Papers. 1863-1947.

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Papers. 1863-1947.

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Educator and author. Correspondence, diaries and other autobiographical material, notes, addresses and articles, honorary degrees, photographs, and scrapbooks. Includes material, chiefly 1901 to 1944, relating to her tenure as president of Mount Holyoke College (1901-1937); to her participation in the China Christian Educational Commission Conference in Shanghai and Hankow (1921), the Institute of Pacific Relations conventions in Honolulu (1925, 1927), and the American Delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva (1932); and, particularly after 1937, to her speaking engagements at various colleges, women's clubs, Mount Holyoke College Alumnae functions, and organizations advocating international peace. In addition to Woolley's letters to Jeannette Marks, comprising one third of the entire collection, individual correspondents include Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Cordell Hull, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Dorothy Thompson, and numerous faculty and alumnae of Mount Holyoke College. Organizations with which she corresponded regularly include the American Association of University Women, the League of Women Voters, the League of Nations Association, and business and professional women's clubs throughout the country.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964

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Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Born on August 16, 1875 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks, who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes be...

Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1871, when she enrolled in Providence High School. In 1882 she began attending Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, graduating i...

Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1871, when she enrolled in Providence High School. In 1882 she began attending Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, graduating i...