Evening journal., 1922-07-19
MISS HART TO
LEAVE THE CITY
Accepts Position as Head of
sEast Side Settlement
House
MISS HARTSHORN
TO BE SUCCESSOR

The Bureau OF Americanization
OF the Delaware Service Citizens,
which was organized four years ago
' by Miss Helen Hart, is TO lose its
organizer and leader. Miss Hart
leaves in the fall to become head
of an East Side Settlement House,
in New York city The local bureau
Will be in charge Of Miss Grace
Hartshorn. who is at present secI
reSzry of the Bureau.
Miss Hart came to Delaware four
wears ago and organized the local
Americanization Bureau. She had
zx years experience in social work
Of various kinds before coming to
Wilmington.
: The daughter OF a prominent So
&al worker. Miss Hart has been in
rerested in and familiar with well
fare work since childhood, and al
shough she did not chose an eco
homie or sociological course while
IN college, she spent her vacations
as a volunteer worker at a fresh
air camp, maintained by three set
lement houses of New York City.
Miss Hart is a graduate Of Mt. Holy
oke College, where she took as her
major subjects. English and history.
After her graduation she went to
Canada to assist in the organization
II chain OF settlement houses which
Mss Sarah Libby Carson was es-
tablishing. The work was financed
by the Board OF Social and Moral
Reform of Canada.
a.. hna a arlf a r
OF Headquarters House in Toronto,
a position of unusual responsibility
for girl just out of college, and for
i've years held that position, and di-
rected the training school of execu-
tive workers, which was one Of the
principal features OF the work at
he Toronto House. II came TO know
5he foreign problem at first hand, "
Miss Hart says. from those years
when / was one myself, and when
the highest compliment received
was rare. Well, you seem like
Canadian"
In 1917 Miss Hart. not wishing 20
remain longer away from the United
States. came to Christadora House in
New York In the fall OF 1918. after
Miss Esther Lape had been called to
Delaware by the National Defense
Council to investigate the immigra-
non situation here. and had recon-
nended that an immigration Blu
reau be opened, Miss Hart was in
fitted to come TO Delaware to or
ssnize a bureau. which was then
naintained by the National Defense
Council.
The armistice was signed few
weeks later. the National Defense
Council went out of existence, and
the bureau was taken over by Della
ware Service Citizens.
Under Miss Hart's direction Il has
Developed and turned over to the
state Department Of Immigrant Ed
.ucation a completely organized bu-
reau OF community Amer. .anization;
"a has co-operated with the State De-
partment OF Immigrant Education in
Studying the needs OF immigrants in
rural sections OF Delaware. and it
has -developed a trouble bureau that
reaches about 1920 foreign families
year.
TN work OF Miss Hart and the !
Bureau OF Service /
Citizens has won recognition
tllnoughout the country. Miss Hart
has recently returned from cam
br dge. Mass, where she delivered |
week OF lectures OF the
AUGMENTATION course OF the sum
mef School OF Harvard University.
MISS Hart's father is Hastings II.
HaSf of White Plains, n. Y. She is
T,,ece Of Albert Bushnell Hart. pro- |
fessor Of History at Harvard Uni
sersfty.