What fun we're going to have complicating New School histories! Browsing the digitized New School Publicity Scrapbooks I found a picture of our unsung hero, the indefatigable Clara Mayer, at work! (vol 24, 16)
This picture, with accompanying article "Grown-Ups Return to School: Housewives and War Brides Crowd Classrooms of New School for Social Research," was seen in the final months of 1943 around the country, appearing in the Wilmington, DE News; the Troy, NY Morning Record; the Omaha, NE Morning World Herald; the Greensburg, PA Review; the Roanoke, VA Times; the Fort Wayne, IN Journal-Gazette; the Hartford, CT Courant; and the Toledo, OH Times. Women are hidden behind men's
names throughout the article (as in the article's relentlessly matrimonial title), but come into their own names decisively at the end, starting with New York's first woman judge. Just what was going on there?!
