Author talk:Ida Ahlborn Weeks

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IDA A. AHLBORN, M. L.
Professor of English Literature and History

Miss Ahlborn is counted, and worthily, as being one of the leading educators of the the state. No meeting of the state association seems complete without her, but her greatest influence as an educator has been felt within the walls of Baker, where, during the last eight years, she has won the intellects and hearts of all who have been fortunate enough to come under her care. Miss Ahlborn was born in Ohio, of German parentage, and was graduated in 1876 from the State Normal school at Concordia, Kansas. During part of every summer, her work has brought her in contact with a great host of teachers, who have so gotten some of the inspiration which, with her broad views and large sympathies, she gives to all who meet her. Her own studies have led her into the paths of literature, and, besides having the ability to speak her own thoughts in fitting words, she is a critic of no mean repute. The Kansas Academy of Language and Literature, of which she was president during the year ending in April last, has felt the impress of her strong personality and is better for it. Her work in in the school room has been effective always on the line of thorough teaching but besides that, it has always been inspirational, and so has had far greater value.

—The Baker Beacon: College Weekly of Baker University [1]. May 15th, 1893

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:50, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ida Ahlborn Weeks[edit]

I don't know whether "Ida A. Ahlborn" and "Ida Ahlborn Weeks" (author of The Poems of Ida Ahlborn Weeks [2]) are the same person or not. The former is always listed as Miss and the latter as Mrs, so it is possible; both are also associated with Baker University, as Weeks has an honorary degree from 1898 according to https://archive.org/details/alumnirecordofba1917bake and both are listed in that source with the postnominals "M.L.". On the other hand, the same source also mentions "Ida Anna Ahlhorn" and you would think it would list her as "Ida Ahlhorn Weeks" consistently if they were the same person. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:50, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

News clippings:

It is reported that Miss Ida Ahlborn, one of the most able members of Baker University's faculty, and a prominent Kansas literary lady, is to be married soon to Leroy T. Weeks, of Arkansas.

—Salina Daily Republican [3], June 15, 1894

The death of Mrs. Ida Ahlborn Weeks comes as a personal loss to every former student of Baker University, ' and her death takes from the field of education and llterntmv one of the great and good women who have helped humanity and who have-mnde the world better for her having lived. She was a great woman,' and for over a quarter of a century she was one of the great educators and writers of Kans:). liiul as a write" her work will go u blessing those -Alio were not so for tu ante as to know, her personally. She suffered .much in late years. out she applied 'to herself the Christian philosophy she taught to . others, and lived in the faith of which she was -an example, and her memory wlli bo crowned by the thousands who have coine under her Influence.

—The Parsons Daily Sun [4], October 26, 1910

Sirs. Ida Ahlborn Weeks, whose long 'illness hna been waHhed with apprehension by her Wlnfleld friends, died Saturday, October 8, at a sanitarium In Des Molues, Iowa, The funeral was held at Mount Vernon, Iowa, where Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have made their homo for several years. Mrs. Weeks and her husband. I.eRoy T. Weeks, were both professors at Southwestern, having come here In I S!6. and made this place their home until about five years ago, Shi'-e it hat 'line they have lived In Iowa, anil have devoted their timo to literature, both being talented writer. Mrs. Weeks has many friends In Wtnfie'd who deeply regret to hear jibe news of her death. She was an honorary member of Porosis, the I vere of whose club sons: o "Frlend- Ishlp"' she wrote.

—The Winfield Daily Free Press [5], October 13, 1910

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