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In addition to leadership in many organizations which have developed this branch of the science of healing, Dr. Giddings has held office and carried responsibility in other outstanding movements, which indicate the nature and breadth of her interests. Appreciative of the duties as well as of the obliga- tions and opportunities of citizenship, she is one of the workers of the League of Women Voters and of the International League for Peace and Freedom as well as in the Cleveland Federation of Women's Clubs and the State Federation of Women's Clubs. She keeps in touch with the leading and vital questions and issues of the day and her efforts are always directed toward progress and improvement, whether along professional or public lines.
GERTRUD HELMECKE
GERTRUD HELMECKE, osteopathic physician and surgeon, practicing in Cincinnati, was born in Braunschweig, Germany, September 27, 1891, and is a daughter of Stephan A. and Marie (Engel) Helmecke, who came to the United States during her girlhood, the father devoting his attention to mer- cantile pursuits in Cincinnati.
After attending the grades and high school of this city, Dr. Helmecke continued her education at the University of Michigan, where she won her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914. She received a diploma from the Sargent School of Physical Education in 1916 and in 1924 she was graduated with the D.O. degree from the American School of Osteopathy. Her college societies are the Wyvern, the Mortar Board, and the Delta Omega, of which she is a past president. She was at one time physical director in the State College for Women at Denton, Texas, also taught in the high school at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and was a teacher in the American School of Osteopathy for Women from 1922 to 1924. She is now engaged in private practice in Cin-
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cinnati, where she is meeting with gratifying success, her practice steadily gaining in volume and importance. She is well known in professional circles, is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, of which she was the second vice president in 1936-7, belongs to the Ohio Osteopathic Association and had the honor of being the first woman elected to its presidency; the Cincinnati Osteopathic Association, of which she is also a past president; and the Osteopathic Women's National Association, serving as president of its Ohio branch in 1936-7.
Dr. Helmecke has membership in the Lutheran Church and gives her political support to the Republican party. She belongs to the Zonta Interna- tional and was second vice president of the Ohio branch in 1936-7. She is also identified with the League of Women Voters, the Cincinnati Music Asso- ciation and the Cincinnati Art Museum, as well as wth the Cincinnati Business Woman's Club. She enjoys housekeeping reading and dancing and her favorite recreational sports are camping, swimming and roller-skating, turning to these for diversion from onerous professional cares. She makes her home at 3010 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati.
LUCY KIRK PEEL
LUCY KIRK PEEL, an osteopathic physician of Toledo, who has also been an outstanding worker in the temperance cause in Ohio and other states, is a daughter of John G. and Minerva (Sloan) Kirk, the former born in Kentucky and the latter in Missouri. The father followed farming through- out his entire life. He was a son of Jesse Kirk, who, in association with the maternal grandfather of Dr. Peel established the location of the county seat of Adair County, Missouri, Mr. Kirk donating the ground on which the county courthouse still stands and the town was named Kirksville in his honor. Dr. Peel still has a brother living there who has attained the venerable age of ninety-two years.
The Doctor devoted her girlhood largely to the attainment of her educa- tion in the country school and in the old Normal school at Kirksville, and after her textbooks were put aside she became the wife of Isaiah B. Peel. They removed to Morning Sun, Iowa, where Mr. Peel followed farming. Dr. Peel was a graduate of the Kirksville School of Osteopathy, where she completed her course in January, 1901. She then began practice in Findlay, Ohio, where she followed her profession until her health became greatly impaired due to the death of her son, Samuel Kirk Peel. There was also a daughter in the family, Calistia Peel, who was called to the home beyond in 1904.
For the benefit of her health Dr. Peel went to Seattle, Washington, where she remained for a year and then, returning to Ohio, she opened an office in Toledo where she practiced for a year. She was then chosen by the state
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of Michigan to take up the scientific directorship of the "dry" campaign in 1916 and covered the entire state, presenting the scientific reasons for the adoption of prohibition. She is an ardent worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and has membership in the first Union that was ever organized. She has held the offices of county superintendent of social morality and of prison work in the W.C.T.U. She also has membership in the Norwood Christian Church and she has been chairman of the Lucas County Council of American Legion Auxiliaries. She also filled the position of chairman of the northwest division of the American Legion Auxiliary of Ohio. She has been widely known as a lecturer, appearing on the public platforms in many parts of the country, addressing her audiences on questions vital to public welfare, and she is also still actively engaged in the practice of osteopathy, in which she has rendered a valuable service to her fellowmen. Her activities have always largely been for the benefit of others and what she has accomplished has ever commanded for her the respect and high appreciation of those who know her.
