BLACKWELL FAMILY SUBJ. FILE LUCY STONE LUCY STONE SCHOOL LUCY STONE'S NAME URGED FOR SCHOOL Lucy Stone, early suffragist, abolitionist, and Massachusetts' first woman to receive a college degree, will be memorialized in the naming of the new Dorchester school for special classes. An order to that effect was introduced at a meeting of the Boston School Committee last evening, but, according to the rules, was laid on the table until the next meeting. The new building is at the corner of Regina Road and Washington Street, in the John Marshall District. A native of West Brookfield, Mass., CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Lucy Stone was graduated from Oberlin College, O., in 1847, having gone there especially to study Hebrew and Greek in order that she might know at first hand whether the Biblical texts quoted against the equal rights of women with men, were true translations. She was a strong abolitionist, lecturing in its cause, helped to found the American Woman Suffrage Association, was its president for many years, and also was for years editor of the Boston Woman's Journal. She was married to Henry B. Blackwell in 1855, but with her husband's consent retained the use of her maiden name. He himself was a strong worker in both causes she had espoused. Their daughter is Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston. Miss Blackwell has followed in her parents' footsteps, being a leader in suffrage work for women.LUCY STONE Through the efforts of Mrs. Mary McNaught, a Public School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, situated on Park Street, was named the Lucy Stone School. Date of erection about 1924. At the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts, the Lucy Stone Chapel honors Lucy Stone as the first person in Massachusetts to be cremated. [*Lucy Stone School*] LUCY STONE SCHOOL DORCHESTER CENTER MASSACHUSETTS MARY A. MC NAUGHT IN CHARGE January 2, 1933. Dear Miss Blackwell, I thank you for your Christmas and New Year Greetings and for the notice of "Call Home the Heard" by Fielding Burke. I shall certainly read the book. The Lucy Stone Special Class Center is in splendid condition. Although still suffering from inadequate quarters, obliged to have 4 portable buildings in the yard, cramped class-room - children touching elbows is not a wholesome condition - rooms to small for any physical exercises, very unsatisfactory lunch accommodations, no assembly room, and many other lacks ( we hope for a new buildingsomeday!) The Center is taking care of 153 handicapped children (our limit of capacity) and is bringing to them what they could get in no other way. Our pupils are boys and girls from 12 to 16 who have been in their district single special classes and at 12 are promoted to us for a much higher education as each is able to acquire. Several of our pupils are, by our help, able to go from us to Junior High - older than the average age but able to do the work and to get schooling which would not have been possible for them. We have very good reports from these pupils. Many of our 16 year olds get very good jobs, and a large proportion of them come back to visit and tell us about themselves, even after several years. We average over 50 visitors a year. They are well appearing, well dressed, self sup- of the homes. My corps of teachers (I now have 9 with me) are not to be excelled. Competent to a high degree, faithful sympathetic, loyal, giving of themselves freely. We are a very happy family in spite of lack of room and a busy day (but 20 minute luncheon period) and yard duty as well as class room. I feel your dear mother would like the school which bears her name and which we are always striving to make even more worthy of her. Our best wishes to you for the New Year. Most sincerely yours Mary A. McNaught.LUCY STONE SCHOOL DORCHESTER CENTER MASSACHUSETTS MARY A. MC NAUGHT IN CHARGE porting young men and women. A special class day almost never gives up a job until sure of another better one. But a small percentage of our graduates are to be found in the criminal class. There seems to be a strong personal tie hindering our boys + girls to the Lucy Stone. they appreciate our interest in them and they don't forget us. We give all the personal help we can to our pupils, in the way of clothing, eye glasses, lunches,etc. and get in quite close touch with manyLUCY STONE SCHOOL DORCHESTER CENTER MASSACHUSETTS M. A. MC NAUGHT IN CHARGE The teachers and pupils invite you to attend an exhibition of the work of the Center to be open on Thursday December the sixteenth from nine until five o'clock. Washington St. Car from tunnel Norfolk St from Dudley School on Re[gmin?] Road Stop at Park St. MAY HONOR LUCY STONE [[handwriting ??]] Order Before School Committee to Name New Dorchester School Centre for the Abolitionist [[handwriting - Sep. r9-23]] An order was introduced at the meeting of the School Committee last night that the new Dorchester school centre, located at Regina road and Washington street in the John Marshall district, be named in honor of Lucy Stone, widely known as one of the State's early abolitionists and the first woman of Massachusetts to obtain a college degree. The order was laid on the table until the next meeting. The resignation of Alice B. Fulton as school nurse, to take the position of head of nursing, hygiene and physiology at the High School of Practical Arts was accepted. Appointments from the eligible list were as follows: Angus J. Chisholm as junior master at the English High School, from junior assistant; Francis J. Lyon as instructor at the Continuation School. Appointments by promotion included Agnes K. Mallard, from assistant in the Wells district to first assistant in charge in the Bennett district. Edith M. Sandsbury, assistant in the Henry L. Bennett district, was granted a leave of absence from Sept. 4 to Sept. 23. A petition for the establishment of evening classes at the Everett School was denied at the suggestion of the superintendent. A petition from the Upham's Corner Improvement Association for the location of a new high school of Upham's Corner was laid on the table. OF COURSE, there is practically no doubt that favorable action will be taken on the order, which was introduced the other day at a meeting of the Boston School Committee to honor the memory of Lucy Stone by naming a new Dorchester school after this pioneer of woman's rights. One hundred and five years have since Miss Stone, the first Massachusetts woman to obtain a college degree, was born, and it is almost impossible to overestimate the influence which her quiet, but assertive, determination in working for what she felt was right has done to emancipate women from many of the bonds which held them virtually enslaved much less than a hundred years ago. "I was a woman, before I was an abolitionist," she declared on one memorable occasion, and these words express the very keynote of her character and career. [[handwriting]] Momtor Sep. 20- '23