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Miss Fitchpatrick has made notable contributions to professional and general periodicals, among them, "The Nations Schools," and is associate editor of the "Service Bulletin of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation."
She has had published two important books-"Olympic Through the Ages" and "Health Ways" of which she was joint author.
CLARA M. HOUGH
CLARA M. HOUGH, teacher of physical education in Harriet Beecher Stowe School, worker with the Recreation Commission of Cincinnati, Ohio, and active participant in community projects, was born in New Richmond, Ohio, and remained there until she was seven years of age. At that time her family moved to Hillsboro, Ohio, where they made their home until her graduation from high school.
Mrs. Hough received her A.B. degree from the University of Cincinnati and since then has been a teacher of physical education in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the mother of two children, Sherma Hough, a student at Talladega University, and Paul Hough, pre-medic student at Fisk University. Sherman C. Hough, the father ,teaches in West Virginia.
Mrs. Hough's philosophy of physical education has influenced virtually all of her activities. She regards physical training as an integral part of all education, especially because of the contribution it makes to the mental, moral and social development of an individual. She has been actively engaged with the Recreation Commission of Cincinnati for sixteen years, serving as playground supervisor, organizer of play-streets, swimming instructor, and dramatics director.
As director of dramatics at Stowe School, Mrs. Hough adapted, directed and presented the children of the school in three plays, "Pinocchio," "Rag- gedy Ann," and "Snow White." She directs pupils of her swimming classes in water pageants. She trains the dancers in the annual plays and produc- tions of the Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta Phi Beta Sororities. She directs the annual children's play presented by her sorority, Phi Delta Kappa.
In addition to working with children and young people, Mrs. Hough has herself appeared in prize-winning plays.
Her thesis presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts degree was based on a study of the case history of thirteen Negro
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girls, infected with puerile tuberculosis. The findings revealed the type of health education program which would best serve the needs of such children.
After fulfilling her many duties and activities, Mrs. Hough finds time to serve on committees of the Negro Civic Welfare Association and the Laurel Homes Housing Project.
LAURA EDWINA JONES
LAURA EDWINA JONES, assistant supervisor of physical education, Cleveland public schools, was born at Van Wert, the daughter of Maurice Bebb and Mary Jane Morgan Jones.
Her father is of Welsh-American ancestry, a direct descendant of William Bebb, former governor of Ohio and her mother's family is also Welsh- American.
Laura Jones attended the Van Wert County schools, was graduated from Oberlin Academy, took her A.B. at Oberlin College, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and received her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1935.
Her first position was that of director of physical education for girls at Aberdeen, S. D., and in 1921 she became director of physical education at the Akron Y. W. C. A.
Miss Jones is president of the Cleveland Altrusa Club ; past-president of the Oberlin Woman's Club; member of the Cleveland Woman's City Club; the Foreign Affairs Council; Philharmonic Choral Club and of Delta Kappa Gamma of which she is a board member.
KATHLEEN H. LOWRIE
KATHLEEN H. LOWRIE, assistant professor of physical education at the College of Wooster, was born at Seville, O., attended elementary and high school there, then entered the New Haven Normal School of Gym- nastics where she received a diploma.
She was graduated from Northwestern University with A.B. degree, received her M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University and later did graduate work at the University of Iowa.
Miss Lowrie's first position was with the Y. W. C. A. at Norfolk, Va. She taught at Indianapolis, Ind., for two years, then at Ashtabula High School and in 1921 was appointed to her present position at Wooster.
She is a member of the National Association for Health, Physical Edu- cation and Recreation, of the Progressive Education Association, of the College Director's Association and a past president of the Physical Education Section of the Ohio College Association.
Kathleen Lowrie is at present chairman of the public relations committee and of the program committee of the physical education section of the Ohio
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College Association and is president of the Midwest Association of College Teachers of Physical Education.
GERTRUDE EVELYN MOULTON
GERTRUDE EVELYN MOULTON, director of physical education for women, Oberlin College, was born at Rio Grande, O., the daughter of Albanus and Laura Moulton. She took her A.B. at Oberlin, her B.S. and M.D. at the University of Illinois and was for a period teacher in the Cleveland public schools and later at the University of Illinois. Dr. Moulton is a former president of the National Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women, a fellow of the American Medical Association and of the American Physical Education Association. Her home is at 291 Forest St., Oberlin.