JOSEPHINE PIERCE
JOSEPHINE PIERCE (Mrs. William S. Pierce) of Lima, O., physician and former president of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, has given invaluable service to her community and to the state in general through ac- tivities centering about physical health, mental health and public welfare.
She was born at Keil, Wis., the daughter of David and Hannah Liffring, attended Iowa State College, took her degree of D.O. at the Still College of Osteopathy and is now in practice with her husband. For a period she was a public school teacher. Dr. Pierce was formerly president of the Lima Mental Hygiene Council, a trustee of the Ohio Public Health Association and has headed the department of the American home and numerous other departments and committees of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, as well as the entire state organization. Her home is at Lima.
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DENTISTRY
ANN BUNTIN BECKER
A keen mind and a strong social interest seldom confine themselves to one channel, however broad, so in the case of ANN BUNTIN BECKER, we find a woman hard to catalogue. A practicing dentist and a force in the field of public health and child welfare, Ann Buntin was born in Carlisle, Kentucky, Nov. 18, 1890. Her father was Robert W. Buntin and her mother Anna H. Adams, of a prominent Kentucky family.
Unfortunately blue blood does not always insure economic security or even educational opportunity, and we find Ann Buntin moving to Cincinnati at the age of eighteen, with her way to make and an interest in social service. First, a clerkship at the Anna Louise Inn, then dental assistant in the first free dental clinic in the Cincinnati Public Schools. The clinic paid only $6.00 a week, so the Inn job had to continue at night-so did classes in English and various subjects at Christ Church Parish House. A year later the clinic produced a scholarship at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. A year out at Chicago, and back again to the clinic with her diploma. Seven more years at the clinic, during which it grew to seven times its original size and Miss Buntin grew to become in the language of the late Dr. Sidney Rauh, its president, "the only trained dental social worker in the country." Then came a decision to study dentistry. This involved summer courses at Miami University, and finally graduation from Western Reserve University, with second place in the state board examinations.
So the long struggle was over-the part time jobs at clerical work. nursing, social service, anything to help pay expenses, all work and little play. A position was filled at Cleveland in the office of the Dean of the Dental Department of the University for a year but illness intervened and a return home seemed imperative. Providentially, the school clinic produced a half time job at $200.00 as dental supervisor. This post was filled until 1925, the year her son was born, having taken time out in October, 1922, to marry Carl E. Becker, a young dentist also practicing in Cincinnati.
During the last ten years Dr. Becker, or Dr. Buntin as she is still called, has served in many capacities and on many boards, usually in work for children. She has served as president of the Cincinnati Council of Parent- Teacher Associations and for ten years in the health department of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers. She is at present a member of the board of Shoemaker Clinic and supervisor of their dental department, member of the board of the Central Mental Hygiene Clinic, Cincinnati League of Women Voters, and Hamilton County Child Welfare Board, also chairman of the
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Committee on Government and Child Welfare, and active in many other civic movements.
It would not seem surprising that such a person should be too busy to arrange a formal wedding, but should select a Justice of the Peace in a small town nearby, only to come home and confess to the rector of Christ Church that she had missed the religious ceremony ; or that the Rev. Frank H. Nelson who had been her friend and confident should say, "Of course you missed the church Anna and you must yet be married there." So on the day appointed the bride and groom appeared as directed, to find the chapel filled with friends and flowers, soft music, and the spirit which they had missed from the civil ceremony. Dr. Buntin-Becker began her honeymoon in characteristic fashion by making, with other dentists, the first dental inspection ever conducted in Hamilton County schools.
This outline would not be complete without some mention of Dr. Buntin at home. Such tremendous interest in community affairs would hardly pre- pare one for the care manifest in the arrangement of old family furniture and "treasures" picked up at local auction sales-and for the charming little office located in the garden where much weeding and transplanting is done in the spare time only available to those who know not idleness.
