Hettie Gray Baker was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1881 and completed a “special course” in Library Science at Simmons sometime before 1907. She worked at the Hartford Public Library and then as a legal librarian at the Hartford Bar Library…
Helen Louise Burr was born in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1870, and attended Melrose Public Schools. She earned a BA from Wellesley College in 1893, and then a graduate degree in Domestic Science from Simmons in 1903.
This portrait of Dean Sarah Louise Arnold was painted in 1929 during Arnold’s tenure as a trustee of Massachusetts Agricultural College. The artist is unknown.
Wilda Claire Strong was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1890 to Clara (Stoll) Strong and Dr. Hamilton Strong, a dentist. She graduated from the nearby Plymouth High School in 1907 and enrolled at Western Reserve University for a one-year library…
Gertrude Barish, '19, addressed a suffrage committee in Boston and warned that Russian women would get the vote before American women. She was a sophomore at Simmons when she gave this speech.