3 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/60daf88514a6147a41d3badec3c0300d.jpg 7b86057a977c71ee92951189648c9a99 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 Julia Eleanor Moody Faculty, Biology Description An account of the resource Julia Eleanor Moody was born in Canton, New York in 1869 to Harnel and Adelia (Hewett) Moody. She attended Mount Holyoke College, earning a B.S. in 1894 and then an M.A. in 1909 and writing her master’s thesis on the anatomy and embryology of Cumingia tellinoides, a species of clam. During this time, she also taught Zoology at Mount Holyoke and studied intermittently at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. After earning her M.A., Moody went on to study at Columbia University, graduating with a PhD in Zoology in 1912. That same year, Dr. Moody accepted two teaching positions, one in the Biology Department at Simmons, and the other in the Zoology Department at Wellesley. She stayed at Simmons for only two years, but maintained her post at Wellesley until her retirement in 1937. Little is known about Moody’s political and social activities, though she was a supporter of women’s suffrage. She was also a member of the College Club of Boston and was elected to the American Society of Zoologists in 1914. In addition to her teaching work, she also coauthored a series of informational science books for children with Mount Holyoke professor Jeannette Marks, the most popular of which were Little Busybodies (1909) and A Holiday with the Birds (1910). Moody and Marks were committed to instilling in children an interest in science and nature, and they remarked in a newspaper interview in 1909 that they wrote “with the determination that the child should not be bored…they shan’t be told a single uninteresting fact.” Moody’s date of death is unknown. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/50e220cc62d14457856cbcd2b11c4786.jpg 7b86057a977c71ee92951189648c9a99 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 Annette Philbrick Locke Fellow, Home Economics Description An account of the resource Annette E. Philbrick was born in Iowa City in 1875 to Philetus Harvey Philbrick and Malah P. (Brackett) Philbrick. She attended the Iowa City public schools until the family moved to Nebraska, and she finished her early education in the city of Ainsworth. She went on to study at the University of Nebraska, earning her B.S. in 1897 and graduating as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Philbrick then pursued graduate work at her alma mater until 1898, when she moved to New York City to study at the Columbia Teachers College, earning a diploma in Home Economics the following year. In 1899, Philbrick returned to the University of Nebraska, this time as an instructor in Home Economics. Around this time, she also submitted a paper on school responses to cultural differences among students to the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics. Philbrick took a leave from the University in 1901, accepting a fellowship in Home Economics at the Boston School of Housekeeping, which later became part of Simmons. During the year she spent in Boston, she worked under Henrietta Goodrich, Director of the School of Housekeeping, to oversee a series of nutritional studies for the United States Department of Agriculture. Philbrick remained at the University of Nebraska until at least 1914, earning a promotion to Associate Professor in 1908. Philbrick married newspaper editor Walter Leonard Locke in 1910, and the couple had one son, Francis Philbrick, in 1912. Though little information remains about her later life, Locke identified as a progressive Democrat and was an active suffragist, holding membership in the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL) and likely in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In 1920, shortly after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, she added her name to a public list of Nebraska women, many of whom were also suffragists, opposing a state referendum for direct primaries. Philbrick was also active in the Home Economics Association and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and a charter member of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she resided. Philbrick’s date of death is unknown. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/6d6da01c1dda369ab2d7d6a0d3069fc9.jpg 7b86057a977c71ee92951189648c9a99 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 Judson Faculty, English Description An account of the resource Margaret Judson was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1880 to Edward and Antoinette (Barstow) Judson. Her father was the pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in New York City and a professor at Colgate Theological Seminary. Margaret attended Vassar College, graduating with an A.B. in English in 1903. After graduation, Judson moved to Boston, taking a position as an instructor in English at Simmons. She taught at the College for less than two years, returning to Vassar in 1905 to teach English there. Judson likely remained at Vassar for the rest of her career, taking intermittent leaves to pursue graduate study at Yale between 1907 and 1909 and again from 1912 to 1914. In 1913, she accepted a joint position as Dean of Women and Professor of English at Shepardson College, the women’s college of Denison University in Ohio. She returned to Vassar in 1916, however, and was promoted to Associate Professor of English. In addition to her teaching work, Judson was also a published poet and author. Her English textbook Composition, Rhetoric, Literature, co-authored with Dr. Martha Hale Shackford of Wellesley College, was published in 1917. She also penned a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but it was never published. Though little is known about Judson’s social or political activities, she was an active suffragist, holding membership in both the Dutchess County (New York) Equal Suffrage League and the Equal Franchise League of New Haven, Connecticut. Judson died in Cazenovia, New York, in July of 1963. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/a21b28c0cce171767c07ad015c5c8293.png 97a7f9de643e22aaa0791524e1800032 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/f14c8cc7644ecc9aedea4102a7bf3674.png 700aaf286cce0a2f73ce7675649f9431 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 June Richardson Donnelly Faculty, Library Science Description An account of the resource June Richardson Donnelly was born in College Hill, Ohio, to John Marshall Donnelly and Anne (Moore) Donnelly. She attended the Cincinnati Public Schools, graduating from Hughes High School. She went on to earn a B.S. in biology in 1895 from the University of Cincinnati, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. She later attended the New York State Library School in Albany, graduating with a B.L.S. around 1903. After graduation, Donnelly worked for two years as a cataloguer at the Cincinnati Public Library. In 1905, she moved to Boston and took a position as a Library Science instructor at Simmons, where she would stay for more than thirty years. After taking a leave of absence in 1909 to assume the directorship of the Drexel Institute Library School in Philadelphia for three years, Donnelly returned to Simmons in 1913, this time as Associate Professor of Library Science and Director of the Simmons Library School. Under her guidance, the Library School developed courses in cataloguing and special programs for children’s librarians, and worked to foster relationships between students and prospective employers. Donnelly was a supporter of women’s suffrage and possibly a member of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston (WEIU), though little evidence remains of her political activities. Most of her pursuits were related to her work as a librarian; she was a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the New York Library School Association, and the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Library Clubs. In 1918, Donnelly organized the first meeting of the New England School Library Association, held at Simmons, and in 1922, she was nominated for membership on the executive board of the ALA. She often encouraged college-educated women to pursue librarianship as a career, believing that “library service is a field particularly suited to women,” particularly those interested in social and community service. Donnelly retired from Simmons in 1937, but her date of death is unknown. She is remembered for her contributions to the field of Library Science, and the Simmons School of Library and Information Science continues to offer a scholarship in her name. 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 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. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/6824b20a8fbf186b5e516eff1fbe3253.jpg 8ff5bd194b096117a7ba8798616a3526 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 Mabel Wheeler Daniels Director of Music Description An account of the resource Mabel Wheeler Daniels was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts around 1878 to George F. Daniels, a successful shoe manufacturer, and Maria (Wheeler) Daniels. The entire Daniels family was musically inclined; both of Mabel’s grandfathers were church musicians and ten members of her extended family, including her parents, were members of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, of which her father was also president. Daniels herself exhibited musical talent from early childhood, studying piano and composing her first piece of music at the age of ten. Daniels attended the Boston Girls’ Latin School, then went on to Radcliffe College, where she earned an A.B. in 1900 and graduated with honors. She continued to pursue music while at Radcliffe, leading the college’s glee club and performing in student operettas, two of which she composed herself. After graduation, she studied with composer George Whitefield Chadwick at the New England Conservatory of Music, applying to study abroad at the Royal Munich Conservatory on his recommendation. Daniels spent two years studying in Germany, becoming the first woman to gain admittance to the Munich Conservatory’s prestigious score-reading class and winning a medal from the school in 1903. When Daniels returned to Boston, she joined the Cecilia Society, a local chorus, in order to gain experience in modern choral and orchestral music. She also published a memoir of her time in Germany, An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music Student (1905). In 1911, Daniels assumed directorship of both the Radcliffe Glee Club and the music program at Bradford Academy in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She remained in these roles until 1913, when she was appointed Director of Music at Simmons, leading the College’s Glee Club, Choir, and Musical Association for the next five years. Also in 1913, Daniels began to gain status as a composer when her piece The Desolate City was chosen for presentation at the MacDowell artists’ colony in New Hampshire. The performance was a success, and Daniels spent the next twenty-four summers as a fellow at MacDowell, citing the colony as inspiration for many of her works. When she left Simmons in 1918, she devoted the rest of her life to composing music and experienced considerable success during her lifetime. Daniels wrote a number of orchestral suites and operettas, several of which were arranged for ballet or performed in programs at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Among her best known works were Exultate Deo (1929), Deep Forest (1939), and The Song of Jael (1940). In 1911, she