Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth

  1. Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth
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1914, May Organizational meeting of the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (initially known as the Women's Occupational Bureau), Richmond, Virginia. 1915, March Orie Latham Hatcher becomes president of Bureau. 1918, March 17 Bureau incorporated. 1920 Unofficial name change to Bureau of Vocations for Women. 1921 Official name change to Southern Woman's Educational Alliance. 1922, March Chicago branch established. 1923, November New York branch established. 1924, January Atlanta and Washington, D.C., branches established. 1929, June Richmond branch established. 1929 Chicago junior auxiliary branch established. 1931 University of Chicago branch established. 1937, November Official name change to Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth. 1937 Washington branch re-established. 1946, April Howard Dawson becomes acting president of Alliance Board after Hatcher's death. 1947, February Position of Executive Secretary established to assume Hatcher's former duties. Amber Arthun Warburton hired for position. 1963, September AGRY disbands. 1868, December 10 Born, Petersburg. Va. 1884 Graduated from Richmond (Va.) Female Institute. 1885 1888 A.B., Vassar College. 19ca. 1888- 1892 Teacher, Miss Belle Peer's School, Louisville, Ky. 1893 1894 Teacher, Richmond Female Seminary. 1894 Professor of history, English language, and literature, Women's College, Richmond, Va. 1901 1903 PhD., University of Chicago, English Literature. 1904 1915 Employed at Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) as part-time reader, lecturer, associate professor of English (1912 1915), and chair of comparative literature department (1910-1915). 1906 Helped organize the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. 1907 1914 Chair, Committee on Standardization, Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. 1915 Left Bryn Mawr to become full-time director/president of Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women. 1917 Co-founder and executive board member of Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health. 1917 1919 Chair, Advisory board, Smithdeal Secretarial School, Smithdeal Business College, Richmond, Va. 1918 1919 President, Board of Advisors, Stokes Home for Girls, Richmond, Va. 1920 1924 Vice-president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. 1928 1938 Chair, Rural Section, National Vocational Guidance Association. 1932 1935 Executive Board member, National Council of Women. 1933 1937 Board of Trustees, National Vocational Guidance Association. 1933 1939 Member, National Occupational Conference. 1934 Consultant for the Youth Conference of the Department of the Interior. 1935 1936 Board of representatives, Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations. 1936 1942 Technical director, Pine Mountain Guidance Institutes, Harlan County, Ky. 1940 1941 Member, White House Conference on Children in a Democracy. 1941 1942 1943 Chair, Institute for Rural Guidance, Washington, D.C. 1942 1946 Chair, Luncheon Forums of the Washington Youth Service Agencies. 1944 Member, White House Conference on Rural Education. 1946, April 1 Died, 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)
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