Earlham Notable Alumni

Career and Volunteer Work 

• After Earlham, worked for the Hamilton County Welfare Department in Ohio before returning to Illinois and receiving her MS degree from the Graduate School of Social Science Administration at the University of Chicago in 1935.
• Field work supervisor for the University of Chicago until 1943.
• During that time, volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in 1939 to help child refugees and families in Berlin during WWII, at one point encountering Hitler in a Berlin children's hospital. 
• As evidenced by correspondence to friends and family, Alice was more than willing to help children and families in Berlin during this time, despite the dangers and hardships. 
• In a letter written from Berlin in 1940 to Elizabeth Shipley, a fellow volunteer, Alice wrote, "You know yourself how one keeps trying to go on with the work in so far as one is able, but it has, I admit, been strenuous, mentally and spiritually, in face of the recent developments."
• In 1942, Alice assisted in the development of child welfare services in Paraguay by serving as a consultant to their government.
• Assisted in similar ways in Cuba in 1944. 
• Appointed the chief of the Social Branch, Division of International Labor, of the US Department of State November 1944.
• Left this position once again to volunteer for AFSC in Berlin from 1947-48. 
• Became head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Area Office for Central America in 1949.
• Worked for UNICEF for 20 years until retiring in 1969, settling in Richmond, Indiana.