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Winona Lake, Ind., 1906-10; preceptress Cazenovia (N.Y.) Seminary, 1911-12, and Belcourt Sem., Washington, D.C., 1912-13. Mem. State Board of the Ind. Y.W.C.A., 1907-10; Board of Directors of Ind. State Fed. of Clubs, 1909-10; State delegate from Ind. to the Biennial at Cincinnati, 1910. Pres. Winona Woman's Club, 1907-09; mem. the Symposium, Findlay, Ohio, 1890-96. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church.

CLARK, Susan Eliza, West Brattleboro, Vt.

Born West Brattleboro, Vt., Nov. 24, 1844, dau. Stanford R. and Eliza L. (Adkins) Clark; ed. Brattleboro Acad. and Glenwood Ladies' Sem. in West Brattleboro, second degree graduate. County officer in the Vermont Branch of Woman's Board of Missions, 1883-1903; identified with various social, religious and philanthropic activities. Congregationalism Republican. Regent of Brattleboro Chapter D.A.R., 1901-02 and 1913-14. Pres. Brattleboro Woman's Club, 1898-1901, 1902-05; pres. Vt. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. 1903-06. Mem. National Geographic Soc. Has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe.

CLARK, Susie Champney, 15 Centre St., Cambridge. Mass.

Writer, lecturer; b. Brighton (now in Boston), Mass., lived in childhood in Quincy, Ill., where began her education, later returned to Cambridge, Mass., where completed her studies. Was for some time reporter on various papers, and has later done work for the spiritual and metaphysical press. For several years past a lecturer in Boston, California and elsewhere on occult, metaphysical, psychic or spiritual themes, and on the science of life as illustrated through color symbolism. Often supplied pulpits for Sunday services; specially well known as an exponent of spiritual healing, which she has practiced for more than 25 years; not allied with any of the healing cults known as Christian, Mental or Divine Science. Spiritualist; for several years a vice-pres. of Mass. State Ass'n of Spiritualists. Author (books): All That Man Should Be Unto Woman; The Open Door of the Soul; John McCullough as Man, Actor and Spirit; A Look Upward; To Bear Witness; Pilate's Query; Lorita, an Alaskan Maiden; The Melody of Life; The Round Trip, and others. Also psychic plays: His To-Morrow; The Power of the Unseen.

CLARK, Virginia Keep (Mrs, Marshall Clark), Virginia Hotel, Chicago; studio, 19 E. Pearson St., Chicago, Ill.

Artist, illustrator; b. New Orleans, Feb. 17, 1878; dau. Charles Borden and Catharine V. (Hynson) Keep; ed. in Indianapolis and at Miss Gibson's School, N.Y. City, and Miss Gordon's School, Philadelphia; m. Oct. 31, 1906, Marshall Clark. Studied four years at Art Students' League, N.Y. City; one year with Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, and criticisms from Sorolla in Spain in 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Illustrator of Two Little Prisoners (by Thomas Nelson Page); all the Live Doll series, and Little Girl Blue (by Josephine S. Gates); decorations for An Old Sweetheart of Mine, by James Whitcomb Riley; makes a specialty of portrait sketches of children. Presbyterian. Recreation: Walking. Mem. of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artists' Guild of Chicago, the Western Artists' Association, Evanston Golf Club, and Saddle and Cycle Club.

CLARKE, Edith Emily, 518 Ostrom Av., Syracuse, N.Y.

Librarian; b. Syracuse, N.Y., 1859; dau. Rev. Joseph M. (D.D.) and Emily (Balis) Clarke; grad. Keble School, Syracuse, 1878, Syracuse Univ. Ph.B., '81 (Phi Beta Kappa), N.Y. State Library School, 1889. Head of catalog dep't Columbia Univ. Library, 1889-90; Newberry Library, Chicago, 1890-94; compiler of catalogs of U.S. Government publication office of Sup't of Documents, 1895-98; Librarian Univ. of Vermont, 1898-1909; instructor in Government publications, Syracuse Univ. Library School, 1910— Associate mem. Girls' Friendly Soc. Compiler of catalogue of U.S. Public Documents, 1893-95, and '85-96. Contributor to periodicals, mostly professional. Episcopalian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Am. Library Ass'n, Bibiiographical Soc. of America, N.Y. State Library School Ass'n, N.Y. State Library Ass'n, sec, Syracuse Library Club. Recreations: Camping, literature.

