1914, MayOrganizational meeting of the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (initially known as the Women's Occupational Bureau), Richmond, Virginia.1915, MarchOrie Latham Hatcher becomes president of Bureau.1918, March 17Bureau incorporated.1920Unofficial name change to Bureau of Vocations for Women.1921Official name change to Southern Woman's Educational Alliance.1922, MarchChicago branch established.1923, NovemberNew York branch established.1924, JanuaryAtlanta and Washington, D.C., branches established.1929, JuneRichmond branch established.1929Chicago junior auxiliary branch established.1931University of Chicago branch established.1937, NovemberOfficial name change to Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth.1937Washington branch re-established.1946, AprilHoward Dawson becomes acting president of Alliance Board after Hatcher's death.1947, FebruaryPosition of Executive Secretary established to assume Hatcher's former duties. Amber Arthun Warburton hired for position.1963, SeptemberAGRY disbands.1868, December 10Born, Petersburg. Va.1884Graduated from Richmond (Va.) Female Institute.18851888A.B., Vassar College.19ca. 1888- 1892Teacher, Miss Belle Peer's School, Louisville, Ky.18931894Teacher, Richmond Female Seminary.1894Professor of history, English language, and literature, Women's College, Richmond, Va.19011903PhD., University of Chicago, English Literature.19041915Employed at Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) as part-time reader, lecturer, associate professor of English (1912 1915), and chair of comparative literature department (1910-1915).1906Helped organize the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls.19071914Chair, Committee on Standardization, Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls.1915Left Bryn Mawr to become full-time director/president of Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women.1917Co-founder and executive board member of Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health.19171919Chair, Advisory board, Smithdeal Secretarial School, Smithdeal Business College, Richmond, Va.19181919President, Board of Advisors, Stokes Home for Girls, Richmond, Va.19201924Vice-president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.19281938Chair, Rural Section, National Vocational Guidance Association.19321935Executive Board member, National Council of Women.19331937Board of Trustees, National Vocational Guidance Association.19331939Member, National Occupational Conference.1934Consultant for the Youth Conference of the Department of the Interior.19351936Board of representatives, Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations.19361942Technical director, Pine Mountain Guidance Institutes, Harlan County, Ky.19401941Member, White House Conference on Children in a Democracy.194119421943Chair, Institute for Rural Guidance, Washington, D.C.19421946Chair, Luncheon Forums of the Washington Youth Service Agencies.1944Member, White House Conference on Rural Education.1946, April 1Died, Richmond, Va.From the guide to the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth Records, 1887-1963, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)