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A zealous worker for woman suffrage, Mrs. Rector has served the National Women's party as chairman of finance and in 1921 presided in Washington when a convention was called, a year after ratification,
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to determine the future of the party. Her militant spirit in the cause of suffrage may be traced to the five generations of ancestors who settled in this country prior to the American Revolution, each generation con- tributing volunteers to the wars of the time. Mrs. Rector is a member of the Windsor Historical Society, having its origin in Connecticut, and she is a charter member of both the Art League and the Players Club. She belongs to Altrusa, to Pi Beta Phi sorority, to the Crichton Club and the Columbus Country Club, affiliations that show the nature of her interests outside of home circles and her profession.
LEONA M. STUBBLEFIELD
Since 1917 LEONA M. HEIZER STUBBLEFIELD has been a resi- dent of Poland, where she is well known in musical and club circles and in connection with other activities that have to do with the uplift of the individual. Born in Brown County, Ohio, March 12, 1893, she is a daugh- ter of William C. and Nannie (Hicks) Heizer, the father also a native of Brown County, Ohio, while the mother was from Illinois. Mrs. Stub- blefield began her education in the public schools near her girlhood home and attended high school in Williamsburg, Ohio, after which she became a music student in Eureka College of Eureka, Illinois, spending the year 1914 there. In 1915 she entered the College of Music, in Cincinnati, where she specialized in voice and piano.
For a year Mrs. Stubblefield conducted private music classes at home and then spent a year as music instructor in the University of Idaho, after which she became supervisor of music in the centralized schools at Eaton, Ohio, and for a year was teacher of music in the schools of Batavia, Ohio.
In 1918 Mrs. Stubblefield was married in Williamsburg, Ohio, be- coming the wife of Buford M. Stubblefield of Bloomington, Illinois, who in the year of their marriage came to Poland to make his home. Mrs.
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Stubblefield has since been closely identified with the social, intellectual and cultural life here. She is a member of the First Christian Church of Youngstown and a member of the board of the Youngstown Young Women's Christian Association. She also belongs to the Woman's City Club of Youngstown, is president of the Garden Forum of the Youngs- town area, is a member of the Pan Hellenic Association there and has served in various offices of the Youngstown Federation of Women's Clubs. She has likewise been chairman of the Golf Association of the Southern Hills Golf Club, and her interests are thus wide and varied. She gives her political support to the Republican party and is a member of the League of Women Voters, recognizing and meeting her duties and obligations as well as enjoying the privileges of citizenship.
PEGGY LEE TUFFORD
PEGGY LEE TUFFORD, who gave up a stage career to take up the duties, management and pleasures of home life, is now the wife of Leonard P. Tufford of Elyria, Ohio. Her parents, Charles and Augusta (Bishof) Appel, natives of Germany, came to the United States about 1904, settling in New York City, where they remained until 1913, when the mother went to California to be with her daughter, Lila Lee, the famous screen actress.
Mrs. Tufford was born abroad and her career as an actress began in New York City and was concluded in Chicago. She started with Eddie Cantor and Gus Edwards and after doing successful work in the the- atrical profession for a time, she discontinued in 1918 in order to attend the American Academy for a year. She also studied for a year with David Belasco, prominent theatrical manager, and then went to Cali- fornia to attend the game in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena in 1921. It was there she met Leonard P. Tufford, followed soon by an engagement and marriage, and they now make their home in Elyria. They have a daugh-
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ter and son, the former named Lila Lee for Mrs. Tufford's highly tal- ented sister, while the son, Robert C., is now associated with his father in business.
Mrs. Tufford is a well known golfer, her play in the game having been most outstanding. She has also been very active in work for the Blind Institute of Elyria and it is the hope of Mrs. Tufford and other members to create a permanent center for the blind here. They are now planning a campaign to raise funds to establish such a center and thus give continued assistance to the blind. Her interests in the welfare of her home city are numerous and she is prominent socially since coming to her Ohio home.
