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Her sister, DOLLY WOOLWINE, developed dramatic talent, went on the stage and won wide recognition when she appeared with her husband, Milton Nobles, in "Lightnin' " and other famous plays.
RUTH I. WORKUM
Because RUTH I. WORKUM, of Cincinnati, singer, diseuse, social worker and sports enthusiast, has reached high professional standards in each of these fields, her achievements in music, in entertainment, in social service and in athletics justify separate enumeration.
Gifted with a fine lyric soprano voice, Mrs. Workum has appeared in important concerts before many Cincinnati audiences, as well as in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For several years past she has devoted most of her time and talent to presentation of her own compositions, in the form of social and musical through the medium of song, piano and monologue. As charter member and past president of the Cincinnati Woman's Music Club, active member of the Matinee Music Club and charter member of the MacDowell Club of Cincinnati, she has co- operated closely in many worthwhile projects of these and other outstanding music groups.
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Nearly 15 years ago Ruth Workum interrupted her music career to enter social work as the executive secretary of the Ohio Humane Society, one of the oldest of Ohio institutions devoted to child welfare.
This society has state wide jurisdiction, and is a law enforcing agency for the protection of neglected and dependent children. During Mrs. Workum's term of service, which covered twelve years, an average of two thousand children came annually under direction of the organization. A major activity was bringing home to derelict or deserting fathers their responsibility for support of their children. Over one and one-half million dollars in com- pulsory support for the maintenance of minor children was received during Mrs. Workum's regime, thus relieving the community of this obligation. Work in rehabilitation and proper social adjustment for the children was a large part of the program, and a special work was done in cases involving the unmarried mother.
As board member of the Child Welfare League of America, Mrs. Workum was author of important publications. She served on the board of the Cincinnati Community Chest, of the Social Worker's Club and was national chairman of several committees dealing with child welfare.
Mrs. Workum's close interest in athletics was demonstrated many times as member of the Woman's Golf Team of the Losantiville Country Club. She was club champion for one year, and runner up in the finals of Cincinnati golf championship tournaments.
She is at present much interested in revival of bowling on the green, an ancient sport which antedates the time of Shakespeare and is a member of the team of the Cincinnati Lawn Bowling Club, also team member of the Sarasota (Fla.) Lawn Bowling Club.
WOMEN IN ART
DOROTHY LILLIAN BLAIR
DOROTHY LILLIAN BLAIR, curator of oriental art in the Toledo, O., Museum of Art, was born at Webster Groves, Mo., the daughter of Edmund and Grace Preston Blair. She took her A.B. at Mt. Holyoke College, was assigned to special work at Kioto Imperial University, Lyoto, Japan, and made an extensive survey of Far Eastern art in museums and private col- lections of Europe. She was formerly secretary to the director of the Cleve- land Museum of Art and assistant in the department of Oriental art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Miss Blair is author of numerous articles on oriental art, published in art magazines, other periodicals and newspapers. Her home is at 1824 Waite Ave., Toledo.
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ROBERTA HOLDEN BOLE
ROBERTA HOLDEN BOLE, chairman of the executive committee and vice president of the Cleveland School of Art, was born at Salt Lake City, the daughter of Liberty Emery and Delia Bulkley Holden. She was married in 1907 to Benjamin Patterson Bole, Cleveland publisher, after completing her education at the Cleveland School of Art. Her active interest has furthered the progress of the Cleveland Museum of Art, of which she is an advisory board member, as well as that of the Cleveland Art Association. She is also a board member of the Cleveland Woman's City Club.
CAROLYN GERTRUDE BRADLEY
CAROLYN GERTRUDE BRADLEY, assistant professor of Fine Arts at Ohio State University, was born at Richmond, Ind., the daughter of M. H. and Minnie L. Bradley. She completed her professional education at the John Herron Art School, Indianapolis and began her work as a high school teacher. Miss Bradley has won many awards in important exhibitions, among them the Vanderpool Watercolor, National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Art Association Landscape, Richmond Art Exhibition and the George A. Zabriskie Water Color Purchase, American Water Color Society. Her residence is at 60 E. Norwich Ave.
