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Oberlin Symposium On Occupations for Women January 29, 1945
NOON CHAPEL- “Women in the Business World” Mrs. Alice L. Williams, Personnel Manager for Women, TIME Inc., New York, N.Y. (formerly Employment Manager of Lord and Taylor, New York)
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS 1) Baldwin – 2:00 – Ruth Hinners, student leader PERSONNEL IN BUSINESS Mrs. Alice L. Williams PERSONNEL IN INDUSTRY Mrs. Bess Barr LeBedoff,[1] Personnel Director, The American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio 2) Baldwin – 3:00- Mab Buck, student leader
SECRETARIAL WORK Miss. Eloise Buck, Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, New York, N.Y.[2] OPPORTUNITIES IN BUSINESS FOR WOMEN MAJORING IN LANGUAGES Mrs. Doris Maxwell Permar, secretary to the foreign export director of the Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. ACCOUNTING AND CIVIL SERVICE Mrs. Marian Frye, certified public accountant, Cleveland BANKING IN FINANCE Miss. Clara Westropp, president of the Women’s Federal Savings and Loan Co, Cleveland 3) Elmwood – 4:30 – Jeanne Hunt, student leader INTERIOR DECORATING Mrs. Mary Howell, Department of Interior Decorating, Sterling and Welch, Cleveland MERCHANDISING Mrs. Gertrude Van Wormer, Buyer of Infants’ Wear, Halle’s, Cleveland
PANEL DISCUSSION – 8:00 – Warner Concert Hall “MARRIAGE AND A JOB” Mrs. Edward Lorenz, moderator, Marriage and Family Counseling, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Mrs. Arthur K. Doolittle,[3] Charles M. Hail [Hall] research instructor in chemistry, Oberlin College Mrs. Herbert Van Meter,[4] Executive Secretary, Oberlin-Shansi Memorial Association Mrs. Orin Purintun, member of the Junior class, Oberlin College
Sponsored by the W. S. G. L.[5] Carol Kemper, president Kathleen Denman, chairman |
[1] Bess Barr LeBedoff (1897-1977) worked in shipbuilding during the War. She was a Cleveland League of Women Voters trustee, Cleveland Metropolitan YWCA director, and Women’s City Club member (Recollections from the Archives: Bess Barr LeBedoff, Case Western University Archives, 2011, Source)
[2] The Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School was first of its kind, founded in 1911, it became known for training thousands of young female secretaries. It allowed women access to skills in order to get a job. (Abby Ellin, “The Gloves are Definitely Gone at Katharine Gibbs Schools,” The New York Times, 15 September 2002, accessed 29 July 2016, Source).
[3] Dortha Bailey Doolittle graduated from Oberlin College in 1918. She was born in Oberlin and attended Oberlin High School. She taught chemistry from 1918 to 1970, with a hiatus from 1954 to 1958 when she researched with Union Carbide Chemicals Company (Phil Tear, “Hudson Scholarships and How They Grew,” Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Fall 1979, accessed 16 August 2016, Source).
[4] Josephine Van Meter was Executive Secretary of Oberlin-Shansi Memorial Association from 1944 to 1946. She was also a YWCA instructor (Herbert and Josephine Van Meter Papers, Oberlin College Archives, accessed 15 August 2016, Source).
[5] Women’s Self-Government League, a student organization active from 1944 to 1958.
