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2 unusual facts about Philleo Nash


Philleo Nash

On November 2, 1935, he married Edith Nash, who was the second director of the Georgetown Day School, the first racially integrated school in Washington, D.C. Edith Nash was also an accomplished poet, a childhood friend of Ernest Hemingway, publishing (among other titles) the Cross+Roads Press book, Practice: The Here and Now. He was also the founder of the Riverwood Roundtable literary society.

Ralph Linton

Several of his students went on to become important anthropologists, such as Clyde Kluckhohn, Marvin Opler, Philleo Nash, and Sol Tax.



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