was honored for her contributions to music by the National Federation of Music Clubs, receiving both the Custer and Brush Memorial Prizes. She was also awarded honorary degrees from Tufts University in 1933 and Boston University in 1939. Though Daniels seldom voiced her opinions on political matters, she was a proponent of women’s suffrage. She held membership in the Women’s University Club, the Vincent Musical Art Club, and the American Composers’ Alliance, and was also a Unitarian and an active member of Boston’s Arlington Street Church. Throughout her career, Daniels engaged in philanthropic work, donating generously to Tufts and the New England Conservatory of Music and establishing a loan fund at Radcliffe for students majoring in music. She also served as an alumnae trustee of Radcliffe in the 1940s and sometimes acted as an adviser for music education in the Boston Public Schools. Daniels died of pneumonia in Boston in March of 1971. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, near her parents. Her papers are held at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/31746747c7ed90f7d46a9afde69fbd5d.jpg 9cd6d52cf31d3ac5d8400949f6d0d67b 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 Caroline J. Cook Faculty, Business and Law Description An account of the resource Caroline Jewell Cook was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1863 to Henry and Caroline (Judson) Cook. She earned an A.B. from Wellesley College in 1884 and later attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1899. The following year, she applied to Harvard Law School, a common practice at the time for recent law graduates who wished to obtain a higher status degree. Though Harvard University had recently adopted a new merit-based admissions system, women applicants seldom received equal consideration, and Cook’s application was rejected; Harvard Law School would not admit its first female students until 1950. Nevertheless, Cook was admitted to the Massachusetts and Indiana Bar Associations in 1900, becoming the first woman to be bar certified in two different states. Cook began her teaching career while still in law school, teaching Latin at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley between 1891 and 1899. After passing her bar examinations, Cook went into private practice, maintaining a law office on Beacon Street in Boston, but she never entirely gave up teaching. She taught courses in Business Methods and Commercial Law at Simmons in 1907 and again from 1910-1913, and also returned intermittently to Wellesley during this time as an instructor in Legislative Law. In the midst of her teaching and legal work, Cook organized for suffrage. As early as 1889, she edited a suffrage column for her hometown newspaper in Indiana. By 1910, she was traveling with a group of fellow Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League members, stopping in a variety of towns over the course of the summer to educate Massachusetts women about citizenship and suffrage rights. She was also a member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, directing its nominating committee in 1916, and was involved in the Massachusetts Civic League and the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Cook was vocal about her suffrage views, speaking at club meetings and at the Massachusetts State House, and often writing for the Boston Globe. When the newspaper ran a series of articles in 1909 addressing the question “Why do so few women avail themselves of the school suffrage?” Cook responded with a condemnation of Boston’s voting policies, arguing that the city’s failure to maintain updated lists of women voters made it difficult for women to exercise their right to vote (only in school committee elections) without being forced to register again. Her own name had been purged from voter lists more than once, she wrote, but “my...hardest struggle comes on election day. I cannot get used to the humiliation of being restricted to a small fraction of the ballot privilege which I claim as an intelligent citizen of a country which calls itself a republic.” Cook’s commitment to equality informed her work as a lawyer, inspiring her advocacy for women’s divorce rights, small loan justice, and a state amendment allowing women attorneys to become notaries. She was Chief Inspector of the Incorporated Charities of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare for many years, and in 1913 she helped draft the first minimum wage law in Massachusetts. Cook also served as President of the Industrial Credit Union of Boston in 1910 and head of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union’s Department of Law and Thrift in 1912. In the 1920s, she became the first president of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers. Cook died in Boston in August of 1947 and is buried in Evansville, Indiana. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Wellesley College Legenda Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Wellesley College Legenda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1884 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/723890a8875f00a2224c04ad385aad42.png 4ad422bbc68bed081b39a69e2fe7b919 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 Sara Cone Bryant Borst Faculty, English and Poetry Description An account of the resource Sara Cone Bryant, pictured here in a 1906 Boston Globe article, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1873 to Dexter and Dorcas Anne (Hancock) Bryant. She received her A.B. in 1895 from Boston University, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, and the school’s Philomathean Society. She then traveled to Germany, pursuing graduate studies in German literature, history, and kindergarten pedagogy at the Frau Doctor Hempel Seminary and the American Home School in