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Estelle “Telly” Wolff was born in London, England in 1895 and immigrated to New Jersey as a child. She attended Montclair High School and went on to study General Science at Simmons, graduating in 1919. At Simmons, she was Program Committee Chair of…

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…

Dorothy Russell grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and studied Household Economics at Simmons. She was involved in Glee Club and Choir, and her classmates remembered her as an effective speaker, writing in her senior yearbook entry, “when suffrage…

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…

Dorothy Celeste Boulding was born in Norfolk, Virginia around 1898 to Benjamin and Florence Ruffin Boulding. She spent much of her childhood in Boston, living with an aunt while her mother recovered from an illness. Boulding graduated from the Girls’…

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

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

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…

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…