Amalie Kass

Amalie Moses Kass (January 9, 1928 - May 19, 2019) was an American historian at Harvard Medical School.[1] She wrote about obstetrics and midwifery.

Amalie Kass
Born(1928-01-09)January 9, 1928
DiedMay 19, 2019(2019-05-19) (aged 91)
NationalityUnited States
EducationForest Park High School
Alma materWellesley College
Known forWrote about obstetrics and midwifery
Spouse(s)Malcolm (Mac) Hecht Jr.
Children5
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School

Biography

Amalie Moses was born to Leslie and Helene Moses and reared in Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Forest Park High School. She attended Wellesley College and graduated in 1949, with high honors in history, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her master's degree in education in 1963 from Boston University. She had two younger siblings, a brother Alfred H. Moses and a sister Claire Moses Lovett.[2] She had lived in Cambridge, Lincoln, and Belmont, Massachusetts.[2]

In 1949, she married Malcolm (Mac) Hecht Jr.,[3] with whom she had five children: Anne, Robert, Thomas, Jonathan, and Peter Hecht. The animal carousel for children in the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is named for Mac Hecht[4] because of her 2013 donation.[5][6][7][8][9] In 1975, following Mac's death in 1973, she married Dr. Edward Kass and became stepmother to his three children: Robert, James, and Nancy Kass.[10]

Books and articles

Author of two medical biographies
  1. Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876, Northeastern University Press, 2002[11][12]
  2. Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin, MD (co-author with Edward Harold Kass), Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1988[13][14][15]

Author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries including
  1. A Brief History of the Channing Laboratory
  2. My brother preaches, I practice Walter Channing, M.D., Antebellum Obstetrician
  3. Walter Channing Brief life of a nineteenth-century obstetrician 1786-1876

Professional work

Major volunteer activities
  • President of the Massachusetts Historical Society (2002 – ).
  • Lincoln Rural Land Foundation Trustee (200? - present)
  • Wellesley College Trustee (1992–2007)[16]
  • President of the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development

Honors

References
  1. Memorial for Amalie Kass in Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine
  2. Obituary for Amalie Moses Hecht Kass, accessed June 10, 2019
  3. Genealogical page for Malcolm Hecht, Jr., Geni, accessed June 10, 2019
  4. Amalie Kass: Meet the Donor Who Made the Greenway Carousel Possible. The Boston Foundation: Donors, accessed June 10, 2019
  5. Philanthropy in Practice - Amalie Kass: Giving the Gift of Fun. September 2013 Newsletter. The Boston Foundation, Philanthropoic Advisor, A Guide to Charitable Giving for Professional Advisors
  6. Riders take Greenway carousel for its first spin. Boston Globe. August 2013, accessed June 10, 2019
  8. Carousel Background. The Green Way, accessed June 10, 2019. Discussed funding, design, construction of carousel
  9. Limited Edition Carousel Coloring Book!: The Greenway Carousel at The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove, accessed June 10. 2019. Acknowledges passing of Amalie Kass, lead donor on carousel project
  10. Obituary for Amalie Kass, The Lincoln Squirrel, accessed June 10, 2019, https://www.lincolnsquirrel.com/2019/05/
  11. Office, Harvard News. "Harvard Gazette: Channing the younger". news.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  12. Kass, Amalie M. (2002-01-01). Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555535018.
  13. System., Charles E. Rosenberg; Charles E. Rosenberg's Most Recent Book Is the Care Of Strangers: The Rise Of America's Hospital (1988-09-18). "RIGHTEOUS BUT GOOD". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  14. Kass, Amalie M.; Kass, Edward Harold (1988-01-01). Perfecting the world: the life and times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 1798-1866. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780151717002.
  15. Profile page for Amalie Kass in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  16. Wellesley College list of Trustees, accessed June 10, 2019
  17. Notable, News & Research: Notable (7/30/10), July 30, 2010, Harvard Medical School
  18. Harvard Catalyst Profile page for Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine (In the Faculty of Medicine)
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