death_place death_date birth_place parents birth_date spouse article_title education name occupation
pippa passes , kentucky 04 september 1962 athol , massachusetts william e. geddes ella -lrb- ainsworth -rrb- geddes 13 november 1876 arthur lloyd alice spencer geddes lloyd
 chauncey hall radcliffe college alice spencer geddes lloyd social reformer , journalist , educator
alice spencer geddes lloyd

alice spencer geddes lloyd -lrb- november 13 , 1876 -- september 4 , 1962 -rrb- was an american social reformer who founded alice lloyd college in pippa passes , kentucky .
alice spencer geddes was born in athol , massachusetts on november 13 , 1876 and later studied at radcliffe college .
in her early career in boston , alice geddes worked as a journalist .
in 1902 , she was publisher and editor of the cambridge press , the first united states publication to have an all-female staff .
in 1915 alice geddes lloyd and her husband arthur lloyd moved to knott county , kentucky , with the goal of improving social and economic conditions , living at first in ivis .
their initial work involved provision of health care , educational services , and agricultural improvements to the appalachian region , funded by donations from east coast states .
in 1917 alice lloyd and her mother moved to caney creek , where she had been offered land for a school .
she separated from her husband in 1918 and remained in knott county .
she named her caney creek home `` pippa passes '' after a poem by robert browning and in honor of donors from the new england browning society .
together with june buchanan , a native of syracuse , new york , who joined her in kentucky in 1919 , lloyd founded 100 elementary schools throughout eastern kentucky and opened caney junior college in 1923 .
the college offered a free education to mountain youth , who were required to promise to remain in the region or return after completing their education .
there was a long waiting list for admission .
lloyd imposed strict rules on the students , including no jewelry , cosmetics , slang , or high-heeled shoes for girls and no tobacco , gambling , liquor , guns or `` unauthorized meetings with the opposite sex '' for boys .
both lloyd and buchanan worked without pay at both education and fund-raising .
lloyd is said to have raised some $ 2.5 million for the college , mainly by typing and mailing fund-raising appeals .
on december 7 , 1955 , lloyd appeared on the `` this is your life '' television show , whose host ralph edwards made a direct fund-raising plea on her school 's behalf , resulting in a large influx of donations which totaled nearly $ 250,000 .
in 1997 , the college 's director of marketing and communications at the time , stephen reed , told a journalist , `` we 've still got people on our mailing and donor list who saw the show . ''
lloyd served the college until her death on september 4 , 1962 .
after her death , the college was renamed in her honor .
miss buchanan served at alice lloyd college until 1988 , when she died at the age of 100 , having lived to see the 1984 opening of the june buchanan school , a k-12 school on the alice lloyd college campus named in her honor .
a statue of lloyd was dedicated on october 10 , 2009 during a ceremony at the college .
lloyd is currently portrayed as a chautauqua character in an exciting one-woman dramatization called `` stay on , stranger . ''
this program , part of the kentucky humanities council , may be booked by any organization or group of individuals through their web page .
