Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
DOLLEGE WOMEN
/ START TRAINING
Course at Bryn Mawr to
Prepare for Supervisory
Positions
VAR CREATES NEED
Eight Alumnae of Big Educa.
tional Institutions Are
S Registered
VAR CREATES NEED

When the first course at Bryn Mawr
COLLEGE designed to prepare women for
supervisory positions In industry opened
To-Day there were eight students pres
ent. There is room for two more.
The work will continue in progress
throughout the summer and during the
fall.S The students are limited to ten
bach for three groups. the first of which
oagin the course today the second to
begin October 1 and the third February
II. 1919.
Scholarships of 5000 each were pre-
eented by the National Young womens
christian Association to make these
eourses possible. It is estimated that
the full cost will be $500.
Those registering for the course are
alumnae of leading universities and coll
leges. Some have been teachers and
others have had practical experience in
business or social welfare work.
The present course prepares them to
act as supervisors of womcn's work. in
sestigators of industrial problems affect
Ing women. as factory inspectors. en-
sployment managers. welfare supernten-
dents and as group leaders among
workers of their own sex.
War Creates Need
A need for trained workers of this
courses will be eight months in length
and will be conducted under the super
Vision of DR.. Susan Myra Kingsbury.
head of tho economies department of
Bryn Mawr. The first group will spend
q month in study at Bryn Mawr, in the
meantime making investigations in the
various industrial plants of Philadelphia
In cooperation with the STATE Depart
ment of Labor and Industry.
I..n..
lecturer on statistics at Wellesley, and
assistant In social economics at Harvard,
the ten women will spend one month in
New England factories doing field work.
returning here in the autumn to continue
their studies at. Bryn Mawr. Miss
Bezanson's headquarters in New Eng
And from which she will direct the
work will be at Cambridge. Later in
the summer Doctor Kingsbury will also
visit parts of New England in which the
group will be making factory investiga-
tions
BY pursuing the courses outlined II is
designed to equip thirty women within
the year to fill the vacancies constantly
erising In employment management
branches.
Begin Course Today
Already registered as students. the fol.
lowing women arrived at Bryn Mawr to-
day fer their introduction to the course:
Miss Elizabeth Hays, of st. Louis,
smith College, A. B.. teacher for four
years in Mary Institute. st. Louis, and
. student of vocational work at Har-
ward summer school. She has done much
club work. dealing with problems Of in.
dustry. and In SO doing has already had
experience through contact with work.
Ing women
Miss Bessie Pritz. of Boston. Mass,
graduate Of the University of Nashville
and of Columbia School of Architecture !:
has practiced architecture and Is a stu.
dent Of labor conditions.
Miss Margaret Elliott, Of Lowell
Mass, A. B., Wellesley College, and
graduate student of Radcliffe the last
year; specializing in labor questions
She had one year OF experience.
Miss Harriet Herring. Cambridge
Mass, Meredith College A. B. and gradu-
ate student at Radcliffe College two
years. A. NJ. 1918; also, summer school
student at University of California and
of the University of North Carolina
Miss Byrd A. Wall. Twin Falls, Idaho ;
A. b. Idaho University.
Miss Lorna Dietz. Milwaukee; DoYner
A. B. ; student of the University of Wis
consin and research fellowship in the
Womens Industrial and Educational
Union; teacher three Years.
Miss Marian Boalt, Norwalk, o., Lake
Erie College A. B.; student at Mount
Holyoke College three years; four years
business experience and for eight years
conducted Industrial Investigations.
Miss Naomi Light, Lawrence. Kan. {;
teacher of economics six years.