Records of the Boston Young Women's Christian Association, 1858-1988

Campbell, Loraine Leeson, 1905-1982

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Campbell was brought up in Boston, Mass., and attended the Winsor School. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 and returned home to help raise her brother and sister. She was active in Planned Parenthood, especially in lobbying for legislation to make birth control information and legal abortions available to all women. From the description of Papers, 1922-1982 (inclusive), 1922-1928 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007538 ...

Coit, Eleanor Gwinnell, 1894-1976

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Eleanor Gwinnell Coit, labor education expert, was the daughter of Emma Gwinnell and Henry Coit, M.D., and was born in Newark, N.J., on May 6, 1894. She received an A.B. (1916) from Smith College and an A.M. (1919) from Columbia University. Coit was Industrial Secretary of the New Jersey branches of the Young Women's Christian Association at Newark (1916-1917), and Orange (1917-1919), General Secretary at Bayonne (1919-1921), and Industrial Secretary of the YWCA at...

Ford, Betty, 1918-2011

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Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Ford was First Lady from 1974 to 1977 as the wife of President Gerald Ford. She was noted for raising breast cancer awareness and being a passionate supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 25 years of political life, Betty Bloomer Ford did not expect to become First Lady. As wife of Representative Gerald R. Ford, she looked forward to his retirement and more time together. In late 1973 his selection as Vice President was a surprise to her. She was just becoming accus...

Camille Andreson

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Y. T. Feng

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Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893

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Brooks was an Episcopal clergyman. He was rector of Trinity Church, Boston (1868-1893) and bishop of Massachusetts (1891-1893). From the description of Sermons and lectures, 1858-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81069474 From the description of Correspondence and compositions, 1831-1901 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390105 From the description of Papers, 1832-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122575025 ...

Donna Richey

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Matina Horner

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Margaret Heckler

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Sarah Caldwell

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Ruth Batson

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Evelyn Murphy

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Luz Cuadrado

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Durant, Pauline (Fowle)

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Shaw, Sarah-Ann

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Boston's first African American television reporter, Sarah-Ann Shaw was born, Sarah-Ann King, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Annie Bell Bomar King and Norris King, Jr. Growing up in Roxbury, Shaw's father, who was active in the Roxbury Democratic Club, took her to lectures at Jordan Hall, the Ford Hall Forum, and Tremont Temple; there, young Shaw met Paul Robeson. Shaw's mother worked along side the selfless Melnea Cass. Shaw attended William P. Boardman Elementary School and Henry Lee Higginson E...

Pamel Gagne

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United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston

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Lawrence, William, 1850-1941

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7th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. From the description of William Lawrence letter to Mrs. Forbes [manuscript], 1930 Apr 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490554 Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Draft petition to Governor Fuller, 1927 April 11-12. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 67836461 ...

Antonia Chayes

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Virginia Howard Ehrlich

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Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...

Anne Bryant

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Maxine Kumin

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Avery, Mary Ellen, 1927-2011

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Mary Ellen Avery, 1927-, AB, 1948, Wheaton College; MD, 1952, Johns Hopkins University, was appointed Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1974, Thomas Morgan Rotch Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics in 1996, and Emerita in 1997. Avery served as Physician-in-Chief of Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass. from 1974 to 1985. Avery is a specialist in pulmonary disorders of the newborn infant, and was the first woman to serve as clinical chief of Children's Hosp...

Fuller, Alvan T. (Alvan Tufts), 1878-1958

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Cox, Channing H. (Channing Harris), 1879-1968

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Putnam, Glendora M., 1923-

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Katherine D. Kane

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Dwyer, Doriot Anthony

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Boston Young Women's Christian Association (Massachusetts)

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The Boston Young Women's Christian Association (BYWCA) was founded in 1866; it was one of the first, and the prototype, for all subsequent YWCAs in the United States. It is also one of the oldest extant voluntary agencies in Boston. In 1858, Mrs. Lucretia Boyd, a city missionary, first voiced concern for the moral and physical welfare of young women and girls coming from the country to work in Boston. In 1866 a group of women led by the civic reformer Pauline Durant, wif...

Greenleigh, Arthur

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United Way (Boston, Mass.).

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Georgia L. Ely

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Townes, Jacqueline.

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Beverly Vaseleny

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Wellesley College. Center for Research on Women

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

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Records of the YWCA's programs and activities among blacks began in 1907. From the description of Records, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007201 The YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula opened in 1948 as a recreation center for business women. It expanded to provide recreational and social services for women that met the organization's mission of "empowering women and eliminating racism." The organization was based in Palo Alto until its closing in 2003. ...

Young Women's Christian Association of Boston

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Edelman, Marian Wright

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Child, Julia, 1912-2004

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Julia Child, cookbook writer, cookery teacher, and TV personality, was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams, in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912. She attended the Katharine Branson School in Ross, California (1927-1930), and graduated from Smith College in 1934. She worked in public relations in New York City (1934-1941) and served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, 1941-1946). She was stationed in Ceylon, where she met her future husband, and in China. In 1946, sh...