HARRIE GARDNER CARNELL
MRS. HARRIE GARDNER CARNELL, born in Dayton, the daughter of George and Mary Perrine Shaw is nationally famous for her generosity in presenting to the city of Dayton its magnificent museum, filled with some of the greatest art treasures of the country.
Not only does Mrs. Carnell maintain the museum and constantly add to its wealth of possession, but her son, Mr. Jefferson Patterson, charge d'affaires in the United States Embassy in Berlin, has given many beautiful things to the Dayton Art Institute, and has placed there on long-time loan numerous priceless treasures.
Mrs. Carnell and the late Mr. Carnell became actively interested in an Art Institute for Dayton when the first building was decided upon. The old governor's mansion at Chillicothe, first capitol of Ohio, was selected as the type which would conform best to local use. Some years later, Mrs. Carnell purchased the present imposing site and built the art institute.
Among the treasures housed there is an authentic Chinese Temple which Mrs. Carnell bought in China, had dismantled, packed and hauled across that country on ox-carts. Half of it was reassembled in one section of the Dayton Art Institute. It houses several fine old pieces of Oriental art. At another time Mrs. Carnell brought to Dayton the Whistler portrait of his "Mother"
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where it was shown for ten days. The Dayton Art Institute was one of six in the United States to have this world famous painting on exhibition. It is owned by the Louvre in Paris.
Mrs. Carnell has not confined her generosity to the Dayton Art Institute although that is her most noteworthy contribution to cultural progress. She presented a decorative swimming pool to the Officers Club of Wright Field, and with her son Mr. Patterson, and her daughter Mrs. Howard C. Davidson of Washington, has completed "The Plaza" a civic center, theaters, and a number of homes at Palm Springs, California.
The home in which Mrs. Carnell lives is one of Dayton's show places. It it a treasure trove of lovely things collected from the most far-flung corners of the earth.
EDNA MARIE CLARK
EDNA MARIE CLARK (Mrs. J. E. Clark), authority on art and art history, was born at Woodstock, O., the daughter of Joseph C. and Harriet Hewlings. She received her B.A. with high distinction at Ohio State Uni- versity and her M.A. from the same college. After continuing her work in art history at Harvard, she began an intensive study of European galleries and private collections, devoting four years to this research. Mrs. Clark was awarded the Scribner prize for an essay on art and heads the art department of a number of civic and professional organizations. Her home is at 62 Thirteenth Ave.
MARY SUSAN COLLINS
MARY SUSAN COLLINS, instructor in art of East High School, Cleve- land, O., has won numerous awards for oil painting, especially landscape, and for color work in textiles. She attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York Art Students League and was graduated from Teachers Col- lege, Columbia University. Her canvasses have found a place in many exhi- bitions, notably those of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Woman's City Club. Her home is in East Cleveland.
MARY E. COOK
MARY E. COOK, of Cleveland, sculptor and instructor in art, St. Mary of the Springs College, attended Ohio State University, then L'ecole des Beaux Arts and L'Academie Moderne, Paris, and worked there under Weyland Bartlett. She was for some time instructor in Sculpture at the Art School, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts.
Miss Cook is an active member of La Societe Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres, National Sculpture Society, American Federation of Art, and of the American Ceramic Society.
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The Paris Salon and the U. S. government united in the award to Mary Cook of a medal for her unique war work-the modeling of 600 life masks for reconstruction of the faces of American soldiers. She made the memorial fountain in the plaza of the public library of Columbus, a Gothic arch in terra cotta at Washington, D. C., a memorial panel in terra cotta at Colorado Springs, a memorial fountain for the Children's Hospital, Columbus, portraits in bronze of James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hays and Warren G. Harding -many other civic and private pieces of distinction. This fine creative artist has won numerous prizes for her work and has also achieved unusual recogni- tion as a radio speaker on Chinese porcelains and other topics related to her field of interest. Her home is at 1550 Clifton Ave., Columbus.
LUCILE STEVENSON DALRYMPLE
LUCILE STEVENSON DALRYMPLE, portrait painter and miniaturist, of Port Clinton, O., was born at Sandusky, the daughter of Mathew and Sophia Stevenson. She received much of her professional training at the Chicago Art Institute and the J. Francis Smith Academy and soon began to show ability that brought important commissions. Among her portraits are a series on presidents of Wabash College, one of Mrs. Moses J. Wentworth, one of Dr. Alfred T. Perry, of Marietta College and a miniature of Franklin D. Roosevelt made for the Warm Springs Foundation.
