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Had her father lived until she was grown, Geralda might have be- come an artist as she showed definite talent for drawing early in life.
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But faced with the need for earning her own living soon after gradua- tion, she turned to the business field. Creating and drawing her own advertising for the newspapers for years has given her added oppor- tunity for continued expression and stimulation of this early talent. The young Toledoan went about entering her chosen field in a way char- acteristic of her approach to all problems-she situated herself in a small fine shop for women and worked untiringly any and all hours to perfect her knowledge of the business in all departments. Not long after, she opened her own shop in August, 1922, and at the beginning had but one single room on the ground floor of the Spitzer Building, a down- town office building. The shop prospered and grew from the day of its inauguration. Geralda gave the shop her own name. Her able and artis- tic talents were the vital and stimulating factors in her buying, selling, decorating and managing. Her fine clientele grew and flourished under her constant effort to serve and please the public. She is a most attrac- tive, clever and vivacious person. Obviously, Geralda knew smart fashion and how to wear clothes. She knew how much importance clothes-conscious women placed on dealing with one having a smart flair for clothes, and an ability to use that knowledge to benefit others.
The first expansion included several rooms above the original shop and a year later additional space was added for a beautiful infants' and children's shop. Early in 1935 Geralda was noticed frequently on busy street corners at various intersections in the downtown district. Pencil and paper in hand she was counting the people who passed the various corners. The mystery was soon solved as she had finally admitted she had selected a new location for her shop. She was one of the first busi- ness women, probably, to use this method of deciding on a location for her business-a method carried out by big business everywhere. In the fall of 1936 Geralda Pheatt moved into the larger, more efficient and more beautiful quarters at 711 Madison Avenue, her present location. Business continued to thrive and one year after this move, additional space was acquired in this building for the new Budget Shop. Geralda Pheatt, Inc., is considered by the most foremost critics in the country as the finest shop of its size and type. Today her customers come from
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all over northwestern Ohio and the Lower Michigan area and her shop guest book boasts of signatures from important residents of cities from many other parts of the country.
An outstanding feature of the handsome new shop is the spacious rooms for all that goes on just before a wedding. Shop attendants con- veniently dress the bride and bridesmaids. An entire bridal party can go straight from Geralda Pheatt, Inc., to the church and arrive ready for the ceremony. Geralda's specialty has always been her weddings perfectly done to the most minute detail and each one individually be- coming the bride-to-be.
Each succeeding year has added fame and prestige to her good name and continuous and growing demands are being made for the un- usual service and perfect planning of these most important affairs. Three of Geralda's sisters have aided her at the shop at various times. Nancy Pheatt Jackson has been with her almost from the beginning. Jeanne Pheatt Hamilton has become resident buyer in New York for the shop's budget department, and Mary Pheatt Mitchell assists during her sum- mer vacation from duties as an employe of the board of education.
In her private life Mrs. Clare Hoffman is a devoted mother. All of her friends and most of her customers and business associates from the East and West know they will not find her at the shop Thursdays. Rain or shine she has spent that day with young Peter since his birth, letting nothing interfere with that pleasure and comradeship.
The Hoffmans support many civic and philanthropic projects. They are members of the Toledo Club and the Inverness Golf Club. She is a Toledo Woman's Club member as well. Because of their mutual interest in progressive education, their son attends the Maumee Valley Country Day School, a private school noted for its progressive program. She is a member of the Fort Industry Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. With all the domestic and business duties in Toledo that have faced her for many years, Geralda Pheatt opened, in 1934, a branch shop at Harbor Springs, Michigan, for the summer months. This resort colony is one of the finest in the country. The opening of this shop is another successful accomplishment which she handles with char- acteristic ease.
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Conversing with her about her achievements, one finds that this young woman has always had "a star-in-the-blue" as her ultimate aim for each new venture and all things great and small have been planned and worked on until that star became a reality. Talent, personality and devoted interest in fine clothes and an understanding of how to wear them have all helped Geralda Pheatt up the ladder of success. But strength and willingness to work also have been most important con- tributing factors in the outstanding career of a young woman who at sixteen was just another high school graduate and in less than ten years had established herself as one of Toledo's most successful business women.
