195 Notes Introduction: The Jane Addams Legacy 1. Introduction folder, World War II Project Collection (WPC). 2. Horowitz, Betty Friedan, 50. 3. Tronto, “Care as a Political Concept,” 142. 4. Nelson, Rockford College, 36. 5. Clarke, Sex in Education, 56, 9. 6. Nelson, Rockford College, 50. 7. Rockford College Alumna, November 1942, 7, Rockford College Archives (RCA). 8. Ibid. 9. Linn, Jane Addams, 263. 10. Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, 36. In The Education of Jane Addams, Victoria Bissell Brown explains that Addams actually attended the Interstate Oratorical Contest as a representative of the collegiate press and to ensure that Rockford Seminary students would be able to participate the following year. Brown points out that her research indicated neither Addams nor Bryan debated at the contest . Bryan did not debate because as a senior, he was head of the local planning committee. Brown speculates that Addams’s version of the story was intended to represent herself as part of the larger struggle for women’s rights (66–67). 11. Jane Addams Collection, RCA. 12. Shields, “Democracy and the Social Feminist Ethics of Jane Addams,” 419. 13. Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics, 7. 14. Elshtain, Jane Addams, 164–68. 15. Elshtain, Women and War, 237. 16. Ibid. 17. Jane Addams Collection, RCA. 18. “Civilian Defense Program,” Purple Parrot, October 13, 1942, 1, RCA. 19. Mary Ashby Cheek’s Acceptance of Jane Addams Medal (transcript), May 1987, Chapter 2 folder, WPC. 20. Wells, Miss Marks, 215. 21. “Dr. Mary E. Woolley, President Emeritus of Mt. Holyoke, Speaks at Charter Day,” Rockford College Alumna, March 1938, 1, 19, RCA. 22. McAfee, who headed the WAVES, also served as president of Wellesley College from 1936 until 1949, which included a leave of absence while serving during the war. Speech transcript in Introduction folder, WPC. :%%)1RWHVLQGG 30 NOTES TO PAGES 11–23 196 23. Introduction folder, WPC. 24. Ibid. 25. “Rockford College and the War,” Rockford College Alumna, November 1942, 6, RCA; Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union speech to Congress, January 6, 1941, American Rhetoric, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms .htm (accessed February 9, 2010). 1. War Looms 1. “Campaigns against Draft,” Rockford Register Republic, August 3, 1940, in Rockford College Annual Scrapbook (1940–41), vol. 1, parts 1 and 2, RCA. 2. Ibid. 3. Dorothy Delman, Alumnae Interviews folder, WPC. 4. “Campaigns against Draft.” 5. Elane Summers Hellmuth, Alumnae Interviews folder, WPC. 6. Woloch, Women and the American Experience, 331. 7. Ibid. 8. “Letters from War Torn Europe Reveal Ravages and Results of Air Raids,” Purple Parrot, October 25, 1940, 3, RCA. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid., 3–4. 11. “Friedrich to Speak Here at RC,” Purple Parrot, October 25, 1940, 1, RCA. Several words in this letter follow British spelling. 12. “Letters from War Torn Europe,” 3. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. Willkie was the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 election. During the campaign, he accused Roosevelt’s administration of a lack of war preparedness. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. “Florence Sherriff Writes of War-Time Shanghai Adventure,” Rockford College Alumna, June 1938, 18, RCA. 18. Ibid. 19. Woosung was a port city less than twenty miles down the Huangpu River from Shanghai. 20. The Bund is the historic site of foreign settlement and financial center of international commerce along the Huangpu River since the mid-nineteenth century. “Florence Sherriff Writes,” 18. 21. Ibid., 18–19. 22. This was one of the public parks in the international section of Shanghai. 23. “Florence Sherriff Writes,” 19. 24. The Brussels Council was an eighteen-nation conference, including the United States, held in Brussels, Belgium, which was called under provisions of the 1922 Nine-Power Treaty to discuss the threat raised by Japanese aggression in China. 25. “Florence Sherriff Writes,” 19. 26. Woloch, Women and the American Experience, 318. 27. “American College Girl Covers European War,” Purple Parrot, March 21, 1940, 2, RCA. :%%)1RWHVLQGG 30 [44.201.24.171] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:41 GMT) NOTES TO PAGES 23–31 197 28. A fingerwave was a popular hairstyle of the day. 29. In this 1940 incident, the British navy secured the release of almost three hundred British merchant seamen captured by German naval operations. “American College Girl,” 2. 30. Ibid. 31. The Schutzstaffel (“protective squadron”) was created in 1925; the men of the unit served as Hitler’s personal bodyguards. The SS expanded to military operations in 1932, to internal control of Germany...