Married Walter Colby 11 Apr 1929 in Washtenaw Co., Michigan.
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MARTHA GUERNSEY COLBY, '19, Ph.D.'22, Associate Professor of Psychology, is, like all her colleagues, deeply concerned about the future of liberal education and the teaching profession. She believes that a teacher must have character as well as cleverness, and an exceptionally broad and thorough groundwork before specialization. Although she is very quiet by nature, her recent vigorous writings on fundamental education problems have brought her national recognition.
A westerner by birth and early education, Dr. Colby entered the University of Utah as a freshman. There she won the annual literary prize by an essay called "Old Clothes," and decided to become a writer. Shortly afterward, a fugue entitled "In Defiance of Richter's Manual of Harmony" won a conservatory award, and she decided to become a musician. But her first week as a sophomore in the biological and psychological laboratories at Michigan changed the course of her career.
As a faculty advisor, she retains a first-hand sympathy with student problems of specialization and "liberal" balance. Dr. Colby's early interests survived as a vocations. In college she wrote music for the Junior Girls' Play, was Woman's Editor of the Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the campus literary magazine, Chimes. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Iota, Mortarboard, Stylus, and Sigma Xi. As a graduate student, she held three University of Michigan fellowships, and her dissertation was awarded the Solis prize.
In 1926-27 she studied in Vienna on a Social Science Research Fellowship, and in 1929 was awarded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship for further study abroad. At various other periods she has travelled extensively with her husband, spending fifteen months of 1936-37 in the Orient and Near East.
Professor Colby is the author of several scientific contributions, and a member of various national and local professional organizations. As President of the Women's Research Club in 1941, and of the Women of the University of Michigan Faculty in 1942, she was active in efforts to coordinate these organizations with war work, both national and local. She is a member of the Women's War Committee of the University, and a Red Cross instructor for college classes in First Aid.
She is married to Walter Francis Colby, Professor of Physics, with whom she shares a deep interest in science, music, literature, languages, and plain dirt gardening.
From The Michigan Alumnus 309.
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Former University Professor of Psychology was killed in an automobile accident near Athens, Greece. Her husband, Professor Emeritus Walter Colby, miraculously escaped death and returned to Ann Arbor after a stay in the hospital.
From the Michigan Alumnus, 7 June 1958, p. 354
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Initial death location from FG contributor Deborah M Colby 1 Aug 2017.
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Corrected death location from FG contributor Ronald Colby 23 Dec 2018.
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MARTHA GUERNSEY COLBY, '19, Ph.D.'22, Associate Professor of Psychology, is, like all her colleagues, deeply concerned about the future of liberal education and the teaching profession. She believes that a teacher must have character as well as cleverness, and an exceptionally broad and thorough groundwork before specialization. Although she is very quiet by nature, her recent vigorous writings on fundamental education problems have brought her national recognition.
A westerner by birth and early education, Dr. Colby entered the University of Utah as a freshman. There she won the annual literary prize by an essay called "Old Clothes," and decided to become a writer. Shortly afterward, a fugue entitled "In Defiance of Richter's Manual of Harmony" won a conservatory award, and she decided to become a musician. But her first week as a sophomore in the biological and psychological laboratories at Michigan changed the course of her career.
As a faculty advisor, she retains a first-hand sympathy with student problems of specialization and "liberal" balance. Dr. Colby's early interests survived as a vocations. In college she wrote music for the Junior Girls' Play, was Woman's Editor of the Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the campus literary magazine, Chimes. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Iota, Mortarboard, Stylus, and Sigma Xi. As a graduate student, she held three University of Michigan fellowships, and her dissertation was awarded the Solis prize.
In 1926-27 she studied in Vienna on a Social Science Research Fellowship, and in 1929 was awarded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship for further study abroad. At various other periods she has travelled extensively with her husband, spending fifteen months of 1936-37 in the Orient and Near East.
Professor Colby is the author of several scientific contributions, and a member of various national and local professional organizations. As President of the Women's Research Club in 1941, and of the Women of the University of Michigan Faculty in 1942, she was active in efforts to coordinate these organizations with war work, both national and local. She is a member of the Women's War Committee of the University, and a Red Cross instructor for college classes in First Aid.
She is married to Walter Francis Colby, Professor of Physics, with whom she shares a deep interest in science, music, literature, languages, and plain dirt gardening.
From The Michigan Alumnus 309.
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Former University Professor of Psychology was killed in an automobile accident near Athens, Greece. Her husband, Professor Emeritus Walter Colby, miraculously escaped death and returned to Ann Arbor after a stay in the hospital.
From the Michigan Alumnus, 7 June 1958, p. 354
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Initial death location from FG contributor Deborah M Colby 1 Aug 2017.
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Corrected death location from FG contributor Ronald Colby 23 Dec 2018.
