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((Dorothy Lampen Thomson)) 1904 - 1995

Author, Educator

Dorothy Lampen was born in Great Falls, Montana in 1904 to Frank Lampen and Clara Ludwig Lampen. She graduated from Great Falls High School in 1922. Ms. Lampen graduated Magna Cum Laude from Carleton College in 1926 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She is the first woman to receive a Ph. D in Political Economics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1928. Immediately after graduation she was appointed to the faculty of Hunter College of the City of New York in 1929 and later Professor of Economics at Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York. She was married to Willis Irving Thomson in 1937. Mr. Thomson was an author of children's books and educator with the title of principal at New Rochelle, NY High School and Issac E Young Middle School.

Upon her death her philanthropic giving left a vast sum to Carleton College, John Hopkins University and the Great Falls Public Library

Books:

"Economic and Social Aspects of Federal Reclamation", Dorothy Lampen Ph.D, The John Hopkins Press 1930

"The Teaching of High School Economics", Dorothy L. Thomson & Margaret Thomson, Education Magazine, The Palmer Company 1939

"''American Capitalism: An Introduction'", Lawrence E. Leamer and Dorothy Lampen

"Adam Smith's Daughters", Dorothy Lampen Thomson, Exposition Press, NY 1973