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Mrs. Kennedy was a pupil in the schools of Sylvania, Ohio, passing through consecutive grades until graduated from high school. She also spent a year as a student in Defiance College, at Defiance, Ohio, after which she remained at home until her marriage in 1918 to Dr. Reed L. Kennedy, who was born in Sylvania. He attended the country schools of Ridgefield township, continued his studies in high school at Metamora and completed his high school course at Sylvania. He next entered Ohio State University as a medical student and here won his professional degree at his graduation, after which he began practice in Toledo, where he has since remained.
After their marriage Dr. and Mrs. Kennedy lived on the farm of his foster parents for three years before he took up the study of medicine and their first child, Emily, was there born. Later two other children were added to the household, these being Roland, who is now a freshman in high school, and Robert, a fifth grade pupil.
Mrs. Kennedy is a member of the Parent Teachers Association and of the Mothers Club of the Mckinley school and she also belongs to the Child Conservation League of which she was president until a recent date. There are nine circles in this organization in the Toledo district and each circle is a member of the State Federation. This is a mothers study group, which assists in many worthy projects in the district. Mrs. Kennedy also attends the Collingwood Presbyterian Church and is interested in all that pertains to the intellectual, civic and moral progress of the city and state.
RUTH M. KULLMAN
RUTH M. KULLMAN (Mrs. Alfred Kullman), chairman of the inter- national relations committee, Cincinnati Branch American Association of University Women, was born at Brookline, Mass. She graduated from Brook- line High School and from Smith College.
She was married in 1928, and lived for a time in Worcester, Mass., where her two children, Anne and Bruce, were born.
Mrs. Kullman has served on the board of the Cincinnati League of Women Voters for the past year, is a member of the training committee for Girl Scouts and has served as vice-chairman of the Women's Division of the Community Chest and as chairman of the high school division, Junior Wom- en's Symphony Orchestra Committee. She is also active in the Smith Col- lege Club; the Art Museum Association; the College Club and the Foreign Policy Association.
RUTH ESTELLE LUCAS
RUTH ESTELLE LUCAS (Mrs. John S. Lucas), formerly psychologist of the Cleveland Juvenile Court, was born in Cleveland, the daughter of Pitt and Mattie Curtiss Townsend, and received her A.B. at Smith College. In 1928 she married John Senior Lucas, of the Cleveland Trust Company
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and has since then devoted much time and energy to volunteer service in various forms of welfare work.
Thorough training received while doing case work for the Mothers' Pension Department has qualified Mrs. Lucas for the social service in which she is so deeply interested. She has been a trustee of the Girls' Bureau and of the Association for the Crippled and Disabled, former president of the Cleveland Big Sister Council, is now a trustee of the Maternal Health Clinic and an honorable member of the Cleveland Volunteer Association. From 1933 to 1935 Mrs. Lucas was regional director of the Junior League of America.
HANNAH NEIL MALLON
HANNAH NEIL MALLON (Mrs. Guy Ward Mallon), is the grand- daughter of William Neil, who, coming to Columbus in early manhood, became the builder and owner of the Neil House, noted hotel of the capitol, patron- ized by generations of legislators and of lobbyists, who have frequently made and remade state history as they "talked things over" between the courses of dinner. She is the daughter of Henry M. Neil and Julia Stone Neil, also of pioneer Ohio lineage and descent.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, about seventy years ago, Hannah Neil inherited from both her maternal and paternal progenitors a wealth of public spirit, private distinction and personal charm. Educated, at first by private tutors, and afterwards at Ohio State University, she married in 1891, at the age of 23, Guy Ward Mallon, Cincinnati attorney, Harvard graduate and the mem- ber of the Ohio State Legislature, 1888-89, who introduced the bill for Wom- an's Suffrage. He was also the author of the Ohio Australian ballot law.
The young couple made their home in Cincinnati, on Mt. Auburn, and founded their family, which came in time to number five sons and three daughters, all now outstanding members of the communities in which they live.
