- Muriel S. Snowden
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Muriel Sutherland Snowden (1916–1988) was the founder and co-director of Freedom House, a community improvement center in Roxbury, Massachusetts.[1][2]
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Life
She was raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1938, and studied at the New York School of Social Work from 1943-1945.
She married Otto P. Snowden in 1944, and moved to Boston; they had a daughter Gail Snowden.
Freedom House was founded in 1949; they bought a building on Crawford Street, in 1952. In 1960, fire damaged the building; by 1961 the building was rebuilt.[3] She was executive director of the Cambridge Civic Unity Commission. She was a director of National Shawmut Bank of Boston.[4] She was a trustee of Babson College, and University of Massachusetts.
A school, near Copley Square, is named for her.[5] Her papers are held at Northeastern University.[6]
Awards
- 1987 MacArthur Fellows Program
- Harvard Medal [7]
References
- ^ http://bwht.org/tours/back-bay-west
- ^ "Freedom House board looks to future with new mission, funds", Bay State Banner, August 15, 1996, Jeremy Pawloski
- ^ http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/DisplayPlace.asp?id=11651
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=VbEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=Muriel+S.+Snowden&source=bl&ots=Y87XQxVWGi&sig=89zIbdh8DBKJmMsFjjFB1n_rbeM&hl=en&ei=XVK7S5CMEoOBlAf0wNmfBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBMQ6AEwBjgo#v=onepage&q=Muriel%20S.%20Snowden&f=false
- ^ "BACK BAY SCHOOL'S NAME TO CHANGE CITY VOTES TO HONOR MURIEL S. SNOWDEN", The Boston Globe, June 23, 1988, Patricia Wen
- ^ http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m17find.htm
- ^ http://alumni.harvard.edu/pdfs/haa/past_recipients_harvard_medal.pdf
External links
- Snowden International School
- "Reminiscences of Muriel S. Snowden", Columbia University
Categories:- People from Essex County, New Jersey
- Radcliffe College alumni
- MacArthur Fellows
- 1916 births
- 1988 deaths
- American social workers
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