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Miss Clark worked with the late Allie M. Hines, former primary super- visor of Cincinnati on the tentative course of study in reading for the Cincin- nati schools and was also chairman of the reading readiness section of the same course of study. A past president of Teachers College Alumnal, she was in charge of the thirtieth anniversary celebrating the founding of Teachers College at the University of Cincinnati.
Miss Clark keeps always abreast of modern educational progress and developments through her membership in the Foreign Policy Association, American Association of University Women, National Education Association, Southwestern and Ohio State Teachers Associations and the National Associa- tion for Childhood Education.
MARY M. CONWAY
The late MARY M. CONWAY had a long and successful career with the Cincinnati Public School System. After spending many years in the
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Elementary Department she was appointed in 1911, under the superintendency of the late Dr. Frank Dyer, as director of the continuation schools.
These schools were organized to provide training for children between the ages of 14 and 16, who were holding jobs. At that time all such children were required to return to school for four hours each week. This law was changed almost at once, making the ages for girls read 15 to 16 and in 1916 the section relating to girls was eliminated entirely. In its widest scope the Continuation Schools served some five thousand boys and girls.
When the law was changed making full time attendance in school com- pulsory up to 18 years of age this figure shrunk to approximately one thou- sand. In 1922, due to the operation of the Bing Law, the Continuation School plan was discontinued and Miss Conway was appointed as principal of the Sewing High School. She filled this post in a most efficient manner until her retirement in 1933.
ELLA MAE COPE
ELLA MAE COPE, teacher of history in the high school of Hamilton, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a daughter of William T. Cope, who was a graduate of Wooster College and who in 1885 came to Hamilton as principal of the high school, in which capacity he served for thirty years, still holding the office at the time when he passed away. He married Rose Tilden, who was born in Hiram, Ohio and was a graduate of Hiram College. Her father was Captain Daniel Tilden, who was a pioneer settler there and made the original survey of the town. He came of the same family as Samuel B. Tilden, at one time presidential candidate. To Mr. and Mrs. William T. Cope were born two children, the son being a graduate of the Harvard Law School and now a practicing attorney of Boston, Massachusetts.
Ella Mae Cope was still an infant when brought to Hamilton by her parents and she attended the public schools here until she had completed the high school course. She then entered Mt. Holyoke College and later won her Bachelor of Arts degree on her graduation from the University of Wis- consin. She was also a student in the University of Cincinnati for a time and after completing her education she began teaching in the high school of Hamilton, remaining here continuously since 1907 and throughout the entire period has taught history, which has always been a source of deep interest to her.
Miss Cope belongs to the Butler County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she was formerly regent. She is also an ex- president of the University Women's Club, of the Butler County Teachers Association and the Hamilton Business Women's Club. She is now serving as president of the Teachers Club, is a member of the Woman's City Club, the Society of Patriots, the Daughters of American Colonists, the American
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History Club and of the Historical Association. She has membership in the Methodist Church and her interest in civic welfare and development is shown in the fact that she is now secretary of the Hamilton Charter Commission. Few women are more thoroughly versed in American history and she is constantly broadening her knowledge for everything bearing upon the subject is of real interest to her, while to her classes she presents her subject in a manner that arouses and holds their attention.
MARY PRICE CORRE
If MARY PRICE CORRE, director of the Division of Occupational Research of the Cincinnati Public Schools, were asked to select from her varied opportunities and experiences the one she thought of greatest signi- ficance, she would in all probability choose her stay at Hull House during the summer of 1918.
This was immediately following her graduation with a B.A. degree, from the University of Cincinnati. Primary purpose of Miss Corre in going to Chicago was to attend what is now the School of Social Service Administra- tion of Chicago University.
It was not until she was established as a resident of Jane Adams world famous settlement and as an actual participant in the life and activities of Hull House that she fully realized her good fortune.
For Miss Adams spent practically all of this particular summer at the settlement. She was more than cordial, more than helpful, to the young people gathered in her great social laboratory. She was inspirational. She gave, unconsciously and involuntarily, to all of those about her, the chance of seeing, close up, a life consecrated to magnificent service in behalf of all mankind.
Mary Corre attended the elementary public schools at Norwood, Ohio and the high school of Ormond Beach, Fla. to which town her family had moved.
Her education was continued in the preparatory department of Rollins College until she returned to Cincinnati and entered the University, majoring in subjects already of special interest-economics, social science, political science.
Mary Corre's first job was that of secretary in the industrial service section of a Cincinnati Ordnance Department. She was responsible for collecting information about working conditions for women and getting out reports sent to Washington on local factories that employed women in making ordnance supplies. After the Armistice, a modification of this work was continued on private funds.
Then came two interesting years as civic director of the Cincinnati Woman's City Club, working with and helping to co-ordinate the programs
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of various committees-industrial, public health, public welfare, public edu- cation, housing, etc. By this time Mary Corre had decided that she was far more interested in industrial problems than in any other phase of work. She was awarded a fellowship for graduate study in the field of labor prob- lems and industrial research in the New York School of Social Work, which brought her in first hand contact with many types of industrial and labor problems.
After a year in New York she returned to Cincinnati, to take charge of the occupational studies of the Vocation Bureau of the Cincinnati Public Schools.
One of her main responsibilities, from the outset, was to provide a clear picture and detailed description of requirements for factory, business, and professional work in Cincinnati. This was done in order that young people might have a background of occupational information and thus be helped to more intelligent educational planning for their own future.
The program of vocational guidance gradually grew until it became known as the Division of Occupational Research and Counseling of the Vocation Bureau, Cincinnati Public Schools. It now gathers all available in- formation about educational and occupational opportunities in Cincinnati and makes this available to pupils and teachers. There are special classes about occupations. Individual pupils are counseled in order to help them make the plans for their future best suited to their interests and abilities. Absorbing as this work has been, Miss Corre has continued her active in- terest first aroused at Hull House in international problems and questions of social justice. This interest is reflected by her membership in highly purposeful organizations, among them-
The Cincinnati League of Women Voters, Adult Education Council (Member Executive Board), Cincinnati Consumers League ( Member Execu- tive Board), Cincinnati Peace League (Member Executive Board), Cincinnati (and National) Vocational Guidance Associations (Secretary local branch), Affiliated Summer Schools Committee (Member Executive Board), Foreign Policy Association, University of Cincinnati Women's Alumnal Association, Noon Day Club-American Association of Social Workers-Cincinnati, Social Workers Club Ohio and National Education Association.
Mary Price Corre is now an expert in her field. Her assistance in estab- lishing or developing programs similar to the one she directs in Cincinnati is in constant demand and her field of experience is constantly widening.
But she still looks backward to the very outset of her career, for her finest experience-it was her summer at Hull House with Jane Adams.
MARY P. CORRE
Director of Division of Occupational Research Cincinnati Public Schools
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MARY R. COX
No record of educational advancement in Cleveland would be complete without reference to the Alexander Graham Bell school for the deaf and of those who have furthered the work and greatly assisted those who have been pupils there. Among this number is MARY R. COX, who is now prin- cipal of this school, which is rendering a service of inestimable value to the community. A native of Muskingum county, Ohio, she is a daughter of Hugh M. and Sarah E. (Wallace) Cox, the former also born in Muskingum county, while the mother, a native of Pennsylvania, was brought to Ohio in her childhood days. Mr. Cox followed the occupation of farming for many years and then retired from business cares. He passed away in 1923, having for three years survived his wife, who died in 1920.
Their family numbered ten children: John W., now deceased; Fannie E., of Caldwell, Ohio; Samuel, living in Macksburg, this state; Fred L., of Lowell, Ohio; Mary; Hugh M., who makes his home in Wooster, Ohio; Marion W., who died in infancy; Sarah, the wife of George Morris of Macks- burg; Rama Claire, the wife of A. R. Elliott of St. Clairsville, Ohio, and Frank H., of Caldwell, Ohio, who is a lawyer and also conducts a farm and teaches school.
Their daughter Mary attended the village school of Macksburg, Ohio and was afterward a high school student at New Concord, this state, where she was graduated with the class of 1891. The following year she began teaching and in 1893 took charge of a country school in Lawrence township, Washington county, Ohio, this being her first day in a rural school. She taught in a country school for four years and then spent an equal period as teacher in Newport and two years in Powhatan, Ohio. She next went to Wapakoneta, Ohio where she continued teaching for four years and sub- sequently spent three years as a teacher in Macksburg, having charge of the seventh and eighth grades. At Lorain, Ohio, she remained for two years in charge of the seventh grade and in 1908 she came to Cleveland, since which time she has been associated with the Alexander Graham Bell school for the deaf, of which she is now principal. When she came to this school her first request of her principal was that she should be permitted to spend the fifteen minutes recess period in observing the pupils. This was indicative of her deep interest in her work-an interest that has never abated but has grown with the passing years and as a result her ability has greatly increased. Each year she has attended summer schools, studying at Marietta, Ohio, at the University of Chicago and the Ohio Northern University, and of the last named is a graduate. It was after completing her course there that she came to the school of which she is now principal.
Miss Cox belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution at Marietta, the Daughters of Veterans and the Woman's Organization of World
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War Veterans. She also has membership in the Woman's City Club of Cleve- land and the Principals Club of Cleveland and her religious faith is indicated in her connection with Calvary Presbyterian church. She helped to organize and is a member of the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing and is recording secretary of its board. She belongs to the National Education Association, the Ohio State Teachers Association, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers Association, the American Association for Teaching Speech to the Deaf, the Society of Progressive Oral Advocates, The Ohio State Association of Teachers and Supervisors of Day Schools for the Deaf and the National Association for Hard of Hearing. She has attended Clark School for the Deaf at Northampton, Massachusetts and the Central Institute for the Deaf at St. Louis, Missouri, and since she has taken up her particular line of teaching, her summer school work has all been done with the idea of gaining further knowledge and thus promoting her efficiency in this field. She enjoys reading history, biography and some fiction and she turns to travel for recrea- tion and diversion.
MARY AGNES ROBERTS CROWLEY
MARY AGNES ROBERTS CROWLEY, wife of Professor William A. Crowley, is assistant county superintendent of schools of Hamilton county, Ohio, and has been an active factor in advancing and maintaining the high standards of the schools in this section of the state. Her work is based upon broad and thorough preparation and wide experience in her chosen field. Born in Dennison, Kansas, on the 24th of July, 1892, she is a daughter of George Ellis and Eleanor Dawson (McFarland) Roberts. She was married on the 28th of June, 1918 to William A. Crowley, professor of philosophy in the University of Cincinnati, and they have one child, Mary Eleanor, born March 20, 1928.
Mrs. Crowley pursued her elementary education in Des Moines, Maxwell and Lake City, Iowa and her high school work was done in Mason City and Osceola, Iowa. She afterward attended Drake University of Des Moines, where she won her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915. She next entered the graduate school of the University of Chicago in th psychology department, having a scholarship in 1916-17 and was a Fellow in 1917-18. From the University of Cincinnati, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in education in 1931. She won various honors, including membership in the Phi Beta Kappa and the Kappa Delta Pi; a scholarship at Drake University from 1911 to 1915; scholarship at the University of Chicago, 1916-17; fellowship at the University of Chicago in 1917-18 and fellowship in the University of Cincinnati, 1928-30.
Mrs. Crowley was psychological examiner of the Cincinnati public schools from 1919 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, since which time she has been assistant superintendent of schools of Hamilton county. She is also a member
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of the Hamilton county board of education. She is identified with many associations and clubs of progressive character, belonging to the Cincinnati Branch of the Zonta International, of which she has been president, the Cin- cinnati branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, which she formerly served as president, also has been chairman of the Pri- mary section of the Southwest District, Ohio Education Association, chairman of citizenship of the Southwest district, Ohio Congress, P. T. A. and chairman of parent education of the Hamilton county council of the Parent-Teachers Association. She belongs to the League of Women Voters, the Consumers League, Better Housing League, Cincinnati Peace League, the Cincinnati Branch of the American League for Peace and Democracy, the National Edu- cation Association, the Ohio Education Association, the Hamilton County Teachers Association, Progressive Education Association, the Hamilton County and Cincinnati branches of the Association for Childhood Education. She is chairman of Parent Education and she belongs also to the Psychologists Club and was the only woman member of the Cincinnati citizens committee on the Greenhills housing project in 1937-8. She was a member of the executive committee of the board of managers of the United Society of Missions and Education of the Disciples of Christ church from 1931 to 1935 and has been a member of the state commission on religious education of the Disciples church since 1935. She is also identified with the Fellowship of Recon- ciliation of the Young Women's Christian Association and with the Red Cross and along all lines of progress in the educational and religious fields she has put forth effort of far-reaching effect and importance. Thinking out along constantly broadening lines, she has accomplished much in connections with state and world-wide problems, which touch the general interests of society and promote the welfare of individuals.
Mrs. Crowley is the author of many articles which have appeared in educational magazines and journals. Her Doctor's thesis, written in 1931, was on the subject "A Comparison of the Academic Achievements of Cincinnati Negroes in Segregated and Mixed Schools." She wrote "A comparative Study of Cincinnati Negroes in Segregated and Mixed Schools", which appeared in the University of Cincinnati Teachers College Publications, Vol. 1, in 1932, and "Cincinnati's Experiment in Negro Education", published in the Journal of Negro Education, in April, 1932, while various other articles which she has written have appeared in different educational magazines.
MARGARET DALY
MARGARET DALY, principal at Roosevelt and Central Fairmount Schools, has served the state board of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers for ten years in the capacities of second vice president, corresponding secretary, and as chairman of both budget and school education committees.
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She has been a member of the Board of the Cincinnati Council of Parent Teacher Associations and of the Board of Directors, Teachers' Aid and Annuity Association for an extended period.
She is a life member of the National Education Association and includes among her affiliations, the Ohio Educational Association, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Elementary School Principals Club of Cincinnati and the Department of Elementary School Principals, N. E. A.
Miss Daly received her education in Cincinnati and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. She took her graduate work at the University of Cincinnati and Columbia College, New York City, and received her Master's degree from Columbia University.
She has held office in the University of Cincinnati Alumnal Association and is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, honorary teachers' group, Progressive Educational Association, Foreign Policy Association, Woman's City Club. Before her principalship at her present schools she taught at Carson school.
MARY HARLAN DOHERTY
MARY HARLAN DOHERTY, owner and principal of the College Pre- paratory School for Girls at Cincinnati, is an educator whose work has been recognized and commended throughout the country for years past and the institution is one of the outstanding factors in educational development in this city.
A native of Cincinnati, Miss Doherty supplemented her education acquired in the public schools here by study at Cornell University where her brother- in-law was professor of English. She devoted her attention to the classics, to Latin and Greek and has taught the same branches in her own school, which she opened in September, 1906, at the same location where the College Pre- paratory School for Girls is now found. Her school has provided secondary education for hundreds of young women who have distinguished themselves in scholarship and have won a variety of other honors in leading colleges of the country. Their appreciation of the excellence of this preparation is attested by innumerable friendships which have flourished between the school principal and her former students through the years.