As soon as the various members of her large family were able to function for themselves, Hannah Neil Mallon turned her talents to other work. She and her husband were especially united in their devotion to high civic and social ideals. As a member of City Council in 1908; as a charter member of the Citizens School committee; as a charter member of the City Charter Com- mittee, Guy Ward Mallon served his community. Always by his side, in sympathy with his high purposes stood Hannah Mallon, gracious, efficient, courageous, and alert. As co-founder and president of the Woman's City Club, and later, as member of the board of directors for many years, her quick wit and clear analysis of ideas, expressed from the floor, untangled many knots in the early efforts of Cincinnati women to take a part in the controversial affairs of the city.
As president of the Parent Teachers Association in her district, she long wielded an influence for growth and progress in education.
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In 1918 Mrs. Mallon went to France as a member of the overseas divi- sion of the Young Men's Christian Association, where she acted as hostess at various rest camps set aside for soldiers on leave from the front. She herself at this time had three sons and a daughter in army service, Henry, a major of artillery, John, first lieutenant of artillery, serving with the Rainbow Division; Patrick, as a private in the aviation corps; and Sophia, an army nurse.
On her return to the United States and to Cincinnati after the war, she accepted in 1920 the State chairmanship of the Ohio Women's Democratic Association, which she held for one year. In 1921 she became the state president of the Ohio League of Women Voters, and guided the complicated affairs of that organization with marked success. Later she was active in the Cincinnati League as first vice president and a member of the board.
One of her chief interests and one of her finest accomplishments was the part she played in establishing. in 1925, the City Charter Committee, the group of men and women who conducted a successful and thrilling cam- paign for the adoption of a new charter for the City of Cincinnati, with pro- visions for a city manager and proportional representation. She was first assistant in the Women's Organization working for the adoption of the charter.
Guy Ward Mallon died in 1933. The children and grandchildren are scattered far and wide. One son, Patrick is vice-consul in the U. S. for- eign service at Leopoldsville, Belgian Congo.
Mrs. Mallon has now retired from active club work, political campaigns and strenuous civic enterprises. Nevertheless, she emerges occasionally, to wield some strategic influence, or to attend some large civic luncheon or dinner meeting and when she does, a little ripple of pride and satisfaction goes through the old-timers who are present, pride and satisfaction in her long, honorable and splendid record as a fine citizen and a fine woman from every point of view.
BERNICE MARTIN
BERNICE MARTIN (Mrs. Loyal Stewart Martin), of Cincinnati, has expressed her deep interest in social service through close co-operation with various important organizations, in a number of which she has successfully carried executive responsibility.
She is a vice-chairman of the Women's Welfare League, a board member of the Adult Education Council ; past president of the Young Women's Repub- lican Club ; board member of the Maternal Health Association; of the Junior Women's Symphony Circle and of the Cincinnati Forum Committee.
Mrs. Martin is also active in the College Club, League of Women Voters, Westwood Women's Club and in Sigma Alpha Iota Sorority.
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FLORA STONE MATHER
FLORA STONE MATHER (Mrs. Samuel Mather), of Cleveland, for whom was named the Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, also the Flora Stone Mather Nursery of Cleveland, was identified with numer- ous organizations which have in common the underlying purpose of practical human helpfulness.
Descendant of a distinguished family and united by marriage to a man destined to become Cleveland's leading citizen in wealth, in philanthropy and in culture, Flora Stone's heritage of energy and ability enabled her to make the most of her opportunities for helping others.
She worked closely with the Y. W. C. A. and with a number of social settlements, she befriended Adelbert College and the College for Women, and she served assiduously on the board of managers of Lakeside Hospital from 1898 to 1908.
The nurses dormitory of this hospital was named in her honor and after her death, her husband rebuilt the entire dormitory as a memorial to her.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mather had four childden. The three now living are S. Livingston Mather ; Mrs. Robert Bishop (Constance Mather) and Philip Mather.
The former Samuel Mather residence on Euclid Avenue is now the Cleve- land Institute of Music.
LUCIA MCCURDY McBRIDE
For approximately 25 years, LUCIA MCCURDY McBRIDE (Mrs. Mal- colm L. McBride), might well have been officially entitled Cleveland's first aid to progress and betterment. She has served the public schools as a mem- ber of the board of education; the County of Cuyahoga as foreman of the Grand Jury (1936) and the administration of city affairs as strong supporter of a business management form of government; the development of art and drama as a trustee of Cleveland School of Art and as a member of the board of directors of the Cleveland Playhouse.