GILLETTE HAYDEN
Comparatively few women have gained prominence in the field of den- tistry. It remained for an Ohio woman-a Floridian by birth but an Ohioan by adoption-to attain international fame in that profession. She was DR. GILLETTE HAYDEN of Columbus, whose death, in 1929, left a void which cannot be filled.
Civic affairs and equality between the sexes were two other interests close to Dr. Hayden's heart and in both of these fields she accomplished much.
Although she was born in Greenville, Fla., Dr. Hayden's family home was in Columbus at the time of her graduation from East High School, where she was valedictorian of her class. In choosing dentistry for her profession, she followed in the footsteps of her paternal grandfather, Dr. Horace H. Hayden, a pioneer in that field.
Dr. Hayden was graduated from the dental department of Ohio State University in 1902, the third woman to receive such a degree. Post graduate work at the dental school of Northwestern University and special courses in periodontia from authorities in this field followed and in 1903 she began her practice in Columbus.
Two years later, she was chosen to introduce in Europe the methods of prevention and treatment of periodontal diseases, as developed by Dr. D. D. Smith of Philadelphia. She remained in Dresden, Germany, until 1908, re- turning to Columbus at that time to engage in the practice of periodontia.
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It was Dr. Hayden who, with Dr. Grace Rogers Spalding of Detroit, called together a group for the organization of a national association for specialists in this field and in 1914, at Cleveland, there was organized the American Academy of Periodontology. Dr. Hayden was elected president in 1916 and later became a fellow and a member of the executive committee. During this time she was writing for dental magazines and outlining clinical programs for dental societies, which won for her an international reputation as well as membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon, honorary fraternity.
The governor of Ohio appointed her as a delegate to the Panama Pacific International Dental Congress in San Francisco in 1915. In 1923-24, she served as president of the Federation of American Women Dentists and later was secretary of the periodontia section of the International Dental Congress.
As early as 1914 the woman dentist allied herself with the Congressional Union which was working for an amendment to the constitution establishing woman's suffrage. After its final ratification by the state, she continued to work with this organization, now called the National Woman's Party, and contributed generously to its support. Another of her civic activities was research necessary to prepare a digest of laws which discriminated against women and in 1921 it was she who directed the work of changing Ohio laws to provide equal standards for men and women.
One of Dr. Hayden's greatest interests during her later years was the Altrusa Club of Columbus, one of the first of the city's classified business and professional women's clubs which was organized with her help in 1918. In 1925 she served as its national president.
Tributes were many on the occasion of her death, March 27, 1929. Services were held at national meetings of both the American Periodontology and the National Association of Altrusa Clubs and the "Journal of Periodontology" was dedicated to her memory following her death, the first woman to be so honored.
In February, 1931, a room to house a dental clinic for women and chil- dren was opened in Dr. Hayden's memory in the Sarah Hackett Stevenson Memorial Home in Chicago. Her picture was hung in the Hall of Social Sciences at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1935, she being the only woman dentist so recognized.
IDA G. ROLLINS
DR. IDA G. ROLLINS, of Cincinnati and Chicago, holds title to a unique distinction. She is said to be the very first woman dentist of her own race or of any other in the United States.
Choice of this profession was made after careful consideration by Ida Rollins. She believed then a woman in dentistry might build up a special
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patronage among women. As events developed, the skilled woman dentist acquired more men patients than women in her extensive practice.
Mrs. Rollins was graduated from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1890. Of slight physique-she is just over five feet in height-she put forth extra- ordinary effort to meet the standards she had set herself in her professional service. After marriage she went to Chicago and continued her practice there until her retirement several years ago.
MORTON HANNA JONES
DR. MORTON HANNA JONES of Columbus, is secretary of the Ohio State Dental Board.
