American botanist, professor and Chair of Biology at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois from 1920 to 1956. She was the first woman faculty member there to earn a doctorate. She was also a noted scholar, natural historian, author, philanthropist, traveler and an early female academic leader and role model. Because of the significance attached to her professional career (even though she was retired by that time), she was duly recognized with her inclusion into Volume #1 of the still published "Who's Who of American Women" first published in 1958. And she became part of a wave of new, educated, "professional" women of the early twentieth century who achieved prominence and some fame by virtue of their own accomplishments.
Alice Lovina Kibbe PhD is the correct way to write her name & title though there's no way to do the "PhD" at the end of her name that won't mess up a F.A.G. search for "Kibbe" alone. In person she'd be introduced as doctor Alice Kibbe or doctor Kibbe...
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Alice Lovina Kibbe PhD is the correct way to write her name & title though there's no way to do the "PhD" at the end of her name that won't mess up a F.A.G. search for "Kibbe" alone. In person she'd be introduced as doctor Alice Kibbe or doctor Kibbe...
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American botanist, professor and Chair of Biology at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois from 1920 to 1956. She was the first woman faculty member there to earn a doctorate. She was also a noted scholar, natural historian, author, philanthropist, traveler and an early female academic leader and role model. Because of the significance attached to her professional career (even though she was retired by that time), she was duly recognized with her inclusion into Volume #1 of the still published "Who's Who of American Women" first published in 1958. And she became part of a wave of new, educated, "professional" women of the early twentieth century who achieved prominence and some fame by virtue of their own accomplishments.
Alice Lovina Kibbe PhD is the correct way to write her name & title though there's no way to do the "PhD" at the end of her name that won't mess up a F.A.G. search for "Kibbe" alone. In person she'd be introduced as doctor Alice Kibbe or doctor Kibbe...
To read more about the fascinating and accomplished life of Dr. Alice Kibbe highlight and right click the following link: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dr.+Alice+L.+Kibbe&t=hk&ia=web
Alice Lovina Kibbe PhD is the correct way to write her name & title though there's no way to do the "PhD" at the end of her name that won't mess up a F.A.G. search for "Kibbe" alone. In person she'd be introduced as doctor Alice Kibbe or doctor Kibbe...
To read more about the fascinating and accomplished life of Dr. Alice Kibbe highlight and right click the following link: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dr.+Alice+L.+Kibbe&t=hk&ia=web
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She Hath Done What She Could
Gravesite Details
Her grave is about 100 feet due south from the western entrance by the large Kibbe obelisk with other family members, on the left side of the cemetery road.