GERTRUDE L. RADER
GERTRUDE L. RADER, of Columbus, was one of the first women in Ohio to become a hotel auditor and has been connected with the Neil House of Columbus for twelve years or more as auditor and assistant treasurer. Miss Rader was born in Circleville, Ohio, and is a representa- tive of a family that was founded in Pickaway County among its earliest settlers. Members of the family have in their possession land grants which were signed by Andrew Jackson. Thomas Rader, father of Ger- trude L. Rader, was a prominent farmer in southern Ohio and after- ward became a merchant of Circleville. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary J. Givens.
After completing her public school education Miss Rader attended Bliss Business College of Columbus and pursued her course in account- ancy at Ohio State University. In her early womanhood she was a teacher in the schools of southern Ohio and at the time of the World War she was "drafted" into the position of auditor in 1916, when men were entering their country's service and women began taking over the reins of business. Her first position as auditor was with the Southern Hotel
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of Columbus, with which she remained for three years. She then went to the Winton Hotel in Cleveland in the same capacity and was there employed for two years. She next became auditor of the Omar Baking Company, with headquarters in Columbus, and she also installed sets of books in Indianapolis and Milwaukee, dividing her time between the three cities. In 1927 she was appointed assistant auditor of the Neil House and in 1932 was advanced to the position of auditor and assistant treasurer, in which capacity she has since served.
Miss Rader is a member of the International Association of Altrusa and of the Business and Professional Women's Club. She is also affili- ated with the accountants' division of the Ohio Hotel Association and with the National Association of Cost Accountants and the Ohio Pro- tective Association. Her excellent qualifications for her work are widely recognized and she occupies a prominent place among the business women of Columbus.
EMILIE SULLIVAN
EMILIE SULLIVAN'S name has been synonymous with the art of costume creation in Columbus for the past three decades. On college and school campuses and also by organizations throughout the United States, her judgment is relied upon in furnishing authentic wardrobes for every occasion.
Her career in the field of costume design and execution dates back to 1914 when her husband, Clarence Sullivan, former Columbus news- paper dramatic critic, started a Children's Theatre. This theatre was open to every child who wished to participate in the plays presented therein and so numerous were the embryo actors that Mr. Sullivan found himself rehearsing four or five groups in the same play so that every child would have the opportunity of appearing.
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Mrs. Sullivan designed and made the costumes. Later she and her husband branched into producing pageants for the Ohio State Fair, which they staged on an elaborate scale for fourteen years. Costumes designed by Mrs. Sullivan became more and more in demand by organi- zations both in and out of Columbus until it became necessary to open a costume house. For fifteen years it has supplied wardrobes to organi- zations all over the country. In the instance of several collegiate players' groups, Mrs. Sullivan is presented with the manuscript of the play and told to costume it according to her understanding of the script. She has studied with Norman Bel Geddes and has made an exhaustive study of her subject. Before she went into costume work, Mrs. Sullivan de- voted herself to rearing her three sons, Virgil C., the junior partner in Granberry, Marche and Lord in New York; Norman, secretary-treasurer of the Ford Ceremics Arts Company of Columbus, and J. Arden Sullivan, assistant manager of the United Rubber Products Company in Detroit.
Her father, Melchior Schneider, was a tailor, and she inherited his dexterity in garment making. Mrs. Sullivan is an active member of the Zonta Club, composed of a select business women's membership, and has been publicity chairman. The Sullivan garden at the home, 449 Oak- land Park, is a hobby of both Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and is another example of their artistic touch.
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CORA JENKENS BAILEY
CORA JENKENS BAILEY, librarain at Westerville, is a native of Gallia County, Ohio, and a daughter of Stephen and Anice (Baird) Jenkens, both natives of Ohio, the father being of Welsh descent. In the maternal lines Mrs. Bailey comes of Revolutionary War ancestry, one of her great-great-grandfathers having served in the struggle for Amer- ican independence.