Among other outstanding women dentists of Ohio are MARIE BECKERT of Cincinnati; NINA K. CHRISTOPHER of Cleveland ; EDITH B. COOPER, Cleveland; HELEN S. ENGLANDER, Cleveland; NELLIE GOODWIN, Bethel ; IDELLIA GRAVES, Cleveland ; CELESTINE GRIME, Toledo; PAUL,- INE HEIBERT, Akron; MARY F. HOAGLAND, Columbus; HELENE A. KAMENAR, Cleveland; RUTH D. KIRSTEN, Columbus; RUTH WAY WALTON MAYER, Cincinnati; MARY M. MILLS, Delaware; DORA V. MILLSBURG, Youngstown; EDNA J. MORRIS, Cincinnati; ANNA M. Mc- CORMICK, Cincinnati; SUSIE McGARRY, Cincinnati; GENEVIEVE Me- MENAMY, Columbus; MYRA H. NOBLE, Lakewood; HANNA K. PERRY, Cleveland ; ALMA M. PHILLIPS, Columbus; ETHEL C. ROTHSCHILD, Columbus; EVA H. SHAPIRO, Toledo; ALICE M. SMITH, Somerset : EVA C. SMITH, Middletown; LENORE S. STACK, Athens; CONSUELO WISE. Youngstown and CLARA E. YOUNG, Cincinnati.
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NURSING
ESTELLE C. KOCH
ESTELLE C. KOCH is head of the school of nursing of Cleveland City Hospital; Catherine Buckley heads the School of Nursing and Health of the University of Cincinnati, affiliated with the Cincinnati General Hospital and Sister M. Constantine heads the Mt. Carmel School of Nursing of Columbus.
Other Ohio nurses whose ability and training have won for them posi- tions of responsibility and distinction include-MRS. ELIZABETH AUGUST, general secretary, Ohio State Nurses Association, Columbus; MISS CORINNE BANCROFT, director of nursing education, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati ; MISS LONETA CAMPBELL, director of the Visiting Nurses Association, Cincinnati, SISTER DE CHANTAL, director of Nursing Service, Good Sa- maritan Hospital, Cincinnati; MISS LETTIE CHRISTIANSON, director of nursing service, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, also president of Ohio State League of Nursing Education; MISS CELIA CRANZ, director of nursing service, Akron City Hospital and president of the Ohio State Nurses Asso- ciation ; MISS MARY H. CUTLER, director of nursing service, Jewish Hos- pital, Cincinnati; MISS ANN DRAKE, assistant secretary of Cincinnati Public Health Federation and president of District No. 8, Ohio State Nurses Association, Cincinnati; MISS MINNIE DRAHER, director of nursing serv- ice of Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati ; MISS MARGURITE E. FAGIN, general secretary of District No. 8, Ohio State Nurses Association, Cincinnati; DEAN MARIAN G. HOWELL, director of public health nursing, Western Reserve University, Cleveland ; MISS V. LOTA LORIMER, general secretary, District No. 4, Ohio State Nurses Association, Cleveland; MISS CORA MEADOW, acting director of nursing, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati; MISS LOUISE SCHROEDER, director of nursing service, Miami Valley Hospital, also member of Ohio State Nurses Examining Board, Dayton; MISS MARY SEGMILLER, director of nursing service. Deaconess Hospital, Cincinnati; MRS. ADA S. STOKES, director of nursing, Babies Milk Fund Association, Cincinnati; SISTER THEODORE, superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati; MISS LOUISE K. TOOKER, director of public health nursing, Cincinnati Department of Health; MISS JANE TUTTLE, director of Visiting Nurses Association, Cleveland ; ECHO UPHAM (Mrs. Wilbur Dubois), former director of nursing, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati; MISS E. WINDLEY, director of nursing service, Youngstown City Hospital and MISS HULDA WYLAND, director of nursing service, Robinwood Hospital, Toledo.
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GERTRUDE ASHBOLT
GERTRUDE ASHBOLT (Mrs. William E. Ashbolt), is supervisor of Lorain County Relief Administration.
She served Overseas during the World War as graduate nurse. Mrs. Ashbolt is mother of two boys.
ALICE G. CARR
ALICE G. CARR, nurse and social service expert, of Yellow Springs, O., has been awarded honorary degrees by Ohio State University and by Antioch College as an outstanding citizen. She was awarded the Order of the Commander of St. George by the government of Greece as an outstanding life saver-and she was awarded place of honor several months ago in the American Legion Magazine because, although she has worked her way as nurse, sanitary expert, distributor of relief and conqueror of disease through France, Poland, Servia, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Asia Minor in the past 22 years, she isn't through yet. She never expects to be through, because as soon as she gets done with one job, world relief, there seems to some un- answerable reason why she must take on another.