An earnest and highly active member of the National Consumers League and of the Ohio Consumers League, Mrs. McBride has dealt with problems of the consumer and of the worker: As member of the National Child La- bor Commission, she has given unstinted effort and energy to solving this great question.
From the days when she helped to win the fight for woman suffrage, Lucia McCurdy McBride has displayed not only her gift for leadership but rarer qualities not always combined with executive ability. Fairness, inde- pendence, self-detachment, courage, non-partisanship in civic matters. eager-
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ness to really help-these are attributes which have elicited the admiration of virtually all her fellow citizens as well as her fellow workers.
She was born in Cleveland, the daughter of William Henry McCurdy, of Irish descent and Fannie S. McCurdy, a niece of the late Mark Hanna. Her great-grandfather, Josiah Barker, was founder and first mayor of Ohio City, now a part of Cleveland.
She was graduated from the Shaw Academy and from Miss Hersey's School, Boston, Mass., in 1899 and in 1905 married Malcolm Lee McBride, wholesale merchant of Cleveland. Their three children are Lucia McBride, John Harris McBride and Malcolm Rhodes McBride.
During the World War Mrs. McBride worked tirelessly in enlisting and helping women to take charge of Y. M. C. A. canteens overseas.
Contemporary art has always interested her deeply and she has art ap- preciation and education to a marked degree.
In more recent years Mrs. McBride has been a director of the Citizens League and has assisted enthusiastically in the work of the National Civil Service Reform League. She is president and director of the Cuyahoga County League of Women Voters.
Few if any projects for promotion of the civic, social and educational or cultural welfare of Cleveland are even suggested in Lucia McBride's home city without the proviso "Well, we'd better see Mrs. McBride."
MELANIE FREIDENBERG MENDERSON
MELANIE FREIDENBERG MENDERSON (Mrs. Edgar Menderson), parliamentary law and recreation authority, was born in Detroit, Mich., the daughter of Rudolph and Estelle Freidenberg, was graduated from Vassar College and for two years worked with the Detroit Recreation Commission.
She was married in 1917 to Edgar Menderson of Cincinnati, to which union were born two children, Edgar Menderson, Jr., now at the University of Cincinnati and Betty Menderson, a student at Vassar.
Mrs. Menderson specialized in teaching parliamentary law and has served in this capacity for numerous groups since 1934.
She has had effective part in many civic and educational movements, is a past president of the Cincinnati Council of Club Presidents, also of the Avondale PTA, is treasurer of the Walnut Hills High School Association, is parliamentarian and was president of the Cincinnati Council of Jewish Women, secretary of the National Council, board member of the Adult Edu- cation Association and of the Woman's Recreation Board, second vice presi- dent of the Regional Planning Council, parliamentarian of the Indiana State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, parliamentarian of the National Girl Scouts and of special meetings and conferences through- out the state.
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KATHRYNE ELIZABETH MULLINIX
KATHRYNE ELIZABETH MULLINIX, superintendent of the Cleveland Humane Society, was born at Attica, Ind., received her A.B. at Indiana University and her LL.B., summa cum laude, at Cleveland Law School. Later she attended the School of Applied Social Science at Western Reserve University. Miss Mullinix is an active member of the Cleveland Bar Asso- ciation, the Ohio State Bar Association and of the American Association of Social Workers.
MRS. GARRY C. MYERS
MRS. GARRY C. MYERS of Cleveland, who has done pioneer research work in various departments of education, particularly in connection with parent and child training, has long occupied a prominent position not only among Ohio educators but also throughout the country, where her many published text books and writings are well known.
Mrs. Myers, who in her maidenhood was Caroline Clark, was born at Morris, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1887, a daughter of Charles E. and Elizabeth D. (Boyd) Clark. She was graduated from the Bloomsburg Normal School, at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1905, and later attended Ursinus College, at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Teachers College of Columbia University and the Merrill-Palmer School of Detroit, Michigan. She early followed teaching in elementary and high schools and together with her husband, who is a well known psychologist, recorded much date on the growth and development of their two older children, some of which has been published.