Mrs. Dalrymple has exhibited extensively and has won many important awards, among them the second prize of the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts in 1931.
MABEL M. DEBRA
MABEL M. DEBRA (Mrs. Robert M. King), artist and teacher, was formerly assistant professor of the department of fine arts, Ohio State Uni- versity. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute, took her M.A. at Yale, and then attended Teachers College, Columbia University. She studied extensively abroad, at Cintra, Portugal; Berchtesgaden, Germany, and elsewhere, and was a member of the George Pearse Ennis painting class at Eastport, Me.
Mrs. King has received many distinguished awards, among them the John Wolfe water color prize of the Columbus Art League, the Ohio State University Memorial prize. Her paintings have been used as cover illustra- tions by the American Water Color Society, the Philadelphia Water Color Society and the Ohio Water Color Society. Mrs. King was married in 1930. Her home is at 2099 Iuka Ave.
JULIE MORROW DeFOREST
JULIE MORROW DeFOREST comes of an old New York family, dating back to the colonial settlers, her forebears being prominent participants in the revolution. Although born in New York, her childhood was spent in
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New England, where her father, a Congregational clergyman, occupied prom- inent pulpits, and it was there she received her early education. Thus one more artist stands forth to disprove the dull theory that out of the austerity of a Puritan background no art expression can develop.
After graduating from Wellesley College, Miss Morrow made her home in New York with her aunt, Julie M. Lippmann, poet and novelist, for whom she was named. Having decided to teach, she took her master's degree at Columbia University in final preparation, and embarked upon a scholastic career.
While engaged in teaching she devoted herself to Americanization work, and founded the first students' organization affiliated with the "Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association" in the schools of New York. For the years she had this in charge it maintained its supremacy as the largest school organization of its kind, there being over two hundred such associations subsequently founded. It was under the auspices of the "Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association," that a patriotic pageant written and directed by Julie Morrow was presented at Carnegie Hall. It was a poetically conceived and beautiful spectacle, as was attested by her congratulatory letters from the American Legion and other patriotic organizations, and by the large bronze medallion awarded Miss Morrow by the Roosevelt Memorial.
Julie Morrow never received the conventional training of an art school, but spent her summers in joyous preoccupation with her art, as the one thing she could approach intuitively and impressionally, in contrast to the rigid academic education of her earlier career. She had the advantage of coming under the instruction of Charles W. Hawthorne, John Carlson and Jonas Lie. It was an intensive training, working furiously through the short summer months to gain what others spent the year to accomplish. But her capacity for concentrated application made it possible for her to progress with rapidity into an authoritative grasp of her art, and she received prompt recognition.
Her marriage to Cornelius W. DeForest, vice president of the Union Gas & Electric Company, Cincinnati took place in 1929. Still an executive of that company, Mr. DeForest is vice president of the Columbia Engineering Cor- poration, New York. The marriage brought Mrs. DeForest to Cincinnati where she still resides, and still pursues her profession as an artist. There have been subsequent one-man exhibitions in New York and in Cincinnati, in the far West and at Wellesley College. She is a member of various New York and Cincinnati Art organizations, "The Allied Artists of America" (New York), "The National Arts Club" (New York), "The National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors" (New York), "The Women's University Club" (New York), "The Cincinnati Association of Professional Artists," "The Cincinnati MacDowell Society," "The Cincinnati Women's Art Club," "The Cincinnati Museum Association," "D.A.R." Mr. and Mrs. DeForest are
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also members of the Queen City Club, The Cincinnati Country Club and other outstanding organizations.
Julie Morrow DeForest has exhibited at "The National Academy of Design" (New York), "The Pennsylvania Academy," the Corcoran Gallery (Washington) and various Museums. She is represented in the "Farnsworthı Museum," Wellesley, "The Wadleigh Library" (New York), and the Na- tional Federation of Women's Clubs Collection.
