Lloyd, Alice Spencer (1876–1962)

US educator. With her mother she founded many elementary and secondary schools, and the tuition-free Carey Junior College (later renamed Alice Lloyd College) (1922). Lloyd was born Alice Spencer Geddes in Athol, Massachusetts. A Massachusetts newspaper editor, lecturer, and freelance writer, she became disabled by spinal meningitis and moved in 1916 to impoverished Knott County, Kentucky. Along with a strict curriculum, she enforced almost puritanical rules at her college, which was supported by gifts she solicited and staffed by college graduates who were attracted by her ideals. She left there only once – in 1951, to appear on the TV program, This is Your Life, which helped raise $50,000.