In collaboration with her husband, Garry C. Myers, she has published many articles in psychology magazines, one of the early ones being Recon- structive Recall, which appeared in American Junior Psychology in October, 1916. This was followed by A Group Intelligence Test, appearing in School and Society, September, 1919; Finding Mistakes versus Correct Association in Simple Number Learning, Junior of Educational Research, June, 1928; The Cost of Quick Shifting in Number Learning, appearing in the Educational Research Bulletin, 1928; Group Testing in Altoona, Pa., School and Society, May 28, 1921, the whole school population being tested by Mrs. Meyers; The Myers Mental Measure, a non-language group intelligence test, published by Newson & Company, New York, 1920; The Language of America (3 volumes containing texts for teaching English to foreigners, published by Newson & Company of New York, 1921; and My Work Book in Arithmetic (6 volumes) self teaching texts, Harter Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1924. In addi- tion Mrs. Myers has been a frequent contributor to magazines on parent. education.
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Following the signing of the armistice after the World War, Mrs. Myers aided her husband at the First Recruit Educational Center, Camp Upton, Long Island, in developing materials and methods of teaching English to illiterate soldiers for the war department, being the first woman teacher ever employed by the Regular American Army.
In 1923 Mrs. Myers became chairman of the child training committee of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. This committee developed a program for mothers of young children; trained leaders to do work with parents; pio- neered in including material on habit development and emotional growth in a pre-natal program (Cleveland being probably the first city to include in its pre-natal program, material on behavior and development of infants) ; per- suaded Western Reserve University to establish College credit courses in which leaders could be trained; established courses for social workers, public health, visiting and school nurses; and worked with mothers and teen age girls who were caring for younger brothers and sisters in Associated Charities districts. This committee early emphasized the needs of the pre-school child but as time passed began to include in its program, work with mothers of children of all ages.
At the request of the Child Training Committee, the National Council of Parent Education in 1928 and 1929 sent to Cleveland Flora Thurston and Eduard Lindeman, who made a study of the work of the committee and made suggestions for a more formal organization. In 1929 Mrs. Myers at the suggestion of the National Council, was awarded a Spelman Memorial Scholarship in Parent Education. (Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the Rocke- feller Foundation early became interested in work with parents and helped in the promotion of education for parents by establishing a number of scholarships for the training of leaders.) This gave opportunity for study at Merrill Palmer School at Detroit, the Teachers College of Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. Upon her return to Cleveland Mrs. Myers became specialist in parent education in the extension department of Cleveland College, of Western Reserve University. Here she administered the program, developed institutes for parents, helped in the radio program and taught classes of parents and classes for leaders of parent education groups. When Cleveland College found itself unable to continue its extension depart- ment, three projects were combined to form the Health and Parent Education Association, supported by Cleveland's Community Fund, a member of the Welfare Federation. The name of this organization was changed in 1938 to Family Health Association. Mrs. Myers, as specialist in parent education, is responsible for the promotion of the work with parents. The department organizes and teaches classes of parents in churches, parent-teachers associations, clubs and social agencies. It has carried a program for training leaders. At the beginning of the parent education work in the emergency schools, the organiza- tion trained fifteen leaders for that program. Consultation on methods of
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leadership, materials best used by groups and individual reading is a service offered. The organization also plans courses for high school young people, arranges institutes for parents and brings eminent outside speakers to the city.
In addition to her work with the Family Health Association, Mrs. Myers is instructor in parent education at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University. She serves in a like capacity for the summer session of the Univer- sity of Washington, at Seattle, where she teaches a course on "Family Rela- tionships" and one on "Methods and Materials of Parent Education."
In 1937 Mrs. Myers served as forum leader in parent education groups in Seattle, Washington, under Dr. John Studebaker of the United States Bureau of Education, and she has lectured in many cities. In 1936 she traveled with her husband in Europe with a group of thirty-four Columbia University students studying "Psychology of Social Change." In England, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland the group was particularly interested in the cooperatives and the folk schools. In Russia, where they spent three weeks, they studied care of mothers and children, nurseries in factories, the educational system, the program in mental health, the ways of living on collective farms, and the housing projects. In Vienna the group was interested in housing and the kindergartens conducted in the housing units. They had opportunity to visit Dr. Charlotte Buhler's laboratory, where small babies were being studied. The extent and importance of Mrs. Myers' work can scarcely be overestimated. Her leadership is of a compelling and inspirational order and the results are most beneficial and far-reaching.
