In 1962, sociologist Elise Boulding conducted a survey of WSP participants. Her guiding question became the title of her study: “Who Are These Women?”[1] Click on a name below to bring up a short biographical sketch of some of WSP’s key women.*
Bronx, NY
Helen Klein
Helen Wurf
South Bronx, NY
Lea Tenneriello
Brooklyn, NY
Helen Boston
Brooklyn Heights, NY
Rhoda Howard
Sally Longhi
Joan Davidson
California
Carrie Yoffe Taylor
Chelsea, NY
Martha Kahn
Chicago
Ruth Dear
Lillian Hayward
Mimi Harris
Shirley Lens
Cleveland
Anne Eaton
Beatrice Goodwin
Valena Minor Williams
Connecticut
Anne Mackenzie
Detroit
Lucy Haessler
Lillian Lerman
Olga Penn
East Bay
Rose Dellamonica
Madeline Duckles
Clara Gilbert
Frances Herring
Charity Hirsch
Great Neck, NY
Lyla Hoffman
Los Angeles
Kay Hardman
Southern California, LA
Mary Clarke
Esther Jackson
Phyllis Schmidt
Mississippi
Dora Wilson
New York (I am in the process of dividing these into their correct branches)
Bella Abzug
Ruth Gage-Colby
Valerie Delacorte
Louise Feldman
Iris Freed
Helen Frumin
Lorraine Gordon
Ruth Meyers
Elsie Neidenberg
Esther Newill
Ruth Pinkson
Blanche Posner
Ruth Rosenwald
Jean Shulman
Amy Swerdlow
Cora Weiss
Irma Zigas
Queens, NY
Shirley Solarcheck
Philadelphia
Helen Evelev
Pat Gross
Ruth Krause
Ethel Taylor
Portland
Carol Urner
Rochester, NY
Mary Grooms
Henrietta Levine
San Francisco
Beverley Axelrod
Linda Fanning
Hazel Grossman
Alice Hamburg
Seattle
Taimi Halonen
Anci Koppel
Thorun Robel
Tacoma
Mabel Proctor
Vermont
Virginia Naeve
Washington, D.C.
Donna Allen
Margaret C. Appich
Jeanne Bagby
Aline Berman
Barbara Bick
Mary Chandler
Folly Fodor
Eleanor Garst
Bernice Steele
Edith Villastrigo
National Office
Sally Bortz
Lynda Stein
Trudi Young
*Activists are separated into branches where possible.
[1] “Elise Boulding, ‘Who Are These Women?: A Progress Report on a Study of the Women Strike for Peace,’ 1963,” SCPC WSP Archives, A1, Box 2, Documents Describing WSP History.