Berlin. By 1897, Bryant had returned to the United States, working as a newspaper and magazine writer. In 1904, she took a job as an instructor in English and Poetry at Simmons, a position she held until 1907, when she became a lecturer in storytelling at the nearby Lucy Wheelock Kindergarten. She also gave public lectures, often instructing teachers in the art of storytelling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing work, Bryant wrote stories for children, drawing inspiration for her tales and retellings from Irish, German, Hindu, and Japanese folklore. Among her most popular works were Best Stories to Tell to Children (1912) and Gordon and His Friends (1924). She also wrote several primers for adults about the educational benefits of storytelling, including How to Tell Stories to Children (1905). Bryant was also an active suffragist, serving as the first Vice President of the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL) from its inception in 1900 and becoming President the following year. She spoke often at suffrage gatherings and rallies held by the Massachusetts and New England Woman Suffrage Associations, the Young Women’s Political Club, and other organizations. She was a strong advocate for civic education, and her children’s book about American citizenship, I Am an American (1918) encouraged young readers to work toward “a country where women and men together are free and equal.” In 1908, Bryant married Theodore Franz Borst, a horticulturist, though she continued to publish under her unmarried name. The couple had two children, James and Elizabeth, and the family lived at Theodore’s Little Tree Farms nursery in Framingham, Massachusetts. In her later years, when Elizabeth was a student at Lasell Seminary for Young Women, Bryant was known among her daughter’s classmates for her annual Halloween parties on the family farm. Bryant died in May of 1956 in her home in Framingham. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Boston Globe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 19, 1906 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/aec28a2e365a7d544f3e9489cfa2d770.jpg 7b86057a977c71ee92951189648c9a99 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 Frances Gertrude Wick Faculty, Physics Description An account of the resource Frances Gertrude Wick was born in 1875 in Butler, Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann (Mechling) Wick and Alfred Wick, an innkeeper and oil producer. She attended Wilson College, graduating with an A.B. in 1897, and then returned to Butler to teach high school for six years. Preparations for her science lessons led Wick to develop an interest in physics, and she resigned from her teaching position in 1904 to pursue graduate study at Cornell University. She earned her PhD in Physics in 1908, writing her dissertation on the electrical properties of silicon After graduating from Cornell, Wick became a physics instructor, first at Simmons from 1908 to 1910, and then at Vassar beginning in 1910. During World War I, she briefly left her teaching position to work for the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps, researching airplane radios and gun sights. At Vassar, Wick was promoted to professor in 1922, and then elected Chairman of the Department of Physics in 1939, a position she held until her death. While teaching at Vassar, Wick gained international recognition for her research in the field of luminescence, publishing in scientific journals and securing grants for summer research at Harvard, Cambridge, and the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna. In 1939, Cornell University offered her access to a laboratory and materials, facilitating an experiment that Wick later wrote about in the Journal of the Optical Society of America, settling a scientific dispute about whether ice could emit light. Throughout her career, Wick held membership in a number of scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society, and the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. She also maintained a relationship with Wilson College, serving as a trustee from 1915 until her death, and receiving an honorary Doctorate of Science from the college in 1931. Though most of Wick’s activities centered around scientific study, she was also a member of the Poughkeepsie Equal Suffrage League. Wick died in June of 1941 in the Poughkeepsie home she shared with her sister. She is buried in Butler, Pennsylvania. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/db767b0ba7d56cdbf793a02c0275f6c4.png 8b3ec698436cd7837a4872cab72888bb 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 Maida Herman Solomon at Smith Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maida H. Solomon Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Carrying a Banner for Psychiatric Social Work" by Maida H. Solomon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-1912 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/d790fa88152a6dc96ce7d89744f874a3.jpg 1986b609ed4171cda5f53264c33e72a7 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 Maida Solomon holding her citation with Louise Hendrickson Shipman circa 1957 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957 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 Maida Herman Solomon '14 Faculty, Social Work Description An account of the resource Maida Herman was born in Boston in 1891 to Hannah (Adler) Herman and Joseph Herman, a shoe manufacturer. She graduated from Boston Girls’ Latin School in 1908, and then received a B.A. from Smith College in 1912. She pursued further undergraduate study at Simmons, earning a B.S. in Secretarial Studies in 1914. During her college years, Herman became interested in suffrage, joining the Massachusetts Women’s Suffrage Association during her senior year at Smith and later carrying a