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JULIA BARNEY GORMAN
JULIA BARNEY GORMAN (Mrs. E. J. B. Gorman), was born in Dayton, 1864, was the founder of the theraputic work among the soldiers in the hospitals of the United States Army, following the World War. She tried out her theories and proved their worth at the Walter Reed Hospital in Wash- ington.
Mrs. Gorman established Barney Community Center for the aid and care of crippled children. The Center was one of the sponsors and benefited largely when Mrs. Gorman brought the Colleen Moore Doll House to Dayton.
VIVIAN HACKETT
VIVIAN HACKETT, 333 Harvard Ave., Elyria, has been editor of CRIPPLED CHILD, official organ of the International Society of Crippled
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Children, since 1925. She is director of publicity for the International society.
Miss Hackett has been superintendent of junior department of First Congregational Church Sunday School since 1928 and is a member of Elyria Business and Professional Women's Club.
Born in Cleveland, June 1, 1899, Miss Hackett lived with parents in Elyria all her life.
HELEN W. HANCHETTE
HELEN W. HANCHETTE, general secretary of the Associated Charities, Cleveland, O., was born at Twinsburg, the daughter of Seth R. and Kate Nichols Hanchette. She was educated at Lake Erie College and displayed unusual aptitude for social work even before she adopted this as her pro- fession. Miss Hanchette is identified closely with leading organizations for human helpfulness. She is a trustee of the Cleveland Welfare Federation, chairman of the board of directors of the Social Service Clearing House, vice chairman for Cleveland of the American Association of Social Workers, a member of the League of Women Voters, Consumers League, Woman's City Club and other important groups.
GERTRUDE RIDER HARPHAM
Definite furtherance of opportunity for the blind to see with their finger tips, the printed word, is the major contribution of GERTRUDE RIDER HARPHAM (Mrs. Fred M. Harpham), of Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Harpham is the wife of the vice president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and of the Goodyear Zeppelin Company. She has numerous social duties, is active in welfare work and a past president of the Women's Auxiliary of the City Hospital of Akron.
But no interest or obligation has been permitted by this Ohio woman to interfere with the work which she directed when in charge of the collection for the blind for the Library of Congress. Mrs. Harpham directed Braille transcribing for the American Red Cross, and was librarian of the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. She is author of practical and helpful articles on Braille transcribing, has written extensively on the blind of Japan. That the sightless shall have access to all reading that is worthwhile is the goal toward which Gertrude Harpham and her fellow workers in this field have striven. They have not reached it but they are pressing steadily on.
RUTH HARRISON
RUTH HARRISON, president of the Woman's Exchange of Cincinnati, one of the most efficient and effective organizations of its type in the entire country, was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of Learner Blackman and Fanny Goodman Harrison. Her father was an outstanding citizen and business
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man of Cincinnati, her mother came from the distinguished Adams family, of Boston.
Miss Harrison attended Madame Fredin's school, in her native city, and later two eastern schools, finishing at Miss Ireland's. When barely out of her teens, Ruth Harrison became deeply interested in a number of highly helpful social service organizations, notably the former Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, from which developed the Children's Convalescent Home and the Woman's Exchange.
Basic purpose of the Exchange, that of helping women help themselves through their skill in cooking, sewing and other household arts, has also long appealed to this big hearted and at the same time highly practical Cincinnati woman. Thousands of women of meager means have been able to make a living in their own homes by taking to the Exchange, for sale, the products of their own fine housewifely skills. Although until the past year this organization was headed by Miss Annie Roelker, who passed away in 1938, Miss Harrison, as vice president carried all possible responsibility for Miss Roelker, long an invalid. She was at her post virtually every day in the thick of the holiday season, knew the details of every department, was personally acquainted with almost every consignor. More than this, she inspired other board members to break their own records of active service, through her example of unflagging zeal.
Miss Harrison has also been one of the most capable and constant board members of the Cincinnati Community Chest. Aside from social service, golf and other out of doors sports are her main interest.
BERTHA HERZOG BEITMAN
BERTHA HERZOG BEITMAN (Mrs. Seigmund Beitman), is chairman of the Women's Auxiliary, Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland and a former president of the Federation of Jewish Women's organizations, of which she was the founder. Mrs. Beitman is an active worker in the Citizens League of Cleveland, the League of Women Voters, the Foreign Affairs Council, Maternal Health Association, the Women's Board of Western Re- serve University and in other notable organizations.
