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Dr. Hanna was 84, December 2, 1938. But she makes a practice of re- turning to Oberlin at commencement time. She finds there what she helped most to build "a building not made with hands."
ISABEL SEYMOUR SMITH
ISABEL SEYMOUR SMITH, professor emeritus in biology of Oberlin College, was born at Hillside, Mich., the daughter of George and Sarah Smith. She took her A.B. at Oberlin, her M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and took special courses at the Marine Biological Laboratories, Wood Hollow, Mass. She was formerly dean of women at Oberlin and professor of biology. She is a charter member and former president of the Illinois Academy of Science, active in other professional organizations and author of scientific papers that have advanced definitely the field of knowl- edge to which she has devoted most of her life.
ARLETTA MARIA ABBOTT
Another former faculty member of note was ARLETTA MARIA ABBOTT, who came to the college as instructress in German in 1893, became professor of German and served in that capacity until 1921. FLORENCE M. FITCH | was at one time dean of women at Oberlin and has long been a professor in Bible. Two especially notable women members of the faculty at the time of this writing are HOPE HIBBARD, professor of Zoology, and MARY EMILY SINCLAIR, professor of mathematics and in the past, a strong supporter of the suffrage movement.
Undoubtedly there has been in the atmosphere of this Ohio co-educational center a courage and a freedom that has not only influenced individual lives but has even helped to shape the course of history.
This aura can be no better exemplified, in summing up, that by mention of one more famous name.
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The name is that of FRANCES WILLARD, who grew up in the town of Oberlin. Where did she find early nourishment for the strong spirit that never failed her in her leadership of a cause which, however debatable as to its democratic sanctions, was none the less in large measure corrective of the most crying evil of her day?
Did she find this spiritual nurture in the atmosphere of Oberlin? Who can say ?
ALMA WACKER PATERSON
No women were appointed to membership on the board of trustees of the Ohio State University until 1925 when ALMA WACKER PATERSON, a graduate of the university, was appointed to fill out an unexpired term. She was re-appointed and served, in all, nine and one-half years.
MISS M. EDITH CAMPBELL, of Cincinnati, whose biography appears with those of other directors of the Cincinnati public school system, was appointed to the Ohio State University board and is still a member.
MARGARET ELLEN ANDERSON
MARGARET ELLEN ANDERSON, dean of women at Otterbein College, Westerville, O., was born at Jamestown, N. Y., the daughter of Magnus and Jennie Marie Anderson. She took her A.B. at Otterbein College and her M.S. at Syracuse University. Miss Anderson has the distinction of being one of the youngest women ever appointed to the responsibilities of a college deanship. She began her educational work as teacher of history at James- town High School.
MARY PYLE ANDREWS
Combining the many tasks of the wife of a Presbyterian minister with that of serving on the Ashland College faculty is the accomplishment of MARY PYLE ANDREWS, wife of Dr. Harold Edward Andrews, pastor of the Ashland Presbyterian Church.
She has been a member of the Ashland College faculty since 1925 and is a frequent lecturer on Shakespearean and Biblical subjects before women's groups. She is associate professor of English at the college.
Daughter of John L. and Mamie Shields Pyle of Huron, S. D., Mrs. Andrews was graduated from Huron College and received her M.A. from Chicago University. She taught in the public schools at Huron, was principal of the high school at Buena Vista, Colo., and was dean of women and professor of English at Whitworth College, Spokane, Wash., before coming to Ohio.
She was married to Dr. Andrews in August, 1916 at Huron, S. D. and came to Ashland with him in 1918, when he assumed his pastorate there. The Andrews have a son, Harold and a daughter, Mary. Mrs. Andrews is
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vice president of the Ashland Library Board and a member of the Friday club. Her interest in students of the college is not confined to the class room as she is a valued counselor with helpful influence. To those students closest in her affections she is "Ma" Andrews, a title which she thoroughly enjoys.
GENEVIEVE APGAR
GENEVIEVE APGAR, Professor of English in the College of Education, Ohio University, received her A. B. cum laude, from the University of Chicago and her M. A. from Leland Stanford University. Before taking up her posi- tion at Athens, she taught in a number of private and high schools, acquiring a professional skill and understanding which has enabled her to write leading articles for educational and other publications. She is also well known as a lecturer.
ADA HART ARLITT
ADA HART ARLITT, educator and author, now professor of child care and training in the University of Cincinnati, was born in New Orleans, a daughter of John and Ada Hart. She won her Bachelor of Arts degree in Tulane University in her native city and her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Chicago. She has devoted her life to educational work and is widely known as professor of child care and education, having estab- lished a national reputation as a specialist in the field of parent-education.
In addition to her professorship in the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Arlitt is advisory editor of the Character Magazine and is associate editor of the Child Welfare Magazine. She is chairman of the parent education committee of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and is active in other im- portant organizations.
Her published writings include "Psychology of Infancy and Early Child- hood," "The Child from One to Twelve," "Adolescent Psychology" and num- erous authoritative articles. She has edited the Parent Education Year Books of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers since 1929. Her residence is at 650 Riddle Road, Cincinnati.
JANE K. ATWOOD
JANE K. ATWOOD, associate professor of geography at Ohio University, attended the University of Chicago, where the degree of M. S. was conferred on her in 1915. She has been deeply interested in American revolutionary history, an interested reflect in active membership in the D. A. R., has traveled extensively and has lectured on educational and historic subjects.
RUTH L. BEYER
RUTH L. BEYER of Berea, Ohio, is dean of women and associate pro- fessor of French at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, where she was several
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years a student, going on to the University of Wisconsin for her B. A. and A. M. degrees.
Dean Beyer is an active member of the American Association of Uni- versity Professors, The National Vocational Guidance Association and other professional organizations and is deeply interested in the study of art.
MARIAN BOYD
MARIAN BOYD (Mrs. Walter Havighurst) instructor of English at Miami University, was born at Marietta, O., the daughter of William and Mary Boyd. She took her A. B. at Smith College, her M. A. at Yale University and was married in 1930 to Walter Havighurst.
Mrs. Havighurst is a member of the MacDowell Society and maintains artist residence at the MacDowell Colony. Among her best known writings are "Silver Wands" and "Murder in the Stacks". Her home is at 21 Uni- versity Ave., Oxford, Ohio.
JESSIE WILLIS BROCKMAN
JESSIE WILLIS BROCKMAN, (Mrs. Frank M. Brockman) dean of women at Wooster College, was born at Plainfield, N. J., the daughter of Frederick and Lydia Willis. She took her A. B. at Mt. Holyoke College, her M. A. at Columbia University and was for a period a teacher in far off Korea. at Ewha College, Seoul. She was married to Frank M. Brockman in 1912. Their home is at 1133 Beall Ave., Wooster, Ohio.
HALLIE QUINN BROWN
Among the many personal forces that have operated to bring to Wilber- force University world wide recognition as a center of Negro education, few, if any, have been greater than that exercised by HALLIE QUINN BROWN, famous Negro elocutionist who came to Wilberforce at an early age and since made it her home.
Miss Brown is the youngest of six children born to Thomas A. and Frances Jane (Scroggins) Brown. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but spent her early girlhood in Chatham, Canada where the Pennsylvania family moved for the benefit of Mrs. Brown's health. Later, Mr. Brown moved his family to Wilberforce, Ohio, that he might give his children the benefit of a good education.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown exerted a definite influence for good upon the com- munity and "Ma" Brown, as she was affectionately called, lived serenely and did her alms quietly to the ripe age of ninety-five years.
Miss Brown graduated from Wilberforce receiving the degree of B. S. She has also the degrees of M. S. and Ph. D. She has pursued special courses in New York and London Polytechnic School, London, England.
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She taught in the Public Schools of Dayton, Ohio; at Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina ; Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama and Wilber- force University, Wilberforce, Ohio. As reader and lecturer, she has traveled in every state of United States except Maine and Vermont; in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Holland.
Miss Brown raised by lectures several thousands of dollars for Wilberforce University. She received sixteen thousand dollars from Miss E. J. Emery, a wealthy London philanthropist, to build a girls' dormitory at Wilberforce. The building erected in 1913 was called Keziah Emery Hall in memory of the mother of the donor.
Miss Brown is a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of the British Women's Temperance Association and Women's Christian Temperance Union since a child. She is a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland and a life member of the International Council of Women.
