American writer
Dorothea Chambers Seelye Franck (June 8, 1917 – October 27, 1988) was an American writer, editor, and Middle East specialist.
Early life
Dorothea Seelye was born in
Chatham, New Jersey , the daughter of college professors Laurens Hickok Seelye and Kate Ethel Chambers Seelye,
[1] and the great-granddaughter of politician and college president
Julius Hawley Seelye .
[2] Her mother completed a doctorate at
Columbia University in 1919, two years after Dorothea was born.
[3] She was raised in Lebanon, where her parents taught at the
American University of Beirut .
[4] Her sister
Mary-Averett Seelye had a career in dance,
[5] and her brother
Talcott Williams Seelye was a diplomat.
[6]
Seelye attended
Bryn Mawr College and graduated from
St. Lawrence University .
[2] She earned a master's degree from
American University .
[7]
Career
Seelye worked in Egypt during
World War II , translating for the Allies at the
Office of Strategic Services . Later she worked in
Washington, D.C. , at the
State Department ,
[8] and for the
American Friends of the Middle East .
[9] She edited the Americans for Justice in the Middle East (AJME) News . She founded the Turkish-American Women's Group when she lived in Istanbul from 1956 to 1965.
[7]
[10] She lived in Beirut again in the 1980s,
[11] and on her parents' farm in
Plainfield, Massachusetts ,
[12] and in
Syracuse, New York .
[6]
Publications
Dorothea Seelye Franck was a writer and editor, usually on topics concerning the Middle East and education, in publications including
The Middle East Journal ,
[13]
[14]
Foreign Service Journal ,
[15] and
The Christian Science Monitor .
[16] She also wrote a book about
finger crochet , and two children's books.
[17]
"In the Minds of Men" (1946, pamphlet)
[18]
"Cultural and Scientific Cooperation in the Near East" (1946, a three-part series)
[19]
"The Middle East Economy in 1949" (1950, with Peter G. Franck)
[14]
"The Interchange of Government Experts" (1950)
[20]
"Implementation of Technical Assistance: United Nations Programs in Haiti" (1951, with Marian Neal and Peter G. Franck)
Islam in the Modern World (1951, edited by Franck)
"Pakhtunistan - Disputed Disposition of a Tribal Land" (1952)
[13]
"The American School at Tangier" (1953)
[15]
The Cat Who Loved Bach (children's book)
"Tales" (1958, with Aziz Nesin)
[21]
"Turkish Women in Engineering" (1961)
[16]
Mother Kaz (1963, children's book, with Selma Emiroǧlu Aykan̄)
"Missionaries Send Bas Reliefs to the United States" (1980)
[22]
Finger Crochet (1984, with Susan Williamson)
Personal life
Seelye married German-born economist and professor Peter Goswyn Franck in 1940. They had two daughters, Karen
[23] and Marianne. Dorothea Seelye Franck died from cancer in 1988, aged 71 years.
[2]
[17] The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers at
Amherst College contain some of her papers.
[6] Journalist
Kate Seelye is her niece.
References
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"Miss Chambers is MInister's Bride" . The New York Times . 1915-10-05. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-09-15 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Dorothea S. Franck" . Daily Hampshire Gazette . 1988-11-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Mrs. Seelye Dies; Was Prof in Turkey" . The Post-Standard . 1973-06-01. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Dr. L. H. Seelye, 71, Former University Head, Dies Here" . The North Adams Transcript . 1960-08-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
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"A Dancer in the Family: Mary-Averett Seelye" . The Consecrated Eminence . 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2022-09-14 .
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"The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers ("The Franck Papers")" . Amherst College - ArchivesSpace . Retrieved 2022-09-13 .
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"Franck Family Keeps Turkish Customs Alive in Syracuse" . The Post-Standard . 1967-01-20. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ US Department of State,
"Turkish Graduate at Chicago Hospital" The Record 11(April 1946): 32.
^ Walhout, M. D. (2020-10-01).
Arab Intellectuals and American Power: Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East . Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-7556-3416-3 .
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"Saturday Club to Hear of Holy Land" . The Troy Record . 1969-12-10. p. 24. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Friedman, Josh (1984-03-01).
"Clinging to Beirut Amid Chaos and Fear" . Newsday . p. 173. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Potter, Mary (1987-10-20).
"Sharing Knowledge, Preserving Skills" . The Berkshire Eagle . p. 9. Retrieved 2022-09-14 – via Newspapers.com.
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b Franck, Dorothea Seelye (1952).
"Pakhtunistan: Disputed Disposition of a Tribal Land" . Middle East Journal . 6 (1): 49–68.
ISSN
0026-3141 .
JSTOR
4322356 .
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b Franck, Dorothea Seelye; Franck, Peter G. (1949).
"The Middle East Economy in 1948" . Middle East Journal . 3 (2): 201–210.
ISSN
0026-3141 .
JSTOR
4322065 .
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b Franck, Dorothea Seelye (January 1953).
"The American School at Tangier" (PDF) . Foreign Service Journal . 30 (1): 25–26.
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b Franck, Dorothea Seelye.
"Turkish Women in Engineering" Christian Science Monitor (July 29, 1961): 5. via Internet Archive
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b Killgore, Andrew I. (April 1989).
"In Memoriam: Dorothea Seelye Franck" . WRMEA . Retrieved 2022-09-14 .
^ Franck, Dorothea Seelye (1946).
In the Minds of Men . U.S. Government Printing Office.
^ Franck, Dorothea Seelye (January 1946).
"Cultural and Scientific Cooperation in the Near East" . The Record . 11 (1): 2.
^ Franck, Dorothea Seelye (1950).
"The Interchange of Government Experts" . Middle East Journal . 4 (4): 410–426.
ISSN
0026-3141 .
JSTOR
4322219 .
^ Nesin, Aziz; Franck, Dorothea Seelye (1958).
"Tales" . The Phylon Quarterly . 19 (4): 388–396.
doi :
10.2307/273102 .
ISSN
0885-6826 .
JSTOR
273102 .
^ Crawford, Vaughn Emerson; Harper, Prudence Oliver; Pittman, Holly (1980).
Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Palace Reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and Ivory Carvings from Nimrud . Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 40–48.
ISBN
978-0-87099-260-5 .
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"Karen A. Franck" . Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center . Retrieved 2022-09-15 .
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