Elizabeth Clementine Miller Tangeman

Clementine Tangeman (17 February 1905 - 17 January 1996) was an American philanthropist, who inherited a fortune from her family's business, the Cummins Engine Company. She was a lifelong member of the Girl Scout movement and became Vice President of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).

Personal life and education Clementine was born to mother Nettie Irwin Sweeney (1876–1960), a philanthropist and father Hugh Thomas Miller (1867–1947), a college professor, politician and director of the Cummins Engine Company (founded 1919) which made diesel engines, engine components and power systems. She had one brother, J. Irwin Miller. Clementine attended Columbus Public School before moving to Emma Willard School, New York, graduating in 1923. There, she received a prize for the highest score for the General Information Test. She then attended Smith College, graduating in 1927 with a degree in history. In 1966 they had a summer house built near the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, designed by Harry Weese. The house included an electric ferry, which shuttled visitors to and from the mainland.

In 1989 Tangeman and her brother repurchased over one million Cummins Engine Company shares from Hanson Plc, who were planning a potential takeover of the company.

Boards of directors Tangeman served on many boards of directors and other governance committees, including:

Emma Willard School, first female president of the board in 1965 American Red Cross Butler University Smith College

Philanthropy In 1971, together with her brother and his wife, she donated US$2,000,000 to the development of the public part of The Commons, a mall in Bartholomew County, Indiana. They initially offered to cover the maintenance costs for two years, but eventually covered the costs for the first thirty years. The donation included a kinetic sculpture by Jean Tinguely.

Girl Scouts Tangeman joined a Girl Scout troop as a leader in 1936. She would maintain a relationship with the movement for the next sixty years. After returning from Italy in 1945, she joined the International Division of the Girl Scouts' national headquarters in New York. In the early 1950s, she served as chair of the Bartholomew County Girl Scout Association.

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) Tangeman was instrumental in raising funds to build Nuestra Cabaña, WAGGGS' third World Centre in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The fundraising effort took ten years, and the centre was completed in 1957. subsequently becoming vice president.

In 1995, more than one hundred Girl Scouts and their leaders serenaded Tangeman to mark her 90th birthday.

Irvin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation Tangeman was president of the Irvin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation where she led activities and awarded grants “in a search for solutions to problems faced by youths and the disadvantaged in Bartholemew County.”

Music Tangeman was an accomplished musician, playing the violin, and hymnologist. Together with E. Wayne Berry and Edwin Reader Erritt, she co-edited the hymnal Christian Hymns in 1945.

She was a director for the American Friends of the Aldeburgh Festival.

Honours and memorials Honours 1995 Yale Medal 1979 Juliette Low Medal The Inn at Irwin Gardens, in Columbus, Indiana, previously owned by Tangeman's grandfather, Joseph Ireland Irwin (1823–1910), includes the Clementine Tangeman Suite. The Clementine Tangeman Medal at Smith College Tangeman Woods in Bartholemew, Indiana was donated to Sycamore Land Trust by the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation in 2007 and named in Tangeman's honor. "Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise", a hymn set by McNeil Robinson in 1994 to the tune "Llanfair" in celebration of Tangeman's life