1 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/37cc8cdfe38469b7d66a3bb7c9a7feef.png 857ab197c729d4471a40fc31837f6b4c https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/0a33203895b92df897149fb4f3abf4bf.jpg 33c768f0a9c41a25545212d39092aaa1 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 Morrill (Baker) Lichty '19 Description An account of the resource Helen Morrill Baker was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1897 and attended the Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. She studied Household Economics at Simmons, where she served as Chairman of the Simmons branch of the Red Cross Auxiliary and Chair of Civilian Relief for the Civic League. She expressed her support for women’s suffrage in her senior yearbook entry in 1919. Baker married Warren Copeland Lichty and the couple had two daughters, Susan and Margaret. Warren died in 1939 and Helen moved to Detroit, and, later, back to Missouri. Warren likely left the family a large sum of money upon his death, and Helen made generous donations to the University of Kansas and a museum associated with the Kansas State Historical Society. Helen Lichty also remained involved in the Simmons community long after graduation, attending a 1939 reunion as the Vice President of the 1919 Class. In 1966, she received an Alumnae Service Award from Simmons, possibly for her philanthropic giving. Lichty died in 1982 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. 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/74087be81a569e1165bd9dedb5719bbd.png 971dd8a68e53fb77bc0eb8942e97f537 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/3382e67c6678282e3dddd9b0de8fa05b.jpg 9f36f31463041138880331642d7b58a0 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 May Black '17 Description An account of the resource Library student Dorothy May Black was considered “an ardent suffragette” by her fellow students and was involved in residence life and dramatics. After graduating in 1917, Black returned to her hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, where she took a job as an assistant at the Ferguson Library. She later worked at a branch of the New York Public Library, resigning shortly before her marriage to the Reverend Glenn B. Coykendall in 1922. 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/3f4124f9226f8828525e2c22be2f81b7.jpg ab5f3f5687d6a49e56abd6f2b9053bb0 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 Miriam Birdseye Faculty, Household Economics Description An account of the resource Miriam Birdseye, pictured here in 1915 giving a lecture on the safe handling of meat, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1878 to Clarence F. and Ada (Underwood) Birdseye. She was the older sister of Clarence Birdseye II, who later became a well-known frozen food entrepreneur, and the two shared an interest in nutrition and food science. Miriam graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn and then earned an A.B. from Smith College in 1901. She later pursued graduate work at Pratt Institute, receiving a diploma in Normal Domestic Science in 1907. Between her college and graduate work, Birdseye briefly worked for the Department of Health and Economics of the National Lamp Association of Cleveland, where she investigated the working conditions of women employees in the organization’s factories. Her work there inspired an interest in women’s industrial labor, and she became a member of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education and served as Chairman of the Textile Standardization Committee of the American Home Economics Association. In 1907, Birdseye began her career as a teacher, working as an instructor in Household Economy at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York City, and then teaching Household Economics at Simmons from 1909 to 1910. She then became Head of the Department of Household Economy at Bates College from 1911 to 1912. Around 1915, Birdseye began lecturing at Cornell University, focusing on nutrition, and particularly on meat. By 1917, she had moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a nutrition specialist at the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, a position she held until her retirement in 1946. She traveled throughout the country to conduct research, meet with agricultural workers and state nutritionists, and give lectures to students and clubwomen on topics related to nutrition and cooking. She was a coauthor of the Department of Agriculture’s book Adequate Diets for Families with Limited Incomes (1931). For more than ten years, Birdseye shared her Washington, D.C. home with fellow Extension Service worker Leonie de Sounin, a baroness from Bohemia. The two were avid gardeners, and, in 1941, Birdseye wrote the introduction to de Sounin’s book Magic in Herbs. Birdseye was also a suffragist and a Congregationalist, and held membership in the Smith College Alumnae Association, the Zonta Service Club, and the Women’s City Club of Washington, D.C. Birdseye moved to Carmel, California following de Sounin’s death in 1942 and her own retirement in 1946. She died from a heart attack in August of 1948, and her funeral was attended by Extension Service workers from across the country. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cornell University Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/e536194ee89ceb925b97bea7c515e813.png d0fa0a2bf64001389bbbd3b6da0b7801 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/1979f4071c239cba8045ca1d90181f63.jpg 71bcac40e115c556c2da719a5114f0ba 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 Nellie Gertrude Dunmore '17 Description An account of the resource Nellie Gertrude Dunmore of Providence, Rhode Island, studied Household Economics at Simmons, graduating in 1917. A member of the Endowment Fund Committee and the Glee Club, Dunmore also gained a reputation on campus as an ardent suffragist. “Rumor has it,” the Microcosm reported, “that she wore out five pairs of shoes last year in the suffrage campaign.” Dunmore later became a teacher of Domestic Science and Household Management, holding positions in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. before becoming an instructor at Pennsylvania State College. 