JULIA MCCUNE FLORY
JULIA MCCUNE FLORY (Mrs. Walter L. Flory), Cleveland, artist and illustrator, attended the Columbus School of Art and pursued her studies in this field at the New York Art Students League, New York School of Art, Cleveland School of Art, John Huntington Polytechnical Institute, Denison University and Western Reserve University.
She has travelled extensively and has won recognition in important exhibitions, notably those of the National Arts Club of New York and the Cleveland Museum art shows. Besides her work as illustrator, Mrs. Flory has won enviable reputation for stage designing and is chairman of this depart- ment at Western Reserve University.
MARY BLACKFORD FOWLER
MARY BLACKFORD FOWLER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Blackford of Findlay, O., is a sculptor of widely recognized ability.
She has made portrait busts of notables in various cities of the country and has collaborated with her husband in writing an authoratative book on this field of art. Mrs. Fowler is working at this time in Washington, D. C.
SALLIE THOMPSON HUMPHREYS
SALLIE THOMPSON HUMPHREYS, professor of fine arts and director of the School of Fine Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, was born at Delaware, O., the daughter of Col. John H. and Delia Humphreys. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University, the Art Students League at Washington, D. C., the Academie Collorossi, Paris, took a Carnegie scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago and later took courses at Fogg Museum, Harvard University. Miss Humphreys was previously instructor in design at the Art Students League, Washington, D. C., and at Columbus Art School. Miss Humphreys has shown special ability in original color designs and decorative hangings. She resides at 162 N. Sandusky St., Delaware.
GERTRUDE ALICE KAY
GERTRUDE ALICE KAY was born at Alliance, Ohio. Her talent for line and color developed rapidly at the Philadelphia School of Design and still more so when she studied under the famous artist, Howard Pyle.
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She began her career as illustrator with nationally noted women's maga- zines, then specialized in books for children with which she won widespread recognition.
Among her best known educational books for children is "Adventures in Geography."
LUCILE T. KISSACK
LUCILE T. KISSACK, landscape architect of Cleveland, O., combines practical knowledge of her occupation with professional training and a gift for both experiment and research. This is why her work has acquired real significance in addition to the professional reputation it has built up.
Mrs. Kissack received her B.S. at Ohio State University, was married in 1927 to Raymond C. Kissack, Cleveland attorney, and is now associated with Hannah L. Champlin and Elsetta Gilchrist in a widely known firm of landscape architects.
She was the founder of the Ballard Burlap Society, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is author of informative articles and booklets on various phases of horticulture and landscaping.
RHEA LUISE MANSFIELD KNITTLE
RHEA LUISE MANSFIELD KNITTLE, author, lecturer, collector, inter- nationally recognized authority on early American industrial decorative and folk arts and consultant for various museums, is a resident of Ashland, O., where her home is a mecca for prominent leaders in this field of art.
From her pen have come "Early American Glass," the standard work upon this subject; "Early Ohio Taverns" (published 1937) ; "American Glass" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th ed.) ; articles on Early American Crafts- men and Industrialists (Scribner's Dictionary of American Biography) and many contributions to Antiques Magazine of which she is a staff member, also to the Antiquarian, the Boston Transcript, the New York Sun and to many Ohio newspapers and university and college bulletins.
She is Ohio regional director for the National Committee on Folk Arts of the United States, which sponsored the exhibit of masterpieces of American folk art for the New York World's Fair of 1939, an exhibit including many articles from the Knittle collection. She is also consultant in Ohio for the Federal Arts Project of WPA. Mrs. Knittle formed, catalogued and appraised the early American glass department in the Mabel Brady Garvan Foundation, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University, and assisted in forming the George Horace Lorimer glass collection at the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts. Her own private museum is known as "The Ohio Frontier."
Born in Ashland, June 4, 1883, the daughter of Cloyd Mansfield and Elma V. Hungerford Mansfield, she was married April 2, 1906, to Earl Joel Knittle, widely known authority on antiques.
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Mrs. Knittle's distinguished ancestry traces back to the Mayflower Pil- grims, Massachusetts Bay Colony, first English Connecticut settlers, first French migration to Carolina and to New York. Her forebears were founders of more than 16 towns and cities. Four were colonial governors. Part of her life has been spent in New York and part in Ohio.
An alumna of St. Marys of the Springs, Columbus, she was awarded an honorary degree from the college in 1932 because of her distinguished career.
