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Germaine Dew Page ’22

Germaine Dew Page ’22, September 11, 1998, in Portland. A native of France, she attended Reed for two years while teaching French at St. Helen’s Hall. She transferred to the University of Oregon, where she earned a BA in 1922 and a master’s degree in 1924. She returned to Portland and taught high school French and Spanish. In 1926, she married Thomas Page, a naval physician. During World War II, she began working for the U.S. Army Map Service, serving in China, Panama, and Washington, D.C., and retired in 1958. She and her husband returned to live in the Portland area in 1969; he died in 1995. She is survived by a cousin.

Appeared in Reed magazine: February 1999

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