Etnah Rochon Boutte
Etnah Rochon Boutte (1881 – March 9, 1973) was an American educator, pharmacist, and clubwoman. She taught French at Fisk University and in New York City. She was executive secretary of the Circle for Negro War Relief during World War I. Early life Etnah R. Rochon was from St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, the daughter of Victor Narcisse Rochon and Kate Rochon. Her mother was a teacher, and her father was a member of the Louisiana legislature during Reconstruction. She had three older sisters, including Althea Rochon, who went overseas as a YMCA worker during World War I. Another older sister, Beatrice Frances Rochon, married architect Robert Robinson Taylor; former government official Valerie Jarrett is the great-granddaughter of Beatrice Rochon Taylor. (Etnah Rochon Boutte's first name is found as Etna or Edna in some sources, but she used the five-letter spelling in published advertisements for her school and in correspondence.) Education Boutte attended Fisk University, but left during her senior year in 1917 to do war work. She petitioned later for her degree, with a letter of support from W. E. B. Du Bois. After the war, she attended Columbia University and studied a semester in Paris. She received a pharmacy