Dreier, Ethel Eyre Valentine.

Settlement house president; Suffragist; Woman's club leader; Civic leader.

Ethel Eyre Valentine (1874-1958) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate Institute in 1895. She married H. Edward Dreier in 1901; they had four children. After graduation, she organized and became president of Brooklyn's first social settlement, All Sorts and Conditions of Girls; was President of the United Neighborhood Guild (of five settlements), and People's Institute of Brooklyn. She headed the Woman Suffrage Party of Brooklyn, 1913-17; was chair of the Brooklyn League of Women Voters; and president of the New York Women's City Club, 1924-30, and again 1932-36. She was joint chair of the Fusion Committee in 1937, which won mayoralty for Fiorello LaGuardia. Dreier was also active in low-income housing programs as a member of the Brooklyn Committee for Better Housing and in 1928, co-founded the Brooklyn Garden Apartments.