Rosamond Spicer (1913 - 1999) was an American anthropologist and a writer. She worked with her husband Edward Holland Spicer (known as "Ned") who was a very well known anthropologist who authored many books which included the book which she had jointly edited titled People of Pascua (1988) which included a section by her titled Living in Pascua, Looking Back Fifty Years. Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation has been established by the family members of the Spicer family and anthropologists in Arizona in honour of Ned and Roz Spicer, as they were popularly known, in the field of applied anthropology. This Foundation, associated with the Arizona State Museum, is engaged in making use of the archive of Spicer’s work which Roz Spicer had compiled after death of Ned to enable further "applied research and practice in anthropology." Biography Rosamond Spicer was born Rosamond Pendleton Brown on October 24, 1913 in Bryn Athyn, about north of downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Dr. Reginald W. Brown and Augusta Pendleton Brown, the latter being the daughter of William Frederic Pendleton. Her religious following was Swedenborgianism or the Church of the New Jerusalem, with rituals similar to that of Episcopal or the Catholic church. Her initial education was classical and included study of Hebrew, Latin, Greek and French - her father was also a scholarly person. In 1929, she had visited the West Coast, Canada and Mexico with her father and she spent her summers in old huts on the shores of lakes or sea. During two summers she had learned about ancient Egyptian pottery working at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She also pursued lessons in modern dancing for performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Spicer's higher education was at the Northwestern University on the subject of cultural anthropology under the guidance of Melville Herkovits, from where, in 1934, she obtained a degree in archaeology. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago in 1938 to receive a Master's degree in anthropology. She also studied Near Eastern history and hieroglyphs at the Chicago's Oriental Institute. She married Edward Holland Spicer on June 21, 1936, in Glenview, IL, after they had met at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago where he had joined to pursue his s higher studies. Ned who joined the University of Chicago to pursue his doctoral degree in social anthropology under a