Snyder, Margaret Hepburn, 1896-

Margaret Hepburn was born in Freehold, N.J. in 1896, the daughter and grandaughter of physicians. After graduating from Freehold High School she attended Smith College where she majored in sociology and music, and graduated in 1918. She married Cecil Denise Snyder of Freehold that same year. Her daughter Anne was born in 1920. In order to further Cecil Snyder's career, the family moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1929. Margaret Snyder began volunteering at the Orthopedic School in Kenosha in 1931. In 1940 she became a charter member of Kenosha Hospital Auxiliary. In 1947 she expanded her involvement to the state level hospital auxiliary associations and by 1952 she was appointed to the Committee of Hospital Auxiliaries of the American Hospital Association. She also participated in the International Hospital Federation meetings in Sweden in 1956 and Belgium in 1962. Following the death of her husband in 1956 Margaret Snyder assumed a staff position at Kenosha Memorial Hospital, thus becoming its first fulltime Director of Volunteers. In this capacity she explored new approaches to patient care by expanding volunteer services throughout the hospital. After retiring from this position in 1965 Snyder remained active in hospital and church affairs in Kenosha for a few years before she relocated to Provo, Utah to be near family members.

From the guide to the Margaret Hepburn Snyder Papers MS 194., 1940-1984, (Sophia Smith Collection)