Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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K1312 JAMS Eoelz'cAer Miss Mitchell also was to be on the staff position. QR. FROELICHER, who was christened Johann Baptiste, was born in the town of Solothurn in German Switzerland in 1866. He is the son of Joseph Froe- licher, a business man, and Anna Froelicher. He attended the ele- mentary school in Solothurn for five years, then for two years at Dalle, 'France. He was in England at boarding school one year and finally, in 1885, he came to the University of Zurich. While he was an undergraduate at Zurich, he met Frances Henrietta Mitchell, a Philadelphia woman. who was studying for her degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the univer- sity. After two years they became engaged. The following fall Miss Mitchell came to America, having accepted a position in the English department of Bryn Mawr College. She intended to return to Switzer- land the next summer when Johann had obtained his degree. Just be fore summer, however, Dr. William Hopkins, of Baltimore, came to Zurich looking for faculty members for a womanis college to be opened that fall in Baltimore. Johann Froelicher was offered the position of associate professor of French. As of the new college, he accepted the In July, 1888, Dr. Froelicher received his doctor's degree. In August he sailed for America. He went, immediately upon his arrival in the United States, to Baltimore, where, on September 5, 1888, he and Miss Mitchell were married. I211 Dr. Froelicher has served Goucher College forty years. He is the only