Margaret A. Hickey--lawyer, journalist, business woman, public servant, and volunteer--was active in business and government affairs from the 1930s into the 1970s. An interest in women and their economic and social problems proved the motivating force behind much of her work. As a lawyer, she became conscious of the unique legal problems facing women; as a government advisor, she studied various facets of women's role in society; and as the founder and director of a secretarial school, she helped train educated women for careers in the labor force.
Although an advocate of equal rights for women, Margaret Hickey based her feminism on the belief that women were agreeably unique and different from men. She denounced feminists who denigrated the role of women in the home and the role of volunteer in society, for MH believed that women had a very powerful role to play as mother and wife. Moreover, MH called upon women to "drop the old cold war of the sexes" and enlist the support of men to help them overcome the tragic inequities in employment, education, and politics. Until true equality was reached, she felt it was not wise for a woman to "throw away the advantages of her sex."
Margaret A. Hickey was born on March 14, 1902, in Kansas City, Missouri, the second daughter of Elizabeth Wynne and Charles L. Hickey. Elizabeth Wynne, prior to marriage, attended Liberty Women's College, a finishing school for young women, in Kansas City. She then moved to Paris to study music. While in Paris, Elizabeth Wynne met Charles Hickey, twenty years her senior, and at the age of 30, married him. Charles Hickey, of Irish descent, had attended the University of Kansas where he acquired a classical education. Coming from a family of some means, he entered the Foreign Service and served at posts in Europe and the Ottoman Empire until World War I. The whole family accompanied him during his tours of duty.
The Hickeys' first daughter died in infancy, leaving Margaret the oldest of four children. Margaret Hickey recalled her childhood as a happy one. Her parents were devoted to each other and openly expressed their affections. Discipline, what little there was of it, was meted out by a governess, not her parents. From her father, Margaret acquired a love of reading. She learned to read at an early age and remained an avid reader all her life. From her mother came the notion of helping others, a belief characteristic of much of what Margaret Hickey did.
In 1914, the Hickeys moved back to the United States and settled in Kansas City, where Margaret Hickey attended Mt. Marty School. Prior to this time, Margaret Hickey did not attend a regular school. Mrs. Hickey herself tutored all of her children at home. Once back in the States, Elizabeth Hickey took up the suffrage cause and interested her daughter in making placards, marching in parades, and campaigning for the vote. Her service in the suffrage movement heightened MH's interest in other social reforms and during the 1920s she worked for the peace movement.
Upon graduation, Margaret Hickey enrolled in college but dropped out in 1921 to take a job with the local newspaper, the Kansas City Star. As a reporter, she came into contact with many prominent business women involved in the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. This organization appealed to Margaret Hickey and she managed to convince these women that she was qualified to become a member.
One woman in particular, Judge Florence Allen, so impressed Margaret Hickey that she decided to go to law school. In 1923 Margaret Hickey entered the University of Kansas City Law School (now part of the University of Missouri). She made such good grades that in her sophomore year she pledged Kappa Beta Phi, the honorary legal sorority for women.
In law school, Margaret Hickey encountered some instances of sex discrimination. Although qualifying for the debating team in her first year, she was discredited because of her sex. The next year, however, after some vigorous campaigning, Margaret Hickey was selected for the team. Sexual discrimination was also evident in the classroom. One professor of criminal law requested that she not attend class on the days that he lectured on rape cases, as it was improper to discuss the subject in front of a "nice young woman."
In 1928 Margaret Hickey graduated from law school and passed her bar exams for the state of Missouri. Although several good firms in Kansas City and St. Louis offered her jobs, she declined them to go into private practice. That year Margaret Hickey moved to St. Louis to open her own office. The Depression soon turned her practice into poverty law as potential clients turned into non-paying customers. During the Depression Margaret Hickey was able to maintain her practice because her father's will provided her with a small trust fund, the income from which paid her living expenses for the next six years.
After moving to St. Louis, Margaret Hickey maintained her contacts with the Business and Professional Women's Club and began to do volunteer work for the YWCA and the Red Cross. She also joined a citizen's group concerned with the problems of the unemployed, particularly unemployed women. In 1931, Margaret Hickey convinced the YWCA to let her organize a class to help retrain unemployed women with previous business experience or a college education. Her program offered to these women counseling and guidance, some retraining and skill development, and placement advice. Margaret Hickey ran this program until 1933 when the federal government became interested in the program and took it over for the YWCA.