GLADYS E. PALMER
GLADYS E. PALMER, professor and director of physical education for women at Ohio State University was born at Chicago, attended Oak Park High School, took her B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and her M.A. at Ohio State University.
She began teaching at the University of California and accepted her present position in 1922.
Miss Palmer is a member of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, of the Progressive Education Association; of the National Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women and is adviser to the Athletics Standards Committee. She is also active in the Altrusa International Girl Scouts, Faculty Club of O. S. U. and the University Golf Club.
Gladys Palmer has had published a number of important professional articles and an authoratative book, "Baseball for Girls and Women."
CLARA RAYNOR RADER
CLARA RAYNOR RADER (Mrs. Clifford Earl Rader), was formerly director of athletics for women and instructor in physical education at Ohio State University. She took her A.B. at Ohio State and did graduate work at Columbia University and at the College of the City of New York. Mrs. Rader was director of recreation for the War Camp Community Service of Columbus in 1919 and in 1921 was president of the Columbus Panhellenic Association. Her residence is at 1231 Broadview Ave., Columbus.
HELEN NORMAN SMITH
HELEN NORMAN SMITH, associate professor of physical and health education at the University of Cincinnati, with which institution she has
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been actively identified since 1922, comes to Ohio from New York. A native of the Empire State, she pursued her early education in the Horace Mann school there from 1906 until 1912, when she was enrolled as a pupil in the Brearley School, from which she was graduated with the class of 1917. Early in her school days she displayed a keen interest in child health and general physical education and her labors have always been directed along these lines. In 1922 she was graduated from Columbia University with the Bachelor of Science degree and she was also part time professor there.
In the same year Miss Smith came to Cincinnati and through the scholastic year of 1923-4, after serving for a year as an instructor in the department of health and physical education, she was made assistant professor in the Uni- versity of Cincinnati and since 1926 has been professor. Her work in her particular field has covered a wide range. She has been very active in the Midwest Association of Directors of Physical Education and for a period was president of the Ohio State Health and Physical Education Association. In 1931-2 she served as a member of President Hoover's Conference on Child Health and previously, in 1927-8, she was president of the Health and Physical Educational Society of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association. She has membership with the Ohio Society Directors of Physical Education, which elected her to the presidency for 1924-5 and she belongs to the Mid- West Society of Health and Physical Education, serving on its executive council from 1926 until 1928. She belongs to the American Physical Edu- cators Association, acting as chairman of its dance section in 1932-3 and in the latter year she was elected president of the Ohio State Health and Physical Association, while in 1935-6 she was president of the Mid-West Physical Education Association. That she has been chosen for these various elective offices is unmistakable proof of her high rating in the department of education which she has chosen as her life work.
In addition to the above mentioned organizations, Miss Smith is a member of the American Association of University Professors, the National Amateur Athletic Federation and the Kappa Delta Pi, and is identified with the Junior League and the Tennis Club of Cincinnati. She has made interesting and valuable contribution to the literature of physical education, being the author of "Natural Dance Studies," published in 1928 and "Play Days," which appeared in 1929 and in May, 1938, her latest book was published, entitled "Physical and Health Education." These have been widely circulated among her co-workers in this particular field and are the expression of the progress which is being continuously made as investigation and scientific research reveal the close relation between health and intelligently directed physical activity.
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DOROTHY SUMPTION
DOROTHY SUMPTION, associate professor of physical education of Ohio State University, was born at Geneva, Indiana and attended elementary and high school at Ridgeville, Indiana.
She took two years at Earlham College, received her B.S. from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, her M.A. from Columbia University and the degree of O. D. from the Gymnastic Peoples College, Ollerup, Denmark.
Miss Sumption taught in the elementary schools of Kendallville, Indiana, from 1916 to 1919, when she became a member of the Ohio State faculty. She conducted summer classes at Columbia University from 1927-1936.
She is a member of the American Association for Health and Physical Education and Recreation of the Ohio Physical and Health Association; chairman of the Columbus Basketball Officials Rating Board; president of the Columbus Field Hockey Club; a member of the Ohio Arching, Golf and Hunting Association and one of the executive committee of the Ohio State Archery Golf Club.
