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��among others the Viola Allen Cup at White Sul- phur Springs, W.Va. Mem. Edgewood Country Club, Charleston, W.Va. Prominent for many years in the social life of White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., as well as in Charleston. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian.

THAYER, Mary Appleton Shute (Mrs. Charles Snow Thayer), 64 Glllett St., Hartford, Conn. Grad. Smith Coll.. B.A. '87, B.M. '88; student of Greek, Yale, 1893-95; Greek archaeology. Am. School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1902- 03; m. Dec. 28, 1904, Charles Snow Thayer. In- structor In Greek, Smith Coll., 1888-93. Mem. Am. Archaeological Inst., Smith College Alumnae Ass'n.

IHAYEB, Maynard FOTce (Mrs. Edwin M.

Thayer), 651 S. Pasadena Av., Pasadena, Cal.

Bom Heron Lake, Minn., Jan. 16, 1877; dau. Jacob Francis and Sarah F. (Mesick) Force; ed. high school, Minneapolis; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '99; m. N.Y. City, Aug. 22, 1901, Edwin M. Thayer; one son: Edwin Force Thayer, b. May 7, 1903; also adopted daughter: Winifred Thayer, b. Dec. 13, 1906. Mem. Board of Pasadena Hos- pital; Sunday-school teacher; mem. Associated Charities, Emergency League, Training School for Children. Past pres. of Southern Cal. Wel- lesley Club; worker in Parent-Teachers Ass'n; mem. George Jr. Republic Ass'n of Cal., and Y.W.C.A. Wrote article on George Jr. Republic of Cal. for Out West Magazine, June, 1912. Con- gregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n, regent Pasadena Chap- ter D.A.R., State vice-regent of Cal. D.A.R. ; mem. Wellesley Club, Parent-Teachers Ass'n, Woman's Civic League of Pasadena.

TH.AYEB, Miriam Agnes, Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallls, Ore.; home, 8 Moore Av., Worcester, Mass.

Prof, physical education for women; b. Brook- lyn, N.Y., July 16, 1879; dau. Rev. Frederic Albert and Martha (Herrick) Thayer; grad. Wel- lesley Coll., A.B. '99; Emerson Coll. of Oratory, Boston, special. 1905-08; Dr. Sargent's Normal School of Physical Education, Cambridge, Mass., 1910; Harvard Univ. Summer School, post-grad., 1910. Practical experience in hospital and under prominent physicians for medical and corrective gymnastics; special training in Children's Hos- pital, Boston, for treatment of orthopedic cases, specialization in sesthetic and folk dancing in Mrs. Wyman's School of .(Esthetic and Folk Dancing, Boston; Gilbert Normal School of Dancing, Boston, and in Chelif Normal School of Dancing, N.Y.; teacher English literature and girls' athletics in high schools in suburbs of Boston (Groveland, Bralntree and Somerville), Mass., 19€0-08; professional draimatlc coach for Bchools and clubs; teac-her of physical education and dancing in Emerson Coll. of Oratory, Bos- ton, 1910. Prof, of physical education for women, 1911-12, in Kan. State Teachers' Coll.; prof, of physical education for women. Ore. State Agri- cultural Coll., Sept., 1912. Favors woman suf- frage. Author of articles for newspapers and Bchool publications concerning different phases Df physical education, lectures to encourage and explain establishment of systems in public out- door sports, and on aesthetic and folk dancing tor women. Congregational ist. Mem. Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. dramatic, social, literary and college societies.

riLEIS, Sophie Tan Senden, 325 E. 3l8t St., N.T.

City.

Born Germania, Pa., May 3, 1886; dau. Henry John and Virginia Theis; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. 1907. Associate sec. dep't of domestic science, Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1907-08; children's agent. State Charities Aid Ass'n. N.Y. City, 1908-10. Assistant sup't Play-out Agency. Mem. Woman's University Club. Favors womau suffrage.

THEISS, Mary Bartol (Mrs. Lewis Edwin Thelss), 230 W. 111th St., N.Y. City. Magazine writer; dau. William C. Bartol (prof.

of mathematics in Bucknell Univ.) and Martha

Belle (Africa) Bartol; grad. Bucknell, A.B.

Csumma cum laude). commencement speaker, '94.

