Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Flora Mackenzie Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Secretarial Studies. Simmons College, 1909-1911. Formerly: Private Secretary, 1911-1914. Societies: Simmons College Academy; New England Penmanship Association; Eastern Commercial Teachers ' Association. Kathleen Berger (Mrs.), Assistant Professor of Secretarial Studies. Bowling Green University, 191 6; Ohio State University, Summer School, 1915. Formerly: Sharon (Pennsylvania) College of Commerce, 1917-1910; State Teachers ' College, Fredericks- burg, Virginia, 1 911-1915; Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1915-192.6. Frederick George Nichols, Lecturer on Commercial haw. (Associate Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.) Genesee Wes- leyan Seminary, Lima, New York; Rochester Business Institute, Teacher-Training Department, Rochester, New York; Special Law Courses, University of Michigan. Formerly: Head of Commercial Department, Montpelier Seminary, Montpelier, Vermont, 1899-1901; Principal of Commercial Department, The Martin School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1901-1903; Head of Commercial Department, High School, Schenectady, New York, 1903-1904; Director of Commercial Education, Rochester, New York, 1905-1910 and 1911-1918; Director of Commercial Education, New York State Educational Department, Albany, New York, 1910-1911; Chief Commercial Education Serv- ice, Federal Board of Vocational Education, Washington, D. C, 1918-1911; Director of Commercial Education, State Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 19x1-1911. Societies: National Commercial Teachers ' Federation; Eastern Commercial Teachers ' Association (President, 1911); National Society for Vocational Education (Vice-President for Commercial Education, 1910-1911); National Education Association. Publications: Elementary Bookkeeping Exercises for Class Drill (co-author); Brief Course in Commercial Law; Principles of Bookkeeping and Firm Accounts; First Lessons in Business; Editor Commercial Department, National Vocational Education Magazine. Viola Grace Engler, Instructor in Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College, 1911. Formerly: Assistant in Secretarial Studies, Simmons College, 1911-1913; Instructor in Secretarial Studies, Simmons College, 1913-1914; Instructor in Secretarial Science, Skidmore College, 1914-1915. Society: Pi Gamma Mu. Isabella Margaret Kellock, Instructor in Secretarial Studies. A.B., Radcliffe College, 192.1; B.S., Simmons College, 192.5. Emily Sampson Shepard (Mrs.), Instructor in Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College, 192.3. Janet Smith, Instructor in Secretarial Studies. A.B., Smith College, 192.4. Formerly: Assistant Instructor in Secretarial Studies, Simmons College. On leave of absence. 27

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Secretarial Studies Today the candidate who applies for a position in a business office must demonstrate first of all her technical ability. Before she is promoted to an executive position she must show in ad- dition, general knowledge, initiative, and willingness to assume responsibility. The courses in the School of Secretarial Studies are designed with these two main objects in view — to provide a sound equipment along technical lines and a basic education in cultural subjects. Edward Eldridge Edward Henry Eldridge, Professor of Secretarial Studies and Director of the School of Secretarial Studies. A.M., Temple University, 1903; Ph.D., Temple University, 1907; Special work in Psychology at University of Chi- | cago, University of Pennsylvania, Clark University; I two years at Amherst College. R B fl Formerly: Stenographer in a business house; Secretary to President I W k ' B i Conwell, Temple University; Professor of Psychology, Temple Uni- I . j versity; Director of School of Business, Temple University. j V LJ i Publications: Hypnotism, 1901; Shorthand Dictation Exercises, 1909; Ex- I • j pert Typewriting (co-author with Miss Rose L. Fritz), 1911; Business I I - 1 . f . | Speller, 1913; Essentials of Expert Typewriting (co-author with Miss I . -i H I Fritz and Miss Craig), 1919; New Shorthand Dictation Exercises (assisted | ' HI ! by Robert M. Gay), 1912.. Societies: Delta Upsilon; formerly President of the Eastern Commercial Teachers ' Association; formerly Vice-president of the National Shorthand Reporters ' Association, Honorary Member of Pennsylvania Shorthand Reporters ' Association, New York State Shorthand Reporters ' Association, Massachusetts Chapter National Shorthand Reporters ' Association. Wallace Manah an Turner, Professor of Accountancy. A.B., Harvard University, 1891; A.M., Harvard University, 1896. Formerly: Teacher in Worcester High School, 1891-1896; Volkmann School, Boston, 1896-1909; English High, Providence, Rhode Island, 1909-1918. Helen Goller Adams (Mrs.), Assistant Professor of Secretarial Studies. A.B., Wellesley College; B.S., Simmons College. Society: Eastern Commercial Teachers ' Association. Jennie Blakeney Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College. Society: Simmons College Academy. Eula Gertrude Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Secretarial Studies. A.B., Wellesley College; B.S., Simmons College. Society: Eastern Commercial Teachers ' Association. 26

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Agnes Elizabeth Conwell, Assistant in Secretarial Studies. A.B., Wellesley, 1914; B.S., Simmons College, igz6. Formerly: Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston. Societies: Agora Society of Wellesley; Boston Wellesley Club; Coenonia Club of Somerville. Tilly Svenson Dickinson (Mrs.), Instructor in Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College, 1919. Formerly: Instructor in Secretarial Studies, St. Margaret ' s Merreser Division, C. L. T., 1919-192.0. Elizabeth Walton, Instructor in Secretarial Studies. B.B.A., Boston University, 19x0; Simmons College, 1913. Formerly: Instructor at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Instructor at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Secretary to Assistant Comptroller of Harvard University. Societies: Delta Mu Delta, Boston University. Hazel Ruth Northbridge, Assistant in Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College, 1916. Formerly: Maiden Commercial School, Maiden. Dorothy May Ford, Assistant in Secretarial Studies. B.S., Simmons College, 1918. Helena Veronica O ' Brien, Lecturer on Comtnercial Law. B.S., Simmons College, 1914. 28