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Died. Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...
...Mediocre!" The Conference accomplished nothing else last week, though speeches were reeled off on nearly all possible subjects. Only U. S. Delegate to make a proposal of any sort was Kentucky-born Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, professor of Public Welfare Administration since 1929 at the University of Chicago. She urged progress in promoting international interchange of bibliographic material. After sitting through a committee session in Spanish on social problems, Sophonisba Breckinridge said: "I don't understand Spanish but I have heard those same arguments so many times before that it was quite nice, just like home...
...University of Kentucky (Lexington) made honorary doctors of Louis Wiley, Business Manager of The New York Times since 1895; Miss Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Dean of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. William Allen White, jovial editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, delivered the commencement address...
...electric coupé and took him for a ride. The Columbus Day conference over which she will preside will be addressed by Mary Emma Woolley, President of Mt. Holyoke College; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Dean of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago (first woman ailed to the bar of Kentucky); Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters, and eight or nine other prominent women...
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