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In her essay “Our Chief Concern,” published in the Journal of Education in 1906, Arnold argued for the importance of individual attention in schools for all children, including young girls.

The first Simmons yearbook, published in 1906, featured these side-by-side portraits of College President Henry Lefavour and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Lefavour and Arnold had a contentious relationship, as Lefavour made his anti-suffrage views known…

Fanny Baker Ames was born Julia Frances Baker in 1840 in Canandaigua, New York to Increase Baker, a coal measurer, and Julia (Canfield) Baker. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when Fanny was a child, and she completed one term at Antioch College…

Mary Caroline Crawford was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1874 to James Crawford, a laundry worker, and Mary (Coburn) Crawford. She graduated from the Boston Girls’ Latin School in 1892 and went on to attend Radcliffe College between 1894 and…

Katharine Lent (sometimes spelled Lente) was born in Copake, New York in 1853 to Marvin Richardson Lent, a Methodist minister, and Hannah (Louzada) Lent. She attended Amenia Seminary in New York, graduating as valedictorian in 1875. She went on to…

Melnea Cass was born Melnea Agnes Jones in Richmond, Virginia, in 1896. Her mother was a domestic worker and her father was a janitor. Her mother died when Melnea was young, and Melnea and her sisters moved to Boston to live with their Aunt Ella.…