Balch, Emily Greene

Balch, << bawlch, >> Emily Greene (1867-1961), an American economist and pacifist, was one of the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. She helped form the Women’s International Commission for Permanent Peace in 1915. She served from 1919 to 1922 as secretary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and became its honorary president in 1937. She taught at Wellesley College from 1896 to 1918. She was born on Jan. 8, 1867, in Boston. She died on Jan. 9, 1961.