On the advice of some friends and businessmen, Margaret Hickey decided to open up her own secretarial school. She borrowed some money from her mother and established the Margaret Hickey School for Secretaries at Delmar and Skinker, St. Louis, in 1933. When the business proved a success, Margaret Hickey have up her law career to devote full time to the school.
That same year Margaret Hickey met her future husband, Joseph T. Strubinger, during a Red Cross Fund drive. He was widower, fourteen years older than she, and the senior partner of a law firm. He greatly impressed Margaret Hickey because he was one of the few men she had met genuinely interested in her as a person and her many activities. On October 20, 1935, they were married.
Among her many activities during the 1930s, Margaret Hickey served on an advisory committee to the Social Security Board and just prior to World War II, she worked on a committee considering women's problems for the Office of Emergency Planning, headed by General Knutson and Sidney Hillman. In this capacity she met Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, who later recommended Margaret Hickey for the Women's Advisory Committee of the War Manpower Commission in 1942. The WAC was set up by the War Manpower Commission to study the problems involved in recruiting five million women into the wartime economy. From 1942-1945, Margaret Hickey acted as chairman of this committee. At the same time she was an observer on the National Management Labor Committee. National prominence contributed to her election as president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. She served in this capacity from 1944-1946 and thereafter remained honorary president.
As national president of BPW, and at the invitation of the State Department, Margaret Hickey attended the United Nations San Francisco Conference in 1945. She worked with other prominent women on the human rights section of the U.N. Charter. The following year, Margaret Hickey joined the staff of the Ladies Home Journal as editor of Public Affairs. To fulfill her duties as editor, Margaret Hickey maintained an apartment in Philadelphia and commuted between there and her home in St. Louis. In 1953 she received the Ben Franklin award for distinguished public service journalism.
By 1950, Margaret Hickey had gained such national prominence that she was in great demand as a public lecturer, both nationally and internationally. For the next 25 years, she maintained a vigorous lecture schedule. In 1962, she was appointed by John F. Kennedy to the President's Commission on the Status of Women, officially inducting Margaret Hickey into the women's movement. As a result of this appointment, she contracted with the publishers of Seventeen Magazine to write a book on careers for young women. However, the manuscript, completed around 1965, was never published.
Though in her seventies, Margaret Hickey continued as Public Affairs Editor for Ladies Home Journal, and her involvement in government and world affairs never waned. From 1974 to 1976 she served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid for the U.S. Department of State. She also continued an active role in the Red Cross at both a national and international level, attending conventions and global conferences, giving speeches, and serving on advisory committees.
In 1982, Margaret Hickey celebrated her 80th birthday. As an active octogenarian, she became an advocate for careers for the elderly. Also, scholars began to see her and utilize her as a unique resource and subject for those studying women's history. Still highly interested in education, she became involved with the Henry Luce Foundation's Scholar Selection Committee, as well as the Women's Studies Advisory Council of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
On December 7, 1994, Margaret Hickey died in Tucson, Arizona, where she had lived for the last twenty years of her life.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This addenda to the Margaret Hickey Papers is a bequest, the last of Margaret Hickey's donations to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. It documents especially the last twenty years of her life from 1970 to the late 1980s when her health finally limited her activities to Tucson, Arizona, where she made her home.
The collection contains articles, manuscripts, reports, and speeches by Margaret Hickey; travel journals; daily thoughts, ideas, and notes; notebooks; correspondence; biographies and resumes; awards; one oral history transcript; news and article clippings; publications, newsletters, and brochures; conference agendas, information, and reports; passports; photographs; framed awards, degrees, and other artifacts. Some much older materials include a 1917 Ladies Home Journal article about the Red Cross and two undated photographs from before World War II.
