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Alice Evans
The Michigan Alumnus 78-83
The Michigan Alumnus 78-83
Alice Evans, who comes to the University as Director of Physical Edu cation, was born in 1883 in Chicago, 111. In 1905 she was graduated from Smith College, and in 1912 from the Department of Hygiene of Wellesley College. For the four years following her graduation from Smith College, Miss Evans conducted classes in Hull House, Chicago, and after leaving Wellesley in 1912 she taught in the Milwaukee Downer Seminary until called to the University. The summers of 1913 and 1914 she spent in a girls' camp in Algonquin Park, Canada.