Mrs. Bailey supplemented her early educational training by study in Otterbein College, a United Brethren school at Westerville. In 1908 she took up the profession of teaching, which she followed in Gahanna, Franklin County, Ohio, until 1913. In 1930 she was largely instrumental in organizing the Westerville Library, which for the first three years of its existence was housed in the home of P. A. Baker, who at one time was president of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League. When Westerville remodeled its city hall in 1933, a spacious section was given over to the library which it has since occupied. Mrs. Bailey was the first li- brarian and is still serving in that capacity in a manner that has won her editorial commendation from the newspapers and has received the strong endorsement of the general public. An average of sixty-five thou- sand volumes are circulated annually. One of Mrs. Bailey's projects in connection with the library is a book forum for the community which draws a large number of people to hear the discussions. Her work in the junior department of the library is outstanding and through her efforts all organizations, including men's groups, join in the celebration of Na- tional Book Week by dedicating a meeting during that week to a book talk and discussion. She has instituted end-of-the-year parties for first- grade children which have been very effective in acquainting the children with what the library offers.
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Mrs. Bailey is the wife of Walter R. Bailey, science and physics teacher in the East High School of Columbus. She belongs to the United Brethren Church and she has membership in the Ohio Library Association, the American Library Association, the Citizenship Club of Westerville and the New Century Club, a literary organization. She is also extremely active in the Parent-Teacher Association and assists in planning its programs.
MRS. CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH
MRS. CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH, Columbus resident, was one of the first women in Ohio traveling library work. Her husband, state librarian for twenty years, established the traveling department of the Ohio State Library and two years after its inception, Mrs. Gal- breath was placed in charge of the department, acting as its head for fourteen years, from 1899 to 1913. During that period the Ohio travel- ing library circulated more books than any other system in the United States. Catering largely to schools, women's clubs, granges and organi- zations in general, the library circulation averaged about 180,000 annu- ally.
Active in club life, Mrs. Galbreath is a member of the Columbus Wom- an's Club, which she served as president at the time when the present club house at 530 East Towne Street, was purchased. She is also a past president of the Lecture Club and a member of the Women's Republican Club.
Former member of the Children's Hospital Board, Mrs. Galbreath for several years edited a page devoted to activities of the various hospital Twigs in The Bambino, hospital magazine.
She organized Ann Simpson Davis Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, in Columbus, Sept. 11, 1926, and was elected its first regent. She continued in this office for five years.
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Mrs. Galbreath's Revolutionary ancestor was Elnathan Cory, from whom her mother, Anna Harnit of Pennsylvania, was a descendant. Her father was Albert Richardson Kelley, a native of Ohio.
Born in Columbiana County in February, 1866, Mrs. Galbreath's maiden name was Ida Kelley. She attended Damascus Academy, a Quaker institution in Columbiana County, and came to Columbus to live in 1896. In 1882 she was married to Mr. Galbreath, who became state librarian in 1896. Mr. Galbreath, from 1920 to 1934, was editor and pub- lisher of the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society Quarterly. He was a historian in his own right and wrote the first two volumes of a five-volume history of Ohio. His name appears in "Who's Who."
Mrs. Galbreath belongs to the Unitarian Church. She has her home at 474 South Parkview Avenue, where her son, Albert Webster Gal- breath, also resides.
LOUISE ABIGAIL HAWLEY
LOUISE ABIGAIL HAWLEY, daughter of Noah Merry Hawley and Abigail Mowry Hawley, was born July 13, 1869, at what is now known as Avery, Ohio. In her early years she attended district school at Spears' Corners. At the age of fourteen she entered Western Re- serve Normal School at Milan, Ohio, where she was a student for three and one-half years.
