10 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/ad98f40e62b85d84ddb3f3e85be1cf7d.png a1646b143aea5111025bd39dba6de9df https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/232c52a4979ef09beb3fe7b03123ed5f.pdf 5fbbbb3e96e7050dfcd9ec5e0475d590 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Morton (Kimball) Kehew Trustee Description An account of the resource Mary Morton Kimball, pictured here in the Notable Women of Boston mural, was born in Boston in 1859 to wealthy parents Susan Tillinghurst Morton, daughter of Massachusetts governor Marcus Morton, and Moses Day Kimball, a merchant and banker. She received her education at private schools and displayed an interest in social science early in her life. In 1880, Kimball married Boston manufacturer William B. Kehew, who was supportive of his wife’s reform work. In 1886, Kehew joined the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) of Boston, an organization composed of mostly wealthy women who sought to improve working conditions for the women of Boston. Kehew became director of the WEIU in 1890 and was elected president two years later. During her tenure, she reorganized the Union to focus heavily on legislative labor reform, forming a research department designed to gather information about working conditions for use in future legal actions. Kehew also established a women’s vocational training program at the Union, offering courses in dressmaking, millinery, housekeeping, and salesmanship. The program was later absorbed by Simmons when the College opened its doors to students in 1902, and Kehew maintained a position on the school’s Board of Trustees. Among the other Boston women involved with the WEIU were Kehew’s fellow Simmons suffragists Mabel Wheeler Daniels, Susan Myra Kingsbury, and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Following her term as president of the WEIU, Kehew sought to expand her labor activism further, hoping to reach a broader demographic of women workers. In 1892, she recruited Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, a former Hull House worker, to help found the Union for Industrial Progress, a group that organized labor unions for women in different trades, including bookbinding, laundry, tobacco work, and needlework. During this time, she also opened her Beacon Street home as a boarding house for working women in an effort to bring attention to class inequalities in the city. In 1903, Kehew became a founding member of the National Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), serving until 1913 as its first president, and remaining on the board for the rest of her life. During her career as a social reformer, philanthropist, and labor activist, Kehew was also involved in a number of other organizations, either as a member or as a financial supporter. She worked with the Denison Settlement House in Boston, the Massachusetts Minimum Wage and Child Labor Commissions, the Boston Tuberculosis Association, and the American Park and Outdoor Association, among many other organizations. She was an active suffragist, working on suffrage campaigns for the WTUL, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the School Voters’ League, and hosting at least one meeting of Boston’s Ward 8 Suffrage Association at her home. Kehew also maintained an interest in providing services for blind women, supporting the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, the Loan and Aid Society for the Blind, and the Woolson Settlement House for blind women. Kehew died of kidney disease in Boston in 1918. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ellen Lanyon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/5dd962285208ceaf96bbdaab43064059.png 4c1fbd5d1164b0b9646fb22589cbe952 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/12178cb9614326e767205f27987d2d5a.jpg 3b16c8d44596a23db8ef5ff777509abc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helena Veronica O'Brien '15 Subject The topic of the resource Secretarial student Helena Veronica O’Brien came to Simmons from Framingham, Massachusetts, where she had played on her high school’s championship basketball team. At Simmons, O’Brien was Vice-President of the campus Suffrage Club during her senior year. She was also involved in Choir and Glee Club, served as Business Manager of the Microcosm, and played on the basketball and track teams. After she graduated in 1915, O’Brien went on to study at Boston University, earning a law degree in 1924. She practiced law in Boston until the 1960s, and often returned to Simmons to teach classes in commercial and business law. She remained active in Simmons alumnae activities, serving as President of the Alumnae Association from 1941 to 1944 and speaking at a meeting of the North Shore Simmons Club in 1951. O’Brien died in 1964. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/5d61bea4780d8a9b0f51a94edc8f127c.png cbcfe13f648d4755b5a5b34d2b44c180 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/35670cc23d40d057e28e89e323407e2d.jpg 281796a0d4e8d25910741d8ff16cfdf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gertrude Barish '19 Description An account of the resource Gertrude Barish, a Russian immigrant who allegedly came to the United States to escape political persecution, studied Social Service at Simmons, graduating in 1919. Barish was a vocal proponent of women’s suffrage, speaking at a meeting of the Suffrage Committee of the Constitutional Convention in Boston in 1917. At Simmons, she served as Chairman of the Consumers’ League and of the Civic League in her senior year. Her classmates recognized her activist spirit in her yearbook entry, noting that, “when we see Gertrude coming down the corridor, we feel instinctively that she is going to ask us to join something.” In 1919, several newspapers