Dean Bond of Swarthmore; A Quaker Humanist

Philadelphia: J. B., Lippincott Company, c1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. iv, [4], 239, [1] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Ink gift notation on fep (NOT from author). Cover has some wear and soiling. Contents include: Abolition Days; Cambridge and Concord in the Sixties; Vassar at its opening; Marriage; Swathmore; Swathmore; Mother Emeritus. Emily Cooper Johnson was a Quaker author, peace activist, and social reformer. She was born in 1885 in Camden, New Jersey. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1907 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She married Edwin J. Johnson in 1915 under the care of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. Emily Cooper Johnson revised and updated her father's book, Historical Sketch of Camden, co-edited The Children's Story Caravan, and wrote a biographies of Elizabeth Powell Bond and Jane Rushmore, and edited Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader. She was active in the American Friends Service Committee and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, where she served as president. She died April 11, 1966. Elizabeth Powell Bond (January 25, 1841 - March 29, 1926) was an educator and social activist who was the first Dean of Women at Swarthmore College. Elizabeth Powell was born in 1841 in Clinton, New York, By the age of 15, she was serving as an assistant teacher at a Friends' School in the county. She graduated at the age of seventeen from the State Normal School in Albany. Like many Quakers, she held strong views against slavery and was a suffragist, peace activist, and temperance reformer. At the age of 16, she was speaking out at local meetings of anti-slavery campaigners. She spent some time in the household of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison before her marriage. In 1872, she married Henry Herrick Bond, a lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts. They had two sons, Edwin (born 1874), and Herrick, (born 1878, died in infancy). Henry Herrick Bond died in 1881. Bond began her career by teaching for two years in New York public schools. In the early 1860s, she ran a boarding school for three years out of her parents' house, with the student body including both African-American and Catholic children. In 1865, after training with the physical culture advocate Diocletian Lewis, Bond became the first instructor in gymnastics at Vassar College. In the early 1870s, she briefly headed up the Free Congregational Sunday school in Florence, Massachusetts, returning in 1885 to become the resident minister for a year. She also worked for a time as editor (with her husband) of the Northampton Journal. In 1886, Swarthmore College appointed Elizabeth Powell Bond to the post of Matron of the College. In 1890, she was named Dean, a position she kept until her retirement in 1906, when she was named Dean Emeritus. She played an important role in the development of coeducation at the college. Bond died in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1926.