Background
Appenzeller, Alice Rebecca was born on November 9, 1885 in of Korea, (1st American child born in of Korea). Daughter of Review Henry G. and Ella (Dodge) A. (pioneer Mechanical Engineering missionaries to of Korea).
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Appenzeller, Alice Rebecca was born on November 9, 1885 in of Korea, (1st American child born in of Korea). Daughter of Review Henry G. and Ella (Dodge) A. (pioneer Mechanical Engineering missionaries to of Korea).
She later graduated from Wellesley College, after which she returned to the Shippen School to teach.
There she pursued her education, first at the Shippen School for Girls (what is now Lancaster Country Day School). She was appointed by the Methodist Church as a missionary teacher at Ewha College in Seoul in 1915 and became president of the college in October 1922. She returned to the United States to earn her master"s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1922.
In 1932 she was ordained as a Methodist minister and appointed to the First Methodist Church in Seoul founded by her father.
In 1935 she was awarded the for meritorious service in education by the Imperial Government of Japan. In 1940 she was expelled from of Korea by the Japanese government, as were all missionaries due to World World War World War II She served as professor and Dean of Women at Scarritt College until 1943 and returned to of Korea in 1946 where she was made Honorary President at Ewha College until her death in 1950.
Both the President of of Korea, Syngman Rhee, and the American ambassador, who was at that time John Jay Muccio, spoke at her funeral.
Member Royal Asiatic Society, Agora (Wellesley), Phi Delta Gamma. Clubs: Women's Music, Seoul Union (Seoul).