ELOUISE C. NICHOLS
ELOUISE C. NICHOLS (Mrs, Clinton C. Nichols) was born in Xenia, the daughter of Joseph and Betsy Kendall King, was graduated from Xenia Col- lege, married in 1893 and lived the past 30 years of her life in Wilmington. She was a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth Plantation. Many of her ancestors were Huguenots. In 1896 Mrs. Nichols organized the George Clinton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and in the Ohio Room of Constitution Hall, at Washington, D. C., a chair is inscribed to this effect.
The chapter initiated and developed a library association of which Mrs. Nichols was president for 25 years. By enlisting the moral support of the entire community and the approval of the city council, a Carnegie endowment was obtained but success of the project was attributed by the entire city to the woman who had originated the idea and then pushed it through.
The fine parsonage of the First Baptist Church of Wilmington was the gift of Mrs. Nichols, who contributed also a large sum for the church building and on her death, in 1929, left a bequest for its support.
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Work for young people, with whom she kept close and constant touch, was one of the main interests of this public-spirited and generous woman. She helped them to obtain a college education, when this was indicated. She helped them to obtain training and employment, when this was necessary. She helped in many other ways. According to all who knew her, that is what Mrs. Nichols was-a Helper.
ALETHIA E. PATTISON
ALETHIA E. PATTISON is the daughter of the late Gov. John M. Pattison of Ohio, who was inaugurated in 1906. Her mother was Alethia Williams, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, a native of Delaware, O., whose father, William George Williams, was professor of Greek at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Alethia inherited a love of the Greek people from her grandfather. Since 1922 this deep interest has kept her in Thessalonica, Greece, working among the World War refugees and rehabilitating them.
She obtained her education in the private schools of Miss Armstrong and H. Thane Miller in Cincinnati and received her B.A. degree at Vassar.
Her community service included volunteer visiting for the Consumer's League. During the World War she was with a motor corps in Cincinnati.
She began her rehabilitation work in France in 1918 under the American fund for the French wounded. She drove a Y. M. C. A. camion across Germany accompanied by her brother, John W. Pattison, who had been doing Y. M. C. A. work in France. These two were the first people to cross Germany, en route to Poland, after the war. John W. Pattison joined an American squadron (avia- tion) of the Polish Army and spent four years in Poland.
Miss Pattison went to Poland in 1919 and engaged in American Y. M. C. A. work and Junior Red Cross until 1922 when she went to Greece.
Miss Pattison's work was educational. She served under a committee sent to Greece for re-settlement. At that time the League of Nations agreed for exchange of populations and the nationals were returned from Turkey to Greece.
Later she worked for the English "Save the Children Fund" and is now doing girls work in the Phil-Hellenic Schools for Refugees in Saloniki in affilia- tion with the Y. W. C. A. of Thessalonica.
She travels extensively and comes to the United States every year to visit her sister Ernestine in Cincinnati.
Miss ERNESTINE PATTISON, a director on the Cincinnati Y. W. C. A. board for many years, attended Ohio Wesleyan and Vassar. She is affiliated with the Girls Friendly Society of Christ Church.
A great aunt of the Misses Pattison, Mrs. John Davis, organized the first Y. W. C. A. in Cincinnati in 1869 and was its first president. She was Eliza Snowden of Philadelphia before her marriage.
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LOUISE HYMAN POLLAK
LOUISE HYMAN POLLAK (Mrs. Julian Pollak) who at her death left a bequest providing a $5,000 scholarship at Bryn Mawr, was a graduate of that college and later did research work at Columbia University.
Highly intelligent yet altogether unpretentious, deeply sympathetic to human needs yet very keen sighted and realistic, Louise Pollak inspired admira- tion among her fellow workers for human betterment. She was a strong sup- porter of the Community Chest from its early days; of the Babies Milk Fund and of the Council of Social Agencies. She served as a member of the Library Board of Hamilton County and was deeply interested in library extension work.
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