HAZEL CLARKE WITCHNER
HAZEL CLARKE WITCHNER has been untiring in her efforts for the public good, working in connection with women's clubs, patriotic organizations and civic societies and also with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She has been a lifelong resident of Toledo and is a daughter of John W. and Amelia Katheryn (Beyer) Clarke. While spending her girlhood days under the parental roof she attended the public schools and in due time was graduated from Central High School.
It was in 1908 that Hazel Clarke became the wife of Robert W. Witchner, a native of Tiffin, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. For twenty-five years he has been connected with the DeVilbiss Com- pany of Toledo. To Mr. and Mrs. Witchner were born three children who died at childbirth. Mrs. Witchner's father is a nationally known artist and in her girlhood she took up the study of art, including cera- mics, sculpture and painting. She studied the former in Detroit, Michi- gan, and was an art student in the schools of Toledo and also at the Toledo Museum of Art. She still does painting in water colors, oil and
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pastel and has many beautiful specimens of her work, both paintings and sculpture, in her home. She was a student for ten years of Pro- fessor Karl Kappes, nationally known artist, and she taught those sub- jects for twenty-one years in her studio. Her works in painting and ceramics have been exhibited since 1921. She is state director of the division of art in Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs and is a past presi- dent of the Toledo Federation of Women's Clubs, having served from 1928 to 1930. For two years she was state chairman of conservation of the Ohio Federation and during her incumbency she promoted the planting of Washington Memorial Grove in Ottawa Park, for which the club women have provided perpetual care and have planted the grove of trees known as the Washington Memory Grove.
Mrs. Witchner is also a recognized leader in the Women's Educa- tional Club and has for four years been president of the Woman's Edu- cational Club Chorus and been instrumental in rendering hundreds of musical concerts in and around Toledo. She was the organizer and is perpetual president of the Soteria Club, which was formed for the con- servation of all things beautiful and was the outgrowth of a division of the work of conservation of the Toledo Federated Clubs when she was conservation chairman. She has membership in the Samagama Club, composed of former club presidents, is also a member of the Toledo Woman's Club, the Toledo Housewives League, and is a charter member of both the Toledo Delphian Society and the Parkside Garden Club. She is a member of the Toledo Museum of Art and is a graduate of the Institute of Musical Art, having graduated in piano and voice. In March, 1929, during her administration as president, she brought to Toledo, as guest speaker, the president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John F. Sippel of Baltimore, Maryland, when 1.117 women attended a Reciprocity Day luncheon in the Chamber of Commerce in her honor.
In addition to all her other activities, Mrs. Witchner has been an active temperance worker and was president of the Norwood Woman's Christian Temperance Union for five years and was the organizer of the
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Anna Gordon W. C. T. U. of this district, while recently she retired from the presidency of the Lucas County organization after serving for four and a half years. She has been recently re-elected and is now serving as state secretary of the Loyal Temperance Legion, supervising the work of over five thousand children from the ages of six to fourteen years, teaching them the evil effects of alcohol and narcotics. She be- longs to the Forsythe Chapter of the Woman's Relief Corps, to the Rebekah Lodge, Auxiliary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a past officer and charter member of the True Kindred, which was the first Kindred lodge in Ohio. Her name is also on the roster of Service Star Chapter, No. 1, of the American Legion Auxiliary. She belongs to St. John's Methodist Church and its Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and is a member of the Toledo Council of Missionary Women, and for ten years has been secretary of the Toledo Citizens Planning Association. She also has a gift of writing poetry, having written two books of poems.
Mrs. Witchner taught art to adults for many years and has a fine studio in her own home. She also has a recreation room, where every Monday she teaches a class of eighty children. She helped to organize and is a member of the Toledo Motion Picture Council and she is serving on the board of the Woman's Protective Association. Her interests thus cover a wide scope and have ever been of a most constructive and bene- ficial nature, touching the general interests of society and always for the uplift of the individual, thinking always of the character building of others.
CHAPTER FIVE
Women In Education And Scientific Research (Continued from Page 270)
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DOROTHY ATKINS
DOROTHY ATKINS, teacher of English at Withrow High School, Cincinnati, is a leader in educational organizations of that city and has made definite contribution to the progress of important civic and social groups.
