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Edith G. Stedman

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invited Stedman to come for the Appointment Bureau at Radcliffe in 1930. Stedman developed vocational programs for women in the 1930s. Undergraduates and graduate students were both helped by Stedman in finding employment. She created and directed the Training Course in Personnel Administration and
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to help the war effort there in 1917. She was a canteen worker in France and Germany working for the YMCA until 1919. Back in the United States, Stedman did not find work that interested her. Stedman then traveled to China in 1920, where she worked as a
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After school, she worked for a time at the Framingham Reformatory for Women until her brother convinced her to quit in order to run the family's candy store, a job she later discovered she hated. After two years, she quit and went to
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supported professional training for women. Stedman worked as the director of the Training Course until 1941. Students could be awarded a fellowship grant in her name. She also created the
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As a retiree, she worked as a volunteer in different capacities. Between 1955 and 1959, Stedman volunteered at the
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Christianity in China: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States
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Mission. She stayed until 1927, returning to Boston, where she started working as an
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Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States
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in Boston run by the Episcopal church. She lived with
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Her last years were spent living in Sherrill House, a
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(December 1924). 106:and also for her help in restoring 793:American writers with disabilities 16:American social worker (1888–1978) 14: 230:A Monastery Guest House Cook Book 163:for the Judge Baker Foundation. 122:, and the family later moved to 758:20th-century American educators 701:. New York: NYU Press. p.  511:Kay, Joan (13 September 1964). 246:A Yankee in an English Village 1: 783:People with Ménière's disease 773:20th-century American writers 134:where she graduated in 1910. 640:"The American Connection -" 628:– via Newspapers.com. 603:– via Newspapers.com. 525:– via Newspapers.com. 500:– via Newspapers.com. 462:"A History of Women at HBS" 450:– via Newspapers.com. 179:Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 172:Radcliffe Publishing Course 809: 409:Wu, Xiaoxin (2015-07-17). 232:. 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Index


OBE
social worker
vocational
Radcliffe
Great Depression
Dorchester Abbey
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Belmont, Massachusetts
high school
Radcliffe College
Europe
YMCA
medical social worker
Hankou
Episocopal
executive secretary
Ada Louise Comstock
Radcliffe Publishing Course
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Dorchester Abbey
nursing home
Ménière's disease
deafness
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Dorchester Abbey
OCLC
15133614
OCLC
50066675

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