This addenda especially chronicles her years with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (U.S. State Department), the League of Red Cross Societies, and her later years with the American Red Cross. Also contains materials on her last government committee appointment, the National Committee on Careers for Older Americans. Other major career highlights, especially Hickey School and Ladies Home Journal, are not as well represented as in the main collection and subsequent addendas. Much of this collection is reflective--Margaret Hickey celebrated several career anniversaries and became herself an historical subject--and thus gives valuable overview material for those researching the impact and influence of her life's work.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
SERIES 1: BIOGRAPHICAL FILES, 1935-1989
Contains resumes, biographies, awards, and other such documents which chronicle Hickey's life in total. Also contains general and personal correspondence and documents her first donation of papers to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Sub-topics and folders are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 2: BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CAREERS, 1947-1990
Documents the later years of Hickey School and events sponsored by Ladies Home Journal. Contains correspondence, brochures, newsclippings, and some older materials from both careers, including copies of Margaret Hickey's Public Affairs articles from 1947-1961. Also contains her unpublished manuscript, the Seventeen Career Book for Young Women, from the mid-1960s. Sub-topics are arranged chronologically; folders within are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 3: GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS, 1945-1986
Contains writings, reports, and conference notes by MH, as well as correspondence, newsletters, publications, and conference information. Documents Margaret Hickey's later government appointments to national advisory committees and councils, especially the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid for the Department of State. Also contains materials from her last committee appointment, the National Committee on Careers for Older Americans. These appointments resulted from her established reputation and activity in many volunteer organizations. Sub-topics are arranged chronologically; folders within are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 4: VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS, 1947-1990
Mostly documents Margaret Hickey's later career with the Red Cross, both national and international, from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. Her chairmanship of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Social Development for the League of Red Cross Societies, her attendance at International Conferences, and her appointment to the EEO Advisory Committee for the American Red Cross are especially represented. Activities in many other organizations, such as the Henry Luce Scholar Selection Committee, are included as well.
Sub-topics are arranged according to significance in Margaret Hickey's life and this addenda; folders within are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 5: TRAVEL, 1961-1980
Contains daily journals of trips to Africa and China, as well as an article by Margaret Hickey about her African safari with Carol Perkins. Sub-topics are arranged chronologically; folders within are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 6: RESEARCH FILES, 1941-1990
Contains article and newsclippings, papers and speeches by others, reports, publications, newsletters, manuscripts, conference agendas, and other such materials collected by Margaret Hickey for use in her articles, speeches, and work. Topics reflect the interests and work of Margaret Hickey as documented in Series 1-5 and Series 7. Items are organized by subject; sub-topics and folders are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 7: SPEECHES, 1939-1984
Speeches may be in draft form or with notes and revision as Margaret Hickey often reused speeches. Speeches organized by subject. Sub-topics are arranged alphabetically; folders within are arranged chronologically.
SERIES 8: NOTEBOOKS & DIARIES
Contains working notes for speeches, conferences, and travel, as well as thoughts, prayers, address and appointment books. Items are mostly undated and arranged according to physical classification: passports, unbound notes and ideas, and notebooks.
SERIES 9: PHOTOGRAPHS, C. 1920S-1985 (564.1 - .271)
Photographs are grouped by subject. Sub-topics are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 10: ARTIFACTS, 1944-1983
Contains Margaret Hickey's awards, honors, and mementos. Items are arranged chronologically.
FOLDER LIST
BOX 1 (FOLDERS 1 - 31)
SERIES 1: BIOGRAPHICAL FILES, 1935-1989
BIOGRAPHY, 1935-1989
1. Awards, 1959-1989
2. Biographies, 1944-1986
3. Clippings--Article, 1970-1985
4. Clippings--Newspaper, 1935-1989
5. Correspondence, 1943-1988
6. Manuscript, "Margaret Hickey: Rhetoric of Change," Alice Donaldson, 1984
7. Nomination for Honorary Degree, Rutgers University, 1980
8. Resumes, 1954-1978
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS, 1975-1986
9. Commencement and Honorary Degree, 1975
10. Donation of Career Papers, 1974-1986
11. Oral History Transcript, 1974
12. St. Louis Women's Conference on World War II, 1983
SERIES 2: BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CAREERS, 1947-1990
HICKEY SCHOOL FOR SECRETARIES, 1964-1985
13. Articles of Incorporation and Lease, 1964; 1968
14. Clippings--Article and Newspaper, 1982-83
15. Correspondence, 1980-1985
16. Fiftieth Anniversary, 1983
17. Pamphlets and Brochures, 1968-1972
LADIES HOME JOURNAL, 1947-1990
18. Articles, Drafts, Notes, and Ideas, 1958; 1985; n.d.
19. Clippings---Article and Newspaper, 1959-1987
20. Correspondence, 1948-1990
21. Public Affairs Articles, March 1947-December 1950
22. Public Affairs Articles, February 1951-December 1955
23. Public Affairs Articles, January 1956-November 1961
24. "Salute to Second Century," 1983
25. "Women in the Eighties," 1979; n.d.
