While in college, Grosscup was president of the Goucher Athletic Association, and a member of the basketball team. She also competed in swimming, diving, gymnastics, baseball, and hockey events, and was active in dramatics, student government, and music programs.[5] She was part of Goucher's delegation to a YWCA convention on Lake George in 1911.[6]
Career
In 1915, Grosscup was appointed chair of the English department and director of athletics at the International Institute for Girls in Spain, a Protestant school run by American missionary Alice Gordon Gulick.[5][7][8] She was director of physical education at Hollins College in Virginia from 1916 to 1920. During World War I, she volunteered to train hundreds of young women for work with the Red Cross, and to create a "coast patrol guard" of young women, from a base camp on land she owned in New Jersey.[9]
Grosscup became head of the physical training department at Montclair State Normal School in New Jersey in 1920.[10] In 1922, she staged an original outdoor pageant in Montclair, titled A College Medley, as a benefit for Goucher College; it included dozens of school children and clubwomen in the large cast.[11][12] She was assistant director of physical training for the New Jersey Board of Education until she resigned in 1928,[13] and an advisor to the National Tuberculosis Association in the early 1930s.[14] She spoke about tuberculosis prevention to students at the University of Missouri,[15] and before other community groups.[16][17] In 1930, she helped plan "health trails" for local Girl Scout councils in Binghamton and Newburgh.[18]
Grosscup died suddenly in 1949, at the age of 57, in Montclair.[24]
References
^"New Jersey Girl Appointed Instructor in School in Spain", Evening Public Ledger, September 1, 1915. Accessed January 18, 2024. "At 23 years of age, Miss Ethel A. Grosscup, of Wenonah, N. J., has received appointment to the chair of English at the International Institute for Girls In Spain."