Married Walter Colby 11 Apr 1929 in Washtenaw Co., Michigan.
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MARTHA GUERNSEY COLBY, '19, Ph.D.'22, Associate Professor of Psychology, is, like all her colleagues, deeply concerned about the future of liberal education and the teaching profession. She believes that a teacher must have character as well as cleverness, and an exceptionally broad and thorough groundwork before specialization. Although she is very quiet by nature, her recent vigorous writings on fundamental education problems have brought her national recognition.
A westerner by birth and early education, Dr. Colby entered the University of Utah as a freshman. There she won the annual literary prize by an essay called "Old Clothes," and decided to become a writer. Shortly afterward, a fugue entitled "In Defiance of Richter's Manual of Harmony" won a conservatory award, and she decided to become a musician. But her first week as a sophomore in the biological and psychological laboratories at Michigan changed the course of her career.
As a faculty advisor, she retains a first-hand sympathy with student problems of specialization and "liberal" balance. Dr. Colby's early interests survived as a vocations. In college she wrote music for the Junior Girls' Play, was Woman's Editor of the Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the campus literary magazine, Chimes. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Iota, Mortarboard, Stylus, and Sigma Xi. As a graduate student, she held three University of Michigan fellowships, and her dissertation was awarded the Solis prize.
In 1926-27 she studied in Vienna on a Social Science Research Fellowship, and in 1929 was awarded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship for further study abroad. At various other periods she has travelled extensively with her husband, spending fifteen months of 1936-37 in the Orient and Near East.
Professor Colby is the author of several scientific contributions, and a member of various national and local professional organizations. As President of the Women's Research Club in 1941, and of the Women of the University of Michigan Faculty in 1942, she was active in efforts to coordinate these organizations with war work, both national and local. She is a member of the Women's War Committee of the University, and a Red Cross instructor for college classes in First Aid.
She is married to Walter Francis Colby, Professor of Physics, with whom she shares a deep interest in science, music, literature, languages, and plain dirt gardening.
From The Michigan Alumnus 309.
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Former University Professor of Psychology was killed in an automobile accident near Athens, Greece. Her husband, Professor Emeritus Walter Colby, miraculously escaped death and returned to Ann Arbor after a stay in the hospital.
From the Michigan Alumnus, 7 June 1958, p. 354
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Initial death location from FG contributor Deborah M Colby 1 Aug 2017.
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Corrected death location from FG contributor Ronald Colby 23 Dec 2018.
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MARTHA GUERNSEY COLBY, '19, Ph.D.'22, Associate Professor of Psychology, is, like all her colleagues, deeply concerned about the future of liberal education and the teaching profession. She believes that a teacher must have character as well as cleverness, and an exceptionally broad and thorough groundwork before specialization. Although she is very quiet by nature, her recent vigorous writings on fundamental education problems have brought her national recognition.
A westerner by birth and early education, Dr. Colby entered the University of Utah as a freshman. There she won the annual literary prize by an essay called "Old Clothes," and decided to become a writer. Shortly afterward, a fugue entitled "In Defiance of Richter's Manual of Harmony" won a conservatory award, and she decided to become a musician. But her first week as a sophomore in the biological and psychological laboratories at Michigan changed the course of her career.
As a faculty advisor, she retains a first-hand sympathy with student problems of specialization and "liberal" balance. Dr. Colby's early interests survived as a vocations. In college she wrote music for the Junior Girls' Play, was Woman's Editor of the Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the campus literary magazine, Chimes. She was a member of Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Iota, Mortarboard, Stylus, and Sigma Xi. As a graduate student, she held three University of Michigan fellowships, and her dissertation was awarded the Solis prize.
In 1926-27 she studied in Vienna on a Social Science Research Fellowship, and in 1929 was awarded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship for further study abroad. At various other periods she has travelled extensively with her husband, spending fifteen months of 1936-37 in the Orient and Near East.
Professor Colby is the author of several scientific contributions, and a member of various national and local professional organizations. As President of the Women's Research Club in 1941, and of the Women of the University of Michigan Faculty in 1942, she was active in efforts to coordinate these organizations with war work, both national and local. She is a member of the Women's War Committee of the University, and a Red Cross instructor for college classes in First Aid.
She is married to Walter Francis Colby, Professor of Physics, with whom she shares a deep interest in science, music, literature, languages, and plain dirt gardening.
From The Michigan Alumnus 309.
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Former University Professor of Psychology was killed in an automobile accident near Athens, Greece. Her husband, Professor Emeritus Walter Colby, miraculously escaped death and returned to Ann Arbor after a stay in the hospital.
From the Michigan Alumnus, 7 June 1958, p. 354
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Initial death location from FG contributor Deborah M Colby 1 Aug 2017.
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Corrected death location from FG contributor Ronald Colby 23 Dec 2018.
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