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Elsa Denison 1889 ~
Miss Denison was born May 17, 1889, in
Denver, Colorado. She is the daughter of Dr. Denison and
granddaughter of Henry Strong, of Chicago, the well-known
philanthropist She was graduated in Bryn Mawr in June, 1910 and
immediately volunteered as a worker in the New York Bureau of
Municipal Research and has spent all her time in that important
work since her graduation. This one of the most important
progressive movements was started in New York by an organization
to be known as the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, whose
object is an investigation as to the benefit derived from the
co-operation of educational associations, women's clubs, boards
of trade, and charities with the public schools in the matters
of medical and dental examinations, school nurses, sanitary
improvements, new buildings, recreation and playgrounds,
decorations, industrial training, kindergartens, changes in
school laws, relief of the needy, instructions in civics and
many other things which will be conducive to the welfare of the
children destined to be the men and women of the near future.
In reply to their circulars begging for information the bureau
has had many interested responses and volunteer workers. Miss
Denison, though but twenty-two years of age, has been one of the
most effective workers under the bureau and will make a report
in September that will be valuable to the bureau in forming
plans for further activities. Miss Denison chose the problem of
"Civic Co-operation with the Public Schools," because of her
patriotic conviction that "upon the wise education of the child
today depends the efficiency of the citizen of tomorrow." To
have that education the best, every citizen must take an active
interest in the schools of his community.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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