26. Women in the Workforce Conference, 1980
27. "Women of the Year," 1973-1980
28. "Women of the Year," 1981-1982
SEVENTEEN CAREER BOOK FOR YOUNG WOMEN, 1962-1966
29. Correspondence, 1962-1963
30. Correspondence, 1964
31. Correspondence, 1965-1966
BOX 2 (FOLDERS 32 - 58)
32. Manuscript--Complete, c. 1965
33. Manuscript--Complete, c. 1965
34. Manuscript--Complete, c. 1965
35. Manuscript--Complete, c. 1965
36. Manuscript--Drafts, 1963-1965
SERIES 3: GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS, 1945-1986
WOMEN'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION, 1945
37. "Woman in the Postwar," by MH, 1945
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY FOREIGN AID, 1973-1986
38. Field Visit to South Africa, 1975
39. Conferences and Meetings, 1978-1986
40. Correspondence, 1974-1983
41. Members, 1976-1985
42. MH Reports, Drafts, Notes, Excerpts, n.d.
43. MH Report on Israel Visit, 1978
44. Personal Notes, n.d.
45. Press Releases, 1973-1983
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1973-1982
46. Front Lines, 1973-1982
47. Honor Awards Ceremony, MH Awarded, 1980
48. Memoranda, 1974-1980
49. Reports, 1976-1979
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON CAREERS FOR OLDER AMERICANS, 1979-1984
50. Elderworks, 1984
51. Reports, 1979
52. Symposium, 1979
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COUNCILS ON SOCIAL WELFARE, 1971-1979
53. ICSW, Granada, Spain, 1973 54. ICSW, The Hague, Netherlands, 1972
55. ICSW, Israel, Article Manuscripts and Conference Notes, 1974-1979
56. ICSW, Israel, Collected Materials, 1978-1979
57. ICSW, Israel, Correspondence, 1978-1979
58. NCSW, National Conference on Social Welfare, 1971 & 1973
BOX 3 (FOLDERS 59 - 88)
SERIES 4: VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS, 1947-1990
RED CROSS--AMERICAN, 1947-1989
59. Board of Governors, Meetings, 1970-1988
60. Charter, Bylaws, and Resolutions, 1947; 1971; 1980
61. Clippings---Article and Newspaper, 1917-1985; n.d.
62. Correspondence, 1950-1989
63. EEO Advisory Committee, Affirmative Action Handbook, 1981
64. EEO Advisory Committee, Correspondence, 1981-1989
65. EEO Advisory Committee, Reports and Guidelines, 1981-1989
66. Local Chapters, 1968-1984
67. Memoranda and Reports, 1966-1989
68. Margaret Hickey Reports, 1963-1972
69. Mission Statements, 1965-1983
70. National Conventions, 1967-1975
71. National Convention (Centennial), Washington, D.C., 1981
72. National Convention, St. Louis, MO, 1982
73. National Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1983
74. National Convention, San Antonio, TX, 1984
75. National Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985
76. National Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 1986
77. National Convention, Denver, CO, 1987
78. Press Releases and Newsletters, 1973-1989
79. Publications and Brochures, 1961-1988
RED CROSS--LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES, 1956-1982
80. Ad-Hoc Committee on Social Development, MH Chairman, 1971-1973
81. Correspondence, 1967-1982
82. International Festival of Red Cross Health Films, 1973
83. Members, 1975
84. Memoranda and Reports, 1961-1982
85. Margaret Hickey Reports: Drafts, Notes, Excerpts, n.d.
86. Publications, 1956-1974
87. XXI International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 1969
88. XXII International Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1973
BOX 4 (FOLDERS 89 - 127)