JOHANNA HILTON
JOHANNA HILTON, president for many years of the Visiting Nurse Association of Cincinnati, has made unstinted contribution of energy, time and means to a number of highly important social services.
She did much to develop the Visiting Nurse Association which provides nursing care for families lacking money to obtain such help from other sources and she has worked for and with the Mothers Pension Fund for nearly 20 years.
RUTH HARRISON
President, Women's Exchange, Cincinnati
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Miss Hilton has also been actively interested in the League of Women Voters to which her sister, Agnes Hilton, has long devoted skilled and en- thusiastic service.
EFFIE WYLER HIRSCH
EFFIE WYLER HIRSCH (Mrs. Max Hirsch), founder of the Girl Scout organization of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of Louis and Sophie Swarts Wyler, both natives of Bavaria, Ger- many. She attended the public schools, received her B.A. from the University of Cincinnati and was married in 1906 to Max Hirsch, who began a highly successful business career soon after his graduation from Harvard.
But to both Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch, civic and social progress of their city and community has always been a matter of major importance. Com- paratively early in his career Mr. Hirsch concentrated his unusual energies and abilities on movements for development of adequate social service and for betterment of municipal government. Mrs. Hirsch early realized the fundamental importance of character building activities for the young and set herself to establish and to develop a Girl Scout organization which now ranks among the best in the country. She served for a time on the national board of the Girl Scouts of America, brought back enhanced enthusiasm and applied herself to the work with redoubled energy.
Mrs. Hirsch was among the group of civic spirited Cincinnati women whose efforts organized the Woman's City Club and in this organization she developed the "Friendship Garden Circle" which has fostered not only individual love of flowers and flower growing but also many community garden projects. She is an active member of the League of Women Voters, has worked with the Adult Education Committee and with numerous other projects for civic and social welfare.
ALICE WARWICK BLACK HOBART
ALICE WARWICK BLACK HOBART (Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Jr.), was born in Bedford City, Va., the daughter of Herbert and Elizabeth Snow Black. Both were of English and French Huguenot ancestry. Abraham Venable, who sat in the House of Burgesses of Virginia from its beginning to his death twenty years later was a member of the Black family, which was identified continuously with civic and military responsibilities for many years.
Warwick Black attended Mt. Auburn School, Cincinnati - later the Bartholomew-Clifton School for Girls. She received her A.B. at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati with Phi Beta Kappa, attended Ohio State University where she majored in political science and took additional graduate work toward her Ph.D. at U. C.
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In 1920 she became an assistant in charge of the Municipal Reference Bureau of the Department of Political Science at U. C. Two years later she was married to Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Jr., head of a real estate firm. Two children, William Newell Hobart now at Walnut Hills High School, and Elizabeth Warwick Hobart, now pupil at the Lotspeich School were born to this union and their care occupied Mrs. Hobart closely until 1933, when she was made executive secretary of the Cincinnati Consumers League, her present position. During the summer of 1935, she served as assistant to Dr. Harry Overstreet of Harvard University in his courses on adult education.
Among her many civic activities Warwick Hobart has served as --- Organizing member committee on Opportunities for Unemployed Workers; member Cincinnati committee, National Child Labor Committee; League of Women Voters, Cincinnati, member of board, 1924 to date, president, 1931-33; Ohio Board, 1930 to date and chairman of committee on Government and Economic Welfare; N.R.A. vice chairman, women's division; organizing mem- ber Citizens Committee on Low Cost Housing; Adult Education Council, organizing member, first secretary; Cincinnati School Survey Committee, only Cincinnati member technical advisory board, chairman Committee on Ex- ceptional Children; Bureau Economic Security, advisory board, chairman Committee on Domestic Service Standards; Girls Week, chairman committee on Girl and her Work, 1934, '35, '36; Public Forum Committee, organizing member and executive board; WPA chairman Advisory Committee Women's Projects; Citizens Committee on Special Relief Tax Levy, executive board; Foreign Policy Association, secretary, 1924-1938; Catherine Booth Home and Hospital, executive board; Community Chest, Speakers Bureau; Y.W.C.A., gave classes for many years; College Club, board member; Ohio Unemploy- ment Insurance Committee, Executive Board; Ohio Civil Service Council, secretary and a Citizens' School Committee, board member.
