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Alice Helen Palache Jones (April 12, 1907 – June 12, 1989) was an American banker.


Background

Alice Helen Palache was born in
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, the daughter of
Charles Palache Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer. In his time, he was one of the most important mineralogists in the United States. Background Charles Palache came from the Pallache famil ...
and Helen Harrington Markham Palache. Her father was a Harvard professor and
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; her mother was a teacher. Palache graduated from
Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...
in 1928, and was close to her classmate,
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. The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and
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. She was also active in dramatics and glee club, and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year.


Career

Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with
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. In 1933, she began working at the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York as a trainee. She worked at the Fiduciary Trust Company until her retirement in 1974, as senior vice president of the company. During
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, she was the company's acting chief executive. She was also director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund. Later in life, Jones was a trustee of the North Salem Free Library, a member of the board of directors of Bryn Mawr College, and chair of the North Salem Planning Board.


Personal life and death

Palache married advertising executive and cookbook author Russell Kennedy Jones in 1954, as his second wife; they met in 1932. Russell Jones died in 1986. She died age 82 on June 12, 1989, in
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.


Legacy

Some of her papers are in the Palache Family Papers at Harvard's
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. Her niece was editor Judith Palache Gregory.


See also

*
Charles Palache Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer. In his time, he was one of the most important mineralogists in the United States. Background Charles Palache came from the Pallache famil ...
* Judith Palache Gregory *
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References

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