17 Facts About Grace Frank

In 1908, Grace Frank moved with her husband to Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where Tenney Grace Frank was a Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College until 1919.

Grace Frank's first published work was during this period, an English translation from German of Hermann Sudermann's Roses, four one-act plays in 1909.

Grace Frank was made a lecturer in Romance philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in 1926.

However, beginning in 1919, Tenney Grace Frank was made professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which required the couple to relocate there.

Grace Frank became professor emerita of Old French at Bryn Mawr in 1952.

Outside of the academy, Grace Frank was an accomplished pianist, and enjoyed mountain climbing and studying the migration of birds.

Grace Frank publicly opposed the anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh in the pages of the Baltimore Sun.

Grace Frank was active in society life at Bryn Mawr and Baltimore, as well as a participant in several professional organizations.

Grace Frank served as the Chairman of the scholarship committee and vice-president of the Bryn Mawr College Club of Baltimore.

Grace Frank was a patron of the Homewood Playshop of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as the JHU Glee Club and Johns Hopkins Band.

Grace Frank served on the committee to host the Archaeological Institute of America and American Philological Association in the city.

Grace Frank gave lectures open to the public at Bryn Mawr.

Grace Frank became a Fellow of the organization in 1950.

Grace Frank was made a vice-president of the Modern Language Association in 1957.

In later life, Grace Frank was a frequent author of letters to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.

Grace Frank moved from her Roland Park home to a retirement home in Hightstown, New Jersey, in the spring of 1977, where she died following a heart attack on March 22,1978.

Grace Frank supervised several doctoral dissertations despite never having achieved a PhD herself.