Ellen Olga Paige (1879-1957) was a longstanding teacher of home economics at Florida A&M University, who served the university from 1899 to 1942.
Life
Paige initially taught plain sewing and dressmaking at Florida A&M.Annual catalog 1901-1902 Florida State Normal and Industrial School For Colored Youth Tallahassee, Florida In 1901 she started a drive to have tennis at the college, and by 1910 there were annual intramural men's and women's championships.Florida A&M Basketball 1989-90 Media Guide, p.43 By the early 1920s she was in charge of Domestic Arts.Bulletin of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College (for Negroes). Thirty-Fifth Annual Catalogue, 1921-1922 In 1932 she helped start women's basketball at Florida A&M.
The Perry-Paige Building at the university is named after Paige and Benjamin Luther Perry Sr.Gerald Ensley, Building honors faculty pair, Tallahassee Democrat, March 23, 2014.
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