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She has long belonged to the Cincinnati Teachers Association and the Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association, is active in the Ohio State Educational Association, a member of the Chi Omega Fraternity, of Phi Beta Kappa and of the Cincinnati College Club.
Miss Atkins has worked closely with the Foreign Policy Associa- tion, with the Cincinnati Peace League, the Consumers League and with Wise Center Forum. She has traveled extensively and is in demand for lectures illustrated with moving pictures taken in places far off the beaten path.
RUTH GROVE
RUTH GROVE, teacher of Latin and history at Withrow High School, Cincinnati, has acquired an enviable reputation, culturally and educationally, in the field of the classics.
Her father, John H. Grove, was professor of Latin and head of the Preparatory School of Ohio Wesleyan University for 30 years and her
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mother taught at the same school both before her marriage and after her husband's death. Mrs. Grove, who was Harriet Payne, has won wide recognition both as a composer and as writer. Her grandmother, the great grandmother of Ruth Grove, taught in her day at the Troy Female Seminary, founded by Emma Hart Willard and one of the first schools of the country devoted to the higher education of women.
Ruth was born at Delaware, Ohio, attended public school there, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan with the degree of B. A., Magna Cum Laude, in 1916, and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1925 she at- tended the summer session of the American Academy at Rome, in 1928 she received her M. A. from the University of Cincinnati, majoring in the classics and in English literature, and in 1930 she took the Virgilian Cruise under auspices of the American Classical League. In addition Miss Grove took special graduate courses for four summer sessions at the University of Michigan. She is now completing work on her doctor's degree at the University of Cincinnati. Her subject is classical archae- ology under the direction of Dr. Carl W. Blegen.
Music has been Miss Grove's most absorbing avocation. Gifted both with voice and with talent for the violin, she studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music under Dan Beddoe, became an active member of the Cincinnati Bach Society and is identified with other leading musical groups.
MARY CRANZ HIBBARD
MARY CRANZ HIBBARD, a chiropractor who since 1930 has been secretary and treasurer of the Metropolitan College of Chiropractic at 3400 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, was born near Ira, Ohio. Her father, Frederick H. Cranz, a native of Holmes County, Ohio, became a farmer and settled north of Akron. His grandfather had come from Germany and was a Lutheran preacher, musician and composer. He brought with
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him a spinet which in recent years has been on exhibition at Wurlitzer's music house in Cleveland. Frederick H. Cranz married Anna Case, who was born in Peninsula, Ohio, and in early childhood was adopted by the McCauley family of Hudson, Ohio, so that she took that name. Both parents of Dr. M. C. Hibbard are deceased.
After her graduation from the Akron High School, Dr. Mary C IIibbard attended Buchtel College of that city, now the Municipal University of Akron, and later completed a four-year course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. She then removed to Cleveland and became connected with what is now the Metropolitan College of Chiropractic, which was established in 1920. Its officers are: E. J. Smith, president; Paul C. Moyer, vice president and dean; and Mary C. Hibbard, secretary and treasurer. There is a staff of eight instructors and the college renders service in drugless surgery, manipu- lation surgery, physio-therapy and kindred lines. A most successful clinic has been established with prospects of further development.
Mary Cranz married R. F. Hibbard. She is a Unitarian in religious faith and she belongs to the Business and Professional Women's Club of Cleveland.
HARRIET L. HINMAN
HARRIET L. HINMAN, director of research for the board of education, having her residence and office at 618 Delaware Avenue in Toledo, is a native of the city in which she still makes her home. Her father, Andrew Floyd Hinman, was born in Lorain County, Ohio, and attended Oberlin College. He afterward engaged in clerical work and died at the age of sixty-three years. His wife, who in her maiden- hood was Florence Andrews, was born in Lorain County and reached the age of seventy-seven years. They had a family of three children: Harriet L. Theresa, now the widow of William L. Pease; and Forest Floyd, who resides in Berlin Heights, Ohio.
