Eliza Cope Harrison

Eliza Cope Harrison died peacefully at home in Rumford, RI, on November 24, 2020. Born November 8, 1936, she was the daughter of Alice and Oliver Cope of Cambridge, MA. Educated at the Winsor School in Boston, where she later taught history, and Bryn Mawr College, she also received a master’s degree in history from the University of Michigan. Eliza was a lifelong educator and learner, teaching history to high school students in Boston, New Haven, Ann Arbor, and at a French-language girls school in Beirut, Lebanon. On moving to Pennsylvania in the mid 1970s, she spent 10 years as Director of the Hershey Museum of American Life. Her decades-long involvement with educational institutions and with Bryn Mawr, in particular, was furthered through service on the Board of Managers of Haverford College, and as the President of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association. Eliza also served as President of the Board of the Awbury Arboretum Association in Philadelphia, was active in the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and with...