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Household Economics student Katherine Hobart, of Cleveland, Ohio, was president of the Simmons Ohio Club and was in charge of costumes and props for the Dramatics Club during her senior year. A poem appearing on her 1916 yearbook page declared that…

Secretarial student Martha Anderson’s senior entry in the 1919 Microcosm identified her as Chairman of the Socialism Study Group and Secretary-Treasurer of the Civic League and described her as a “champion” of “very radical” causes, perhaps including…

Born in 1897 in Rochester, New York, Blanche Castleman ‘19 studied Library Science at Simmons, where she was a member of the Bulletin Board Committee, the Dormitory Council, and the Dramatics Society. She later became a librarian at Jefferson Junior…

Gertrude Barish, a Russian immigrant who allegedly came to the United States to escape political persecution, studied Social Service at Simmons, graduating in 1919. Barish was a vocal proponent of women’s suffrage, speaking at a meeting of the…

Mary Morton Kimball, pictured here in the Notable Women of Boston mural, was born in Boston in 1859 to wealthy parents Susan Tillinghurst Morton, daughter of Massachusetts governor Marcus Morton, and Moses Day Kimball, a merchant and banker. She…

Elinor Furnivall Reilly, who graduated with a degree in General Science in 1918, was a member of the Dramatics Club, Public Health Committee, Student Athletic Association, and the Simmons basketball and track teams. She was also secretary of the…

Alice Charlotte Williams entry in Woman's Who's Who of America (1915)

“Suffrage news,” 1915. Carrie Chapman Catt papers, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.