Miss Doherty belongs to the College Club and the University Woman's Club, the Alliance Francaise, The Crafters, the Town Club, the Cincinnati Woman's Club, of which she was a director for many years, and to other civic and social groups. In politics Miss Doherty is a Democrat. She is actively interested in cultural movements and in world affairs as these are discussed by the Foreign Policy Association and the Cincinnati Peace League, in both of which she holds membership. Her greatest interest, however, is in teaching, and the opportunity that it gives her to aid young women in broadening their mental horizon and gaining a more accurate perception and understanding of
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life, its duties and responsibilities, together with that pleasure which is de- rived in no other way as much as through intellectual stimulus.
MARIE CEJNAR DOWNER
From the significant struggle of the married women teachers of Ohio to maintain their right to teach in the public schools on a basis of ability and merit, rather than marital status, emerges a capable and energetic leader in the person of MARIE CEJNAR DOWNER (Mrs. John Downer). -
A graduate of the University of Omaha, Marie Downer came to Cincin- nati a number of years ago, to become a valued member of the staff of the Washington Junior High School. She has played a significant part in the civic and educational affairs of her adopted city, but her most important work, outside her profession and her home, has been to assist in organizing public opinion to act favorably on the question of equal opportunity for married and single women teachers, a question violently debated in Ohio dur- ing the last decade.
Marie Downer is a member of the National Women's Party. She is also active in the following organizations : College Club; American Association of University Women; Consumers League; Ohio Educational Association; Amer- ican Federation of Teachers; Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (Chairman of Salary Committee, 1937-1938) ; Cincinnati Council of Child Education. She is married to John Downer, principal of Oyler School. They have one child, a daughter.
LUCY DUNHAM
LUCY DUNHAM, sixth grade teacher of Taft School, Cincinnati, and expert on women's work in various industries, has been unusually successful in two distinct careers which might well justify separate outlines but for the fact that one type of training and experience has supplemented and assisted the other.
Miss Dunham was graduated from Hughes High School, took her B. S. at the University of Cincinnati and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.
Because of her intensive study of labor problems, she was appointed in 1918 to the Industrial Service Section, Woman's Division of the U. S. Ord- nance Department. During the World War, Lucy Dunham investigated the work of women in ordnance factories and later established successfully func- tioning labor relations departments in two leading New York City plants and in one at Port Chester, New York.
Returning to Cincinnati she continued her specialized service, establish- ing the first authentic labor relations department in the shoe industry of Ohio.
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Miss Dunham then turned her professional training to its original pur- pose and joined the teaching staff of the Cincinnati Public Schools. Her interest, energy and ability have reflected themselves not only in her class- room, where every child finds personal interest and individual help, but also in relationship to her fellow teachers.
She organized the social relations committee of the Cincinnati Teachers Association ; was a representative of the C. T. A .; on the Federated Council of Cincinnati Teachers Organization and is active in the state and national education association.
Lucy Dunham was a member of the first City Charter organization-for bettered municipal government-is active in this group, also in the League of Women Voters; Cincinnati Peace League, Good Government League, National P. T. A. and is a board member of the Cincinnati Consumers League.
HARRIET B. EARLY
HARRIET B. EARLY, assistant principal of Rothenberg Junior High School, Cincinnati, received her professional training at Miami University and her early teaching experience in the elementary and high schools of Terrace Park, Norwood, Lockland and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Her administrative work, for which she is especially adapted, began with her appointment as director of the Shelby County Normal School at Sidney, Ohio. Her ability, thoroughness and marked success as an executive led to her present important post in the public school system of Cincinnati, where, as assistant principal of one of the large junior high schools, she has fulfilled her duties with distinction.
Harriet Early is a member of the National Education Association; the Ohio Education Association; the Cincinnati Teachers Association; the Amer- ican Association of University Women; and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
MABEL R. FERNALD
DR. MABEL R. FERNALD, director of the Psychological Laboratory of Cincinnati Public Schools, was born in Springfield, Ohio, the daughter of James Champlin and Nettie Barker Fernald.
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