Cecil Florence Ritchie Nichols '39

(b. March 22, 1917, Tokyo, Japan-d. April 20, 1945, Perth, West Australia)

Attended Canadian Academy, Tokyo, Japan, and College High School, Montclair, NJ

Entered New Jersey College for Women September 1935, BA, June 3, 1939

Entered Service May 22, 1944, American Red Cross, Staff Assistant

Cecil was born in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto, Japan, where her father was the bishop of an Episcopal diocese. She came to the United States for her senior year of high school at College High in Montclair. At Rutgers, Cecil loved music; one of her friends commented that "she could do proper justice to _Der Fuehrer's Face _and The Moonlight Sonata." After college, Cecil worked for a few different firms before taking a job at the Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation. For the American Red Cross, Cecil was assigned to clubs in three cities in Australia. She was on her way to a new post when she was killed in an airplane crash.