Collection Title,"The political activities of the first generation of fully enfranchised Connecticut women, 1920-1945, oral history transcripts, 1980-1982" Collection Dates,Creation: 1980-1982 Collection Identifier,MC 362 EAD ID,sch00857 Database Number,Component Title,Component Date,Start Year,End Year,Component identifier,Container info,Component type,Component creator,Digital content link,Access Note,Physical description sch00857c00001,"Blood, Virginia L. Virginia L. Blood worked on the Arrangements Committee for the 1940 Republican National Convention, was elected to the General Assembly in 1942 and 1944, and was House chair of the Public Health and Safety Committee in 1944. Since 1953, she has volunteered for the March of Dimes.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 1.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00002,"Biglow, Marilyn Yeaw. A graduate of Smith College, Marilyn Yeaw Biglow founded the Old Lyme League of Women Voters in 1929 and was a member of the League's state board. She served as president of the Old Lyme Congregational Church Council and of the Visiting Nurses Association.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 2.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00003,"Brown, Emily Sophie. Emily Sophie Brown graduated from Wellesley College, and was an active suffragist. Elected to the General Assembly in 1920, she served until 1922. She was a member of the League of Women Voters and the Order of Women Legislators and served on the Republican Town Committee of Naugatuck.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 3.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00004,"Bryant, Josephine E. Josephine E. Bryant participated in the suffrage movement and was a member of the League of Women Voters. Elected to the General Assembly in 1928, she was also a member of businesswomen's organizations in Hartford.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 4.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00005,"Cook, Edith Valet. Edith Valet Cook was director of the Connecticut Child Welfare Association from 1920 to 1971; a member of the League of Women Voters, she also had her own law practice in New Haven and was a member of the American Association of University Women.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 5.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00006,"Dadourian, Ruth McIntire. In 1919-1920 Ruth McIntire Dadourian was on the board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and helped to establish the Connecticut League of Women Voters. During the New Deal, she was supervisor of the Division of Women's and Professional Projects of the Works Progress Administration in Connecticut.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 6.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00007,"Green, Helen A. Elected to the General Assembly in 1924, Helen A. Green was a member of Republican women's groups and was active in Granby town politics.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 7.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00008,"Kamenski, Stephanie R. Stephanie R. Kamenski served as treasurer of the Berlin Republican Town Committee.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 8.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00009,"Kitchel, Helen Binney. Helen Binney Kitchel was a community leader and a member of the General Assembly in the 1930s. She worked for health and environmental protection in Old Greenwich and was a member of the League of Women Voters.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 9.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00010,"Lee, Percy Maxim. Percy Maxim Lee was president of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut from 1941 to 1949 and of the League of Women Voters of the United States from 1950 to 1958.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 10.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00011,"Little, Eleanor H. Eleanor H. Little was a social worker, and an industrial engineer; she worked for the Connecticut Unemployment and Relief Commission, 1930-1937. A member of the League of Women Voters, she was elected to the General Assembly in 1941 and 1945.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 11.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00012,"McCoy, Laura Belle Reed. Laura Belle Reed McCoy founded the first minority Girl Scout troop in the United States. She was a nurse and, in 1940, a member of the New Haven Board of Aldermen.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 12.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00013,"Morrison, Margaret Nordhoff. Margaret Nordhoff Morrison was a delegate to the National Council for the Prevention of War, an organization founded and directed by Carrie Chapman Catt. In New Haven, she was a member of the League of Women Voters, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Socialist Party.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 13.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00014,"Parmelee, Alice Emmons. Elected to the General Assembly in 1942 and 1952, Alice Emmons Parmelee also participated in East Hartland town politics, serving on the Republican Town Committee and on the board of education.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 14.",Box 1: [Barcode: RS06KO],item,,"","","", sch00857c00015,"Purtell, Edna Mary. Edna Mary Purtell was a suffragist who also worked for the elimination of sweatshops and child labor in the tobacco industry. She was active as a speaker for Robert LaFollette and the Progressive Party in the 1924 campaign. In 1979 she was given the Susan B. Anthony award by the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs, which she had led in the 1930s.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 15.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00016,"Rockefeller, Nancy Carnegie. Nancy Carnegie Rockeffer was active in programs relating to care and housing for the elderly, and organized projects relating to children and health: birth control clinics, a children's shelter, and a daycare center.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 16.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00017,"Rostow, Celia Duhan. Celia Duhan Rostow was a New Haven socialist who participated in the League of Women Voters, the Jewish Community Council, the NAACP, and in local politics.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 17.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00018,"Rylander, Isabel Curtin. Isabel Curtin Rylander was active in many Republican committees: finance, town, and state central. She also served in the General Assembly for eight terms beginning in 1940, and as tax collector and registrar of voters for Litchfield.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 18.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00019,"Standish, Hilda Crosby. An outspoken advocate of birth control and sex education, Hilda Crosby Standish earned her M.D. at Cornell, trained in obstetrics in China, and worked at the Hartford Maternal Health Center, an illegal birth control clinic.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 19.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00020,"Sullivan, Hazel Thrall. Hazel Thrall Sullivan was elected to the General Assembly in 1944 and 1946. A graduate of Smith College, she was a member of the League of Women Voters and the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 20.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","", sch00857c00021,"Woodhouse, Chase Going. Chase Goin Woodhouse was professor of economics at Smith College, the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, and Connecticut College. While in Connecticut, she was active on the New London Democratic Town Committee. She served as Secretary of State of Connecticut, 1940-1942, and as United States Representative from the second district in Connecticut, 1944-1946 and 1948-1950.",1980-1982,1980,1982,"MC 362, 21.",Box 2: [Barcode: RS06KP],item,,"","","",