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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…

Mary Schenck was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1860 to John V. Schenck, a doctor, and Martha (McKeen) Schenck. The Schencks were well-off, and Mary received her early education at the Longstreth School, a private Quaker institution in Philadelphia…

Household Economics student Margaret “Dutch” Riegel of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania was President of the short-lived Simmons Suffrage Club during her sophomore year and later became Chairman of the Social and Civics Club.

She graduated in 1917…

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…

Louise O’Malley was born in Clifton, Ireland and immigrated to New Hampshire as a child. During her time as a Household Economics student at Simmons, she taught settlement classes for children and was known among her classmates to be “always right…

Susan Myra Kingsbury was born in San Pablo, California in 1870. Her father Willard B. Kingsbury, was a doctor, and her mother, Helen Shuler Kingsbury, was Dean of Women at the College of the Pacific, where Susan earned her A.B. in 1890. She went on…

Born in 1892 in Brattleboro, Vermont, Evelyn "Bussie" Emerson studied Household Economics at Simmons, where she was president of the Vermont Club and, according to her senior yearbook entry, “an advocate of Suffrage” with “a keen interest in social…

Nellie Gertrude Dunmore of Providence, Rhode Island, studied Household Economics at Simmons, graduating in 1917. A member of the Endowment Fund Committee and the Glee Club, Dunmore also gained a reputation on campus as an ardent suffragist. “Rumor…

Library student Dorothy May Black was considered “an ardent suffragette” by her fellow students and was involved in residence life and dramatics. After graduating in 1917, Black returned to her hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, where she took a job…

Helen Morrill Baker was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1897 and attended the Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. She studied Household Economics at Simmons, where she served as Chairman of the Simmons branch of the Red Cross Auxiliary and Chair of…