She is a member of numerous clubs and organizations among them the Zonta International Business and Professional Women's Club of Cincinnati; American Academy of Political and Social Science and Foreign Policy As- sociation.
ELIZABETH SHEPPARD HOPLEY
ELIZABETH SHEPPARD HOPLEY (Mrs. James R. Hopley), of Bucyrus, was born in 1870, and has given fine civic service to her city and state. Elizabeth married James Hopley, a son of this widely known newspaper family.
She was president of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs in 1900-02 and previously vice president. Elizabeth was the only woman speaker at the Ohio Centennial in Chillicothe in 1903.
She was later sent by Russell Sage Foundation to investigate systems of training for delinquent girls, resulting in complete reorganization of the Ohio institution in 1911.
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She is the author of " A Brief History of Ohio from 1802 to the Civil War," also "Women in Legislation in Ohio," and is represented at the Bibliotheque Nationale, France, by an excellent monograph.
MRS. E. J. HOWENSTINE
MRS. E. J. HOWENSTINE, 816 Park Ave., Elyria, popular lecturer on family relationships in the community, received her B.A. from Miami Uni- versity, 1909 and her M.A. in physchology from Western Reserve University 1938.
She is a member of American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters; vice president of Y. W. C. A. Board of Directors; former chairman of committee of public affairs on Y.W.C.A. and is active in Parent Teacher Association, and First Congregational Church.
Born in Stanford, Ky., Jan. 14, 1889, she lived in Elyria for 20 years. Mrs. Howenstine has four children, Jay, working on Ph.D. in Ohio State University, Ellen, studying at Kent State University, Roberta and Bill.
JANE E. HUNTER
JANE E. HUNTER, is the executive secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, Ohio, which is a character building institution, maintaining a Home for negro working girls, and in this connection she has done an outstanding piece of social service work. She founded the work in 1911 and has since carried it on, her efforts producing far-reaching and beneficial results, as shown in the development and the adoption of higher standards and ideals of living among those whom she contacts through her home.
Jane E. Hunter was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, December 13, 1882, a daughter of Edward and Harriett (Milliner) Harris, the latter born January 2, 1863. Jane Edna Hunter remained a resident of her native state until 1904 and then after devoting two years to taking a nurses' training course in Virginia, came to Cleveland, where she has since made her home. She is a graduate of Ferguson and Williams College, of Abbeville, South Carolina, and of the Hospital and Training School for Nurses at Charleston, South Carolina. She later took post graduate work at the Dixie Hospital at Hampton, Virginia and pursued courses of study in New York City under direction of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association and also at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Always eager to extend her knowledge and thus promote her efficiency, she completed a course in law at Baldwin-Wallace College and passed the bar examination in 1925, while from Wilberforce University, of Wilberforce, Ohio, she received the honorary degree of Master of Arts and from Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, was awarded the honorary degree of Master of Science in 1938.
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From the time she became a resident of Cleveland in 1905 she engaged in the nursing profession until 1914 but gave part time to the Phyllis Wheatley Association from 1911. Her interest in that work steadily deepened as she came to realize more and more the opportunity to serve and help the negro girls of the city who were striving to earn a living, and since 1914 her entire time has been devoted to this work, in which she has achieved notable results. She has broad vision and high ideals, while at the same time her methods are most practical and definite. Her own life is an inspiration to "her girls" and a stimulus for their own character building.
Jane E. Hunter was for three years a director of the Empire Savings & Loan Company of Cleveland. Her political support is given the Republican party and she is a member of the Mary B. Talbert Women's Auxiliary of the I.B.O.E. of W. She belongs to the Iota Phi Lambda sorority and has membership in the Presbyterian Church and in many organizations which indicate the nature and breadth of her interests, including the American Association of Social Workers, the National Conference of Social Work, Na- tional Association of Colored Women and chairman of the Phyllis Wheatley department, the Ohio Association of Colored Women's Clubs, in which she is serving on the executive board and as chairman of its industrial depart- ment, the Ohio Association of Social Workers among Negroes, of which she is also an executive board member, the Cleveland Chapter of the Hampton Alumnal Association and the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, in which she is a member of the budget committee. Her hobby is collecting brass objects and she largely finds her recreation in hiking and tennis. Her entire record is one of orderly and consistent progression toward a definite goal, whether in the educational field, in nursing or in social service work.
