Palache graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928,[2] and was close to her classmate, Katharine Hepburn.[3][4] The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and field hockey.[5] She was also active in dramatics and glee club,[6] and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year.[7]
Career
Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with Margaret Sanger.[8][9] In 1933, she began working at the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York as a trainee. She worked at the Fiduciary Trust Company until her retirement in 1974,[10] as senior vice president of the company.[11] During World War II, she was the company's acting chief executive.[12] She was also director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund.[8]
Later in life, Jones was a trustee of the North Salem Free Library, a member of the board of directors of Bryn Mawr College,[10] and chair of the North Salem Planning Board.[1]
Personal life and death
Palache married advertising executive and cookbook author Russell Kennedy Jones in 1954, as his second wife; they met in 1932.[13] Russell Jones died in 1986.[14]