About Kathryn Irene Glascock
Lived 1901 – 1923 (aged 21–22). Kathryn Irene Glascock was an American poet and writer.
Kathryn Irene Glascock (1901 – February 23, 1923) was an American poet. The Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after her.
Early life and education Glascock was born in 1901 to parents Hugh Grundy Glascock, an educator, and Etta (or Ella) Bodine Woods. She was raised in Culver, Indiana. Glascock graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922.
At Mount Holyoke, she was editor of the school newspaper, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Glascock worked as a magazine editor in New York after college.
Legacy In her memory, her parents established the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College in 1923. The contest became an intercollegiate event in 1924. "Daylight," Poetry Magazine, Volume 22, May 1923, Page 83.
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