So for the past 21 years, ever since she sailed for France as nurse in the World War, Alice Carr has been helping to rehabilitate one unfortunate old World group after another. She has come home on visits. But she always goes back. The need is there-it must be met-so what?
MRS. J. LEO CHILDS
MRS. J. LEO CHILDS, residing at 2203 S. Main Street in Findlay, has for nine years served on the executive board of the Findlay Hospital and is deeply interested in the work of keeping this institution up to the highest standards of hospital service. Mrs. Childs was born in the city which is her home, her natal day being November 12, 1887, and she is a daughter of Honas and Margaret Thomas. At the usual age she began her education in the Findlay schools but spent a part of her girlhood in Liberal, Kansas, and was a pupil in the public schools there for a time. Later she returned to Findlay and enrolled as a student in Findlay College, studying both instru- mental and vocal music and also expression. Later she took a course in nurses training at the Findlay Hospital, where she was graduated winning the professional R.N. degree in 1911 but did not follow the calling because of her marriage.
It was in 1912 that she became the wife of J. Leo Childs, a son of Daniel and Minnie J. (Thompson) Childs, his father having been the founder of the brick and tile business in Findlay. J. Leo Childs is now engaged in this business under the name of the Hancock Brick & Tile Company. He is a native of Henrietta, Ohio. He belongs to the Rotary Club and also has
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membership in the Masonic fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Childs have a son and two daughters. James, a graduate of Ohio State University of the class of 1935, where he studied ceramics and English, then attended the Harvard School of Business Administration, completing the course in 1937. Margaret C., who spent three years as a student in the Western College of Women, is now attending the Amy Sacker School of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. Mary Jane is a high school pupil in Findlay.
While in training in the Findlay Hospital in 1911, Mrs. Childs joined the Hospital Association with which she has since been connected and for nine years she has done effective work as a member of its executive board. She belongs to the Eastern Star Chapter of Findlay and she gives her political support to the Republican party and recognizes fully the duties and obliga- tions of citizenship in relation to civic welfare and progress.
ANNA JANSEN CORDON
ANNA JANSEN CORDON, widely known in Cleveland as a successful physio-therapist, with offices at 1906 Rosemont Road. is the wife of S. T. Garlock, a real estate dealer of this city. She first attended school in Den- mark, her native country, and came to the United States when thirteen years of age, after which she continued her education in Brooklyn, New York. She entered hospital training there in the old Brooklyn Hospital, which has since passed out of existence, continuing the work there for two years and later doing post graduate work in the hospital of Dr. Simon Baruch for a year. She then engaged in nursing for a brief period and next went to Europe to study various courses, covering a period of three years, and at the same time engaged in nursing in order to defray the expenses of her stay abroad.
On her return from Europe Dr. Cordon came directly to Cleveland, her parents having removed to this city while she was pursuing her studies in foreign countries. She followed nursing for a time and was then chosen physio-therapist for the Young Women's Christian Association, filling that position for ten years. Later she was invited to the Woman's Hospital. where she had charge of the physio-therapy department for three years, after which she opened an office for private practice at Seventy-first and Euclid, where she continued for about seven years. She then established her headquarters at 1906 Rosemont Road, where she has the most modern type of equipment and is enjoying a very large practice, which has constantly grown since she started out independently.
Dr. Cordon has a son, Christian Jansen Garlock who is now a student and after the completion of his course in June, 1941, will take up practice.
Dr. Cordon is well known as a public speaker and has lectured largely over the state. She is a very active member of the Zonta Club, which she joined on its organization and she has been president of the Business and
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Professional Women's Club, was state membership chairman and served for one term as the second vice president of Ohio.
She is likewise connected with the Federation of Women's Clubs, is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Danish Sisterhood. She has made valuable contribution to society through the training and assistance she has given young women, encouraging and aiding them to make the most use of their time and opportunities and has seen many proofs of the worth of her labors in this field.
AGNES CROWE
AGNES CROWE, superintendent of Crestline Emergency Hospital, be- came head of that institution after serving as president of the railroad hospital.
For 32 years she was president of the Catholic Ladies' Benevolent Asso- ciation, organized in 1903.
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