reported that an American soldier named Leonard Swarthe was suing Barish for ten thousand dollars for “alleged breach of promise” after she refused to marry him. Swarthe, who had been stationed in Russia during World War I, claimed to have rescued Barish from death by a Russian firing squad after she “got into trouble with the authorities because of her political views.” He allegedly loaned her $1,700 to pay for her passage to the United States and for her Simmons tuition. Apparently, Swarthe assumed that Barish would repay the loan in more than money, and was outraged when she informed him that she loved another man. The outcome of the court case remains unknown, and little information survives about Barish’s later life, though a lecture she gave at a Washington, D.C. march for world peace led by Jane Addams in 1921 suggests that she continued to advocate for political causes even after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/ff4e10031f999291a5e389a50f151e39.png 17a21b48dfedbefdf3a08586745ad657 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/47a326d59f46e92dec2a2454ddb86f05.jpg 0e5e95ea0b1973f278f943881353290b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blanche Castleman '19 Description An account of the resource Born in 1897 in Rochester, New York, Blanche Castleman ‘19 studied Library Science at Simmons, where she was a member of the Bulletin Board Committee, the Dormitory Council, and the Dramatics Society. She later became a librarian at Jefferson Junior High School in Rochester, and married teacher Clarence James Link in 1922; the couple had one daughter, Barbara, born in 1925. Blanche Castleman died in 1980 and is buried in Rochester. While at Simmons, Castleman attended the Boston Suffrage March in 1915 and kept a fragment of a red anti-suffrage streamer in her scrapbook as a memento. Though no evidence remains to confirm either her support of or opposition to the women’s suffrage cause, her attendance at the march nevertheless suggests that Castleman was one of many politically engaged Simmons students during the 1910s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/3a65d8bf8b4e0527f4da7366dfa6f0b1.png f18727a00194885794935efc4434933b https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/385d213b1260d03ae6420e8d14452772.jpg da3cd866ce379c92a6bc11a5c59b28a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Martha Anderson '19 Description An account of the resource Secretarial student Martha Anderson’s senior entry in the 1919 Microcosm identified her as Chairman of the Socialism Study Group and Secretary-Treasurer of the Civic League and described her as a “champion” of “very radical” causes, perhaps including suffrage. After graduation, she attended graduate school at Bryn Mawr, studying statistics from 1919 to 1921. During her time in college and graduate school, Anderson worked as a secretary for several political groups, including the Consumers’ League of Massachusetts and the League of Democratic Control. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/ff1e424713f7a9651dd9e324ca5c6b02.png ac6c6d03282496ae9fe920914e042fa9 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/3529c879753120262891d083c15f37d3.jpg a978f3804e0f59f07f504529dbdf481d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Katherine Hobart '16 Description An account of the resource Household Economics student Katherine Hobart, of Cleveland, Ohio, was president of the Simmons Ohio Club and was in charge of costumes and props for the Dramatics Club during her senior year. A poem appearing on her 1916 yearbook page declared that Hobart “finds her interest in suffrage.” “‘If the men vote, why not the women?’” her classmates recalled her saying, “‘Forward, sisters, to the ballot!’” Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1916 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/0f14d1faab1ab9c3ccf8b3c908cddd5f.png 856967239d20ef70e1fac575219a8d05 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/8af594e088f7cdb34f6c4721e1a12472.png 323deb71cd153014799cf13d965b344e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Schenck Woolman Faculty, Household Economics Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Description An account of the resource Mary Schenck was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1860 to John V. Schenck, a doctor, and Martha (McKeen) Schenck. The Schencks were well-off, and Mary received her early education at the Longstreth School, a private Quaker institution in Philadelphia that emphasized vocational education and social service work. She went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania, though the school did not award degrees to women at the time. She later earned a B.S. from Columbia University in 1897 and pursued graduate work at Radcliffe College in the 1920s. Schenck married Franklin Conrad Woolman, a New Jersey lawyer and state legislator, in 1882. Shortly after their marriage, however, Franklin’s health began to decline and the couple were forced to sell their large New Jersey home and move into a boardinghouse in New York City so Mary could look for work. While caring for her husband, Woolman took a job correcting manuscripts for local publishers. Around 1892, one of her fellow boarders, a professor at the Columbia University Teachers College, asked her to look at a manuscript for a sewing instruction book; when Woolman suggested a different method of instruction for the book, the college president asked her to write her own instruction manual and hired her to teach at the school. Woolman remained at Teachers College for twenty years, organizing the school’s Domestic Art Department and publishing several books, including A Sewing Course for Schools (1900) and Textiles: A Handbook for the Student and Consumer (1913). During this time, she also