Among her published works are two books, "Fundamental Danish Gym- nastics for Women" and "Archery for Beginners," and she is author of various articles featured in professional publications.
LENORE KIGHT WINGARD
LENORE KIGHT WINGARD (Mrs. Cleon Wingard), of Cincinnati, holder of 22 national and seven world swimming records, was born at Home- stead, Penn., educated in the schools of that city.
Lenore Kight was a member of the 1932 and 1936 Olympic swimming teams. She was national free style swimming champion from 1932 to 1937 when she became a professional.
Since that time she has won two outstanding professional events, the Toronto Women's Marathon and the Bernarr Macfadden 1/2 mile swim.
She is the wife of Cleon Wingard, teacher of physical education in the Cincinnati Public Schools. Their home is at 1229 North Bend Road.
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WOMEN IN ADVENTURE AND TRAVEL
MARY L. JOBE AKELEY
MARY L. JOBE AKELEY (Mrs. Carl Akeley), explorer, educator and author, was born at Tappan, Harrison County, Ohio, and took her Ph.D. at Scioto College, which gives the state proud claim to the earlier life of this distinguished woman.
She was the daughter of Richard and Sarah Jane Jobe, who realized her youthful ability and approved of her eagerness to learn. Mary Jobe took her M.A. at Columbia and her Litt.D. at Mt. Union College. In the mean- time-1924-she married Carl Akeley of New York, whose fine career as explorer was cut short by death two years later.
So Mary took up his work. She was the director of the African expe- dition sponsored in 1926-27 by the American Museum of Natural History and was appointed advisor by the museum in connection with Akeley African Hall. She had previously qualified for these distinctions and responsibilities on both the exploration and educational side by her partial ascent of one of the highest peaks of the Canadian Rockies-named Mt. Jobe in her honor-and by founding and conducting Camp Mystic, in Connecticut, famous out of door training and recreation center for girls.
Other honors paid to her courage and skill included a fellowship in the American and in the Royal Geographical Society, and the Decorated Cross of the Knight of the Order of the Crown, bestowed by the Belgian govern- ment. Mrs. Akeley has made what is regarded as invaluable contribution to literature on Africa and its wild life. She is author of "Carl Akeley's Africa" of "Adventures in the African Continent" "Lion, Gorillas and their Neighbors" and of numerous authoritative articles on exploration and on mountaineering. Her home is at Mystic, Conn., and her New York head- quarters at the Museum of Natural History.
DORETTE KRUSE FLEISCHMANN
DORETTE KRUSE FLEISCHMANN (Mrs. Julius Fleischmann), accom- panied her husband, son of a former mayor of Cincinnati, on a cruise in their Yacht, Camargo, that circled the globe in 1934.
They started from New York, touched at Bermuda, then went through the Panama, Canal and on the Pacific Ocean to their first adventure at Cocos Island. Julius Fleischmann had visited the little island twice before.
This time it was to discover three men marooned on Cocos, their boat wrecked, who, but, for the chance visit of the Fleischmann's must almost inescapably have perished.
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After the transportation home of the marooned men via the U. S. "Sacra- mento" had been made sure by radio, the Camargo and its passengers contin- ued on their voyage through the South Sea.
They visited the Marquesas Islands, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Ceylon and innumerable other centers of deep interest before they threaded their way through the Suez Canal and started westward on their homeward journey across the Atlantic.
Mrs. Fleischmann, who has accompanied her husband on many other tours of unique interest, is regarded as one of the best informed women of today on the geography of the seven seas, as well as on the life and customs of widely separated lands and peoples surrounded by the great waters.
SARA SHERLOCK FLEISCHMANN
SARA SHERLOCK FLEISCHMANN (Mrs. Max Fleischmann), because an enthusiast in travel, exploration and big game hunting not very long after her marriage, in 1905, to Col. Max Fleischmann, whose father, the late Charles Fleischmann, made yeast famous and whose brother, the late Julius Fleisch- mann, was then mayor of Cincinnati.
As the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Sherlock, Sara Sherlock be- longed to one of Cincinnati's most distinguished families. Her sister, Bertha Sherlock, was the wife of Andrew Carnegie 2nd and her girlhood home, "Cloverly" was one of the city's most beautiful residences.
