8 10 106 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/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/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/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/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/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/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 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/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/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