Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-08
SOCIAL WORKERS FILE
INTERESTING REPORT
Maintain Settlement House and Homo
for Girls on South Beech
Street.
THIRTY CLUBS AND CLASSES
Settlement Worker Reports 3lS Visits
Made and as Families Investigated.
Special Glasses for Training of Col
Ored Girls as Nurse Maids.

Worthy progress in the cnicavor OF
the social workers OF the Nurses Set
Element was made during the past
year. according to the annual report
just issued by Miss Kathleen Graham
Anderson. president. The social work
crs have co-opcratcd and coordinate
ed much OF their work with the In
structive Visiting Nurses Association,
and the Nurses settlement has thereby
become Il stronger power for good.
year ago last October the settle
ment House. 81 South Beech street, was
opened to fill the need for boarding
homes for girls receiving small sala-
rics, and to enable the organization to
carry on clubs, classes and other set
Element activities. Icy tho excellent
management of the social workers and
Miss Roller" the report states. the
house has been economically and sue
cessfully carried on" The home has
accommodations FOR eight girls and for
the social worker and Miss Roller
Many applications are refused because
there is not enough room.
THIRTY CLUBS AND CLASSES
WITH NIEMBERSIIIP OF .05
There are now thirty clubs and
classes. with a membership of 205.
blanche Bullock. the colored nurse Of
the ]. V. y. a.. conducts two of these
classes in domestic trainin. for col
orcd women. In this way forty colorcd
women have been able to gain prac-
teal instruction. Much praise is given
to Mrs. NJ. W. Schneider. who has
charge of the settlement House She
has done excellent work, the report
says, in investigating cases. and has
been able to adjust some difficult stu
atoms. She has been called on by
twenty organizations and many indi-
viduals to cooperate with them in
case work.
The auxiliary of the I. V. y. a. has
a library at the settlement House, and
a kindergartcn is conducted by the
Richmond kindergarten Association
and the social workers OF the Nurses
settlement.
Mrs Schncidcr. the social worker.
reports, from October 3 to February |,
when she was in charge. that she made
34S visits in all sections Of the city,
and that scvcnjy-ive families were in
vcstisatcd. She has co-opcrated with
all the charitable organizations in
Richmond. She makes especial men
ton Of the two classes taught by the
colored nurse.
There are forty members of these
classes, and these young colored girls
are being taught the care of the in
FAINT. the preparation of food ana the
care OF the eyes and mouth. Mention
is also made OF the Lucy Mason Gym
aasium Club" which pays fees and fur
nishcS gymnasium outfit for ten girls,
eight of whom are living in the Set
tlcmcnt House. The home conducts a
uiEht school at Madison School, and
has Il social dance every Saturday
night from $40 to 1920.
Mrs. Schneider says: I'm reporting
the work of the Settlement House,
feel that the most important part of
my work is boing done here. The in
ducnce of this home is more far-rcach-
ing than all else the social worker has
TO do For after all the home is the
place we must begin TO build for any
permanent good to any community,
and if the girls who go out from this
home are taught the true meaning Of
home we have accomplished great
work. There have been twenty girls
in the Settlement House. The first
year we could accommodate only six.
This winter, with the addition of three
beds, we were able to accommodate
nine. AS YOU know. the social worker
is houscmother and housckccpcr. for
the Settlement House is home, not Il
boarding house"
GIRLS IN HOME PAY
PART or MAINTENANCE COST
The girls pay $3.50 per week if lunch
is provided, and 50 if lunch is not pro-
vided. The social workers pay house
rent, for fuel and light. y fourteen
ycar-old girl has been maintained in
the home free Of charge, and she was
enabled to attend school.
The officers Of the association are:
president, Miss Kathleen Graham An
derson; vicc-prcsidcnt, Mrs. w. Russell
Bowie: secretary, Mrs. w NJ. Hablis-
ton: assistant secretary, Mrs. Philip st.
George Cooke; treasurer, Mrs. l.. ID.
Lipscomb; social worker, Mrs. Mary
Whitehead Schneider.
The electors are rs follows: Mrs. w.
MrG
X. IL. Harwood. Mrs. e. b. Valentine,
Mrs. Austin Burr. Mrs. Cunningham
iiall. Mrs. Il. L. Causcy, Mrs. George Il.
Bull, Miss y. J. Minor. Miss Florence
Black, Miss Lucy Witt. Miss pattie
Cary. Miss Sarah il. Roller, Miss Sue
Herring, Miss Kate Biankenship, Miss
Ressie Catlin. Miss Blanche MacIntyre,
Mrs. @. MilLuE Mcrcsr a nd Mrs Gnrlnn