Browse Items (106 total)

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…

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…

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…

Blanche Castleman, who graduated with a B.S. in Library Science in 1919, poses near the entrance to North Hall.

Carita Beryl Hunter was born in Nova Scotia and immigrated to Massachusetts as a young child. She attended Somerville High School, graduating in 1915, and went on to pursue Secretarial Studies at Simmons. In her first year, Hunter served as Treasurer…

Caroline Jewell Cook was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1863 to Henry and Caroline (Judson) Cook. She earned an A.B. from Wellesley College in 1884 and later attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1899. The following year, she…

There was a suffrage parade in Boston on May 3, 1914, and the newspaper article says that undergraduates from Simmons were in attendance.