Juliet Greer
Juliet Greer Bridwell was an American home economist and college professor. She was dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art at Oregon State University from 1908 to 1911.
Early life and education
Greer was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Howard Greer and Aberilla Ecoff Greer. She graduated from Vassar College, where she was president of the class of 1895. She pursued further studies at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University. Her youngest sister, Florence Greer, was a fellow Vassar alumna, and a noted educator as principal of Brooklyn Heights Seminary.Career
Greer taught physics and biology at Pratt Institute from 1898 to 1908. She joined the faculty at Oregon State University, as dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art, in 1908. She resigned from OAC in 1911, along with her four assistants. She was succeeded as dean at OAC by Henrietta W. Calvin.In 1916, she joined the faculty at Brooklyn Heights Seminary, as a science teacher. She also read one of her husband's professional papers at the Pacific Slope Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego that year. She was still associated with the Brooklyn school in the early 1930s, before her sister's death and the school's closure in 1933.
In the 1930s, Bridwell was an officer of the Progressive Citizens of Georgetown.