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS, INC., 1941-1989
89. Correspondence, 1973-1985 90. Missouri Federation, 1989
91. National Council on the Future of Women in the Workplace, 1983-1984
92. Publications and Brochures, 1941-1989
AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION, 1960-1983
93. Brochures, Mission Statements, Programs, 1960-1978
94. Correspondence, 1977-1983
95. Seminar, "The Changing Role of Women in Contemporary Society, MH moderator, n.d.
HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION, 1984-1990
96. Correspondence, 1984-1990
97. Publications, 1984-1987
98. Scholars and Selection Committees, 1984-1988
WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICE (WVS), 1961-1969
99. Correspondence, 1964-1969
100. Margaret Hickey Interviews Lady Reading, October 1966
101. Publications, 1961-1964; n.d.
OTHER COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITIES, 1951-1989
102. Freeman Health Services, Retreat, Culver City, CA, 1984
103. International Association for Volunteer Education, Conferences, 1976-1984
104. Interview, Ohio State University, 1982
105. League of Women Voters, 1976-1989
106. Lillian D. Wald Committee, 1968-1970
107. Matrix; National Federation of Press Women; & Women in Communications, Inc., 1967-1988
108. National Association of Mental Health, 1972; 1981
109. National Institute of Social Sciences, c. 1969
110. Rockefeller Bros. Fund, Special Studies Project, Panel V Report (with Correspondence), 1951-1958
111. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Special Briefing for Non-Governmental Women Leaders, 1977
112. The Women's Company, Tucson, Arizona, 1976-77
113. Women's Studies Advisory Council, University of Arizona, 1986-1988
114. Y.W.C.A., 1968; 1989
SERIES 5: TRAVEL, 1961-1980
AFRICA (1975), 1961-1976
115. Correspondence, 1974-1975
116. Daily Journal, by Carol Perkins, 1975
117. Daily Journal, by MH, 1975
118. Itineraries, Travel Information, 1961-1975
119. "One Woman's Safari," by MH, Ladies Home Journal (May 1976)
CHINA (1979), 1978-1980
120. Correspondence, 1978-1980
121. Itineraries, Brochures, n.d.
122. Journals, Article Manuscripts, n.d.
123. Personal Notes, n.d.
SERIES 6: RESEARCH FILES, 1941-1990
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, 1984-1989
124. Clippings--Newspaper, 1984-1989; n.d.
AFRICA, 1960-1982
125. Articles, Booklets, 1960-1982
AGING, 1977-1985
126. Clippings--Article and Newspaper, 1977-1985; n.d.
127. Published Reports, 1978
BOX 5 (FOLDERS 128-154)
CHINA, 1956-1980
128. Articles, 1956-1980
129. Clippings--Newspaper, 1977-1980
EDUCATION, 1964-1990
130. Clippings--Article and Newspaper, 1968-1990; n.d.
131. The Future of Foundations, by John Nason, 1977
132. Reports, 1964-1975
GOVERNMENT, 1954-1988
133. Clippings--Newspaper, 1954-1988
134. Committee for Economic Development, 1964
135. Department of State, 1976-1984
136. National Agenda for the Eighties, 1981
INSPIRATIONAL & RELIGIOUS TOPICS, 1947-1988
137. Booklets and Newsletters, 1960-1988
138. Clippings--Article and Newspaper, 1947-1971; n.d.
139. Quotes, 1954-1984
VOLUNTARISM & SOCIAL WELFARE, 1963-1990
140. Clippings--Articles and Newspapers, 1963-1978
141. Junior League Newsletters, 1977-1990
142. Paper, "The Politics of Conscience," by August Heckscher, National Social Welfare Assembly, 1965
143. Paper, "Should We Use Famine as a Weapon?" by Jean Mayer, Harvard School of Public Health, c. 1966
144. Private Volunteer Agencies, Newsletters, 1964-1986
145. Private Volunteer Agencies, Reports, 1964-1984
146. Publications and Brochures, 1963-1982
147. United Nations Reports, 1972-1977
148. World Bank Reports (R. McNamara), 1974-1976
WOMEN'S ISSUES, 1952-1988
149. Careers and Workforce Role, Conferences and Reports, 1971-1983
150. Clippings--Articles, 1968-89
151. Clippings--Newspapers, 1966-1989
152. Education, 1963-1988
153. Equal Rights Amendment, Attitude Surveys, 1980
154. International Development, Reports, 1974-1982
BOX 6 (FOLDERS 155 - 242)
155. Manuscript, "Future of Feminism in the 1980s," Verta A. Taylor, 1981
156. Newsletters, 1966-1983
110. United Nations Reports, 1952-1975
158. United States Department of Labor Reports, 1970-1982
159. Women's Studies, 1981-1988
WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945
160. Civilian Defense Information, 1942-1945
161. Production and Engineering Bulletin, (England), 1944
162. Women and National Defense, 1941
WRITING/COMMUNICATIONS, 1955-1980
163. Clippings--Article and Newspaper, 1955-1980
SERIES 7: SPEECHES, 1939-1984
AGING ISSUES, 1970-1984
164. "Keeping Involved at Any Age," Pennsylvania Association of Women Deans and Counselors, October 30, 1970
165. "Health Care: The Perceptions of Society," Freeman Health Services, Culver City, California, 1984
