Gertrude Sumner Ely

**Gertrude Sumner Ely** (20 ga Satumba, 1876 - 15 ga Oktoba, 1970) ta kasance mai ba da agaji ta Amurka, da ke zaune a 

Philadelphia . An yi mata ado saboda jaruntakarta a lokacin yakin duniya na .

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Gertrude Sumner Ely a ranar 20 ga Satumba, 1876, a Altoona, Pennsylvania, 'yar ta biyu ta Theodore Newell Ely (1846-1916) da Henrietta Van Siden Brandes Ely .  Mahaifinta ya kasance mai gudanarwa na layin dogo, a matsayin mataimakin shugaban Pennsylvania Railroad; ya kuma kasance darektan Kwalejin Fine Arts ta Pennsylvania . Mahaifiyarta ta mutu a shekara ta 1880; mahaifiyarta, Susanna Wierman, ta mutu a 1904. Babbar 'yar'uwarta Katrina Ely Tiffany (1875-1927) da ƙanwarta Henrietta Brandes Ely suma suna aiki a cikin aikin sufuri da yaƙi. Gertrude Ely ta kammala karatu daga Makarantar Baldwin a 1895  kuma daga Kwalejin Bryn Mawr a 1899  .

## Ayyuka

### Yaƙin Duniya na I
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 A lokacin yakin duniya na Ely da 'yar'uwarta Henrietta sun yi aiki tare da YMCA da American Red Cross a Faransa,  tare da Gertrude Ely da ke aiki da kantin abinci kusa da gaba. An bayyana aikinta a cikin asusun Katherine Mayo na 1920 game da gudummawar YMCA a cikin yakin:Gertrude Ely tana da mace mai sa'a. A cikin wannan flivver, a kan kalmar da za ta motsa, ta shirya abinci mai yawa, bututun abinci, bututun ruwa, cakulan, fiddle, wasu taswira, alamar Y ja triangle, rubutu takarda, tawada, kyandirori, nata gado, yawancin rashin daidaito da iyaka, da duk sigari da ke cikin ɗakin. Sa'an nan kuma ta fara dan kadan a gaban shafi.An yi imanin cewa ita ce mace ta farko ta Amurka da ta haye Rhine zuwa Jamus bayan sanya hannu kan armistice.[1][2] Ta sami Croix de Guerre, sau biyu, don jaruntaka a ƙarƙashin wuta. [3][4][5] Ely ta kasance kyaftin din kungiyar kwallon kwando ta mata wacce ta buga wa rundunonin sojojin Amurka wasa a Jamus da aka mamaye a shekarar 1919. [6] Ta raba wani wuri na girmamawa a cikin fareti na 1919 a New York, tare da 'yan uwan YMCA Mary Noel Arrowsmith, Frances Gulick, Ethel Creighton Torrance, da Marjorie Skelding.[7]

### Filadelfia
Ely ta kasance mai aiki a cikin kungiyoyin mata da al'adu da yawa; abokan aikinta sun hada da Shugaba William H. Taft,   Jane Addams,  'yar jarida Dorothy Thompson,  Albert Einstein,  da Uwargidan Shugaban kasa Eleanor Roosevelt. [4] Ta kasance shugabar Junior League na Philadelphia daga 1915 zuwa 1917.  Ta kasance shugabar reshen Pennsylvania na League of Women Voters,  kuma ta yi aiki a kwamitin kasa na League.  Ta kasance darektan ayyukan mata na Pennsylvania don Gudanar da Ayyuka.

Ta yi bazara a Tesuque, New Mexico, tana zaune a cikin gidan ado tare da abokinta na Bryn Mawr Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  wanda daga baya ya bayyana kasadarsu a cikin jerin Harper's Magazine, mai taken The Journal of a Mud House. 

Ely ya kasance wakili a taron Jam'iyyar Democrat na 1928. A shekara ta 1934 ta yi takarar majalisar dattijai ta jihar Pennsylvania .  A cikin shekarun 1950 ta yi sha'awar wakilcin shari'a ga kabilun 'yan asalin Amurka;  ta yi aiki a kan kwamitin National Association of American Indian Affairs .  A farkon yakin duniya na biyu, ta ba da abinci ga masu shiga a Camp Blanding a Florida, kuma ta rubuta wa abokinta Eleanor Roosevelt game da halin da iyalan Yahudawa na Jamus ke ciki.

Ely ta yi aiki a kwamitin zartarwa na UNICEF, kuma a cikin 1967 ta dauki bakuncin "Trick of Treat" na UNICEF a gidanta, Wyndham Barn, tana maraba da baƙi na Halloween da ke tattara gudummawa don aikin. Ta kasance mai kula da Orchestra na Philadelphia da Asibitin Bryn Mawr . Ta sami lambar yabo ta farko ta shekara-shekara ta Baldwin School Alumnae a shekarar 1967. A shekara ta 1968 an ba ta suna Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania . 

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Gertrude Sumner Ely ta mutu a Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a ranar 15 ga Oktoba, 1970, tana da shekaru 94.  Kwalejin Bryn Mawr ta ba da suna ga Ely. Ta ba da kyautar hotunan iyalinta ga Bryn Mawr . 

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