Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth

• 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)