Eva Whiting White Papers 1885-1974 1909-1974.

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Eva Whiting White Papers 1885-1974 1909-1974.

1885-1974 (inclusive), 1909-1974 (bulk)

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Eva Whiting White, social worker and educator, was involved in education.She was the first graduate of the Boston School for Social Workers (later Simmons College School of Social Work). She went on to become the head worker at the Elizabeth Peabody House (a settlement house in Boston's West End), Dean of the Simmons College School of Social Work, a member of the Boston Board of Public Welfare, Director of the Americanization and Immigration Division of the Massachusetts Board of Education and President of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. The collection contains predominantly professional records including pamphlets, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photographs, financial records, histories, theater programs, post cards and correspondence. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Harriett M. Bartlett, Bancroft Beatley, Leonard Bernstein, Alice Channing, Eleanor Clifton, Ada Comstock, Richard K. Conant, James Michael Curley, Cardinal Richard Cushing, Edward A. Filene, Katharine Hardwick, William J. Holmes, Joseph Lee, Henry Lefavour, William E. Park, William Pear, Robert Rutherford, Leverett Saltonstall and Maida Solomon.

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Simmons College, Beatley Library

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Cushing, Richard James, Cardinal, 1895-1970

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Richard James Cushing was born on August 24, 1895 in South Boston, Massachusetts to Patrick and Mary (Dahill) Cushing. His parents were both Irish immigrants. Cushing was educated at Perry Public Grammar School in South Boston, dropping out in his freshman year. Cushing subsequently enrolled at Boston College High School, as his cousin, the Archdiocese of New York, paid for his tuition. He graduated in 1913 and entered Boston College, where he studied for two years. In 1915, Cushing began his st...

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979

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Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892 – June 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States Senator (1945–1967). Saltonstall was internationalist in foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy, serving as a well-liked mediating force in the Republican Party. He was the only member of the Republican Senate leadership to vote for the censure of Joseph...

Simmons College. School of Social Work (Boston, Mass.)

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Solomon, Maida H. (Maida Herman), 1891-1988

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Maida Herman Solomon, pioneer psychiatric social worker and professor of psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work, was born in Boston, March 9, 1891, the daughter of Joseph Michael and Hennie (Adler) Herman. She was educated at public schools: the Prince School and the Boston Grils' Latin School, and then earned an A.B. from Smith College (1912) and an S.B. from Simmons College (1914.) She took one course at Portia School of Law in 1914. In 1916 she...

White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974

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Eva Whiting was born in Webster, Mass., in 1880, daughter of Frederick Herbert and Marie Emma (Le Roy) Whiting. In 1902 she married Wesley Dunn Allen White. Having earned the first B.S. in social work from Simmons College in 1907, she pursued graduate studies in social work at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. Whiting was Headworker at Elizabeth Peabody House (EPH), 1909-1944; professor of social economy at Simmons College, 1922-1950; non-resi...

Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.)

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The Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Massachusetts), a non-profit social and educational agency, was founded in 1877 by Dr. Harriet Clisby, and incorporated in 1880, "to increase fellowship among women and to promote the best practical methods for securing their educational, industrial and social advancement." In order to accomplish this mission, the organization was arranged in committees or departments which throughout its hist...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958

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Boston School for Social Workers

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Massachusetts. Board of Education. Division of Americanization and Immigration.

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Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937

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Merchant and reformer, of Boston, Mass.; president of William Filene's Sons Co., established 1851 in Boston, by his father William Filene; spoke and wrote extensively on retailing, merchandizing, business, cooperative credit, and world peace; founder of the credit union movement (1908-1937). From the description of Edward A. Filene papers, 1888-1937 (bulk 1907-1937). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973639 Edward A. Filene, of the Boston department store firm, sponsored the ...

Hardwick, Katharine D.

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Pear, William Hesseltine, 1865-1954

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Social worker and social work executive, of Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1913-ca. 1956 (bulk 1944-1955). (Simmons College). WorldCat record id: 28418515 ...

Boston (Mass.). Board of Public Welfare.

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Cabot, Henry B. (Henry Bromfield), 1894-

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Brackett, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Richardson), 1860-1949

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Welfare administrator and social work educator. From the description of Papers, 1728-1955 (bulk 1881-1949). (Simmons College). WorldCat record id: 28418542 ...

Lefavour, Henry, 1862-1946

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Conant, Richard

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Clifton, Eleanor

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Holmes, William James.

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Park, William Edgar, 1909-

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Rutherford, Robert F.

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Lee, Joseph, 1862-1937.

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Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

Channing, Alice, 1888-

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