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In the acquirement of her education Harriet L. Hinman attended the Toledo High School, from which she was graduated in 1900, and two years later she became an alumna of the Toledo Normal School. For eighteen years she successfully engaged in teaching, having the ability to impart clearly and readily to others the knowledge that she had acquired. For two years she was building assistant, doing special work with individual children. Following this she did research work for the board and for fifteen years has been director of research for the Toledo board of education-in a word, she furnishes figures and statistics for the board of education and is doing a vital work in this connection for the school system of the city.
Miss Hinman received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Uni- versity of Toledo and her Master of Arts degree in School Adminis- tration at Columbia University. She is well known as cooperating editor of Educational Abstracts, a magazine published at Fulton, Mis- souri, furnishing a digest of books and articles in the interest of education, this magazine having a world-wide circulation. She enjoys the distinction of being the only woman among a large list of male educators and writers included in the list of cooperating editors of this publication. She belongs to the American Association of Univer- sity Women, has been a member of the National Association of School Administrators for a number of years as well as many other professional organizations and has membership in the Toledo Woman's Club and is affiliated with the Unitarian Church. In her specific work she carries on her researches far and wide, gathering statistics and data that are of great worth in the wise management of school expenditures in Toledo.
KATHARINE HUNTINGTON
KATHARINE HUNTINGTON, whose ancestors of Quaker ex- traction were settlers in the William Penn Colony, is an Ohio teacher
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with thirty-eight years of service in the public schools to her credit. Beginning her career in Clark Co. (Ohio) schools, after graduation from Ohio State University, she went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she taught for six years, acting as a grade school principal for one year. Her experience here was enriched by contact with the Scandinavian people who constituted one-third of the population of Sioux Falls, and she became well acquainted with the families of her school children from the laboring class to the gentility. Upon returning to Columbus, Miss Huntington taught American History and Civics in the city high schools until the fall of 1939 when she retired.
The Huntingtons are an old established family in Ohio and Miss Katharine is the sister of the Columbus attorney, Hugh Huntington. Two brothers and two sisters live outside the state. Her mother was Hannah D. Peirce, a student of Antioch College, and her father Hugh K. Huntington, received his diploma from Wittenberg College.
Miss Huntington is active in the Ohio State University Alumni Club having served as its president on two occasions. She is a former member of numerous educational associations and belongs to the For- eign Policy Association, American Association of University Women, and to the Daughters of the American Revolution by virtue of her ancestor, Capt. David Howell of Pennsylvania. She is fond of travel but with the exception of two trips to Europe, her travels have been largely within the confines of the United States.
ALICE BARBER LORENZ
ALICE BARBER LORENZ, assistant personnel director and mem- ber of the faculty of the University of Toledo, has been closely associ- ated with social service, charitable and educational work and through her various connections of this character is accorded place among To- ledo's outstanding women. She was born in this city, July 22, 1890, a daughter of Jason Alonzo Barber, lawyer and judge, and Ida (Hull)
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Barber, both of whom came of old established American ancestry. Her father's uncle, General William Maltby, fought with distinction in the Civil War. Jason A. Barber was born in Ionia, Michigan, January 24, 1855, and his wife was born in Sandusky, Ohio, July 22, 1857. Both were graduates of Oberlin College of the class of 1879.
Their daughter, Alice (Barber) Lorenz, attended the Central High School of Toledo, from which she was graduated in 1908, and through the succeeding two years she was a student in Vassar College. In the fall of 1910 she matriculated at Oberlin College and was graduated in 1912 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. Nineteen years later, in the sum- mer of 1931, she and her children had a scholarship at Vassar College Institute of Euthenics and in June, 1933, the Master's degree in psy- chology was conferred upon her by the University of Toledo. She has also done further graduate work at Columbia and the University of North Carolina. In 1912 and 1913, following her graduation from Ober- lin College, she was connected with Christodora Settlement of New York and during the succeeding year was at home in Toledo. She was then resident of South End House, a settlement organization of Boston, from 1914 until 1916, after which she returned to Toledo, remaining at home until 1917. In that year she became an associate field director of the Atlantic Division, American Red Cross, and during the World War period was at the United States Army General Hospital No. 1, Williams Bridge, New York, there continuing until 1919, when she once more returned to Toledo. In 1920 she accepted a position on the staff of the physical education department of the University of Cincinnati, which she held until 1922.
