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Died. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch ("Mrs. Sim"), 84, famed Manhattan social worker, agitator for public housing, woman suffrage, federal aid to education, kindergartens; in Greenwich House, the famous settlement she founded 50 years ago. With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater...
...third-floor apartment door in Greenwich House hangs a sign: "Come In Without Knocking." Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, who has been preaching what she calls "Neighborhood" for 44 years, also practices it. Last week some 500 friends & neighbors came in without knocking, to honor 78-year...
...Simkhovitch retired as director of Greenwich House last month, but she plans to keep an eye on it; she thinks of it as "sort of America in small." Says she: "The tryout for 'one world' is in the neighborhood...
...study marriage & divorce, present their views to the male commission which broods over the question between General Conventions (next one: next October). Chairman of the female commission is the Auxiliary's Executive Board Chairman Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South Bend, Ind. Some other members: Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch of Manhattan's Greenwich House (settlement); Mrs. Charles Leslie Glenn, wife of the popular rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, San Francisco socialite and clubwoman...
...Italians in the Village all that they have known of cultural development, health, recreation. There are more than 26 thousand a year who take advantage of the music school, baby clinics and nursery, arts, drama, dancing, made possible by the original and continued efforts of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, director...
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