DR. JANE HASELDEN, 1903-1991

Jane Haselden, a Lancaster, Kentucky native, graduated from Transylvania University in 1926 with a degree in French.  As a graduation present her parents sent Haselden to study in Paris for a year.  

Following her return to the United States she became a teacher, first in Beattyville, Kentucky and subsequently in her hometown of Lancaster.  While in Beattyville, Haselden achieved some notoriety for coaching the boys' basketball team at the local high school.  

During summers Haselden worked toward a master's degree at Columbia University, a goal she achieved in 1932.  After serving as Dean of Women at both Transylvania University and Murray State Teachers College in Western Kentucky, Haselden completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at UK.

Haselden also held a pilot’s license.  She and Anna Mayrell Johnson jointly owned an airplane and were known to rush out to the local airport during their lunch breaks to fly their plane over Lexington.  One time Haselden even flew her plane over Stoll Field during a football game between Kentucky and Alabama.  

Haselden and Johnson actively participated in the Kentucky chapter of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots affiliated with the National Aeronautic Association in Washington D.C.  Haselden recalled that as the war began "casual flying" came to an end because the war changed things for everyone.   She was one of only three women who were members of the committee which drafted Kentucky's civil aviation regulations.

For additional information see:  

http://libguides.transy.edu/JaneHaselden  (Transylvania University)

Dean of Women Papers, Special Collections Research Center, UK Libraries

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, UK Libraries
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 17, 1989
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7ksn012j09
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 27, 1989

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7z348gj469