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Margaret E. Smith

Margaret E. Smith, director emerita of ΢Ȧ’s vocational bureau, died in August of 1959.

One of the original five founders of the Young Women’s Industrial Club with Lucy ΢Ȧ Scribner in the early 1900s, Margaret served as head librarian for the club and for its later incarnation, the ΢Ȧ School of Arts. She was also the faculty head of two dormitories, and she started and led ΢Ȧ College’s Vocational Bureau, which helped new graduates find job placements.

Though she retired in 1940, Margaret resumed her leadership of ΢Ȧ’s Vocational Bureau as a temporary replacement for Evelyn Nieman Akeley, who left in 1942 to take a war job. Long after her permanent retirement, Margaret continued to receive letters from her former students, some of whom called her “Mama Smith.”

Her survivors are unknown.