Eleanor Price

The purpose of this gift is to honor the life and memory of her late husband Granville Price.

Eleanor Anglin Price (1912-2013)
Born March 20, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of James J. and Kathryn (Dever) Anglin, Eleanor was the eldest of their five children. She came to DeKalb in 1951 as guidance counselor of McMurry School and functioned at NIU as school social worker until 1974 when she retired after 23 years. In 1968, she married Granville Price, professor of journalism, NIU.

Mrs. Price’s degrees included a Bachelor of Science in education and Master of Arts in Latin from the University of Pennsylvania, a doctorate in guidance and personnel from Cornell University, a Master of Social Science in psychiatric social work from Smith College, and a certificate in psychoanalytic child care from Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Before NIU, she worked in Pennsylvania elementary schools as a classroom teacher for 11 years, the last three of which as a demonstration teacher of grades five and six in the Illman-Carter unit of the School of Education, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. From 1943 to 1948, she was personnel manager for two electrical engineering firms: Anchor Manufacturing and Northeastern Engineering Companies of Manchester, N.H.

Active in community affairs in DeKalb, she served as president of DeKalb County Mental Health Association, vice president and board member of Granville Price Public Access Center, president and vice president of NIU Annuitant Association, secretary of DeKalb County Health Board, and vice president of NIU Dames Club. She also served as a board member for Family Service Association, of which she was a founding member, and 708 Community Mental Health Board of DeKalb County, The Salvation Army, Opportunity House and League of Women Voters.

Price also was a volunteer in the Children’s Program of the H. Douglas Singer Mental Health Center in Rockford and a volunteer for DeKalb County’s Court Appointed Special Advocate program. She was recipient of awards from Pi Lambda Theta and the NIU Foundation’s President’s Award for Service and a certificate from the DeKalb County Master Gardener Program. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers.

She was a member of Mortar Board, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pan Hellenic Association, DeKalb Garden Club, DeKalb County Quilters Guild, Newman Catholic Student Center, Thursday Arts Club and Delta Kappa Gamma of Ithaca, N.Y. Weaving, gardening, quilting, swimming, bird watching and child advocacy were her abiding avocational interests.