| 词条 | Valeria H. Parker |
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BiographyBorn in Chicago, Illinois in 1879, she was the daughter of Anson S. and Martha (Loath) Hopkins. She graduated from Hyde Park High School (1895), receiving a prize in an oratorical contest; Oxford College, Ohio, A.B. degree, 1898; Hering Medical College, Chicago, M.D., 1902. She married Edward O. Parker, M.D. in Holyoke, Massachusetts on November 26, 1905; there were children: Mason (b. June 29, 1907); Leath (b. Jan. 9, 1909). She traveled in Europe for three years after taking medical degree. She spent some time in Davos Platz, Switzerland, with a patient. She was a member of the Pen and Brush Club of N.T.; actively interested in the founding of Emily Bruce House, a home for children; especially interested in sex and social hygiene, special physiology class in the Lanier School-in-tbe-Woods. Actively interested in anything pertaining to the welfare of women and children. Delivered special lectures to senior girls at Rosemary Hall on "The Physiology of Life," June, 1912 and 1913. Favored woman suffrage; member of the Greenwich Equal Franchise League, founded at her home, August, 1909 (1st vice president, 1909–11; president, 1911–12; later treasurer). Press chairman of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, 1910-11. Wrote for various newspapers and publications, and addresses delivered in various places, notably article on the International Congress of Eugenics in London (Woman's Journal, September, 1912). Congregationalism member, Mothers' Club, Travel Club, Alliance Française, United Workers, Housewives' League, Consumers' League, Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene; visitor for Connecticut Children's Aid Society; chairman Emily Bruce House Committee; member Greenwich College Women's Club.[4] She also served as the Assistant Educational Director, American Social Hygiene Association; Director, Social Morality Department, National Women's Christian Union; and National Chairman, Social Hygiene Committee, National League of Women Voters.[5][6] Selected works
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Connecticut State Register and Manual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVxIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116|edition=Public domain|year=1919|publisher=Secretary of the State|pages=116–}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Segrave|first=Kerry|title=Policewomen: A History, 2d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wy9iAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|date=10 February 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7705-0|pages=137–}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=United States. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board|title=Report of the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLohAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA200|edition=Public domain|year=1920|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=200}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Leonard|first=John William|title=Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA622|edition=Public domain|year=1914|publisher=American Commonwealth Company|page=622}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Bryn Mawr College|title=Bryn Mawr College Calendar: Graduate Courses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5JGAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15|edition=Public domain|year=1920|publisher=The College|pages=15–}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Medical Women's Club of Chicago|title=The Official Bulletin of the Medical Women's Club of Chicago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9RXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3|edition=Public domain|year=1920|pages=3–}} Bibliography
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