EILEEN ELSWORTH HUWE
EILEEN ELSWORTH HUWE (Mrs. Raymond Huwe) of Cincinnati, has given valuable service to a number of important organizations and move- ments, especially to the Adult Education Council for which she has acted as interviewer, as director of publicity and as a teacher of classes in placement.
She received her M.A. in 1929 from Columbia University, where she majored in vocational guidance and personnel training. Unstinted benefit of her unusual ability and background has been given by Mrs. Huwe to the Moth- ers Training Center of Cincinnati, of which she is now a board of directors member, also to the League of Women Voters, on the board of which she is now serving for the second time.
Eileen Huwe is a deeply interested member of the health education committee as well as of the camp committee of the Young Women's Christian Association, of the board of the College Club, of the Forum Committee, the Community Chest, Needlework Guild, Women's Symphony Committee, Parent- Teachers Association and of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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Her husband, Raymond Huwe, is an outstanding member of the Bar of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. They have two children, Kathleen, five years, and Carolyn, ten months.
ESTHER MCALLISTER ISHAM
ESTHER McALLISTER ISHAM, wife of Dr. L. Scott Isham, has taken an active and helpful part in projects for reform and improvement-in munici- pal, state and national government and has also been closely associated with the cultural development of Cleveland, especially along musical lines. She is a daughter of John and Sarah (Von Kutruff) McAllister, the former a native of Berwinsdale, Pennsylvania, and the latter of St. Lawrence in the same state. The father was president of the Broadtop Lumber Company of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for a number of years and passed away in 1913. With her daughter Esther, the mother came to Ohio in 1916, settling first in Akron, where two of her married daughters lived. She is now a resident of Cleveland. Her daughter Emeline became the wife of Paul Daugherty, an engineer residing in Clearfield, Pa., and they had four children, James, John, Paul and Carol, and after the death of her first husband Emeline mar- ried John Ferguson of Akron, where he is still living, and they had three children, Marilyn, Bernadine and Eileen. Charles McAllister resides in Al- toona, Pennsylvania. Mary Ellen McAllister became the wife of Ralph Salis- bury of Cleveland and they had one child, Dorothy. Her second marriage was with William Adams of Akron and they had two children, Lucille and Virginia. Both parents are deceased. William McAllister, now living in Saxton, Pennsylvania, married Mona Smith and they have a daughter, Billie Jean.
Mrs. Isham, who was the next of the McAllister family, first attended school in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, where she completed the work of the grades and of the high school and then spent four years as a student in Villa Maria College of Erie, Pennsylvania, where she majored in music, specializing in pipe organ and giving particular attention to church music, including the Gregorian chants. For about nine years Mrs. Isham played professionally in Cleveland and jointed the American Federation of Musicians. For nine years she also taught piano and organ in Cleveland.
In 1926 Esther McAllister became the wife of Dr. L. Scott Isham, who was graduated from Kenyon College with the Bachelor of Arts degree and then studied medicine for three years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., and for one year at the Wayne College of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., there gaining his professional degree.
Mrs. Isham belongs to the Northern Ohio branch of the American Guild of Organists and has membership with the Woman's City Club, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Charity Hospital Woman's Club and the
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Leonardi Society, which is the woman's club of St. Alexis Hospital. She is likewise identified with the Phyllis Wheatley Association which is the Young Women's Christian Association for colored girls and the Cleveland Welfare Federation. Her interests also largely center in matters of government and she belongs to the Foreign Affairs Council, the Citizens League and the Cuya- hoga County League of Women Voters, of which she has been a director for eight years, during which time she has been active in the department of government and operation and was chairman of that department in 1935 and 1936, while in 1937-38 she was president of the Cuyahoga County League of Women Voters. She has been a member of the executive committee of Mayor Burton's Citizens Advisory Relief Committee and help to rewrite the criminal code in the municipal law of Cleveland. In 1938 she was a member of the candidates committee of the Citizens League, which determines the qualification of candidates for public office. The field in which Mrs. Isham is especially interested is improvement in government affairs, favoring a small city council and the reorganization of the government of Cuyahoga County. She is also a member of the Citizens' Civil Service Executive Committee and is actively interested in the extension of the merit system in all branches of government civil service, local, state and national. Mrs. Isham has been heard in many radio talks on governmental affairs, particularly taxation, for years campaigned ardently for an effective federal pure food, drug and cosmetic law, and her influence is widely and beneficially felt, while her labors are far-reaching and resultant.
