Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
By Ruth Deem

A blue-eye0 re0neao, WITH q
big friendly smile and q warm
handshake is the new director
of the Hannah Harrison School.
resident vocational school for
women on Macarthur boulevard.
She is Miss Genevieve E. Poole,
and already. since her appoint
ment a little more than q month
ago, Washington YWCA officials
who administer the school say
she is making the place like
home" for its student residents.
A native Iowan, with a varied
background that would be the
envy Of any career woman, Miss
Poole considers her new job of
administering the only school Of
its kind in the world IAN in
spring and challenging" one.
She feels that her extensive
personnel experience in educa-
ton, government and industry
has readied her for the job. The
schools curriculum covers four
f1elds-instisutional housekeep-
ing, clothing construction and
alterations, commercial foods
and business training.
The school was founded by
the late julius Garflnckel, prom
inent business leader, who be-
queathed his estate to the YWCA
for "a school and home in which
worthy women dependent upon
their own efforts for their liveli-
hood may obtain proper training
IN useful arts and industries" :
The school is situated on seven
rolling acres overlooking the
Potomac, and no comfort has
been spared to make the students
feel "at home" during their five
month stay there.
The study program is designed
so that the courses are geared
to the individuals progress. A
student may take as little or as
much time as she needs to learn
thoroughly the new field she has
chosen.
Experienced Personnel Worker
Since this calls for the high
est type of personnel manage
ment, Miss Poole thinks her
experience in education and in
dustry will be Of great help, plus
the fact she just naturally "likes
people"
The daughter of a Methodist
minister, now in his Dos and still
active, Miss Poole learned early
how to meet people and help
them.
She also knew what she
wanted to do with her life at
an age when most young people
are still undecided.
II was always active in church
affairs and young peoples or
CARNATIONS, and when I entered
college, I somehow always knew
in the back of my mind that
Someday I would be a dean of
women" she said in a simple
appraisal of her girlhood ambi-
ton.
The ambition was realized not
many years later.
After taking her undergradu-
ate and graduate work at Iowa
Wesleyan College and Iowa State
University. she headed the Eng
fish department at the Keokuk
Uowa) High School. Then she
was summoned as dean of wom-
en- at Connecticut State Teach
ers College. Five year later. she
went to Lockhaven, Pa, to I'LL
the same post at the State
Teachers College there.
While in Lockhaven, she
served as a psychologist at the
Juvenile Court Clinic.
When World War II began she
resigned her position and &C
copied the post of Chief of EN-
ploye Relations for the Surgeon
Generals Office of the United
States Army. Field work took
her to Army hospitals all over
the country.
For a job well done, she re-
ceived the Army'S MeritoriouS
Civilian Service Award.
The war over, Miss Poole de-
cided to try her hand at private
industry personnel work, and be-
came a member of the research
staff of Woodward and Lothrop,
a job she held until she was
tapped for the Hannah Harrison
School dictatorship.
FeIIowships Offered
AS one Of her first duties, Miss
n4olo ranaof11y aN~AY1noAI that