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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…