Mrs. Isham is now serving on the executive board of the Citizen's League of Cleveland and is a member of the Government Personnel Committee of the Citizen's League. She is likewise serving on the executive board of the Citizen's Civil Service Committee, which committee was successful in securing the passage of an amendment to the Cleveland city charter which places all municipal employees under Civil Service. She is vice president of the Municipal Light Plant Association of Cleveland at the present time. Her interests have been many and at all times have been for the betterment of mankind.
MARY BROWN JACOBS
MARY BROWN JACOBS, wife of Dr. Edwin Elmore Jacobs, president- emeritus and professor of biology at Ashland College, has for 20 years been a leader in the welfare work of Ashland County, devoting her time and strength until recent illness forced her retirement from this activity.
A native of Philadelphia, Pa., she was the daughter of a physician and is a sister of John Albert Brown, president of the Socony-Vacuum Company, director of the Chase National Bank and a resident of New York. She met her husband while she was a student and he a teacher at Ashland College and has resided in Ashland since that time. She is the mother of three
ESTHER MCALLISTER ISHAM
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grown sons, Cassel, a Los Angeles, Calif., attorney; Edwin, Jr., newspaper publisher at Kingsbury, Calif., and John Brown, student in medical school at Western Reserve University, Cleveland.
Welfare work began to take shape in the county under Mrs. Jacobs' skilled leadership 20 years ago, when she served on the charity board of the Ashland Federation of Women's Clubs. The only city nurse was at that time hired by the charity board. Later Mrs. Jacobs served as federation president four years, continuing her charitable interests. As a member of the board of charity of the Ashland Community Chest she was particularly active in welfare work and was later made a member of the Community Chest board. She handled the Christmas seal sales single-handed for two years for the county and has been a leader in Red Cross activity. All her services to her community are gratuitous but few women work harder.
MARJORIE CARR JAMISON
MARJORIE CARR JAMISON (Mrs. Robert H. Jamison), formerly a teacher at Hathaway Brown School for Girls, Cleveland, O., has given high- ly important and effective service in various capacities to the city of her birth. She is the daughter of William Finley and Alice Codding Carr and the wife of Robert Jamison, Cleveland attorney. Marjorie Carr received her A.B. at Smith College and from 1912 to 1913 attended the University of Hawaii. She was deeply interested in social welfare work and served for a period as Assistant head worker of Moore St. Neighborhood House, at Cambridge, Mass. In 1918 she was stationed at Washington, D. C., as head of the Women's Passport Bureau of the Y. M. C. A., a responsibility for which she had qualified by war work overseas. From 1933 to 1934 Mrs. Jamison was consumer representative for Cleveland of the NRA Compliance Board and the following year for the Northern Ohio Adjustment Board. She is a former president of the Cleveland Smith College Club, also of the Cleve- land Woman's City Club and is regarded as authority on many of the civic and economic problems to the solution of which she has given effort and energy unlimited.
JOYCE CLARA LATHROP KENNEDY
With the work of the Parent Teachers Association and the Child Con- servation League, JOYCE CLARA LATHROP KENNEDY is closely iden- tified. She has done much excellent work along these lines and is well known in Toledo. She is the wife of Dr. Reed L. Kennedy and a daughter of Jerome and Emily (Atwell) Lathrop, both natives of Ohio. The mother has de- parted this life but the father now makes his home in Berkey, Lucas County, where Mrs. Kennedy was born. She is one of a family of three children, of whom Boyd is now deceased, while Lloyd is living in Berkey.
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