| Ingeborg Casey | |
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Full name |
Ingeborg Gubler Casey |
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Alternative names |
Ingeborg Gulber Gillman |
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Presence at Shimer | |
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Presence on Earth |
1938–2011 |
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Role(s) |
Mount Carroll period alum |
Ingeborg Casey was a student at Shimer College in the early Great Books period, enrolling as an early entrant in 1953 at the age of 15.
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Brief description[]
This brief description is released under the CC0 copyright waiver.Ingeborg Gubler Casey (1938–2011) was an American clinical psychologist. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she enrolled at Shimer College at the age of 15 through the early entrance program. She later transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where she first studied mathematics and modern dance before embarking on a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, which she completed in 1967. Casey's memoir The Heart Moves in a Circular Direction chronicles the lifelong work of overcoming her own psychological issues, particularly her relationship with her schizophrenic mother. (from Shimer College Wiki)
Quotes about Shimer[]
- From Shimer College Record 51:3, October 1959, p. 9:
- Ingeborg Gubler Gillman wrote: "When I came to Shimer in 1953, shortly after my fifteenth birthday, I was scared, shy, awkward . . . but dying for knowledge with a capital K. There, as I had hoped, I was stimulated and changed intellectually, but in addition I was brought out of myself emotionally and socially. I really began to enjoy life because I was offered ... a college-level education in an unthreatening, relatively protected environment.
- "The reason I left after two years was really due to the fact that Shimer had done its job too well — I had come out of myself socially and wanted a more varied social environment . . . and an opportunity to study modern dance seriously. . . . After two years as a dance major my academic interests returned and I transferred into mathematics. I will be receiving my B.S. in math this June and I plan to enter graduate school here (Univ. of Wisc.) in the fall in clinical psychology while my husband continues work on his Ph.D. jn mathematics."