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 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to 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/3ab72e1c389f61bbc3f577f9b7b3e6ee.png b9debb909d18347887788e4c65f83c2f https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/964880a40660aae43f146c8174aeb474.jpg b9d7aa06c5f03f09c7d812d999c3a29c 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 Evelyn Emerson '17 Description An account of the resource Born in 1892 in Brattleboro, Vermont, Evelyn "Bussie" Emerson studied Household Economics at Simmons, where she was president of the Vermont Club and, according to her senior yearbook entry, “an advocate of Suffrage” with “a keen interest in social work and Socialism.” Emerson graduated in 1917 and worked first as a high school Domestic Science teacher and then as a dietician at the Lincoln Settlement House in Boston’s South End. She received a master’s degree from the Columbia Teachers College in 1938, and was a member of the American Association of University Women from 1946 until her death in 1969. 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/722fa6ce1d3c4216d00a09d74a8e0860.jpg 2b1c14387a7cd509375eb8b03156dd50 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/3a7714b4f3cdd6c017d7aca3ac7ea837.jpg f4376d3bbdc27956b4af1efece6ba4fe 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 Susan Myra Kingsbury Faculty, History and Economics Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Simmons University Archives Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910 Description An account of the resource Susan Myra Kingsbury was born in San Pablo, California in 1870. Her father Willard B. Kingsbury, was a doctor, and her mother, Helen Shuler Kingsbury, was Dean of Women at the College of the Pacific, where Susan earned her A.B. in 1890. She went on to pursue graduate work in economic history, first at Stanford University, graduating with an A.M. in 1899, and later at Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in 1905. Her dissertation, on colonial economic history, later became her first book, the influential Records of the Virginia Company of London (1906). Kingsbury began her teaching career while still a student herself, first teaching history at San Francisco Lowell High School for boys in the 1890s and then working as an instructor in history at Vassar College during the 1904-1905 year. In 1905, she took a job with the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial and Technical Education, conducting research on women’s industrial labor and working conditions. By 1907, Kingsbury had returned to teaching, this time at Simmons, where she taught in the History and Economics Departments until 1915. During this time, Kingsbury also served as Director of the Department of Research of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) of Boston, working alongside fellow Simmons suffragists Sarah Louise Arnold and Mary Morton Kehew. In 1915, M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College, invited Kingsbury to join the faculty as Director of the Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research. Kingsbury accepted the position, remaining at the college until her retirement as professor emerita in 1936. During her time at Bryn Mawr, she directed efforts to train women for supervisory positions in factories during World War I, and later worked with Thomas to establish a summer program at the college for women workers in 1921. She also traveled widely, spending her sabbaticals observing women’s working and living conditions in Europe, Asia, and, most frequently, the Soviet Union. With her traveling companion, Dr. Mildred Fairchild of the American-Russian Institute of New York City, Kingsbury wrote several books on women’s labor conditions, including Unemployment in Pre-War and Soviet Russia (1932) and Factory, Family and Woman in the Soviet Union (1935). An active suffragist, Kingsbury was a member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association while teaching at Simmons, and continued working for women’s rights while at Bryn Mawr. In 1919, following Pennsylvania’s ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, she proposed the founding of Bryn Mawr’s Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Chair of Politics in order to “train the highest type of American women for public leadership and political activity…We need women statesmen as well as women voters.” Even after her retirement, she continued to participate in women’s rights discourses; in 1938, she voiced concerns about the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, arguing that the language of the amendment could negate earlier labor laws designed to protect women. Kingsbury also pursued other avenues of political activism during her long career, serving at various times on the board of the North Bennet Street Industrial School, on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Labor Legislation Association, and on Pennsylvania’s first minimum wage board. She was also President of the New England History Teachers Association in 1911 and held membership in the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, and the Boston and Philadelphia branches of the Association of Collegiate Women. Kingsbury died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1949. 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 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/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/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.