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Workers'education was "unusual because it involved three groups virtually ignored at the time: women, blue collar workers, and blacks..."
Priscilla Van Tassel, New York Times, June 24, 1984, NJ5.
Among its 1500 students many have proved themselves intelligent and interested leaders....
First draft of statement for newspapers, 1939.
From seventy to one hundred workers have been selected each year from all industries employing women and from all sections of the United States. Several scholarships have been awarded each year to foreign students. These have come from England, Canada, the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Czechoslovakia, and pre-Hitler Germany. The wide distribution of students as to residence and industry has been important in the educational program in which the exchange of experience has always been an important factor. The national character of the summer session will be retained under the new plan [Hudson Shore] and an attempt will be made to widen its international contacts.
Bryn Mawr Summer School
for Women Workers in Industry News release, January
12, 1939
* 1933 was listed twice
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