Col. and Mrs. Max Fleischmann made their honeymoon cruise on the Fleischmann yacht, Haidee, and from that time on devoted part of virtually every year to touring by land or sea. They went to Africa for big game hunting, they visited Arctic as well as tropical regions and discovered speci- mens of extinct animal life, some of which are now housed in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
During the World War, Col. Fleischmann, whom William Mckinley had made a staff member when Governor of Ohio, became a major in command of Balloon Corps of the A. E. F. during the World War. He is the author of a number of books on big game hunting, data for which was acquired on the many hunting trips and tours in which Mrs. Fleischmann participated.
MARY B. GREENE
There has never been a woman admiral but even if there could be, it is doubtful if MARY B. GREENE, of Cincinnati, head of the Greene Line Steamers, would accept the title.
It is true that Mrs. Greene lives, during the summer, on her "flagship" the Gordon C. Greene, largest overnight passenger steamboat on the Ohio River. It is equally true that Mary B. Greene, widow of the late Gordon C.
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Greene, former head of the steamship company, knows all there is to know about steamers and their navigation. It is true that she is a licensed steam- boat pilot, probably the only woman in the world who has ever really earned the title.
But this is title enough for Mrs. Greene who is nothing if not practical, realistic and business like even though she does admit to a deep seated devo- tion to Ole Man River.
Mrs. Greene operates her river fleet in association with her three sons, Tom Greene, Chris Greene and John Greene, whose outstanding ability and success in steamboating is part of their fine heritage from both sides of their old Ohio family.
Mary Greene, their mother, was born on a farm near Marietta, Ohio, in 1868. Her father, born in Bavaria, Germany, came to Ohio in early man- hood, dealt in cattle, established a general store at Marietta and was post- master of the pioneer city for 35 years.
Mary attended the Marietta public schools and in spare time helped in the store and the postoffice. There could hardly have been a better school for practical business training. There could hardly have been a better op- portunity for the exercise of selective judgment in the fine art of choosing a husband.
Heart and head cooperating closely, she became the wife of Gordon C. Greene, of the famous river family that traces back to Captain Charles Greene and the first steamer built in Marietta.
Captain Greene built the boat, which made its trial trip from Marietta to Zanesville on a spring morning in 1824. This was a short time before the death of General Rufus Putnam, for whom the boat had been named, and it is said that he appeared on the front porch of his home to return salutations of friends aboard.
According to descriptions of the steamboat, her proportions and general construction were similar to those of the small steamers that plied the rivers in the palmy days which came later.
Leaving the port of Marietta unheralded as to schedule, the vessel's ap- proach created a sensation among residents of the valley. They heard the din and clamor of the coming long before she hove in sight. Stops were not made at towns along the valley. It is recorded :
"The hands declined to throw out lines because of great crowds present, thereby depriving people, it is true, of the privilege of examining her in- ward workings and appointments, but also preventing them from spitting tobacco juice on her clean and well-varnished decks and furniture."
Mary's husband had already received his pilot's and master's papers so the pair began their life cruise together on his steamboat, the H. K.
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Bedford. Young Mrs. Greene wanted to learn all about the river-and she did. Under her husband's teaching she presently qualified for examination and a pilot's license.
The business prospered, it was decided to build a new boat, the Argand. When it was completed Captain Mary Greene had her first command. She was master and pilot of the new steamboat. And when another boat, the Greenland, was built-their first sidewheeler-Captain Mary was commis- sioned to pilot her down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to the St. Louis World's Fair.
The Greenes raised their three sons on the river. The boys, in turn, learned all there was to learn, became pilots, captains. Presently the Greene Line numbered eleven boats.
After her husband's death, Mrs. Greene took charge. She bought the Louisville-Cincinnati Line-six steel steamers. By this time Captain Mary Greene's name was known to navigators of virtually every river of the country. She was interviewed, written up, photographed in the pilot's cabin -for Captain Mary still takes a turn at the wheel, every now and then.
She is surprisingly youthful in appearance and has a personality that could not but challenge admiration, aside from her unique achievement. But it is not in the fact that she is the world's only and therefore the world's best woman steamboat pilot that Captain Mary Greene takes inmost satisfac- tion. It is in the fact that she has tried to be-tried hard to be-the best all round pilot she knows how to her children and to her children's children.
