Hicks Hall is a residence hall in East Campus
at the University of Connecticut, named after Elizabeth Hicks. Painter,
philanthropist, and consultant to the Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture
(named after her father), Elizabeth Hicks was born in Tolland, Connecticut
in 1884. She graduated from the Veltin School in New York in 1902 and studied
law at New York University under Dean Ashley. She also studied painting
under Robert Henri and William Chase; her work was exhibited at the National
Academy and the Allied Artists. She lived in New York for many years and
maintained an apartment in Hartford for the fifteen years prior to her death
in 1974.
While in Connecticut Ms. Hicks became a founding
member and later director of the Tolland Public Library. She provided a trust
fund for the Ratcliffe Hicks Memorial School in Tolland. The junior high
and Meadowbrook schools in Tolland were built on land which she donated
in memory of her aunt. Ms. Hicks served as director of Hicks Realty Company
in Meriden, Connecticut.
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