Alice Crozier
Chair, Health Care Committee
Alice Crozier was born in Manhattan and attended Radcliffe, graduating in 1956. She stayed in Cambridge and enrolled in a doctoral program in a new interdisciplinary field called The History of American Civilization, receiving her degree from Harvard in 1964.
Her first job was in the Smith College English department, teaching courses in American literature from 1961 to 66, which was interrupted by a fellowship year at Oxford University in 1964-64. Most of her professional career was spent at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, teaching American literature to both undergraduate and graduate students from 1966 to 2000. Of the various committees, probably the most interesting was in 1971-72 when she was appointed to a group of three faculty and three administrators who studied the salaries of the Rutgers faculties at all three campuses (New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden) with a view to discovering if there were structural bias that favored men and disadvantaged women. Nobody was more surprised than the senior faculty women when they received their large compensatory checks. She has been retired since the summer of 2000.
Alice married in 1968 and has two sons who are now, respectively, an electro-physiologist (a branch of Neuroscience) and a helicopter pilot. The older one works at Rutgers and lives in Westfield, NJ; the younger one works for a helicopter company out of Lagos, Nigeria that has contracts with several of the big Western oil companies. She has two grandsons.
In 1989 Alice moved to Hoboken, NJ. The children were no longer living at home, she was divorced and wanted easier access to New York City. She lived in Hoboken for twenty-five years, then moved to Winchester Gardens in January, 2014. Since moving to Maplewood, she has signed up with the local chapter of the League of Women Voters, and has been on the immigration committee of the state League for about eight years. She joined a chorus that performs in Plainfield, NJ. At Winchester she is chair of the Hospitality Committee, a group that looks at issues of housekeeping and guest services. She enjoys the company of the Winchester residents at dinner time, and likes walking her dog around the very pretty grounds.