pages=95–122 |doi=10.2307/537324 |jstor=537324 |issn=0021-8715}}
- "Drama in War" (1955){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=July–September 1955 |title=Drama in War |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-american-folklore_july-september-1955_68_269/page/252/mode/2up?q=%22Lucile+Hoerr+Charles%22 |journal=Journal of American Folklore |volume=68 |issue=269 |pages=253–281 |doi=10.2307/536903 |jstor=536903 |via=Internet Archive}}
- The Story of the Baby Sphinx and Other Fables (1959){{Cite book |last=Charles |first=Lucile Marie Hoerr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DStPAAAAYAAJ |title=The Story of the Baby Sphinx and Other Fables |date=1959 |language=en}}
- "Removing the Patient from the Tape" (1960){{Cite journal |last=Charles |first=Lucile Hoerr |date=May 1960 |title=Removing the Patient from the Tape |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_rn_1960-05_23_5/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22Lucile+Hoerr+Charles%22 |journal=RN |volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=53 |via=Internet Archive}}
- "How to avoid pain in removing adhesive tape" (1961){{Cite journal |last=Hoerr |first=Lucile Charles |date=September 1961|title=how to avoid pain in removing adhesive tape |url=https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/citation/1961/09000/how_to_avoid_pain_in_removing_adhesive_tape.26.aspx |journal=Anesthesia & Analgesia |language=en-US |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=589 |doi=10.1213/00000539-196109000-00026 |issn=0003-2999}}
- "Morale in Recovering from Guillain-Barré Disease: Account of an Ex-patient" (1961)Charles, Lucile Marie Hoerr. [https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/citation/1961/07000/morale_in_recovering_from_guillain_barr__disease_.5.aspx "Morale in Recovering from Guillain-Barré Disease: Account of an Ex-patient"] Psychosomatic Medicine 23(4)(July 1961): 298-303.
Personal life
Charles was public about her experiences with Guillain-Barré disease. She died in 1965, at the age of 61, at the Cleveland Clinic, where her brother was a surgeon. Her papers are in the manuscript collection of East Carolina University.[https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0105 Lucile Marie Hoerr Charles Papers] (#105), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
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