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Early life and education
Anita Uarda Maris Boggs was born on Nov. 14, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Benjamin R. and Mary Emma (Maris) Boggs. Anita had a brother, Randolph Maris Boggs (born 1887).
She was educated at Bryn Mawr College (A.B., 1910) and University of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1911).
Career
Boggs was a co-founder, in 1913, and Dean of the BCE, serving as its Director since 1922.
She served as a special collaborator in visual instruction with the U.S. Bureau of Education, 1915–25; educational representative in the U.S. of the government of Canada, Australia, Argentine, France, Great Britain, Japan, Bolivia, and others; associate director, department of public service, Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America, 1921–2; and Councillor for the American Indians.
Boggs served as editor of the BCE's organ Vision. She wrote magazine articles on educational motion pictures and philosophy, as well as international finance, economics, and tariffs.
She was a member of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae, and Trail Riders of the Rockies; honorary life member of the Maryland Academy of Science; President, D. C. Chapter, League of American Penwomen; Vice-president, American International Academy. Boggs was a Fellow of the American Geographic Society.
Personal life
Boggs never married. She was a resident of Washington, D.C. from 1913.
Anita Maris Boggs died July 12, 1937, in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Awards and honors
- Order of the White Lion of Czechoslovakia
- Boggs received thanks of the U.S. Government and of various other nations, for constructive work in behalf of humanity.
Selected works
Translator
- Belgian Schools for Crippled Soldiers (1918), by Leon de Paeuw, translated by A. Maris Boggs
References
- ^ Cook, Robert Cecil (1928). "BOGGS, A Maris". Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. Who's Who in American Education. p. 46. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "BOGGS, A. Maris". Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1926. p. 79. Retrieved 24 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "BOGGS, A. Maris". Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis. 1924. p. 446. Retrieved 25 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Jordan, John Woolf; Jordan, Wilfred (1911). Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1124. Retrieved 25 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Leonard, John W.; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1928). Who's who in America. Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved 25 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "DR MARIS BOGGS EDUCATOR DIES". Evening Star. 13 July 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 25 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Anita Maris Boggs, by Laura Isabel Serna, at Women Film Pioneers Project, Columbia University