On the 9th of September, 1922, Alice Barber was married in Toledo to Edward Joseph Lorenz, who was born in Dayton, Kentucky, Septem- ber 26, 1888, a son of Joseph and Catherine Lorenz. He was a graduate of the high school at Bellevue, Kentucky, and won his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Cincinnati. Entering the educational field, he was a teacher of the Cincinnati high school system and next became professor at Lehigh University, where he re- mained for a year. On the expiration of that period he accepted a pro-
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fessorship in physics at the University of Cincinnati and afterward re- ceived his Doctor's degree from the California Institute of Technology. He was a member of the faculty at the Bronxville High School of Bronx- ville, New York, from 1925 to 1928 and during the succeeding six years, or until his death in 1934, was head of the physics department of the University of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz became parents of a son and a daughter: Edward Joseph, known as Ned, now sixteen years of age; and Sally, aged fourteen years. The parents resided in Cincinnati from their marriage in 1922 to 1924 and then went to Pasadena, California, where Mr. Lorenz studied at the California Institute of Technology. It was following his return from the Pacific coast that he taught in Bronx- ville, New York, from 1925 to 1928, and in the latter year the family home was established in Toledo, where Mrs. Lorenz has since resided.
Following her husband's death in 1934, Mrs. Lorenz served as director of the International Institute of the Young Women's Christian Association in Toledo. In 1936 she became assistant personnel director and member of the faculty of the University of Toledo, which association she still maintains. She attends the First Unitarian Church of Toledo and she is a member of the Toledo Adult Education Council, the Ameri- can Association of University Women, the Business and Professional Women's Club, Faculty Dames of the University of Toledo, the North- western Ohio Branch of the National Vocational Guidance Association, Chapter A. G., P. E. O., Samagama and the Toledo Woman's Club. She is a member of the board of directors of the North Toledo Settlement, of which her mother was one of the founders. In professional circles Mrs. Lorenz is widely and prominently known, being especially active along lines contributing to adult educational progress, her efforts in that field being far-reaching and beneficially resultant.
EMILY GETTINS MULDOON
Through many avenues of activity EMILY GETTINS MULDOON has contributed to educational, cultural and religious progress in
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Youngstown, her native city. Here in early girlhood she attended St. Columba's parochial school, followed by a period of study in Ursuline Academy, and was graduated from the Rayen School of Youngstown. Later she studied at the Zanerian College of Art and Designing at Columbus, Ohio, and she won her Bachelor of Arts degree at Youngs- town College and her Master of Arts degree at the University of Pitts- burgh. She also studied art and designing with W. B. Dennis of Brook- lyn, New York, so that her training splendidly qualified her for the important work she has done since that time.
Following her graduation from Zanerian College, Mrs. Muldoon taught in the Youngstown public schools for four years and then be- came supervisor of handwriting in the Youngstown schools. She also wrote a work on handwriting and charts that was used in the schools of the city for six years and she designed the South High School diploma. She likewise prepared a course of lectures used in the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and thus continually her activities broadened in scope and importance.
Emily Gettins was married in Youngstown to Thomas C. Muldoon, a lawyer, now deceased. After her husband's death she resumed teach- ing and was English instructor in the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School. She has also majored in English, Spanish and social science. Mrs. Muldoon is widely and prominently known in educational circles. She has membership in the American Association of University Women, the National Education Association, the Ohio and Youngstown Educa- tion Associations and the Northeastern Ohio Teachers Association. She is acting as chairman for the teachers in connection with their school publication issued through the state organization and she was one of the organizers and is honorary life president of the Newman Club, a literary society.
Mrs. Muldoon has long been a most active and earnest worker in Catholic circles. She has membership in St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church and she belongs to the National Council of Catholic Women, the
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