Kathrine S. French - Early Years

Early Years

Kathrine McCullough Story was born on June 5, 1922, in Champaign, Illinois. In 1942, she received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and anthropology from Pomona College in California. Her father, Russell M. Story, a political scientist, was President of the Claremont Colleges and Graduate School. At Pomona she met David H. French, who was pursuing his own anthropological career. They married in 1943, and they both pursued graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University in New York, where Americanists such as Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict were working.

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