Word: helen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Director Clark Tibbitts of the University of Michigan's Institute for Human Relations was sued for divorce by wife Helen, who complained that he made an entry in a little black book every time she burned the toast...
...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
...HELEN A. MCCARTHY...
...Helen Kenyan always managed to keep busy. At school in Brooklyn, where she was born 60-odd years ago, she had to work hard to keep up with her three bright brothers. At Vassar she was well known for her prowess as center halfback on the hockey team. She was elected alumnae president of her college, and in 1929 she became first woman chairman of Vassar's board of trustees...
Last week, grey-haired, grey-eyed, forceful Helen Kenyon was handed another "first" and a big job along with it. The General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches elected her Moderator-the first woman to head the church. Her election was recognition of Miss Kenyon's work as a director and vice president of the church's Board of Home Missions and as first woman chairman of the Missions Council...