Elsie Chamberlain CarrollElsie Chamberlain Carroll (1882-1967) was a talented author, poet, and educator. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University (BYU) before performing graduate work at the University of Minnesota, Stanford University, and Columia University. She began her remarkable career in education as an elementary and high school teacher, and she finished her career as a college professor at BYU, where she taught in the English Department for nearly twenty-five years. At BYU she is memorialized with an essay contest in her name; she is also the namesake of Carroll Hall, one of the former Heritage Hall dorms. Elsie married Charles Hardy Carroll, her childhood sweetheart from Orderville, Utah, in 1907. They had two children. Elsie retired from her professorship at BYU in 1950 and moved to Salt Lake City, where she continued to teach through BYU correspondence courses. She lived in Utah most of her life but loved adventure and traveled extensively. Elsie was known for making the best chocolate chip cookies in the neighborhood. Read More Read Less