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Title:
ANCHORA of Delta Gamma, Vol. 92, No. 2, Summer 1976
Date/Date Range:
00/00/1976
Subjects:
Delta Gamma ANCHORA (Publication)
Era:
1970s
20th Century
From the Anchora: Unforgettables
Four past editors view
predecessors' achievements
from the
Today's Women Yesterday
Editors know better than anyone else that a bicen-
tennial is people. Events, decisions, judgment, vision,
PHYSICIAN: Dr. Mary Thompson Stevens, first
action - all are people.
editor, 1884-85, resigned editorship in medical
school, graduated, practiced medicine in Detroit
An editor has not only read every word which goes
for 50 years, one of city's first pediatricians, first
into each issue, but many words which she must strike
woman House of Correction commissioner.
out, cut, condense, within the limits of space. The
cutting is painful, and stricken portions are filed away
JOURNALIST/TEACHER: For Elizabeth Kings-
in the editor's mind where dwell the unforgettables of
bury, editor 1885-87, Anchora was beginning of
each issue.
career as journalist, editor, teacher. Early book by
In the years before the turn of the century each
Delta Gamma to be reviewed by Anchora was her
Anchora carried a regular "Personals" column
Amateur Adventuress, published 1897.
which reduced to mere mention items which
would be headlines today. Take 1894 - "Dr.
MERCHANDISER: Ima Winchell Stacy, 1887-
Mary Bassett is a physician for women in the
88, inaugurated at Daytons' of Minneapolis in-
Insane Asylum at Rochester, Minnesota." Or
store training in sales, systems, retailing, then
"Dr. Clarissa Bigelow is practising in the Uni-
initiated work/study retailing course for NYU
which became prototype for other schools.
versity Stockyards, Chicago." And literary men-
tion, "Miss Chandler's is among the new holi-
INFANT AUTHORITY: Mary Mills West, 1887-
day books, Three of Us; Cossack, Barney, and
90, followed husband to Washington, combined
Rex, said to be to dogs what Black Beauty is to
own experience as mother of five with her work
horses." The next year, 1895, "Miss Caroline
at Children's Bureau to write Infant Care,
Hunt has accepted a position at Hull House
circulated to more than 40,000,000 mothers.
social settlement with a view to carrying on
the experimental food inspection in the dis-
PIONEER BIBLIOGRAPHER: Ina Firkins, 1890-
trict." Later Miss Hunt clarifies her job as
97, compiled first Index of Short Stories, first
"special agent for the U.S. Department of
Index of Plays, spent lifetime creating, editing,
Labor."
updating universally-used library reference vol-
Because the percentage of women being educated
umes, aids, systems.
before 1900 was small, those who did graduate had
serious intent and the percentage of doctors, lawyers,
CITIZEN/VOLUNTEER: Joe Anna Ross Pan-
coast, 1897-05, in four cities in which she lived
ministers, poets, journalists, professors, is greater than
at various times reflected best sort of civic-minded
today. Two journalists we remember - Julia Craw-
volunteerism through lifetime.
ford on the editorial staff of the St. Louis Globe
Democrat in charge of religious news (1895) and
CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE: Grace Abbott, 1905-
Harriet Connor who reported the 1896 Republican
09, edited Anchora from Hull House, became
Convention for the New York Tribune, then repre-
lifetime advocate of child labor legislation, pioneer
sented the New York Journal at the 1900 Convention.
in child aid, Chief of Children's Bureau, U.S.
Harriet Connor Brown was later noted with distinction
Department of Labor.
in several other fields.
Early chapters chose women they admired as
BUSINESSWOMAN: Ethel Tukey Korsmeyer,
honorary members - at Colorado, Mary Rip-
1909-15, served university and fraternity, and
pon, first woman faculty member (1878), head
after husband's death took active part in operation
of Germanic languages, had a theater named
of family-owned electrical company.
for her which is part of today's campus. At
Minnesota, the mother of the first pledge (1882)
OFFICER/EXECUTIVE: Leulah Judson Haw-
thought she "could not join because she never
ley, 1915-34, was Fraternity Editor/Secretary
simultaneously, established first centralized office
kept secrets from her mother" - so the chapter
in her home, inaugurated lifetime Anchora sub-
decided to initiate mother, too. And in Oxford,
scription, firm finances for magazine.
Mississippi, first female professor at Ole Miss,
Sally Isom, an advanced, even liberated, woman,
EDUCATOR/AUTHOR: Alta Gwinn Saunders,
is said to have smoked cigars (1879)!
1934-48, professor at University of Illinois where
No editor is likely to forget a 23-year old poetess
she expanded English into business studies, wrote
who was in 1934 the youngest Pulitzer prize winner
number of basic business English textbooks.
Audrey Wurdemann. Or the young woman who set
8/SUMMER 1976
THE ANCHORA OF DELTA GAMMA