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Place of Birth: Amay, Wallonia, Belgium
About Alice Melin
- Alice Melin (August 9, 1900 – October 10, 1985) was a Belgian socialist politician. The daughter of Henri Melin and Géraldine Danse, she was born in Ampsin.
- After attending public school, she took night courses in accounting, shorthand typing and languages, as well as courses given by Isabelle Blume and Alice Pels.
- An active socialist, she worked in the office of cooperatives in Amay and Liège.
- She received a diploma in social work from the Ecole ouvriere superieure in Brussels.
- From 1926, she taught in a vocational school founded by the Belgian Labour Party in Liège.From 1928 to 1965, she was secretary for the Femmes prévoyantes socialistes (FPS).
- She served on the national executive council for the FPS and was also a member of various other women's organizations.
- From 1928, she helped organize summer camps for the FPS.
- During the Spanish Civil War, she provided aid to Spanish children taking refuge in Belgium.
- During World War II, she helped raise funds for the underground socialist movement in Liège Province.From 1954 to 1958, she was a senator for Liège Province; from 1958 to 1961, she represented the Arrondissement of Liège in the senate.
- During her time in the senate, she worked for equal treatment for women.She was married twice: first to a Mr.
- Bruylandt who died in 1924 and later to Urbain Guilmain.Melin died in Huldenberg at the age of 85.
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