A Napa Valley Theatre Company
Alice L. Holst
Alice L. Holst was born in Kingston, Jamaica, July 22, 1915. As the
daughter of a Seventh-day Adventist minister, she spent her
childhood moving from one church to another in Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. In 1932, she graduated from Mt.
Vernon Academy in Ohio as the class Valedictorian. She then went on
to Washington Missionary College (now Columbia Union College) where
she once again graduated at the top of her class in 1939, as
Valedictorian, with a Bachelor of Arts in Education and minors in
English and Business.
Alice spent the next three years teaching and deaning at Broadview Academy in Illinois and one year at Shenandoah Valley Academy in Virginia. Her years working in the academies started what would become a lifelong passion–working for young people. She joined the faculty of Atlantic Union College in 1943, where she chaired the Department of Secretarial Studies. It was while teaching at AUC that she earned her Master of Arts in Business Education in 1947. After receiving her master’s degree, Alice moved to Angwin where she became a Professor and Chair of the Secretarial Studies Department at Pacific Union College. During her tenure at PUC, Alice continued to work on her own education and earned a Doctorate of Education from Columbia University in 1954 where she also taught part-time.
Beginning in 1963 Dr. Holst started teaching at both Napa High School and Vintage High School in Napa. During this time, different opportunities became available for her talents to flourish. Over the next several years, she developed secretarial training courses in medical, legal, and clerical fields. Her Medical Terminology course was later bought by IBM and used all over the world. During the 1970’s she consulted for both the Napa State Hospital’s in-service medical secretarial training and the Bureau of Business Education Department of the State of California. On two separate occasions the Bureau of Business Education asked her to be a speaker at its Business Education Conferences. She also had the opportunity to conduct a workshop on the teaching of secretarial subjects for teachers from all the Seventh-day Adventist colleges in the United States and Canada. Throughout her entire career Dr. Holst shared her knowledge by writing articles for the Business Education Forum, The Secretary, and The Journal of True Education and creating manuals for Medical Secretarial Practice, Legal Secretarial Practice, and Clerical Secretarial Practice for the Napa Valley Unified School District.
Even with all of her growing achievements, Dr. Holst never forgot PUC and the important work it does. She has been a member of the PUC Committee of 100, serving 12 years as the Committee Secretary. She regularly donates her time to student nurses as they work on their Elders Project. In 1980, she established the David Lin student scholarship fund for which she raised $96,700. More recently, she has donated significant funds toward a theater on the PUC campus. These funds created the space we now know as the Alice Holst Theatre in Stauffer Hall at Pacific Union College.
Dr. Alice L. Holst is an extraordinarily lively, caring, and humble woman who has given her life to the service of youth. She is a scholar, a consultant, a writer, a fundraiser, and most importantly, a teacher.
Alice spent the next three years teaching and deaning at Broadview Academy in Illinois and one year at Shenandoah Valley Academy in Virginia. Her years working in the academies started what would become a lifelong passion–working for young people. She joined the faculty of Atlantic Union College in 1943, where she chaired the Department of Secretarial Studies. It was while teaching at AUC that she earned her Master of Arts in Business Education in 1947. After receiving her master’s degree, Alice moved to Angwin where she became a Professor and Chair of the Secretarial Studies Department at Pacific Union College. During her tenure at PUC, Alice continued to work on her own education and earned a Doctorate of Education from Columbia University in 1954 where she also taught part-time.
Beginning in 1963 Dr. Holst started teaching at both Napa High School and Vintage High School in Napa. During this time, different opportunities became available for her talents to flourish. Over the next several years, she developed secretarial training courses in medical, legal, and clerical fields. Her Medical Terminology course was later bought by IBM and used all over the world. During the 1970’s she consulted for both the Napa State Hospital’s in-service medical secretarial training and the Bureau of Business Education Department of the State of California. On two separate occasions the Bureau of Business Education asked her to be a speaker at its Business Education Conferences. She also had the opportunity to conduct a workshop on the teaching of secretarial subjects for teachers from all the Seventh-day Adventist colleges in the United States and Canada. Throughout her entire career Dr. Holst shared her knowledge by writing articles for the Business Education Forum, The Secretary, and The Journal of True Education and creating manuals for Medical Secretarial Practice, Legal Secretarial Practice, and Clerical Secretarial Practice for the Napa Valley Unified School District.
Even with all of her growing achievements, Dr. Holst never forgot PUC and the important work it does. She has been a member of the PUC Committee of 100, serving 12 years as the Committee Secretary. She regularly donates her time to student nurses as they work on their Elders Project. In 1980, she established the David Lin student scholarship fund for which she raised $96,700. More recently, she has donated significant funds toward a theater on the PUC campus. These funds created the space we now know as the Alice Holst Theatre in Stauffer Hall at Pacific Union College.
Dr. Alice L. Holst is an extraordinarily lively, caring, and humble woman who has given her life to the service of youth. She is a scholar, a consultant, a writer, a fundraiser, and most importantly, a teacher.
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