In 1908 she went to Chautauqua, N. Y., where she took the six weeks' summer course in the Chautauqua School for Librarians. Two years later she returned to the same school for further study. On October 1, 1910, she was appointed first assistant in the Brumback County Library at Van Wert, Ohio, which position she held for two years.
On October 1, 1912, she began her work as librarian in the Milan Public Library, working in the clerk's office until the dedication of the present library building, December 13, 1912.
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In 1918 Miss Hawley returned to the Chautauqua School for Li- brarians which had developed into a four summer course, equivalent to the one year course of library schools.
From 1921 to 1927, Miss Hawley had charge of the Chautauqua Institution Library during the summer session of the schools. In 1923 she received one of the six scholarship awards given by the Ohio State Library Association to those librarians who had shown distinc- tive progress in their work. Since 1912 she has been a member of the American Library Association and of the Ohio Library Association.
The course of study offered to juniors and seniors of the high school has done much to make Miss Hawley's work outstanding among librarians. This course has been given every year and is a voluntary service granted in addition to the regular duties of a librarian. It consists of twenty lessons giving instruction in the value and use of reference books such as encyclopedias, histories, and readers' guides; in the classification and cataloguing of books; and in other problems relating to the use of a library. The course has proved to be of ines- timable value to students in furthering their education, either in ad- vanced work at college or at home.
No less worthy has been her untiring devotion to the younger pu- pils. Her warm personal interest in the children has guided the reading habits of young people for more than a generation, awakening and fostering in their hearts a feeling for the best in literature.
Since 1925 Miss Hawley has co-operated with the teachers of the school in the grade pupils' reading course. The success of this work is evidenced by the fact that in the year 1938-1939 she granted to chil- dren of the school 211 reading certificates, giving credit for 4529 books read and reported upon. The public school in co-operation with the li- brary has thus been given the advantage of a larger collection of books and greater service than could have been maintained in a school library.
This plan of co-operation with the schools, as well as the unusual course offered to juniors and seniors of the high school, has received
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high praise from many educators. In 1920, E. F. Warner, high school inspector, asked permission to have these plans printed in one of the educational journals so that other librarians might be inspired to establish a similar service.
As a result of her wise and efficient management of the library, together with the wide interest in good reading that she has helped to create among the people of the community, the Milan Library has attained a high rank in the state. In 1928 an account of this library was included in a U. S. bulletin regarding outstanding rural libraries.
In addition to the unusual services as guide and counsellor to the reading public, Miss Hawley has taken an active interest in Church, clubs, and civic enterprises.
Her sphere of usefulness has extended much further than the limits of the township supporting the library. Many who have left the com- munity long remember her wise counsel and encouragement as has been shown in tributes of appreciation accorded her.
EMMA SCHAUB
The Columbus Public School Library, containing one hundred and fifty-three thousand volumes and supplying thirteen high schools and sixty-four elementary schools, owes its fine system of organization to EMMA SCHAUB, who is librarian. She entered the service of this library as a cataloguer forty years ago and in 1917 was authorized by the school superintendent, John H. Francis, a Californian, to proceed with her idea of reorganization. Prior to that time, from its inception in 1891, the library had been used by both the schools and the community. Upon its reorganization under the direction of Miss Schaub it became distinctly a school library department, eliminating such features of its work as belong to a public library.
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The need of trained librarians for the school was seen by Miss Schaub, with the result that those now in charge in thirteen schools where libraries are maintained are graduates of accredited colleges, graduates of accredited library schools, and are eligible to certification as teachers and as librarians, in accordance with the rules of the system. They also receive salaries equivalent to those paid high school teachers.
Miss Schaub is stationed at the central agency in the Administration building of the Board of Education of Columbus, from which point dis- tribution is made to the schools and from which all teachers may draw material for their work. As supervisor she informs herself concerning changing school curriculums by keeping in close touch with adminis- trative and other supervisory offices and through intimate contact with teachers she gains an insight into their problems which otherwise would not be possible.
