A wealthy widow,[6] she married James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, two years later.
[1] She chaired the Consumer Division of the State Defense Committee in World War II, and her eldest son, Edward, died near the end of the war.
Angell channeled her grief into helping returning war veterans with employment skills.
[2] Angell regarded the school as a memorial to her dead son.
When the institute purchased a mansion in September 1947 for $75,000 to allow expansion of the school, she guaranteed the loan.