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Elaine Macmann "Mac" Willoughby (March 22, 1926 – November 12, 2012) was an American educator and writer of children's books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elaine Macmann Willoughby )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elaine Macmann Willoughby )〕 ==Life== Elaine Maybelle Macmann, known as "Mac", was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, and was the only child of Walter and Mabel Macmann. She received a B.S. of Education from Wheelock College, graduating in 1949 as vice-president of her class. In the summer of 1951 she also attended the University of Rhode Island, and in the summer of 1953 attended the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. She received her MA and PhD in Education from the Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1954 to 1957. Her teaching career began with primary school where she taught 1st grade in Norwood, Massachusetts, from 1949–1951, in Arlington, Virginia, from 1951–1952, and Wilmington, Delaware, from 1952–1953. She also taught at the Agnes Russel Center of the Teachers College while pursuing her MA and PhD. After graduating from Columbia she pursued teaching opportunities at the college level where she taught Language Arts, Children's Literature, and Child Development at Bowling Green State University, Kent State University, the University of New Hampshire, Oberlin College, and Baldwin-Wallace College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elaine MacMann Willoughby )〕 She married the flutist Robert Hugh Willoughby in the summer of 1957, after having dated him off and on for several years. They moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where he was teaching at Oberlin College. In 1960 they spent a year in Cincinnati, where their son John was born. In 1987 they moved to New Castle, New Hampshire, which was the setting for several of her books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Willoughby: American grandmaster of the flute )〕 She actively supported a variety of charities, from the schools she attended 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why We Give )〕 to local charities. To help raise funds and awareness for the Strawberry Banke Museum, she wrote "The Story of Strawberry Banke" in 1981 that sold at the museum gift shop with all profits going to the museum. Elaine Willoughby died of a cerebral stroke on November 12, 2012, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is buried in New Castle, New Hampshire. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elaine Macmann Willoughby )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elaine Macmann Willoughby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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