https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/f5dcdb4789c3acfb8a6eb5725f4c4012.png 348d8ca09c6dba9af2d953938bbbf12e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Belcher Dyk Description An account of the resource Ruth Belcher, pictured here in the 1923 edition of the Wellesley College Legenda, was born in 1901 in Portland, Maine to Arthur Belcher and Annie Manson Belcher, a fellow suffragist. Ruth and her mother marched together in the Boston suffrage parade of 1915, carrying a “Votes for Women” banner. In November of 1920, after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the two women went to the polls together to vote in their first election. Ruth Belcher grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1923. She later earned a master’s degree in Economics from Simmons, and pursued further graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley. As a psychiatric social worker, Belcher worked with delinquent girls in upstate New York and later as a researcher at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York in Brooklyn. She wrote two books, Anxiety in Pregnancy and Childbirth (1950) and Psychological Differentiation (1962), and co-authored a third, Left Handed (1980), with her husband, anthropologist Walter Dyk, publishing it after his death. Belcher and her husband had two children, Timothy Dyk and Penelope Carter. Carter admired her mother’s activist spirit, recalling that Belcher always told her that education and independence were more important than marriage. Ruth Belcher Dyk remained involved in politics throughout her life, voting in every election and spending her final year campaigning for Hillary Clinton’s senatorial bid. Dyk died in November of 2000 at her home in Rochester, New York. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Wellesley College Legenda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Wellesley College Legenda