Papers of Dorothy L. Frauenhofer, 1909-2009

Dorothy Othello Stallworth was born in 1923 in Americus, Georgia, to Martha (Johnson) and Elbert Stallworth. The Stallworth family moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1938 so the children could attend a high school run by the Tuskegee Institute. Dorothy Stallworth also attended college at Tuskegee Institute and married a fellow student and Tuskegee Airman, Milton Lemmons, in 1943. Dorothy and Milton Lemmons moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and had 3 daughters. Dorothy worked a school teacher, and received a M.A. in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1963. The Lemmons's marriage ended in divorce in 1967; Dorothy moved with her children to Boston, where she pursued a second master's degree at Boston University. Dorothy married Dennis Frauenhofer in 1969. Dorothy Frauenhofer worked as a guidance counselor in the Newton Public Schools for 13 years, and was involved in the METCO program there. She received an Ed.D. from Harvard in 1979, and opened a private therapy practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1981. She developed a clientele of professional African American women, and spoke often about the psychological ramifications of racism. Dr. Frauenhofer enjoyed creative writing, and wrote a novel, Castles of Deferred Dreams, in 2011 (published under the name Dorothy Stallworth). She also wrote a chapter of Ourselves Growing Older, published by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective in 1994. Dorothy Stallworth Frauenhofer died of a stroke in Onset, Massachusetts, in 2016.