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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…

Miriam Birdseye, pictured here in 1915 giving a lecture on the safe handling of meat, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1878 to Clarence F. and Ada (Underwood) Birdseye. She was the older sister of Clarence Birdseye II, who later became a well-known…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…