Background
Purcell, Mary Louise Gerlinger was born on July 17, 1923 in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Charles and Lajla (Dale) Gerlinger.
Purcell, Mary Louise Gerlinger was born on July 17, 1923 in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Charles and Lajla (Dale) Gerlinger.
Student Yankton College, 1941-1945, Yale Division School, 1949-1950, New York University, summer 1949. Master of Arts (alumni fellow), Teachers College Columbia University, 1959, Doctor of Education, 1963.
July 1954); children: Amelia Allerton, Jon Allerton. Married second, Dale Purcell, August 26, 1962. Teen-age program director, Young Women's Christian Association, New Haven, 1945-1952.
Director program in family relations, assistant professor sociology and psychology Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1959-1962, conference coordinator undergraduate education for women, 1962.
Chairman division home and community Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1962-1973, chairman family and community studies, 1962-1978, director Learning Unlimited, continuing education for women, 1974-1978, developer course The Contemporary American Woman, 1962, consultant, 1962. Professor, Auburn (Alabama) University, 1978-1988, professor emerita, 1988, head department family and child development, 1978-1984, special assistant to vice president academic affairs, 1985-1986. chairman search committee forv.p. academic affairs, 1984.
Visiting professor Indiana U. Summer School, 1970. Consultant student personnel services, Trenton (New Jersey) State College, 1958-1959, 61.
Vice president Falls Villate-Canaan History Society, 1998—2001, president, 2002—2007. Member of American Association of University Women, National Council Family Relations, Groves Conference Family (national program chairman 1977, director, chairman-elect affiliated councils 1981-1982, chairman 1982-1984, chairman film awards committee, chairman special emphases section, board directors), American Home Economics Association 1967-1969, (chair 1st subject matter unit 1969, family relations and child development section 1986-1989), Falls Village Canada History Society (vice president 1998—2001, president 2002-2007), Litchfield County University Club (member scholarship committee since 2001, board directors 2001-2006), Housatonic Camera Club (co-president 1996—2000), Delta Kappa Gamma.
Married Walter A. Kuyawski, June 9, 1950 (deceased July 1954). Children: Amelia Allerton, Jon Allerton. Married Dale Purcell, August 26, 1962 (deceased November 2005).