served as Vice President of the newly formed New York Association of Sewing Schools. Impressed with Woolman’s scientific approach to the study of sewing and textiles, Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler recruited her to form the Manhattan Trade School for Girls in 1902. The school offered vocational courses for working women in dressmaking, millinery, and other needle trades, and Woolman, still teaching part-time at Teachers College, served as director until the New York City Board of Education took over its management in 1910. Her book The Making of a Trade School (1910) detailed her experiences as founder and director. Woolman left New York in 1913 to take a position as professor of Household Economics and temporary Director of the School of Household Economics at Simmons. That same year, she succeeded Mary Morton Kehew as President of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) of Boston, emulating her colleague Susan Kingsbury’s efforts to foster cooperation between Simmons and the Union. However, Woolman found the responsibilities of a dual appointment overwhelming and left both positions after only a year. She turned her attention instead to research and social service work, traveling through Europe to study textile work and other handicrafts, and producing books and educational pamphlets on clothing, consumer choices, and the textile industry. During World War I, Woolman was appointed Textile Specialist for Massachusetts under the Department of Agriculture’s War Emergency Fund. In this role, she organized exhibits on Boston Common designed to help women reuse clothing and conserve resources for the war effort. She also organized the wartime Clothing Information Bureau in Boston and served as a member of the Massachusetts Committee on Food Conservation in 1917. Woolman continued her social and political activism after the war, advocating for legislation to support girls’ vocational education and later serving on President Hoover’s Committee on Home Building and Home Ownership. She was an active suffragist and a member of both the Massachusetts and Boston chapters of the League of Women Voters. Woolman also held membership in the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), the Consumers’ League, and the National Child Labor Commission, and supported several organizations dedicated to improving education for Black students in the South. In 1926, she was honored with the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences, and in 1939, she was made a life member of the American Home Economics Association. Woolman died in August of 1940 in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/360ce1f880fa8793160b7fc4b8b4e5e1.png 1ed8c60c28a313f26336fb3820ecc973 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/757a44ffe922c879f3247eb815133b38.jpg 8a9a078dffaa29ea00ebb79cada3ba8b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Margaret Riegel '17 Description An account of the resource Household Economics student Margaret “Dutch” Riegel of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania was President of the short-lived Simmons Suffrage Club during her sophomore year and later became Chairman of the Social and Civics Club. She graduated in 1917 and moved to Blain, Pennsylvania, where she was appointed supervisor of the Home-Making Department at the newly opened Blain Vocational School. Riegel remained involved in activism, joining a local Red Cross chapter and serving as Chairman in 1918. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/0b342811e914725b43baa6e6c9340175.png 2cc924859638a88f150d631dcec3773e https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/826433fb4b18a7176b0aa25f25f4593a.jpg 3e0ff0a745f486844c237404b953592a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arabelle Parnell '17 Description An account of the resource Household Economics student Arabelle Parnell came to Simmons from Manchester, New Hampshire, and was Secretary-Treasurer of the college’s New Hampshire Club and a member of the Dormitory Council and the Senior-Faculty Committee. In the 1917 class will, she left “her ideas on suffrage” to fellow student Eleanor Perry. Parnell went on to become a dietician, working first at the Pawtucket Memorial Hospital in Rhode Island and later at a government hospital in Perry Point, Maryland, where she was promoted to Chief Dietician in 1920. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/88158e2334c56936312d42e2b1e54ee2.png 2d8b562429a94f4fa86ff891181f7335 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/208e0dc78f4017de1bcc75515611d598.jpg f4b14a90c80780312b799f122c9859f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Louise O'Malley '17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images from the Simmons University Archives collections are made available for study purposes only. For more information, or to request rights to reproduce or reuse any images, contact the University Archives at archives@simmons.edu. Description An account of the resource Louise O’Malley was born in Clifton, Ireland and immigrated to New Hampshire as a child. During her time as a Household Economics student at Simmons, she taught settlement classes for children and was known among her classmates to be “always right there for the suffrage parades.” After graduating in 1917, O’Malley received a master’s degree from the Boston Teachers College and eventually became a history teacher at Jamaica Plain High School, where she taught until she retired in 1966. She was a member of the Irish-American Heritage Society and a director of the Boston Eire Society, and remained involved in activism until her death in 1980, helping to organize Boston teachers in 1946 in response to school committee conflicts. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives