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JESSIE L. PAUL
JESSIE L. PAUL, professor of art at the University at Cincinnati, is a native of Philadelphia, where she attended the public schools, as she also did in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, completing a high school course. She was next a student in the Mechanics Institute School of Home Economics at Rochester, New York, this being followed by study in the Cincinnati Art Academy and later in the Thomas Training School of Detroit, Michigan. She further pursued her studies at Columbia University of York City and soon afterward she came to the University of Cincinnati to accept her present position. The department was then in its formative stage and she has done much to develop and strengthen the course and make it one of the important educa- tional features of the institution. In this she has brought her high ideals into practical and tangible form and the art department is now a valuable asset of the University.
General progress along the line of her chosen life work has also been furthered by her efforts, which have been directed to the upbuilding of the
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the Woman's Art Club and the Crafters College Art Association, in both of which she has membership. All art and cultural activities elicit her atten- tion and she is particularly well known in musical circles, having taught music at an earlier period for several years.
Miss Paul has membership in the Methodist Church. She is a great lover of the out-of-doors and of college sports and she is keenly interested in political problems and issues, holding to liberal views however, rather than influenced by party domination.
ADAH PEIRCE
ADAH PEIRCE, dean of women of Hiram College, was born at In- dianapolis, Ind., the daughter of Ira and May Peirce. She took her A.B. and her M.A. at the University of Chicago, and did graduate work at Harvard University and at the University of California. Miss Peirce is also assistant professor of sociology at Hiram College and was formerly associate dean of women and vocational counselor at Stephens College. Before becoming a faculty member Miss Peirce was employment manager for women with the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Co.
MELROSE PITMAN
MELROSE PITMAN, of the faculty of the School of Applied Art, Cin- cinnati University, was born in Cincinnati the daughter of the late Ben Pitman and Adelaide Nourse Pitman, who was a twin sister of the famous artist, Elizabeth Nourse.
Artistic ability was inherent in both of Melrose Pitman's parents. Her mother was a talented sculptress and wood-carver and her father a many sided genius who was an outstanding citizen of Cincinnati. Ben Pitman excelled as a wood carver and was for years famous as a teacher of this art. He was the brother of Sir Isaac Pitman of England, with whom he shares credit for practical development and establishment of the system of short- hand writing.
Shortly after the Civil War, Ben Pitman was appointed an official re; porter of the U. S. Government. As such he reported the famous trial of the "Lincoln conspirators," one of whom, Mrs. Mary Surratt, he declared shortly before his death to have been in his opinion as based on the testimony he took down, guiltless of the crime for which she was executed.
Melrose Pitman attended Cincinnati schools, then entered Wellesley Col- lege. After graduation she travelled abroad extensively, studying art in old world centers.
For several years Miss Pitman was a member of the faculty of Allegheny College. On her return to Cincinnati she was appointed teacher of the history of art at the School of Applied Art of Cincinnati, a position to which she has brought both ability and distinction.
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MINNIE PRICE
MINNIE PRICE, State Home Demonstration Leader of the Ohio State University home extension service, was born at Kings Valley, Oregon, the daughter of Willard Lane and Serepta Price, took her B.S. and M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University and was formerly supervisor of eco- nomics in the Salem, Oregon, public schools.
She is an active member of the American Home Economics Association and the American Country Life Association. Her residence is 306 W. Ninth St., Columbus, O.
HELEN REYNOLDS
HELEN REYNOLDS, associate professor of secretarial studies of Ohio University, was born at Athens, received her A.B. at Ohio University and her M.A. at the University of New York.
She is a former president of the department of business education of the National Education Association and former vice president of the National Council of Education.
CHARLOTTE RICE
CHARLOTTE RICE, assistant professor of psychology, Denison Uni- versity, took her A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan and her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. Miss Rice did graduate work at the University of Minnesota before starting her teaching career. She has done important research work and is author of a number of articles on child development featured in psychological magazines.
REBECCA S. RICE
REBECCA S. RICE, born June 19, 1835, came with other members of her family in 1853 from Worcester, Massachusetts, to attend Antioch College under Horace Mann. Her father, Edward Rice, was a superintendent of con- struction during the building of Antioch College. Rebecca alternated teaching the village school, and "Little Antioch" with college work, graduating in 1860 with a class of twenty-eight, six of whom were "ladies." High school teaching in Xenia and Dayton, Ohio where she did most excellent work kept her engaged until 1866 when she was called to Antioch as a teacher in the preparatory department. In 1870 she was given leave of absence for a period of study abroad. On her return from Heidelberg in 1872 Miss Rice was appointed to the Anna Richmond chair of Mathematics and Astronomy which she filled most capably for four years. In 1876 she resigned to take charge of The Girls' Higher School, later known as the Girls' Collegiate School in Chicago. Associated with Miss Rice in this work was MISS MARY BEEDY, another Antiochian and classmate of 1860 who had traveled abroad and
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given many lectures in England on American education. The school and woman suffrage grew in importance and popularity under the management of these two women assisted by a faculty numbering ten or twelve and maintained a high standard of scholarship. The school's students were pre- pared to secure admission to any college in the country. After thirty years of such service Miss Rice retired and returned to Yellow Springs, Ohio where she died May 4, 1911.
Miss Rice was the first woman to be elected a member of the Antioch Board of Trustees and served her Alma Mater with honor for ten years, 1888-98. At the end of this period she resigned and made a second trip to Europe where she made a special collection of books on art and mathematics. Miss Rice was a great lover of books and the greater part of her private library of over two thousand books was left to Antioch College Library.
The following is quoted from the Rebecca Rice bookplate: "Rebecca Rice had a prophet's soul, a reformer's fibre, the strength of a radical in the pro- found sense of that word. She did her own thinking, sought the advance line, and did picket work in the army of progress." Her enthusiasm was kindled with coals from the Horace Mann altar.
ALICE ROSEMOND
ALICE ROSEMOND, dean of women of Marietta College, took her A.B. and M.A. at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, studied at Centro de Estudios Historicos, Madrid, Spain and did graduate work at Ohio State University where she was accorded the Romance Language Scholarship. She was formerly a teacher of English at Tucson, Ariz., and at Barcelona Spain and taught Spanish at Denison University, Henderson-Brown College and Marietta College. Miss Rosemond has contributed important articles on educational subjects to various periodicals. Her home is at 312 Fourth St., Marietta, O.
VIRGINIA S. SANDERSON
VIRGINIA S. SANDERSON, associate professor of speech and English at Ohio State University, was born in Columbus, took her A.B. at the Uni- versity of California, her M.A. at the Teachers College of that university, where she was awarded a travelling fellowship. Miss Sanderson was formerly vice president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech. She is author of a book of verse, of short plays and of magazine fiction. Her home is at 100 W. Duncan St., Columbus.
CLARA EVE SCHIEBER
DR. CLARA EVE SCHIEBER, an educator of pronounced ability who, since 1933, has been geography teacher in the junior high school of Bucyrus, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, and is a daughter of John Schieber, Jr.,
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and Elizabeth Jane (Uhl) Schieber, also natives of Crawford County. She completed her high school course at Bucyrus as a member of the class of 1904 and then spent two years as a student in Wittenberg College. In attendance at Ohio University she won her Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1916 and with a scholarship entered Clark University in 1917, there gaining her Master's degree in 1918, while in 1920 the Doctor's degree was conferred upon her.
After finishing her studies at Wittenberg, Dr. Schieber taught for a year in the Holmes-Liberty school, a country school east of Bucyrus, to which she drove five miles daily with a horse and buggy. She has since given her attention to teaching with the exception of the times which she has spent in college, furthering her own education, having been a teacher in the schools of New Washington and Sulphur Springs in Crawford County, then in the Crawford elementary school of Bucyrus and subsequently in the Central school of Bucyrus. For one year she taught at Kingfisher College, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and for seven years was connected with Oxford College for Women, now part of Miami University, as instructor of history. She also taught history for five years at Ohio Northern University, from 1928 until 1933, and then accepted the position of teacher of geography in the Bucyrus junior high school.
Dr. Schieber's writings show her to be a woman of broad scholarly attain- ments. Her thesis for her Master's degree was written on the subject, "The Russian Revolution, 1825, 1905, 1917," while her Doctor's degree thesis was "American Sentiment Toward Germany, 1870-1914." She wrote the history of the Samoan Islands for the American Commission to negotiate Peace, in 1919, and she was the German-English translator for the Journal of Modern History, published by the University of Chicago.
In 1937 Dr. Schieber was president of the Bucyrus City Teachers' Asso- ciation and she was the organizer of the American Association of University Women, at Ada, Ohio. In 1933 she served on the committee of the Woman's National Exposition in Cincinnati. She is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, was president of the Woman's Missionary Society in 1937-8 and was secretary of the Ohio Synodical Woman's Missionary Society in 1938, all of which indicates that her interests center in the intellectual and moral progress of the community and state.
MAUDE FITZGERALD SHARP
MAUDE FITZGERALD SHARP, dean of women of Bowling Green, Ohio, State College, was born at Greenville, Ohio and received her A. B. cum laude and her M. A. at Syracuse University. In addition to many professional activi- ties, she is an authority on Early American furniture.
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MARIE LICHTY SHAVER
MARIE LICHTY SHAVER (Mrs. Winnett D. Shaver) of Ashland, Ohio is alumni secretary and director of publications of Ashland College where she was awarded her A. B. degree. She took her M. A. at the University of Wisconsin. She was formerly professor of romance languages at Ashland and editor for several years of "Woman's Outlook". Mrs. Shaver is co-donor with her brother of the John Lichty Scholarship at Ashland.
JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL
JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL, until the past year Dean of Women of the University of Cincinnati, was born in Covington, Ky., a member of one of the most distinguished families of that state.
Miss Simrall took her B. S. at Wellesley College and did post-graduate work at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins. Before her appointment as Dean of Women, Miss Simrall was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sweet Briar College.
She is a member of the Wellesley Alumnal Association, of the National Association of Deans of Women, a former board member of the Cincinnati Woman's Club, an ex-president of the College Club and of the Woman's City Club and the author of magazine articles and clever verse.
VIVIAN BLANCHE SMALL
VIVIAN BLANCHE SMALL, whose natural abilities, fine training and administrative talent have qualified her for this important position, is presi- dent of Lake Erie College, at Painesville, Ohio.
Miss Small was born at Gardiner, Me., the daughter of Leander M. and Annie Small. She took her A. B. at Mt. Holyoke College, her M. A. at the University of Chicago and was honored with the degree of Litt. D. by Mt. Holyoke and with an honorary L. L. D. by Western Reserve University.
She began her educational career as a high school and preparatory school teacher, then became instructor and associate professor of Latin at Mt. Hol- yoke. She is active in the American Association of University Women and other professional organizations and is widely known in educational circles. Her home is at 348 Mentor Ave., Painesville.
HELEN MARY SMITH
HELEN MARY SMITH, a well known representative of the teaching pro- fession in Cleveland since 1895 and dean of the Flora Stone Mather College since 1914, was born in Cleveland October 5, 1870, her parents being Pardon Brownell and Eliza Jane (Hovey) Smith. The father, who was born in Ovid, New York, August 15, 1833, was of Knickerbocker Dutch descent and the mother, who was born in Ohio, January 4, 1832, belonged to one of the oldest
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American families, being a descendent of Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Massachusetts.
After attending the Cleveland public schools and graduating from the Central high school as a member of the class of 1889, Helen M. Smith enrolled as a student in the Flora Stone Mather College of the Western Reserve Uni- versity and completed her course there in 1894. She has always lived in Cleveland and the year after leaving college she began teaching in the Central high school, where she continued from 1895 to 1914. She then took up her college work as dean of the Flora Stone Mather College with which she has been continuously connected for a quarter of a century, being recognized as one of the ablest educators of the city.
Miss Smith belongs to the National Association of Deans of Women, to the American Association of University Women and to the Women's City Club. She has membership in the Congregational church and her tendency in poli- tics is toward Republican principles. She has made valuable contribution to educational activities in her native city and her efforts, while directed toward high ideals, are based upon thoroughly practical and resultant methods.
ZOE EMILY STOGDILL
ZOE EMILY STOGDILL (Mrs. Ralph H. Stogdill), consultant in psy- chology for women students at Ohio State University, took her B. A. cum laude at Ohio Wesleyan College and her M. A. and Ph. D. at Ohio State University. She is assistant professor in psychology at Ohio State as well as consultant in psychology, was previously a teacher in the public schools and before that girls work secretary of the Youngstown, Ohio, Y. W. C. A.
Mrs. Stogdill is the author of a number of articles on psychology featured in professional journals. Her residence is 48 Virginia Ave., Columbus.
DORIS C. STOUT
DORIS C. STOUT is dean of women and associate professor in education of Ashland College. She was born at Pleasant Hill, Ohio, received her A. B. at Ashland and her M. A. at Ohio State University. For several years she taught in high school and was later librarian of Ashland College. Among her published writings is a practical and highly helpful "Evaluation of the Use of Books in a Modern Elementary School".
PHEBE TEMPERANCE SUTLIFF
PHEBE TEMPERANCE SUTLIFF, daughter of Levi and Phebe Lord Marvin Sutliff, is descended through both father and mother from early New England colonists. The founder of the New England Sutliff family was a Puritan and, by 1623 was a member of the new settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts. His father had been groom of the bedchamber to King Charles
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I. His uncle, Dean of Exeter, had been Royal Chaplain to both Queen Eliza- beth and King James. He was one of the Englishmen forming themselves into the "Grand Council Established at Plymouth" that obtained from the King in 1620 a charter to the whole of New England-the North Virginia Colony. In 1610 he founded the King James College.
The colonial family was active in all colonial affairs-two members of the family having aided in the establishment of Harvard College. Two, at least, were killed in Indian wars. Samuel Sutliff as a mere lad served in the last years of the American Revolution. In 1804 he came with his family to Vernon Township in Trumbull County. His was the second white family to settle in that township. He was a man of character and influence. His wife, Ruth Granger Sutliff, was a cousin of Gideon Granger, a member of Jefferson's cabinet, and was of royal descent. She was said to be unusually talented. Her unusual memory is shown by the fact that she knew "Paradise Lost" by heart. She was a close Bible student and was familiar with those standard books of literature and history known to eager minds of her time. She saw that her five sons knew the Bible and good literature. Four of them became able lawyers and one of them, Milton, later became chief justice of the State Supreme Court. She was president of the Vernon Women's Anti-Slavery Society. The first wife of her son, Levi, Mary Plumb Sutliff, was the first secretary of the first Vernon Women's Anti-Slavery Society. She and an- other young woman once piloted fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. Her husband, Levi Sutliff, himself a very young man, helped organize the first national and the first Trumbull County Anti-Slavery Societies. Mary Plumb Sutliff died when only twenty-three years old.
Levi Sutliff's second wife was Phebe Lord Marvin. They both were born in Ohio. Phebe Marvin descended from Reynold Marvin, member of a sub- stantial English family of Essex, England. In 1638 Reynold Marvin came to Hartford, Connecticut, to join a younger brother. He finally settled in Lyme, Connecticut. He seems to have left England largely for religious reasons. His wife's death in 1661 was attributed to witchcraft. Fortunately, the jury did not agree. Many quaint stories have been told about Captain Reynold Marvin, son of Lieutenant Reynold Marvin. They were conservative, solid, substantial people who did their share in developing pioneer communities. There were a surveyor, a member of the General Court, deacons, etc.
In 1821 Captain Joseph Marvin with his wife, Temperance Miller Marvin, and nine children came from Lyme, Connecticut and settled in Bazetta, six miles from Warren. Mrs. Marvin and the youngest two children rode in a carriage drawn by a horse. Behind the carriage was the typical covered wagon drawn by six oxen. The family was six weeks on the way. Joseph Marvin lived to be over one hundred and one years of age. On his one hundredth birthday his daughter, Mrs. Levi Sutliff, gave him a party which was attended by many early settlers of the Western Reserve. He received
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retired college president Warren
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the guests standing, though with a cane, and exchanged memories and jokes with those whom he had known. For this party a granddaughter, Louise Marvin Krusman, loaned a tablecloth that had come to her from a maternal ancestor who had used in in entertaining George Washington.
Phebe Marvin Sutliff sympathized with her husband's anti-slavery con- victions and their home in Warren was a station on the "underground rail- road." She was a pioneer in the W. C. T. U. movements, believed in woman suffrage and was enthusiastic when she was allowed to vote for two women on the Board of Education. She anticipated full suffrage for women, but did not live to see it. She had many stories of pioneer days and children were especially interested to hear how she and her brothers and sisters walked two miles through a forest to school accompanied by their faithful dog for protection, and to hear of her horseback ride to Warren when her mother had told her not to dismount and she chanced to see a bear cub while on her way; and to hear about the friendly Indians. The poet, Hart Crane, when a lad lived across the street from Mrs. Sutliff and many a visit he had with her on her front porch listening to her stories.
Her daughter and namesake, Phebe T. Sutliff, is a graduate of the Warren High School and of Vassar College, has her Master's degree from Cornell University and did graduate work also at the University of Zierich, Switzerland, and was for one semester a member of Von Holst's seminar at the University of Chicago. She is honorary alumna of Dana's Musical Insti- tute and for a year she was an instructor at Hiram College. Later she became professor of history and economics at Rockford College and was president of the college for five years, 1896-1901. Alluding to her name at the college, the "Rockford Register Gazette" in its "Seventy Years of Progress" publi- cation in 1904 after paying a tribute to her as a scholar and lecturer, said of her administration, "She bent all her energies toward raising the standard of scholarship and, as a result of her efforts, the whole tone of the institution changed for the better in this respect."
Resigning the presidency of the college for family reasons, Miss Sutliff returned to her home in Warren where she continues to reside in the home in which she was born. Her chief interest has continued to be the study of international affairs and occasional addresses on that subject before both women's and men's clubs. She has also a keen interest in the civic affairs of her community. She has been a trustee of the Anti-Tuberculosis and Volunteer Public Health Leagues. She organized and was first president of the Warren Branch of the "American Association of University Women." She organized and was first president of the "Warren Branch of the National Urban League." She served a number of years on the executive committee and as chairman of the plan committee of the Warren Community Fund organization. She is an associate member of the Y. W. C. A., a member of the Social Women's Club and a charter member and trustee of the Trumbull County Historical Society.
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During the war, she with several volunteer teachers, organized a free evening school with classes in English, United States History and Civics for recently naturalized citizens and for the unnaturalized. After the war the school was taken over by the Board of Education and for a number of years was part of the local public school system. Miss Sutliff was also one of the "Liberty Loan" speakers during the war. When in 1920 the ballot was given to women, she though reared a republican, joined the democratic party. She organized and was first chairman of the Trumbull County Democratic Women's Committee. She also organized the Mahoning County Democratic Women's Committee. She was a member of the State's Democratic Women's Executive Committee and was later the second woman to act as Democratic Central Committeewoman from her district. Later she organized and was first president of the Democratic Women's Study Club. In 1924 she was the democratic nominee for Congress from her district, and though defeated in the republican landslide of that year, she is still the district's only woman to have received a nomination for Congress.
Miss Sutliff is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a life member of the National and State Historical Societies, a member of the Academy of Political Science, of the Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Foreign Policy Asso- ciation and of the League of Nations Association of the United States.
She is the first woman president of the Warren Public Library Board of Trustees. The estate of her uncle, Judge Milton Sutliff, provided the site for the library building. She and her sister, LYDIA SUTLIFF BRAINARD, endowed a room in the library in memory of Mrs. Brainard's only son, Edward Sutliff Brainard. The room is for the special use of readers of high school age and older.
Mrs. Brainard is also active in civic work. She is a trustee of the Com- munity Fund organization, has been trustee and deaconess in the First Baptist Church and is a trustee and vice president of the Y. W. C. A. She raised the money that freed the new building from debt and secured the first en- dowment for it. She is the widow of E. J. Brainard, a former official of the American Linseed Company.
ANNA TAPPAN
ANNA TAPPAN, dean of women and professor of mathematics of Western College, Oxford, Ohio, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, the daughter of Davis and Anna Tappan. She took her A. B. at Western College, her M. A. and Ph. D. at Cornell, also a graduate fellowship in mathematics at that university. Miss Tappan was formerly associate professor of mathematics at Iowa State College. She is a member of the American Mathematical Association, the National Association of Deans of Women, the American Association of Uni- versity Women and other organizations.
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