Alice Koford Chase


Wife of Daryl Chase, President of Utah State University, 1954-1967

Alice Koford Chase was born Oct. 11, 1906 in Brigham City, Utah. Her parents were Peter J. Koford and Rinta Thompson Koford. Alice attended the Brigham Young College in Logan the year it closed and received her teaching certificate from Utah Agricultural College. She married Daryl Chase on June 1, 1935 in Salt Lake City.

Alice received a B. A. degree in 1936 from the University of Wyoming and a Master's degree in psychology from USU in 1962. She received an honorary Ed. D. degree from USU in 1978. Between 1926 and 1971 she taught elementary school in Brigham City, Salt Lake City, Cedar City, and Logan at the Whittier School. She also taught social studies and math to seventh and eighth grade students in the Tucson, Arizona school system. While her husband was president of Utah State, Alice participated in workshops, leadership school, gave talks to groups of teachers and taught demonstration lessons. She also studied Spanish and was chairman for the Language Arts Section of the Curriculum Laboratory under the auspices of U.S./AID in Bolivia in 1968 preparing reading books for children and guides for teachers. After her husband's retirement as president, Alice returned to the classroom, teaching for a year at River Heights. She later taught under the U.S. EPDA Project at the Edith Bowen Lab School at USU. She was appointed to the Steering Committee of the Utah Council for Handicapped and Developmentally Disabled Persons and served as Chairman of Utah's Training and Planning Council.

Alice died in Salt Lake City on Dec. 10, 1999 and is buried in the Larkin Sunset Lawn Mausoleum.