4 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/697ddf755c6e3a83f3d021c892ce9b68.png d7beb3ffc0fe3dff57a7382fd0dc48a5 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 Ethel Dench Puffer Howes Faculty, Psychology Description An account of the resource Ethel Dench Puffer, pictured here in 1909 in New England Magazine, was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1873 to George Dana Puffer and Ella (Dench) Puffer. She earned an A.B. from Smith College in 1891, then spent a year teaching high school in Keene, New Hampshire. In 1892, Puffer returned to Smith as an Assistant Instructor in Mathematics, leaving in 1895 when she won a fellowship from the Association of Collegiate Alumnae that allowed her to study as a graduate student in Germany. She returned to Massachusetts to finish her studies in psychology in 1897, receiving a doctoral certificate from Harvard the following year; the university did not recognize her qualification as a Radcliffe PhD until 1902, when Harvard began issuing graduate degrees to women. Puffer embarked on an academic career, teaching Psychology at Simmons, Radcliffe, and Wellesley Colleges, sometimes concurrently, between 1902 and 1909. She wrote several influential texts on psychology and aesthetics during her teaching career, most notably The Psychology of Beauty (1905). As a women’s college alumna and faculty member, Puffer was also active in college suffrage organizing, serving as Executive Secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League in 1914 and holding membership in the Association of College Alumnae, the College Club of Boston, and the New York City Woman’s University Club. During World War I, she also helped organize the Woman’s Land Army and its training school. Puffer married engineer Benjamin Howes in 1908, and the couple split their time between Scarsdale, New York and Washington, D.C. They had two children, a son named Benjamin and a daughter named Ellen. After her marriage, Howes found academic work largely barred to her, as many colleges hired only unmarried women as instructors. She dedicated herself to researching married women’s opportunities to combine family and professional life, advocating for women’s cooperative home service clubs and part-time work for mothers in articles for the Woman’s Home Companion and the Atlantic Monthly. By the 1920s, Howes had returned to Smith, this time as the founder and director of the college’s Institute for the Coordination of Women’s Interests, funded by a three-year grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Howes’s Institute conducted historical and sociological research in an effort to make household management more efficient for women so they could pursue education and intellectual interests in addition to family life. By the late 1920s, however, interest in Howes’s brand of domestic reform had begun to wane, and the Institute closed in 1931 after Howes was unable to secure funding for further research. Still, Howes remained involved in domestic reform and other political efforts for the rest of her life. In 1931, President Hoover invited her to serve on a Committee for Household Management at a national Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. During her time in Washington, D.C., she was also an active member of the League of Women Voters and served on its Committee on Economic Affairs and Postwar Planning between 1943 and 1946. Howes died in Hartford, Connecticut in October 1950, at the home of her son. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource New England Magazine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/d253fa9dd05204ab826f6955370b19c1.png f2db299dab926bcd772bccd6f571dfe7 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 Estelle M. (Wolff) Brown '19 Description An account of the resource Estelle “Telly” Wolff was born in London, England in 1895 and immigrated to New Jersey as a child. She attended Montclair High School and went on to study General Science at Simmons, graduating in 1919. At Simmons, she was Program Committee Chair of the Social and Civic League in her junior year, suggesting that she may have shared the pro-suffrage views of her fellow club members. She was inducted into the Simmons academic honor society, the Academy, in her senior year, and remained an active member even after graduation. Wolff married William E. Brown of Vermont shortly after leaving Simmons, and the couple had one son, Duncan Fraser Brown, born in Boston in 1921. The Browns moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Estelle became a medical statistician, working for the Children’s Hospital Research Foundation. By 1945, she had retired and moved to South Burlington, Vermont with her husband. Her date of death is unknown. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Microcosm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/e7f5c132b6e2694551381eadbb593d30.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 Alice Charlotte Williams Description An account of the resource Alice Charlotte Williams was born in 1878 in Buffalo, New York to Charlotte (Stoneman) Williams and Benjamin Harris Williams, a state senator. She attended Buffalo High School and then Wellesley College, earning her B.A. in 1900. She later pursued graduate study at Simmons, presumably in Library Science, though her year of graduation is unknown. In 1910, Williams took a position at the Newark Public Library, and she later worked at the East Houston Street branch of the New York Public Library from 1911 to 1912. By 1914, she had moved to Willink, New York. Williams was a suffragist and clubwoman, holding membership in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the Buffalo Wellesley Club, the New York Simmons Club, and possibly the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. In 1901, she served as Secretary of the Buffalo Wellesley Club. She was also an avid canoer and a member of the American Canoe Association. Williams died in February of 1945 and is buried in Buffalo, New York. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/1ff8645eb59a81ed34b99742c43fc2c0.png 9848461d3d59553fb388697d39896c02 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/220590e90d44cfa1b5aaf47932d98a64.jpg f53dbe7b7937931d0a038f0eb05eb933 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 Dorothy Russell Dunham '14 Description An account of the resource Dorothy Russell grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and studied Household Economics at Simmons. She was involved in Glee Club and Choir, and her classmates remembered her as an effective speaker, writing in her senior yearbook entry, “when suffrage for women wins out, we foresee a great future for Dorothy on account of her ability to set forth all matters clearly and at length.” Russell graduated in 1914 and took a job as a technical assistant at the Boston City Hospital in 1916. While there, she assisted the hospital’s Dr. W.R. Ohler in laboratory work, and later worked as a research chemist at the Boston Consumptives’ Hospital in Mattapan. She likely also worked as an instructor of Home Economics in Rhode Island between hospital jobs. Russell married Chester Morton Dunham of Roslindale in 1917 and later lived in Waltham, Massachusetts. Details of her later life and her suffrage views remain unknown. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Microcosm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/723f640b81caef15a768183f56e76eac.png fc7b7e51c2cafa05c8c19739a1cfa18b https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/b1f7d27cbc23a8fd4eebc53577552b1b.png 8ccf126942a355a64ae3111ba890e09b 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 Vera Perkins '19 Description An account of the resource Vera Perkins was born in Rutland, Vermont around 1892. She graduated from Rutland High School and went on to study Household Economics at Simmons, where she was a member of the Honor Board, the Student Building Endowment Fund, and the Ukulele Club, as well as President of the Vermont Club in her senior year. Though no evidence of Perkins’s suffrage views remains, her role as Public Health Chair of the Civics Club in 1919 suggests that she may have shared the pro-suffrage sentiments of her fellow members, including Gertrude Barish. After graduating in 1919, Perkins returned to Vermont to teach high school Home Economics, first in Townshend and later in Swanton and Rutland. In 1922, the extension service of the University of Vermont appointed Perkins the home demonstration agent for Addison County, and she traveled through the area giving demonstrations of cooking, dressmaking, and other household activities at women’s club meetings. In addition to her teaching work, Perkins was an active clubwoman for most of her life. In 1920, she performed hostess duties at a meeting of a local Hadassah League, and she later became involved in Vermont’s Green Mountain Club, coordinating outings and camping trips for her chapter and holding fundraisers at her home. In 1948, Perkins and several of her fellow members established a newsletter for the club’s Killington chapter, and Perkins served as one of the publication’s early editors and publishers. She was elected President of the Killington chapter in 1955, and remained a regular contributor to the newsletter until the late 1970s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Microcosm 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 1919 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/2b1ad766c25e65a67c20e83ef03d8913.png 068b2db0871d28ec8e760f46eec673fc 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 Ethel M. Johnson '10 Description An account of the resource Ethel M. Johnson, pictured here in a 1940 Boston Globe article, was born around 1882 in Brownfield, Maine. She grew up on a farm and attended the Parsonsfield Seminary before studying library science, economics, and secretarial studies at Simmons. Johnson paid her own way through college, teaching and doing odd jobs to earn enough for tuition. She left school twice to earn more money and to care for her ailing mother, before graduating in 1910. At Simmons, Johnson was known as an outspoken suffragist, distributing pro-suffrage leaflets on campus. After graduation, Johnson remained in Boston and took a job as a librarian for the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, where she worked with the union’s legislative committee on industrial bills and developed a union library of books about industrial conditions for women workers. In 1918, she left the union— allegedly after offending its anti-suffrage members with her pro-suffrage views— to work as a secretary for the Congressional Committee of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Still, Johnson considered her views “conservative” in comparison to those of more “militant” suffragists. “I have never anticipated that suffrage among women would bring immediate reforms,” she told a Boston Globe reporter in 1919, “but I do believe that it will broaden women generally and ultimately will yield a higher standard of citizenship among women.” In 1919, Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge appointed Johnson the state’s Assistant Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the first woman to hold the position. Despite backlash from conservative politicians, she was reappointed by subsequent governors until her term ended in 1931. Johnson left Boston, serving as an economist for the California State Unemployment Commission until 1933, when Governor John Winant of New Hampshire named her Director of the state’s Minimum Wage Office on the recommendation of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. As an economist and a politician, Johnson was primarily interested in protecting the labor rights of women and children. She penned numerous newspaper and magazine articles about industrial labor conditions, and in 1924, she spoke in support of a federal amendment to regulate child labor. In 1940, Johnson moved to Washington, D.C., taking a position as Director of an International Labor Office branch there. Little information remains about her later life, though she continued to contribute political articles to several newspapers, including the Boston Globe, until 1957. Johnson also served at various times as secretary and treasurer of the American Library Association, associate editor of the ALA’s Special Libraries journal, and Vice Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Boston City Federation of Women’s Clubs. She was also a member of the Massachusetts Council of Women and the Council on Women and Children in Industry. Simmons continues to offer an endowed scholarship in her name. 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 November 9, 1940 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/120416629a9094aa060d0c916862af54.