��A.M. '95; grad. student, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '97; Bennett fellow in classics, Univ. of Pa., 1897-98, 1898-99 (mem. Pi Beta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa); m. Lewlsburg, Pa., June 30, 1903, Lewis Edwin Thelss. Sec. of Fed. of Graduate Clubs, 1896-99; prof. Greek and Latin, Rockford (111.) Coll., 1899-1903. Grand sec. of PI Beta Phi, 1899- 1906. Investigated In 1912, in collaboration with L. E. Thelss, workings of equal suffrage in all States where women vote. Editor and compiler of Songs of Pi Beta Phi, 1899, 1904; of Gen. Cata- logue of Pi Beta Phi (second ed.), 1906; editor of The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, 1907-11; contributor since 1904, either individually or in collaboration with Lewis E. Thelss, to Ladies' Home Journal, Pearson's Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Pic- torial Review, World's W^ork, and others. Bap- tist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Mem. N.Y. Alumnse Club of Pi Beta Phi.

THELBERG, Elizabeth Burr (Mrs. John P. N. H. Thelberg), Vassar College, Poughkeepsle,

N.Y.

Physician and professor; b. Bangor, Me., 1860; dau. Joseph J. and Sarah B. (Morrill) Burr; grad. in medicine of Woman's Med. Coll of N.Y. Infirmary, N.Y. City, M.D. '84; m. N.Y. City, 1883, John P. N. H. Thelberg; children: John Morrill (deceased), Elizabeth Burr. Resident physician, N.Y. Infant Asylum, Nursery and Child's Hospital, Staten Island; resident phy- sician and prof, of physiology and hygiene since 1887 at Vassar Coll. Director and mem. Board of Directors of Y.W.C.A., Poughkeepsle, 12 years. Favors woman suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Suf- frage Ass'n; mem. Equal Suffrage League of Poughkeepsle, Collegiate Equal Suffrage League. EpiscopaJian. Pres. Tuesday Club of Pough- keepsle, A.A.A.S., Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. Med. Soc, Dutchess Co. Med. Soc, Nat. Child Labor Ass'n, Am. Forestry Ass'n, Nat. Geographic Ass'n, Soc. for Sanitary and Moral Prophy- laxis, etc.

THELEN, Fanny J. (Mrs. H. Edmund Thelen),

National City, Cal.

Born Monroe, Wis., Nov. 15, 1856; dau. Charles Theodore and Charlotte (Draz) Bayrhoffer; fin- ished school with two years at Iowa State Univ., 1872-74; m. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 6, 1880, H. Ed- mund Thelen; children: Max, Paul, Rolf. Has been on Board of Library Trustees since 1906. Cor. of weekly paper, and has been active through it and by word of mouth in securing 15- acre park, additions to school houses, play- grounds and other public benefits and helped to save beautiful shade trees. Roosevelt and John- son Progressive. Mem. Board of Trade. Recrea- tions: Cards, skat and whist. Associate mem. since 1904 of the Amphion Club of San Diego; mem. San Diego College Women's Club, newly organized (head of civics section for the first year). Against woman suffrage.

THEOPOLD, Anna Cole (Mrs. Herbert Theo-

pold), Faribault, Minn.

Born Faribault, Minn., Mar. 16, 1866; dau. Hon. Gordon E. Cole (lawyer, St. Paul), and Stella C. (Whipple) Cole; ed. St. Mary's Hall, grad. 1884 (summa cum laude); Gannett Inst., Boston, Mass., 1886; m. Westminster, London, England, Herbert Theopold; children: Gordon, b. 1897 (died 1912); Walter Francis, b. 1S99 (died 1900); Philip Huntington, b. 1902. Interested In church activi- ties of Protestant Episcopal Church and in all movements for the betterment of social condi- tions of women and children. Mem. B'd of Rice County Visiting Nurse Ass'n, and has served on local boards and charities. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Travelers' Club, Woman's Civic League, Thursday Club, St. Paul.

THIAN, Grace Hathaway (Mrs. L. R. Thian), 1787 Humboldt Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn. Born Rochelle, 111., July 15, 1865; dau. Morti- mer D. Hathaway, lawyer and banker, and Martha A. (Piatt) Hathaway; ed. Highland Hall, 111.; Houghton Sem., N.Y.; m. Rochelle, 111., Jan. 14, 1891, L. R. Thian of Minneapolis, lawyer then county attorney). Favors woman suf- frage. EJplscopallan. Mem. Northwestern Hos- pital boards. Woman's Club of Minneapolis.

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