Miss Brown took an active part in the movement to gain the privilege of suffrage for American women. She has made campaign speeches on behalf of the Republican Party of Ohio. She served as director of Colored Women's Activities in the National headquarters at Chicago, Illinois in the Campaign of 1924 and has had a large share in the part that women have played in politics.
She helped to form the First British Chautauqua at North Wales in 1895. She has been a club member and worker in Women's Clubs since their organi- zation in Ohio in 1899, later was elected president of The Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Later president of The National Association of Col- ored Women, 1920 to 1924.
Several years prior to the national organization meeting of 1896, Hallie Q. Brown, of Wilberforce, had caught the "spirit of the time" and went to Washington with a desire to see the women of her race organized. Conferences were held with a group of women living in Washington. The undertaking seemed too large, but the women did form a local organization which they named "The Colored Woman's League" which later merged with "The National Federation of Afro-American Women" under the name of the National Association of Colored Women. This organization has continued to the present day.
Miss Brown continues her activities as an educator, serving as leader of an adult education class at Wilberforce, Ohio. She is called upon to speak in political campaigns. She is among the most beloved and highly respected club women of the United States. The Ohio State Federation recently honored her by establishing the Hallie Q. Brown Scholarship at Wilberforce University. Through the years, some girl will get financial help in pursuing her education at Wilberforce because Hallie Q. Brown lived and served her people. The club women want her name and her influence to go on and on.
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ALICE HILL BYRNE
ALICE HILL BYRNE, academic dean and professor of Greek at Western College, Oxford, O., was born at Lancaster, Pa., attended Millersville State Normal School, took her A. B. at Wellesley and her Ph. D. at Bryn Mawr. She began her teaching career at Miss Hill's School, Philadelphia, and taught Latin and Greek at the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr. She is a member of the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, the National Association of Deans of Women and is also active in the Amer- ican Association for Labor Legislation and in the National Child Labor Asso- ciation. Miss Byrne is an authority on Irish and Shakespearean literature and is author of a play, "Titus Pomponius Atticus."
EDITH IRENE CHANNEL
EDITH IRENE CHANNEL, (Mrs. Walter F. Channel) director of home economics, Wilmington College, O., was born in Chicago, the daughter of Ernest and Ida Thoren. She took her Ph. B. at the University of Chicago and her M. S. at Ohio State University. Her marriage to Walter F. Channel took place in 1917. Their home is at 318 N. Mulberry St., Wilmington, O.
ROSAMOND C. COOK
ROSAMOND C. COOK, professor of Home Economics Education, Uni- versity of Cincinnati, received her B. S. and M. A. degrees at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has become widely identified with home economics education and was previously associate editor of this department in Iowa State College.
Miss Cook has written numerous articles on household science and re- cently won first prize in a nation wide contest for the best essay on woman's dress.
LUCINDA COOK
LUCINDA COOK, for twenty-three years a potent influence on the de- velopment of education in the state of Ohio, was the youngest child of Major and Priscilla Cook of Detroit. Before her fourteenth birthday she had lost both her parents. Instead of remaining at Oberlin as her parents had planned she went to live in the home of her oldest brother, John H. Cook, an influential lawyer in the city of Washington. She transferred to Howard University and there met Miss Martha Briggs, a noted New England educator, Principal of Minor Normal School, who recognized Lucinda's promise. Miss Briggs in- fluenced Lucinda to enter Minor Normal school after her graduation from Howard Academy, for she recognized her as a potential educator. Her high scholastic attainments and unusual personality were recognized, and after her graduation from Minor she was offered a teaching position in the Wash-
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ington public schools. This marked the beginning of her fifty years of edu- cational service, half of which was rendered in Ohio.
Associated with Miss Cook as pupil, teacher, and co-worker in every educational endeavor was a modest loyal disciple, ANNE O. H. WILLIAM- SON. It is difficult to write of the work of one without the other, so closely were the two associated in the interest of education. They worked together in Washington, where Miss Cook was teacher of every grade of the public school, and principal of the John H. Cook and Garnet Schools. They helped establish the Baltimore Teacher Training School, of which Miss Cook was at first principal and later supervisor of all the beginning teachers in the city system during their probationary year of teaching.
In 1915 Miss Cook and Miss Williamson were called to Wilberforce to reorganize the Teacher Training work there under the superintendency of W. A. Joiner. Miss Cook became Director of the Elementary Teacher Train- ing and revolutionized the department. The teachers she sent out to fill posi- tions throughout the country carried her spirit with them and were a credit to her influence. "A Rich Personality spent in loving service for youth," is the inscription on the plaque presented by the Elementary Teacher Training Department of Wilberforce as a tribute to this educator.
Miss Cook's unusual personality, her strength of character, and her inspirational force will be forever memorialized by the teachers in every state of the union, as well as foreign countries who profited by her influence.
ANNINA PERIAM DANTON
ANNINA PERIAM DANTON (Mrs. George H. Danton), educator and author of Oberlin, O., was born at Newark, N. J., the daughter of Joseph and Mary Periam. She took her A.B. at Goucher College, her M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University and did graduate work at the University of Marburg and the University of Leipsig, Germany. She is a fellow in Germanic Lan- guages and Literature of Columbia University and European Fellow of Goucher College.
From 1907, when she was married to George H. Danton, a writer, to 1916, Mrs. Danton devoted her outstanding ability to teaching languages at Stanford University and Reed College, to work on the Century Dictionary and on the simplified spelling board. From 1917 to 1927 she taught western languages and literature at Tsing Hua University, Peking, China, and later taught German at Hunter College.
Mrs. Danton is author of many important books and articles, among them "Hebbel's Nibelungen, its Sources, Method and Style," "The Back- ground Series of English Readers," "Western Etiquette" and "Practical Handbook of Coloquial German." Her home is at 47 College Place, Oberlin, O.
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MINNA CAROLINE DENTON
MINNA CAROLINE DENTON, professor in charge of foods and nutri- tion, Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., was born at Baxter Springs, Kansas, the daughter of Lucius Gary and Caroline Denton. She took her B.S. and M.A. at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. at the University of Chi- cago. For seven years Miss Denton was home economics specialist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. and from 1925 to 1929 she was professor of economics at George Washington University. She is author of many professional articles. Her residence is at Springfield, O.
IRENE L. DEVLIN
IRENE L. DEVLIN, executive secretary and assistant to the president of the Ohio University at Athens, received her A.B. and M.A. at this university and is regarded as unusually well trained for and adapted to the responsi- bilities of her important position. She was formerly grand organizer and grand president and is now a national trustee of Theta Phi Alpha.
SUSANNA WAY DODDS
Susanna Way came from Richmond, Indiana, in 1856 to attend Antioch College under Horace Mann, entering the final preparatory class. Previously she had finished a course of study at a Ladies' Seminary in Oxford, Ohio and had taught before coming to Antioch. She was attracted to the school as were many others because of the fame of its president and the fact that the college offered equal opportunities to men and women. Like many other students who had to pay their own way she left Antioch to teach for two years, having in the meantime married Andrew Dodds, who also attended Antioch and who with his brother, George, had emigrated from Scotland to America. The Dodds brothers were marble cutters, the first importers of Scotch marble into this country, and established a marble yard in Yellow Springs, which was later moved to Xenia, Ohio.
SUSANNA WAY DODDS had adopted the Bloomer costume and on graduation in 1866 was not allowed to appear on the platform with the members of the class, owing to a resolution by the Board of Trustees for- bidding it. She was so incensed that she refused to accept her diploma which the president tried to hand down to her and it was not until 1884 that she finally agreed to receive the diploma for the A.B. degree from President D. A. Long on the platform from which eighteen years before she had been excluded. She also received her A.M. degree from Dr. Long.
After leaving Antioch Mr. and Mrs. Dodds entered the Hygeio-Therapeutic College established by Dr. Thrall in New York from which they both grad- uated. In 1867 she and her husband's sister, Dr. Mary Dodds, established a sanitarium in St. Louis.
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In 1887 Dr. Susanna Dodds was made the Dean of the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons. She wrote a number of books, "Health in the Household," "Race Culture Through Mother and Child," also "Drugless Medicine," finished shortly before she died, which advocates the advantages of water and simple diet as a cure for many diseases.
Dr. Dodds contributed largely to the Horace Mann monument erected on the campus in 1884.
She died at Long Beach, California, January 30, 1911.
MARIE DRENNAN
MARIE DRENNAN, assistant professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, was born at Swanton, O., took her A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan, her M.A. at Ohio State University and attended the Yale Drama School. She is an artist and writer as well as teacher. Her extensive authorship includes a Japanese pageant, "Anger of the Sun," several one-act plays and poems in important magazines and collections.
DOROTHY SHIELDS DUERR
DOROTHY SHIELDS DUERR, head of the English department, Western College, was born at New Martinsville, W. Va., the daughter of William and Minnie Duerr. She took her A.B. at Western College, her M.A. at Yale University and went abroad for special study at the University of London and at Oxford University.
Miss Duerr formerly taught at Washington Seminary, Washington, Pa., and is regarded as qualified for her educational service.
AILEEN DUNHAM
AILEEN DUNHAM, who since 1930 has held a professorship in Wooster College, is a daughter of Samuel S. and Frances (Walker) Dunham, both of whom were born in Missouri but in 1910 removed to Alberta, Canada, where the mother passed away in 1922. The father is a lawyer by profession and for some years has been in the civil service in Canada, but is now plan- ning to retire from active life. A brother of Miss Dunham won a Rhodes scholarship and was graduated in 1926. He is now a practicing attorney of Winnepeg, Canada.
Miss Dunham attended the grade schools of Macon, Missouri, and pur- sued her high school studies in Canada, where she was graduated in 1916. In the fall of that year she entered the University of Alberta and after a four-year's course there was graduated in 1920. She held the Mackenzie fellowship in political science at Toronto in 1921 and later she attended the University of London and worked in the Institute of Historical Research. During her stay there she also wrote a book "Political Unrest in Upper Canada," which she published in 1927.
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Miss Dunham returned from London in 1924 and came to Wooster College, of Wooster, Ohio, as an instructor and in 1930 was advanced to a professorship. She lectures on questions of international relations and also gives instruction to classes in the college.
Greatly enjoying travel, Miss Dunham has made three trips to Europe in the last few years and devoted the summer of 1927 to the study of art in Italy. In the summer of 1937 she spent two months in cruising in Medit- teranean waters. She likes pedestrian trips and has walked over a consider- able part of England, seeing sights and gaining experiences that cannot be acquired in any other way. She has also traveled in the wilds of the United States and loves sports, particularly hunting and fishing.
ELIZABETH DYER
Following in the footsteps of her distinguished father, the late Frank B. Dyer, ELIZABETH DYER has already come to occupy a unique place in the public education system of Cincinnati.
She is now director of the School of Household Administration of the University of Cincinnati, the curriculum of which is still a comparatively new development of the modern university.
Miss Dyer received her preliminary education in Cincinnati, where her father was formerly superintendent of schools. Later he was superintendent of Boston public schools and then returned to Cincinnati for continued and voluntary service as member of the Board of Education.
The public school system of Cincinnati owes much, it is generally be- lieved, to the fine leadership of Dr. Dyer at a period when it was being freed from political control and permitted to expand and move forward.
In her direction of the household administration school of Cincinnati University, Miss Dyer is said to have displayed the same type of understand- ing, of judgment and the same grasp of fundamental needs.
She received her A.B. at Vassar and then was graduated from the Prince School for Store Service and from Simmons College. Despite the extent of her professional duties and responsibilities, Miss Dyer has devoted unstinted time and energy to civic and welfare activities. She has been among workers of the Woman's City Club, the League of Women Voters, the Adult Education Council of Metropolitan Cincinnati, the Home Economics Association and other groups. She is author of numerous articles in professional journals and of special publications, among them "Textile Fabrics" and "Shoe Manual."
KATHERINE EASLEY
KATHERINE EASLEY, dean of women and associate professor of Eng- lish Literature at the University of Toledo, was born at New Albany, Ind., the daughter of Dr. E. P. and Virginia Easley. She took her A.B. and M.A.
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at Indiana University, and did graduate work at Columbia University. She was previously a faculty member of Indiana University. Miss Easley is president of the Ohio branch of the National Association of Deans of Women and is active in the League of Women Voters and in the Y. W. C. A.
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