Elizabeth Blodgett Hall

Elizabeth Blodgett Hall was raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts at a time when upper-class people fled there in order to avoid the economic pressures of the Great Depression.

As a young girl she met the woman who would become Mrs. Emily Rose, wife of Milt Rose of the law firm Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, a firm which would later boast such partners as Richard M. Nixon, future Attorney General John Mitchell as well as Pat Buchanan who served as Nixon's assistant.

In 1930, she married Livingston Hall, a Harvard Law School professor. After she had children, she began studies at Radcliffe College.

From 1949 to 1963 she was headmistress for Concord Academy, an independent college preparatory school in Concord, Massachusetts. During her time there, Mrs. Hall was responsible for developing Concord Academy into a demanding college preparatory school.

In 1964, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall and her mother, Margaret Kendrick Blodgett, founded Simon's Rock, an early college designed specifically to accept students coming from their sophomore or junior years of high-school and usually before receiving high school diplomas. Simon's Rock first class entered in 1966.

Mrs. Hall died July 18, 2005, at the age of 95 in Canaan, Connecticut.

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* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/education/20hall.html New York Times Obituary]