NCC: Luella Edith Kiekhoefer papers

Luella Edith Kiekhoefer was born in December 1879. She attended Ellsworth Elementary School in Naperville and received her high school diploma from the Academy of North-Western College. She attended North-Western College from 1897 to 1901, receiving her Bachelor of Philosophy. Her father was Herman J. Kiekhoefer, the President of North-Western College from 1889-1910. From 1904 to 1906, Luella Kiekhoefer traveled to Germany, living and studying the German language. She also attended classes at the University of Chicago’s Summer Sessions, as well as a course at the Floyd Gibbons School of Broadcasting in Washington D.C. Kiekhoefer obtained her Master of Philosophy at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1923 with her thesis titled “Saint Alexis: Trajedie.” Kiekhoefer taught Modern Languages and History at North-Western College from 1902 to 1910. She also taught at Westminster College in New Wilminton, Pennsylvania; Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio; College Preparatory High School in Chicago from 1938 to1948; and Cosmopolitan Preparatory School in Chicago from 1948 to 1959. Kiekhoefer wrote many papers and translated many works, including the English translation of The Master of Palmyra, which was published in 1925 and copyrighted by the Library of Congress in 1942. Among her other writings include the radio dramatization of the book Silas Marner by George Eliot, The Beginnings of the Illinois Conference Assembly Grounds, and other short play scripts and stories. Kiekhoefer died in 1975.