banner in the 1915 Boston Suffrage Parade. Herman married Harry Caesar Solomon, a clinical psychiatrist, in 1916, and the couple had four children. Harry introduced his wife to Mary Jarrett, head social worker at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, where he also worked. Maida soon developed her own interest in psychiatric social work, and Jarrett hired her as a fieldworker for the hospital. Solomon also became involved in her husband’s research, and they co-authored several influential books and papers, including Syphilis of the Innocent (1920). By the mid-1920s, Solomon had left hospital work to pursue community organizing and education, joining the board of Hecht House, a Jewish settlement house for girls. In 1934, the Simmons College School of Social Work recognized Solomon’s contributions to the field of social work and recruited her to develop a more robust curriculum for its new program in psychiatric social work. Under her guidance, the program grew from an undergraduate course to a Master of Science degree with a focus on fieldwork practice and individual tutorials. Solomon also served for more than twenty years as a professor of Social Economy and, in 1942, became department head of the Simmons School of Social Work. She was known on campus for her engagement with students, assisting graduates with job placements and supporting married women who wished to pursue careers outside of the home. Solomon left Simmons as a Professor Emerita in 1957, retiring, she said, “only from Simmons, not my profession.” She continued working as a research and social work consultant until her early nineties, serving various Boston institutions, including the Boston State Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. She maintained close connections to Simmons, working annually with the committee for the School of Social Work’s award named in her honor. During her long career as an activist, Solomon was involved in a wide variety of committees and organizations, including the Boston Community Fund, the Massachusetts Society of Social Hygiene, and the Red Cross’s Advisory Committee of Psychiatric Social Workers. Throughout her professional life, she maintained an active presence in Jewish cultural and social organizations, serving as Vice President of the Jewish-founded Union Park Forum in 1915 and as an officer of the Boston section of the National Council of Jewish Women in the 1920s. She was also a founding member and the first president of the American Association for Psychiatric Social Workers (AAPSW). Solomon died of a heart attack in January of 1988. She is remembered as a pioneer in the fields of mental health research and psychiatric social work. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/a9b35669b9195616f809750ca7383442.jpg 6b9361ec188230302352996a6c706641 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 Zilpha Drew Smith Faculty, Social Work Description An account of the resource Zilpha Drew Smith was born in Pembroke, Massachusetts in 1852 to Silvanus Smith, a shipbuilder, and Judith Winsor (McLauthlin) Smith, an early suffragist. The family moved to East Boston when Smith and her five siblings were young, and she attended the Girls’ High School and Normal School, graduating in 1868. Her parents’ strong support of education, abolition, and women’s rights undoubtedly inspired Smith’s lifelong interest in social reform causes. After graduation, Smith worked as a telegraph operator for Commercial Telegraph Office in Boston, and then as a government clerk, supervising revisions of the Suffolk County Probate Court’s index. In 1879, she took a position with the Associated Charities of Boston, where she first worked at the registration bureau, conducting confidential information exchanges between families and social workers. She later became General Secretary, developing a new method of recruiting and training volunteer social workers, known as “friendly visitors” to families in need. Smith was a strong advocate for volunteer work, presenting her first paper on the topic at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Earlier in her career, Smith herself had volunteered with the Boston Cooperative Society and as a relief worker during the Boston fire of 1872. During her tenure at the Associated Charities, she also founded the influential Monday Evening Club, a discussion group for social workers; later members included Smith’s fellow Simmons suffragists Mary Caroline Crawford and Maida Solomon. Smith resigned from the Associated Charities in 1903, becoming Associate Director of the newly opened Boston School for Social Workers (later Simmons School of Social Work), at that time a collaborative effort between Simmons and Harvard. At the School, Smith taught social work classes while also developing new courses and working closely with students to coordinate field placements. She retired in 1918 due to ill health and spent her remaining years pursuing her interests in music, literature, and botany. Smith participated in a number of other charitable organizations during her career, serving as President of the Massachusetts State Conference of Charities in 1909, Chairman of the National Conference of Charities’ Committee on Needy Families in 1901, and Director of the Tuckerman School for church workers. She was also an advocate for mothers’ aid legislation in Massachusetts, and helped establish Boston’s first public playground in 1900. Smith died in Boston in 1926 and is buried in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Simmons College hosted a memorial service in her honor shortly after her death, recognizing her work as a pioneer in the field of social work. In 1930, Simmons established the Zilpha D. Smith Memorial Fund to provide students with lectures on social work topics. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904-1912