Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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EMI LIE J. HUTCHINSON On Wednesday, January 12, 1938, at half past one in the morning. Professor Emilie J. Hutchinson suddenly succumbed, leaving family, and friends stunned by shock and grief. She had worked in her office, as frequently she did. until past eleven o ' clock. Now that she is gone, it is Professor Hutchin- son herself who helps us carry on without her. She had long set the example of meeting life and its emergencies with spirit and courage. Problems which appeared insurmountable she faced with integrity and imagination, always with warmth and magnanimity toward those in- volved. These are the qualities which fortify and stimulate us in the attempt to make them live, after her, in the College and the depart- ment to which she gave nearly half of her life. Miss Hutchinson was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. October 3, 1877. As a girl, she lived for several years in an English boarding school. Her high school education began in the North- field Seminary in Massachusetts, which she left in the middle of the course. After three years she decided to follow her mother ' s profession, teaching. With this resolution she visited Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, request- ing to be admitted without examinations. Her ability being recognized, formalities were waived, and she was permitted to enter on her own terms. Professor Robert von Nardroff and Dr. Herbert Lowe, directed her to a liberal arts college instead of a teachers ' training school, recognizing her potentialities. This timely guid- ance revealed to her how important a teacher is to his students. When the year was up Miss Hutchinson not only was graduated, but also received the title of Brooklyn Scholar under the award of a competitive scholarship which she held throughout her course at Barnard College. As a student at Barnard, Miss Hutchinson soon became a leader. She was elected president of her Sophomore class, editor-in-chief of Mortar- board, and president of the Undergraduate As- sociation. Graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors, she became an instructor at Mount Hol- yoke and at Wellesley for five years, both insti- tutions offering her permanent posts. Then her Alma Mater invited her to return to fill the first position ever offered to a woman in the Eco- nomics Department. Here she was active and full of plans up to the last hour of her life. While teaching, Professor Hutchinson took her doctorate at Columbia University, writing her dissertation on Women ' s Wages. She sat on the important administrative committees of Bar- nard College, and was Chairman of the Adminis- trative Board of the Barnard Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. For six years she was Chairman of the Committee on Fellowship Awards of the American Association of Uni- versity Women. In 1917 she received a year ' s leave of absence to become Manager of the Inter- collegiate Bureau of Occupations, investigating under their auspices the education and profes- sional experience of more than one thousand women who had received the Ph.D. degree from American universities since 1877. This work was published in 1929 by the Institute of Women ' s Professional Relations. In 1921 Miss Hutchinson received the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Fellowship for a year ' s study abroad. In recent years her professional interests cen- tered upon problems of the consumer in modern society and she was engaged in writing a book on this subject. At a meeting of the Faculty on January 24th, Dean Gildersleeve read from the Minutes as follows: The Faculty of Barnard College records its profound sorrow at the loss of Emilie J. Hutch- inson, a graduate of Barnard in the Class of 1905, Associate Professor of Economics, Chair- man of the Department of Economics and Social Science, for twenty-five years a member of the teaching staff of the College. While she was an undergraduate, Miss Hutchinson ' s clear intelligence, sound judgment, strength of character, and power of leadership were already manifest in her direction of our student government. During her long service as an officer of the college she was an excellent teacher, and a competent scholar in her field of work, a wise counsellor and friend of her stu- dents, and a sound and influential leader of opinion in faculty deliberations, an able and farsighted administrator of an important department. But above all she is remembered for the perfect scholarly integrity of her mind and character, for her unselfish devotion to her work, and for the warm humanity of her spirit. These traits won for her the deep respect and affection of her colleagues. After the reading of this tribute, President Butler rose and the faculty stood with him for a moment ' of silence. Elizabeth Faulkner Baker.

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TRUSTEES Nicholas Murray Butler 60 Morningside Drive Mrs. Alfred Meyer 1225 Park Avenue Mrs. Ogden Reid 15 East 84th Street Miss Mabel Choate 770 Park Avenue James R. Sheffield 45 East 67th Street Lucius H. Beers 131 East 62nd Street Mrs. Henry Wise Miller 450 East 52nd Street Gano Dunn 80 Broad Street Mrs. Alfred Hess 875 Park Avenue Pierre Jay 236 East 68th Street Harry Emerson Fosdick 606 West 122nd Street Winthrop W. Aldrich 15 East 78th Street F. Bayard Rives 1021 Park Avenue Frederick Rhinelander King 52 East 92nd Street Mrs. Eugene Meyer 1624 Crescent Place, Washington, D. C. Lindsay Bradford 800 Park Avenue Francis Plimpton 1165 Fifth Avenue Duncan H. Read 320 East 72nd Street Mrs. William Duffy 443 West 162nd Street Walter D. Fletcher 520 East 86th Street Dave Hennen Morris 19 East 70th Street Miss Mabel Parsons 230 Central Park West Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger 5 East 80th Street ADMINISTRATION Mabel F. Weeks Assistant to the Dean — Social Affairs Mary McBride Assistant to the Dean — Social Affairs Mary V. Libby. . Assistant to the Dean — Admissions, Information Helen P. Abbott Assistant to the Dean — Residence Halls Katharine S. Doty Assistant to the Dean — Occupation Bureau Helen Erskine Assistant to the Dean — Outside Contacts Helen K. Stevens Assistant to the Dean Anna E. H. Meyer Registrar Emily G. Lambert Bursar John J. Swan Comptroller Gulielma F. Alsop College Physician Bertha L. Rockwell Librarian Frederick A. Goetze Treasurer of the University Raymond C. Knox Chaplain of the University William C. McCastline University Medical Officer

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ANTHROPOLOGY Gladys Reichard Assistant Professor Kate S. Peck Assistant BOTANY Edmund W. Sinnott Professor Tracy Elliot Hazen Associate Professor Cornelia L. Carey Assistant Professor Elizabeth Jacobs Assistant Vivian V. Trombetta Assistant Elizabeth A. Bindlass Assistant Marion E. Richards Lecturer CELTIC John Lawrence Geric Professor CHEMISTRY Marie Reimer Professor Eleanor Keller Associate Professor Evelyn E. Behrens Instructor Helen R. Downes Instructor Lucia S. Fisher Lecturer Anne Litzinger Lecturer ECONOMICS Robert E. Chaddock Professor Emilie J. Hutchinson Associate Professor Elizabeth Faulkner Baker Assistant Professor Arthur D. Gayer Assistant Professor Clara Eliot Lecturer Katherine Finney Assistant ENGLISH William Haller Professor William Tenney Brewster Professor George Sherburn Professor Hoxie N. Fairchild Associate Professor Minor W. Latham Associate Professor Clare M. Howard Assistant Professor W. Cabell Greet Assistant Professor Elizabeth Reynard Assistant Professor Ethel Sturtevant Assistant Professor Mabel Foote Weeks Associate Jane Dorsey Zimmerman Associate Roderick Dhu Marshall Instructor Lorn a F. McGuire Instructor Louise M. Rosenblatt Instructor Mary Morris Seals Instructor Peter Monro Jack Lecturer Constance E. Smith Assistant FINE ARTS AND ARCHEOLOGY Margarete Bieber Associate Professor Marion Lawrence Assistant Professor Marian N a Byram Instructor Julius Held Instructor Jane Gaston Lecturer