Among her organization memberships are the Society of Midland Authors (Chicago) ; American Industries Association, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Boston) ; Pewter Collectors Club (Boston, head- quarters) ; Early American Glass Club, (Boston, headquarters) and Rushlight Club (Boston, headquarters) ; life member Ohio State Archaeological Society and charter member of the Sarah Copus Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. While living in New York she was a member of the National Arts Club and Pen and Brush Club.
ROSALIE LOWREY
ROSALIE LOWREY, widely known artist, was born in Dayton in 1893, the daughter of Harriett Boyer Lowrey, also an artist.
Miss Lowrey is a portrait painter of distinction. Her portraits are owned in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Toledo, Cincinnati, Washington and Dayton. She was engaged by the Historical Society of Springfield (Ohio) to paint the murals in the General George Rogers Clark Memorial near Springfield.
Studied with Cecelia Beaux in New York and at the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and is a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors ; the Ohio Water Color Society, and Dayton Society of Painters.
MARY LOUISE MCLAUGHLIN
MARY LOUISE MCLAUGHLIN, Cincinnati artist, made her mark in the field of painting and sculpture as well as in that of art education. She was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of William and May Robinson Mclaughlin. and educated at Harding's Seminary. She was president for six years of the Cincinnati Pottery and has written extensively on china painting, oil painting and the history of art. In 1877 she began the decoration of pottery under the glaze.
She carried on extensive experiments in porcelain making and was awarded a bronze medal for porcelain ware at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Numerous honors came to Miss Mclaughlin from other expositions and art organizations. She was expert in medal jewelry and glass mosaics and was said to be the first woman in the United States to make Limogesware, involving the mixing of clay with the colors.
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Miss MeLaughlin was the author of seven books, pertaining chiefly to art and history. They were "China Painting," "Pottery Decoration," "Sugges- tions to China Painters," "Painting in Oil," "The Second Madame," an historical work of the time of Louis XIV ; "An Epitome of History," 1923, and her most recent one, "Efficiency vs. War," which deals with 17 major battles of history.
Miss MeLaughlin died in January, 1939, at the age of 91 years.
LOUISE KLEIN MILLER
There are perhaps few who have the opportunity to bring beauty into the world or have so intelligently and wisely used this opportunity as has LOUISE KLEIN MILLER, formerly landscape architect of the Cleveland board of edu- cation and curator of the Memorial Garden of Cleveland. Moreover her work is known throughout the country and as a lecturer on themes connected with her profession her name is a familiar one from coast to coast. She still remains active in her chosen field, although she has passed the eighty-fifth milestone on life's journey, for she was born August 7, 1854, on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, a daughter of William and Ann Miller, both of whom were of German nation- ality, the former born January 6, 1810, and the latter July 20, 1811.
Miss Miller acquired her elementary education in Miamisburg, Ohio, and attended high school and normal school in Dayton, while subsequently she did post-graduate work in the Cook County, (Ill.) Normal School and the Univer- sity of Chicago and later took special courses in science and forestry at Cornell University and the Arnold Arboretum. She early took up the profession of teaching, which she followed for a time in Dayton, then spent two years in East Saginaw, Michigan, as supervisor of nature study and four years in Detroit, Michigan, as supervisor of nature study. She also taught in the school of practical agriculture and horticulture at Briar Cliff Manor, New York, and was dean of the Lowthorpe School of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening for Women at Groton, Massachusetts, for two years. Recognized as an authority in her particular field, she has been called upon to lecture from New York to San Francisco and from Ottawa, Canada, to New Orleans.
Miss Miller is today outstanding among the landscape architects of the country. She began her work in Cleveland in 1904 and has here continued for thirty-five years. She began her work with the board of education and the Home Gardening Association and her achievements have been notably success- ful. She instituted the school garden improvements of school grounds, home gardens and the first flower show of the city, lectures on gardening in schools and clubs, has organized various garden clubs and designed, executed and maintained the Memorial Garden as curator. When she retired as landscape architect of the board of education on August 31, 1938, she was made land- scape architect of Blossom Hill School, an institution for seventy-five under- privileged girls. The institution has nine hundred acres of ground and the
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