Background
Phelps, Edith Blakeslee was born on June 23, 1917 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of George Hubbard and Edna (Day) Blakeslee.
Phelps, Edith Blakeslee was born on June 23, 1917 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of George Hubbard and Edna (Day) Blakeslee.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1938. Postgraduate, Clark University, Worcester, 1939. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Emerson College, Boston, 1973.
Head history department Riverdale (New York ) Country School Girls, 1939-1943. Instructor history cadet training detachment United States Army Air Force, College, Idaho, 1943-1944. Lecturer Council Foreign Affairs, Boston, 1946-1951.
Head history department Concord (Massachusetts) Academy, 1958-1959, assistant headmistress, 1959-1963. Principal Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1963-1973. Education consultant National Association Indiana Schools, 1973-1974.
National executive director Girls Clubs American, Incorporated, New York York City, 1974-1982. Director Center for Study Girls' Development Harvard University Graduate School Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1983. National advisory board Center Early Adolescence, since 1977.
Committee chairman Smith College Day School, 1962-1965. Visiting committee student affairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, 1965-1968. Chairman Commission Indiana Schools, 1965-1968, vice president, 1967-1969, executive committee, since 1965, president, 1969-1970.
Chairman National Collaboration for Youth, since 1977, president, 1976-1979. Trustee Smith College, since 1974, Middlesex School, 1973-1976, 83–.
Member National Association Indiana Schools (director 1965-1968), National Association Principals of Schools for Girls, Headmisstresses Association East.
Married William Griswold Phelps, September 5, 1941 (deceased). Children: Judith Phelps Felton, Lisa, Catherine.