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In her essay “Our Chief Concern,” published in the Journal of Education in 1906, Arnold argued for the importance of individual attention in schools for all children, including young girls.

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…