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Ethel M. Johnson, pictured here in a 1940 Boston Globe article, was born around 1882 in Brownfield, Maine. She grew up on a farm and attended the Parsonsfield Seminary before studying library science, economics, and secretarial studies at Simmons.…

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.

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…

June Richardson Donnelly was born in College Hill, Ohio, to John Marshall Donnelly and Anne (Moore) Donnelly. She attended the Cincinnati Public Schools, graduating from Hughes High School. She went on to earn a B.S. in biology in 1895 from the…

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…

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…

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…

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…