Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-01-19

ed, educated man." asked of the
legislature that the law be amended.
This was accordingly done, to the eff
open to female as well as male stu
dents under such regulations as the
board Of regents may deem proper"
The board, however, never acted in
the matter of formulating rules that
would interfere with co-education and
mo one sought to make or enforce such
regulations. Yet, along much later,
. in 1898 and 1899, some members Of
1.-THE faculty, coming mainly from the
east, proceeded to put into effect,
without authority from the regents,
the doctrine Of Segregation
separate classes for men from those
! for women. When this action became
known to the older alumnae some of
them felt that a great injustice had
been wrought, and they made open
Olin led this fight which ended in the
regents adopting resolutions forbid
ding segregation. This was follow
ed by an amendment of the statutes
by the legislature of 1909, providing
that "all schools and colleges Of the
university Shall, in their respective
departments and class exercises, be
open without distinction to students
of both sexes"
Mrs. Olin also managed the con-
test in the same legislature for in
creased representation of women on
the board of regents and carried a
bill through for the appointment Of
two women. Up to that time there
had been but one woman member
The controversy over segregation
in colleges and universities led Mrs.
DIN to make an exhaustive investiga-
ton Of the whole subject, and the re-
suits were incorporated in an i'm
polling volume Of some three hundred
pages, entitled '"The Women of a
University, published in 1909 by the
Sons, New York City.
Another notable achievement by
Mrs. DIN was in connection with the
late war as the head of a committee
of women who collected and forward
ed to France and Belgium second
hand garments. She personally ex-
amined and packed over 10000 sep
arate pieces of clothing as we'll as
many that had not been used, and
also superintendent the shipping OF
much uncut cloth.
| In 1894 President Charles Kendall
Adams was requested by "Woman's
Progress" an important periodical
published in Philadelphia, to desig-
nate some one who would write an ar
ticle on the subject of Coeducation
in the Wisconsin State University and
quite naturally he selected Mrs.
DIN. Her article, of ten instructive
and convincing pages, appeared in
the September issue of that year. Fol-
lowing the university in all it's de-
velopment and expansion, she con-
cluded that those among the leading
alumni of the university, who in ear
ly days regarded co-education as
doubtful experiment. now lose no
opportunity of publicly testifying to
their conversion; and Mrs. Olin
added, discussing the benefit to the
sexes Of sharing equal educational
advantages, that it is no less de-
sirable because, in the natural
relations preserved without Interrupt
ton to children as they grow up to
young manhood and womanhood may
be found their best defense from
false ideals, and their best safeguard
to intelligent and wholesome views
Of life.''
She was a charter member of the
Madison Woman's Club and leader in
it's activities for many years, and she
also was one of the founders Of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, the
first girls secret organization at the
university 1t was under her inspira-
ton and auspices that the sorority
erected it's own home, and for many
years she was president of the chap
ter house association. The house was
free of debt as soon as completed,
and, due to Mrs. OIin's wholesome
impetus through the earlier years,
it never has failed since to net fair
returns upon the capital invested.
The Kappa house was the first own
ed by young women of the university.
3. = 3.
Mrs. DIN was born at Baraboo on
June II, 1854, and was educated in
the public schools of this city, at
the Baraboo Female seminary, and
at Mrs. Helen Brace Norton's private
school in Taylor's hall, corner OF
Third avenue and Broadway. Then,
finishing her course of four years
brilliantly at the university, she re-
turned to Baraboo and taught in the
hiCh aahnCI for throo I'm TrDo