Doreen Canaday Spitzer

Spitzer was born in 1914 in New Castle, Indiana. She was the only child of Toledo industrialist and car manufacturer Ward Murphey Canaday and Mariam Canaday née Coffin. == Career ==

Spitzer first visited Greece in 1933 with her parents. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1936, where she had majored in archaeology and was a student of historian Rhys Carpenter and archaeologist Mary Hamilton Swindler. Spitzer, her husband and young family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1948, when he was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. While living there, she volunteered as a docent in the Princeton University Art Museum and instituted an annual celebration of Greek Independence Day which was held at her home. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the University of Toledo in 1987. She died in 2010, when she was 95 years old. == Legacy ==

Spitzer was a long time supporter of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, serving as Trustee 1978–1996, President of the Board of Trustees 1983–1988, Trustee Emerita from 1996, and President of the Friends from 1988 until her death. She also promoted the development of the school newsletter. After the establishment of the archives at the American School in the 1980s, she donated personal documents to the archive. The "Doreen Canaday Spitzer Papers" collection includes over 1,000 images and documents from her "time in Greece from 1936-1938, some personal correspondence, and professional correspondence related to the American School." It was digitized in 2015–2016. Spitzer was a supporter of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA). == Personal life ==

Doreen married the astronomer Lyman Spitzer on June 29, 1940, and they had four children: Nicholas, Dionis, Sarah, and Lydia. In 1997, she published the book As Long as Ye Both Shall Live: A Marital Memoir, about their 57-year marriage. Among the Spitzer children is neurobiologist Nicholas Spitzer, a professor at the University of California, San Diego. == References ==