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Yale University Obituary Record
dent 1935-45), Civic Protective Association
(later Girls' Service of New Haven, Inc ;
president 1931-38, vice-president 1938-42),
Girls' Recreation Guild (now City Recreation Center), Farnum-Neighborhood
House, Good Will Industries, Inc (director 1937-45), and Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, president Connecticut
Conference of Social Work 1928, appeared
before House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to urge passing of Newton Bill, creating child welfare extension
service in US Children's Bureau 1929,
member White House Conference on Child
Health and Protection convened by President Hoover 1930, founder, and member
Children's Building Commission (New
Haven) 1917-45 (board of education representative and chairman house committee, with sister, Mary Elizabeth Whittelsey
Bernen, gave building in memory of parents) , member executive committee New
Haven chapter American Red Cross and
an organizer and president Junior Red
Cross in New Haven schools during World
War I, helped to establish junior high
schools, nutritional work and training in
public schools, and visiting teacher service
in pubhc schools and in juvenile courts,
New Haven, director Grace Hospital Society and New Haven Council of Social
Agencies, on advisory committee Dixwell
Community House 1929, trustee Wellesley
College 1924-37, chairman New Haven
Committee on Seven Women's Colleges,
member National Probation Association,
American Association of University
Women, New Haven League of Women
Voters, Connecticut State League of
Women Voters, National League of
Women Voters (national chairman Child
Welfare Division), and First Ecclesiastical
Society of New Ha\en and Center Church
(Congregational), New Haven
Married June 22, 1905, in New Haven,
Professor Percy Talbot Walden (PhB
1892, PhD 1896), son of Daniel Treadwell and Caroline Amelia Sterns (Williams) Walden, and brother of Russell
Walden, '74, and Howard T Walden, '81
Children Sarah Scovill (BA Wellesley
1928, Yale Graduate School 1928-30), the
wife of Richmond Hodges Curtiss (B A
Umv Vermont 1929, MF Yale 1931),
and Joseph Whittelsey, '34 S Professor
Walden died April 15, 1943
Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes
interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New
Haven Survived by children, six grandchildren, and a sister, Mary Elizabeth
Whittelsey Berrien (Cert Yale School of
the Fine Arts 1898), the wife of Rear Admiral Frank Dunn Berrien, U S N (B S
United States Naval Academy 1900
[1937]), of New Haven
JOHN DORSEY WOLCOTT
PH D 1898
Born May 17, 1871, in Penn Yan, N Y
Died November 23, 1945, in Washington,
DC
Father, John Dorsey Wolcott, a lawyer
in Penn Yan, district attorney of Yates
County one term, son of Dr Walter Wolcott and Abigail (Cornwell) Wolcott of
Dundee, NY Mother, Caroline (Corn-
well) Wolcott, daughter of Dr Wilham
Cornwell and Sarah (Chidsey) Cornwell
of Penn Yan
B A University of Wisconsin 1895 (member Phi Beta Kappa) and MA 1896, M A
Cornell University 1897, graduate student
in classical languages and literatures Yale
University 1897-98 (PhD. 1898), instructor and librarian Classical Library, University of Chicago, 1900-05, assistant Librarian of Congress, Washington, 1905-09,
librarian and director of library extension,
US Bureau of Education, 1909-28 (library specialist in Bureau's survey of Rutgers University 1926), curator of catalogues, Library of Congress, 1928 until
retirement 1941, consultant in private research 1941-45, author of many articles in
publications of U S Bureau of Education,
National Society for the Study of Education, and various library associations, editor of book review page in School Life
1912-28, historian District of Columbia
chapter Sons of the Amencan Revolution
and Society of the War of 1812, member
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Library Association, Bibliographical Society of America,
Masonic order, and First Congregational
Object Description
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1945-1950 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1945-1950 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
Description
| Title | Page 180 |
| Transcript | i8o Yale University Obituary Record dent 1935-45), Civic Protective Association (later Girls' Service of New Haven, Inc ; president 1931-38, vice-president 1938-42), Girls' Recreation Guild (now City Recreation Center), Farnum-Neighborhood House, Good Will Industries, Inc (director 1937-45), and Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, president Connecticut Conference of Social Work 1928, appeared before House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to urge passing of Newton Bill, creating child welfare extension service in US Children's Bureau 1929, member White House Conference on Child Health and Protection convened by President Hoover 1930, founder, and member Children's Building Commission (New Haven) 1917-45 (board of education representative and chairman house committee, with sister, Mary Elizabeth Whittelsey Bernen, gave building in memory of parents) , member executive committee New Haven chapter American Red Cross and an organizer and president Junior Red Cross in New Haven schools during World War I, helped to establish junior high schools, nutritional work and training in public schools, and visiting teacher service in pubhc schools and in juvenile courts, New Haven, director Grace Hospital Society and New Haven Council of Social Agencies, on advisory committee Dixwell Community House 1929, trustee Wellesley College 1924-37, chairman New Haven Committee on Seven Women's Colleges, member National Probation Association, American Association of University Women, New Haven League of Women Voters, Connecticut State League of Women Voters, National League of Women Voters (national chairman Child Welfare Division), and First Ecclesiastical Society of New Ha\en and Center Church (Congregational), New Haven Married June 22, 1905, in New Haven, Professor Percy Talbot Walden (PhB 1892, PhD 1896), son of Daniel Treadwell and Caroline Amelia Sterns (Williams) Walden, and brother of Russell Walden, '74, and Howard T Walden, '81 Children Sarah Scovill (BA Wellesley 1928, Yale Graduate School 1928-30), the wife of Richmond Hodges Curtiss (B A Umv Vermont 1929, MF Yale 1931), and Joseph Whittelsey, '34 S Professor Walden died April 15, 1943 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by children, six grandchildren, and a sister, Mary Elizabeth Whittelsey Berrien (Cert Yale School of the Fine Arts 1898), the wife of Rear Admiral Frank Dunn Berrien, U S N (B S United States Naval Academy 1900 [1937]), of New Haven JOHN DORSEY WOLCOTT PH D 1898 Born May 17, 1871, in Penn Yan, N Y Died November 23, 1945, in Washington, DC Father, John Dorsey Wolcott, a lawyer in Penn Yan, district attorney of Yates County one term, son of Dr Walter Wolcott and Abigail (Cornwell) Wolcott of Dundee, NY Mother, Caroline (Corn- well) Wolcott, daughter of Dr Wilham Cornwell and Sarah (Chidsey) Cornwell of Penn Yan B A University of Wisconsin 1895 (member Phi Beta Kappa) and MA 1896, M A Cornell University 1897, graduate student in classical languages and literatures Yale University 1897-98 (PhD. 1898), instructor and librarian Classical Library, University of Chicago, 1900-05, assistant Librarian of Congress, Washington, 1905-09, librarian and director of library extension, US Bureau of Education, 1909-28 (library specialist in Bureau's survey of Rutgers University 1926), curator of catalogues, Library of Congress, 1928 until retirement 1941, consultant in private research 1941-45, author of many articles in publications of U S Bureau of Education, National Society for the Study of Education, and various library associations, editor of book review page in School Life 1912-28, historian District of Columbia chapter Sons of the Amencan Revolution and Society of the War of 1812, member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Library Association, Bibliographical Society of America, Masonic order, and First Congregational |
