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Dorothy Drummond

Dorothy Drummond was an educator, speaker, and world traveler. A former president of the National Council for Geographic Education, she has authored four textbooks on world cultures[1].

Born in San Diego, California on December 19, 1928, Dorothy was the oldest of four children of Frederick William Weitz, a chemist at Crystal Sugar Company and Dora Ida Sofia Weidenhofer, a homemaker. The Weitz family lived in Oxnard, California, where Dorothy's early memories included reading about the battle theaters of WWII, finding them on her maps, and having a great desire to travel to these faraway places to better understand the news she was reading; a theme which continued to her last day[2].

Her interest in geography emerged early. As a high school girl, she — like millions of other Americans — studied the places affected by World War II. “I remember following all the battles,” she said in 2013. “I had maps all over the room, and a globe. It was important to me.”

She received a BA from Valparaiso University in 1949 and an MS from Northwestern University in 1951. Her career began at the American Geographical Society, in New York City in 1952, as assistant to the editor of the Geographical Review.

She moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1953, when she married Robert Drummond, professor of Geography at Indiana State University. Dorothy learned to love the Drummond family farm in Clark County, Illinois during frequent visits.

In 1957-58 Dorothy and Robert moved to Rangoon, Burma as Fulbright Scholars. For the next 40 years, Dorothy continued her teaching at area schools including St. Mary of-the-Woods College and Indiana State University. She authored and co-authored books, articles and Encyclopedia Brittanica subjects furthering geographic education.

Geography was a passion for her. She wrote and co-wrote four world cultures textbooks. Her 2002 book “Holy Land, Whose Land? Modern Dilemma, Ancient Roots” sold more than 17,000 copies worldwide. She visited Israel five times, as well as several surrounding Middle Eastern countries. Dorothy served as president of the National Council for Geographic Education, and received that organization’s lifetime achievement award for her efforts to “further geographic education in Indiana and around the world through her organized travel opportunities, writing and philanthropic work[3].” She gave hundreds of presentations about geographic topics to civic organizations, students, faculty, elected officials and many other groups for decades[4].

Dorothy Drummond was a co-founder the Geography Educators Network of Indiana (or GENI) in 1983, along with other Hoosier instructors. That grassroots initiative made a difference. Geography’s status as a distinct discipline in schools diminished from the 1930s through the ‘70s, Dorothy explained in that 2013 interview. Students’ lack of awareness of the world’s physical features and their relevance showed and that problem continued into their adulthood. In the ‘80s, a National Geographic Society survey found the average American could identify fewer than 6 of 10 U.S. states and fewer than 3 in 10 could read a map.

“They had no sense of place, and people were aware that geography wasn’t being taught,” Dorothy explained. “And that was the impetus for the creation of GENI.”

Dorothy wrote grants that helped nearly 1,000 Indiana teachers attend summer geography workshops at The Woods. She organized and led affordable geography tours of distant lands for Wabash Valley teachers. The educators got to see the countries in their classroom lessons, ate the food and met the locals.

Dorothy Drummond was traveling on her seventh trip to China to conduct research when she fell at the museum for the Three Gorges Project. After surgery in Hong Kong, she sustained severe head trauma and passed away peacefully with her friend and daughter by her side[5]. She died at age 89 on November 30, 2018, the loss was felt in many places, especially Dorothy’s home community of Terre Haute. The following night, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra conductor David Bowden announced to the Tilson Auditorium audience the passing of Dorothy, an avid arts supporter. He dedicated the moving song “Ave Maria” in her honor.

She’s a big reason that geography regained some of its lost emphasis in Hoosier education.

Dorothy’s care for people around the globe became part of her Terre Haute story, too. In 2014, she helped found a local chapter of Bread for the World, a group aiming to convey to Indiana members of Congress the importance of hunger relief efforts. Twenty Wabash Valley churches, the Sisters of Providence and others joined the cause. They gather for an “offering of letters,” write messages to the local lawmakers, urging them to fund aid to hungry people at home and abroad, and then hand deliver those letters to the officials.

One in 9 people worldwide face chronic hunger. It’s a life-or-death matter for some.

In travels to dozens and dozens of countries, Dorothy undoubtedly saw that human problem. And because a sense of place was so important to her, many other people understand their world a little better today

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