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 Hester Jane (Mercer) Hastings '04 Description An account of the resource Hester Jane Mercer was born in Readville, Massachusetts in 1877 to Joseph and Mary Ellen (Cullen) Mercer. She graduated from Windham High School in Willimantic, Connecticut in 1899 and attended Brown University, earning an A.B. in 1903. She then pursued graduate work at Simmons, graduating in 1904. Mercer married William T. Hastings, an English professor at Brown, in Willimantic in 1907, and the couple had three children, including two daughters who also went on to academic careers. In addition to supporting women’s suffrage, Hastings was committed to women’s education. From 1905 to 1907, she was head of the Slater Memorial Homestead, Brown University’s first women’s dormitory, and she was a member of the Women’s College Advisory Council at Brown for many years. Hastings served as president of the Brown University Alumnae Association from 1907 to 1909, and also remained involved in her high school’s alumni affairs, returning to speak at Alumni Day in 1904. Hastings died sometime before 1954, and her husband and children established a book fund in her memory at the Brown University Library. https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/42eef1a92aa5bd5f471a063ce777c43d.png 9f692178446cd90fb2c22bf55fa0a747 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 Helen Davenport (Brown) Gibbons Description An account of the resource Helen Davenport Brown was born in Philadelphia in 1882 to Clement M. and Emily Eckert (Myers) Brown. She studied German and French at Bryn Mawr, graduating around 1905, and then pursued graduate work at Simmons from 1906 to 1907, possibly studying Household Economics. She married Herbert Adams Gibbons, a reverend and a doctoral student, in 1908 and accompanied him to Turkey, where she taught at a missionary college while her husband finished his doctoral thesis. While living in Turkey, the couple witnessed the Adana Massacre of 1909, and Helen gave birth to the first of her four children while trying to help Armenian refugees. She later wrote about her experiences in Turkey in her first book, The Red Rugs of Tarsus, published in 1917. Though Gibbons supported women’s suffrage in the United States, most of her activist work took place abroad. By the time war broke out in 1914, she and her family were living near Paris, and Gibbons dedicated herself to providing food and lodging for American soldiers traveling to the front. At various times, she was a member of the Board of Managers of the Student Hostel in Paris, the Humane Education Society of Turkey, and the Woman’s Club of Constantinople. Gibbons also worked with the Red Cross and the YMCA, organizing efforts to gather infant supplies and care for displaced children in Paris. In 1919, she published two books about her time in France, Paris Vistas and A Little Gray Home in France. After the war, Gibbons and her family returned to the United States, settling near Princeton University, where Herbert was a professor. Helen traveled the country, lecturing in English and French about her experiences living abroad. She also worked as a journalist, contributing articles to Harper’s and the Pictorial Review, and serving as a correspondent for Century Magazine at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Gibbons died in September of 1960, in Princeton, New Jersey. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The New York Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 5, 1919 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/f5dcdb4789c3acfb8a6eb5725f4c4012.png 348d8ca09c6dba9af2d953938bbbf12e 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 Ruth Belcher Dyk Description An account of the resource Ruth Belcher, pictured here in the 1923 edition of the Wellesley College Legenda, was born in 1901 in Portland, Maine to Arthur Belcher and Annie Manson Belcher, a fellow suffragist. Ruth and her mother marched together in the Boston suffrage parade of 1915, carrying a “Votes for Women” banner. In November of 1920, after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the two women went to the polls together to vote in their first election. Ruth Belcher grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1923. She later earned a master’s degree in Economics from Simmons, and pursued further graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley. As a psychiatric social worker, Belcher worked with delinquent girls in upstate New York and later as a researcher at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in Brooklyn. She wrote two books, Anxiety in Pregnancy and Childbirth (1950) and Psychological Differentiation (1962), and co-authored a third, Left Handed (1980), with her husband, anthropologist Walter Dyk, publishing it after his death. Belcher and her husband had two children, Timothy Dyk and Penelope Carter. Carter admired her mother’s activist spirit, recalling that Belcher always told her that education and independence were more important than marriage. Ruth Belcher Dyk remained involved in politics throughout her life, voting in every election and spending her final year campaigning for Hillary Clinton’s senatorial bid. Dyk died in November of 2000 at her home in Rochester, New York. 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 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Wellesley College Legenda https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/1381ffe357c3cb4bc114bffcd2345ee2.png 9278c0d51e5ca105126e9f42a860aa1d 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 Harriet L.B. (Brown) Darling '13 Description An account of the resource Harriet L.B. Brown, pictured here in Farm, Stock, and Home in 1915, was born in Napa, California in 1872 and received a Bachelor of Law degree from Smith College in 1891. She married Henry Herbert Darling in San Francisco in 1894, and the couple had three children. In 1911, Harriet returned to school, pursuing a graduate degree (likely in Household Economics) at Simmons. After graduating in 1913, Darling became a renowned lecturer, traveling the country to give talks on housekeeping and nutrition to farmers, women’s clubs, and college women. She worked as an instructor at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1917 and was also a regular contributor to agricultural and Unitarian periodicals. A member of the College Equal Suffrage Association, the College Club of Boston, and the Smith and Simmons alumnae associations, Darling remained committed to women’s education, lecturing to Wellesley students and possibly returning to Simmons as an instructor around 1914. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Farm, Stock, and Home Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915