In addition to the thirteen junior and senior high school libraries, the school library department provides about twenty-two elementary schools with permanent library rooms. It also gives lessons in the use of libraries and of books as tools, likewise prepares courses of study for that purpose and issues reading lists, keeping teachers in touch with the best in books. It also supplies illustrative material through its centrally located picture collection. Student interest in the library is shown by the attendance, which in 1938-39 totaled over eight hundred thousand for junior and senior high schools combined. It is therefore of small wonder that the Columbus Public School Library system has been cited as an outstanding one in the field of school libraries.
Miss Schaub has limited her affiliations with organizations to state and national education and library associations. Her interest centers in her work and its steady development has been of immense value to Columbus. She has been an inveterate reader since her childhood days. She was born in Cincinnati of German parents but spent most of her childhood days in Columbus. She first learned to read the German language and became acquainted at an early age with the works of the classicists. Her formal education was later augmented by study under a private teacher.
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MARY E. TISDEL WYMAN
No Lake County woman has ever accomplished more in the line of historical and genealogical research than MARY E. TISDEL WYMAN, (Mrs. Lloyd Wyman). Born in Madison, Ohio, in 1845, Mrs. Wyman died in Painesville, O., in 1926, having spent the greater part of her life in this county. One of the founders of the New Connecticut Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, she devoted the necessary re- search and preparation to a book entitled "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Lake County", which was published by the Chapter.
"The Genealogy of the Descendents of Lawrence and Mary Anti- sell", a large and detailed record of her own family, published in 1908, was a work of about twenty years. This book was in demand as a refer- ence work by large libraries all over the country. At the time of her death Mrs. Wyman had a large mass of information on the Wyman family history in preparation for publication.
For many years Mrs. Wyman acted as consulting genealogist, and gave freely of her time and energy in assisting those interested in this research. Her extensive genealogical and historical library, wide ac- quaintance with early records, keen analytical mind and passion for careful and painstaking research, made her work a great and lasting contribution to this field of knowledge.
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SARABETH LESLIE
SARABETH LESLIE, poet and author residing in Toledo, has made valuable contribution to Ohio literature and her writings are widely known. Born in Adrian, Michigan, on the 6th of August, 1864, she is a daughter of Daniel and Cornelia J. (Hoag) Satterthwaite. Lib- eral educational opportunities were accorded her and she was gradu- ated from the University of Michigan with the Bachelor of Arts de- gree. She was also a fellow in Greek in Bryn Mawr College in 1886 and 1887 and then became assistant instructor in Greek and Latin at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, her work there covering the schol- astic year of 1888. She has given much of her time to writing and is the author of Highlights and Twilights of Morningshore, which she published in 1923, while in 1936 she published her Morningshore Children. In the same year and since that time she has been a con- tributor to Anthologies. She contributed to a volume on Contemporary American Women Poets in 1936 and 1937 and in the latter year was a contributor to Christmas Lyrics. She has in preparation two books which are now in manuscript and has been a frequent contributor to various magazines, including The Chronicle, The Argonaut, The Bulletin, The Oracle and The Inlander.
Sarabeth Satterthwaite became the wife of Dr. Francis Alexander Leslie and they reside at 2037 Frankin Avenue, Toledo. They have one son, Philip Francis Leslie, who was born in Toledo, April 17, 1895, and completed his education at the University of Michigan. He is a World War veteran having become a sergeant in the Field Hospi- tal Service of the Thirty-seventh Division. He married Esther Marie Siek, who has been a teacher in the Toledo schools, specializing in child study. His two children are Margherita Stevens Leslie and Lawrence Webb Leslie.
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Mrs. Sarabeth Leslie has membership in the Congregational Church and the nature of her interests is further indicated in the fact that she belongs to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, the American Association of Univer- sity Women, the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and the Honorary Society Phi Beta Kappa. Her recreational interests are found in out-of-door life, in travel and nature study. While space forbids any lengthy exam- ples of her poetic genius, a little poem "Afloat at Dusk" illustrates both the beauty of her thought and style.
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