CLARKE, Elizabeth Crocker Lawrence (Mrs. Samuel Fessenden Clarke), Williamstown, Mass.

Secretary; b. Lancaster, Mass., Nov. 11, 1861; dau. Amos E. and Ann Maria (Crocker) Lawrence; grad. Newton High School, 1879; Smith Coll., B.A. '83, M.A. '89; Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, '91; post-grad, studies Radcliffe Coll. 1883-84, 1886-88; m. Newton Centre, Mass., April 5, 1892, Samuel Fessenden Clarke; one dau.: Elizabeth Lawrence. Sec. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae since Oct., 1901. Chairman Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n and raised money for gymnasium, 1887-92. Chairman com. to raise $100,000, and equal sum given conditionally by Mr. Rockefeller, 1899—; representative of Smith Coll. and treas. since 1899 in Naples Table Ass'n (for promoting laboratory research by women), 1899-. Mem. Anti-Suffrage Ass'n. Contributor to coll. periodicals and articles on gymnastics for girls' gymnasium at Smith College, etc. Congregationalism Mem. Mass. Branch Civil Service Reform Ass'n and Mass. Branch Red Cross, Boston College Club, School Gardens Ass'n of America, Mass. Branch of Nat. Civic Federation. Recreation: Tennis. Alumnae trustee Smith Coll., 1894-1900; vice-pres. 1889-91, pres. 1909-11 Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll.

CLARKE, Georgiana B. (Mrs. C. E. Clarke), 1130 Summit Av., Victoria, B.C.

Born Belleville, Ont.; ed. Ontario high schools and Trinity Univ., B.A. '93, M.A. '04. Was head of mathematical dep't of St. Mary's Coll., Dallas, Tex., 1897-99; assistant in high school, Victoria, B.C., 1902-06; m. Aug., 1906, Capt. C. E. Clarke, harbor master of Victoria; children: Stewart, George, Mary. Mem. of the University Woman's Club of Victoria, B.C. Mem. of the Church of England.

CLARKE, Grace Julian, 115 S. Audubon Rd., Irvington, Indianapolis, Ind.

Writer; b. Centerville, Ind., Sept. 11, 1865; dau. George W. and Laura (Giddings) Julian; ed. Butler Coll., Indianapolis, 1879-89, Ph.B. '84, Ph.M. '85; m. Irvington, Indianapolis, 1887, Charles B. Clarke, lawyer. Edits Club Notes and Woman's page in Indianapolis Star. Mem. Board of Directors, General Federation of Women's Clubs; County Board of Charity, Board of Children's Aid Ass'n, Citizens' Advisory Board, Indianapolis Public Library; Director Indianapolis Local Council of Women. Pres. Indiana Federation of Clubs, 1909-10 and 1910-11. Director Woman's Franchise League of Indiana; speaker on suffrage in Indiana and Ohio. Author: Some Impression (a sketch of George W. Julian), 1902. Unitarian. Mem. Peace Soc, Am. Historical Ass'n, Indianapolis Woman's Club, Irvington Woman's Club.

CLARKE, Helen Archibald, winter, Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass.; summer, Ardensea, Isle au Haut. Me.

Author, editor, lecturer; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Dr. Hugh A. and Jane M. (Searle) Clarke; ed. by governesses, private schools, tutors and Univ. of Pa. (two years' course in music and physics). Interested in peace movement; one of the founders of the American Music Soc, devoted to the encouragement of American composition; one of the founders of the American Drama Soc, devoted to progressive movements in the American drama. Has composed many songs and piano music (some published, some unpublished), which frequently have been performed at public concerts and private musicales; the operetta May Queen (words by A. F. Brown), performed in Boston and Philadelphia; play with incidental music, Starrylocks in Butterfly Land, performed in Boston. Author: Browning and His Century; Gethsemane, symbolic rhapsody in verse (set to music by Gustav Strube); Poet's New England; Hawthorne's Country; Longfellow's Country; Browning's England; Browning's