MRS. ALBERT E. HEEKIN
Seventeen hungry lions were not more than forty feet away-the length or width of a spacious living room. It was close up, but safe enough within the protection of a closed motor lorry.
MRS. ALBERT E. HEEKIN seated beside the lorry driver, rested her trusty camera on the lorry window ledge, took a careful shot. Then-or so it seemed the whole African veldt rose up to smite her.
The surface of the veldt is known to be quite soft. But African lions are known to be quite hard-and there they were, the whole seventen, ob- viously hungrier than ever.
Fortunately their prey, a zebra previously killed by the safari guides, was suspended right above them from the limb of a huge tree. They con- tinued to leap frantically up after it. Meanwhile you may be sure that Mrs. Heekin wasted no time. In her zeal to get so rare a picture, she had pushed open the lorry door, unfastened by accident, and had fallen to the ground, touching the side of the car. And then, in the excitement, the car was started-and a wheel went right over the unlucky camera enthusiast's right ankle.
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But Ida Lackman Heekin, wife of Albert E. Heekin, widely known Cin- cinnati business man-who was in a lorry just ahead-is really not unlucky. Quite the contrary, for in what seemed another split second she had gotten herself-she has no idea how-back in the car.
What's more, she was still clutching her camera, incredibly but quite safely, in both hands.
Mr. and Mrs. Heekin are both seasoned travellers. They had already visited virtually every country of the globe when the episode of the seven- teen lions high lighted an African safari, in the course of which they zig- zagged over about 20,000 miles of the dark continent, from Cairo to Cape Town.
After they had reached the southern tip of Africa, just for good measure, the Heekins took a coastal course seaplane and flew north on the eastern side to Zanzibar, in order that Mrs. Heekin might take, if possible, a photo- graph of the sultan of that picturesque island. It was possible. Through various fortuitous circumstances, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa Bin Harub not only posed most graciously but granted an equally gracious interview, also permission for Mrs. Heekin to visit a native school. She did so and as she approached, heard the droning voices of the pupils, reciting the Koran in concert. Within the school room the quick eyes of the woman traveller were rewarded with sight of what is probably the most primitive type of educa- tional equipment in use in any school room anywhere in the world today. It was the shin bone of an ox, clean and white, broad at the top, with which each child was provided. They "wrote" with a thin brush dipped in a solution of lamp black. When today's lessons are completed, the Zanzibar "slate" is easily washed off in readiness for the lessons of tomorrow.
The year before their African trip, made in the early months of 1938, the Heekins travelled extensively in Guatemala and other Latin American countries where Mrs. Heekin on a previous tour had begun a collection of native woven textiles on which she is a recognized authority. Her interest in hand-made fabrics dates back to special courses in home economics, taken in Boston following several years of attendance at the Baron de Hirsch School for Girls at Philadelphia.
Mrs. Heekin was born at Louisville, Ky., the daughter of the late Albert W. and Fannie Frances Lackman. She attended Louisville High School be- fore going east to complete her education. She was married to Albert E. Heekin in 1932. Their winter residence, when not voyaging to various ends of the earth, is at Madison Road and Vista Ave., Cincinnati and their sum- mer home borders the Ohio River at California, Ky. Mrs. Heekin herself supervised the remodeling of this summer home, "Casa Mia" the buildings of which are all Spanish American in design, with low red tiled roofs. Fur- nishings are in the same style, all the textiles hand woven and the furniture
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hand made. The fabrics supply inspiration to pupils of a class in needle craft started for children of the community by Mrs. Heekin several years ago. Her photography has given happiness to another and sharply con- trasting group of little ones. These are patients of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, in whom Ida Heekin is deeply interested and for whose benefit she gave one of the first showings of her African technicolor movies. As the wild life of the Serengetti Plains-wildebeeste, zebras, ostriches, topis, ga- zelles-and the lions, disclosed themselves close up, occupants of the little white beds that had been wheeled into the big recreation hall of the hos- pital strained forward, completely separated from their weariness and suf- ferings. When it was over they turned to each other in mutual congratu- lation. What if they couldn't go to the Zoo on Zoo Day, this was just as good. Maybe better.
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