166. Untitled (Aging), c. 1984
167. Untitled (Aging), n.d.
COMMENCEMENT & UNIVERSITY SPEECHES, 1952-1975
168. Cedar Crest College, Commencement Address & Honorary Degree, 1952
169. Commencement Address, (unknown college), 1964
170. Miss Hickey's School for Secretaries, Commencement Address, 1966
171. St. Mary College, Commencement Address, St. Mary College, May 22, 1971
172. Webster College, Untitled Address (Vocational Guidance), February 11, 1971
173. University of Missouri-St. Louis, Commencement Address, (Honorary Degree Recipient), May 18, 1975
174. University of South Dakota, Lecture, n.d.
175. Commencement speeches, n.d.
GENERAL, 1955-1983
176. "Our Task Today and Tomorrow," Y.W.C.A., 1955
177. "The Near Look and the Far Vision," [plus drafts], 1958
178. "The Development of Human Leadership," P.E.O. Record, 1963
179. Address to Regional Meeting [excerpts], Junior League, Phoenix, AZ, 1967
180. Address, Golden Anniversary Dinner, National Federation of Business and Professional Women, July 16, 1969
181. Address, 100th Anniversary Luncheon, Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Chapter, University of Arizona, 1970
182. Address, Association of Women Accountants, Pittsburgh, PA, May 19, 1972
183. Untitled (Creativity), St. Louis, 1972
184. "Designing the Future," Quadrennial Conference, Camp Fire Girls, Houston, Texas, November 20, 1975
185. "The Politics of Leadership Today" [press release], 87th Annual Convention, National Federation of Women's Clubs, 1978
186. Remarks, Luncheon, Ft. Hood, Texas, April 5, 1978
187. Address, Charter 100 Luncheon, 1982
188. "Salute to the Journal's Second Century," Bermuda, September 29, 1983
189. "On Human Dignity," n.d.
190. Address, Golden Anniversary Dinner, National Federation of Business and Professional Women, n.d.
191. Charter Club Speech [draft], Junior League, n.d.
192. Untitled (ACA Conference on the Arts), n.d.
193. Untitled (United Nations), [draft], n.d.
INSPIRATIONAL & RELIGIOUS SPEECHES, 1953-1983
194. Meditations, Camp Miniwanca, American Youth Foundation, 1953; 1977
195. Memorial to Ruth Kingsley, 1983
196. Red Cross, Inspirational, n.d.
RED CROSS, 1964-1983
197. Address, Red Cross Convention, May 19, 1964
198. Address, American National Red Cross, National Convention, May 10, 1966
199. Red Cross, Oklahoma City, November 14, 1966
200. Red Cross, Phoenix, AZ, 1981
201. Address, American Red Cross, 52nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1983
202. Address, Red Cross Annual Meeting, Dallas, n.d.
203. Address, Red Cross, Phoenix, Arizona, n.d.
204. Red Cross, [drafts, notes, excerpts], n.d.
VOLUNTARISM, 1939-1965
205. Untitled (Citizenship), 1939
206. Address, Veterans Administration Voluntary Service, Annual Meeting, 1965 (published in Report of 1965 Annual Meeting)
207. "Vocation: Volunteer," Junior League, c. 1965
208. "New Concepts of Commitment" or "Vocational Voluntarism," n.d. (c. 1965)
209. Keynote Address, International Conference on Volunteer Education, n.d.
210. "Volunteers for Today and Tomorrow," (excerpts from), n.d.
211. Untitled (Voluntarism), San Francisco/Stanford, n.d.
212. Untitled (Voluntarism), [drafts], n.d.
WOMEN'S ISSUES, 1941-1977
213. "Womanpower Today," c. 1941-45
214. "What Next for Women?" reprinted in Independent Woman, August 1946 (incomplete)
215. "The Work Women Want," School and College Placement, December 1947
216. "Homemaker Politicians vs. the Backroom Boys," Mills College Centennial Lectures, January 1952
217. "Beyond the Doorstep," Mills College Centennial Lectures, January 1952
218. "Women Today," Mills College Centennial Lectures, January 1952
219. "The Women's Role," excerpts from radio broadcast, 1955
220. "Politics without Malice," April 1964
221. "The Status of Women: Implications for Community Organizations," c. 1964
222. "Woman's Role in a Changing World," American University of Beirut, October 18, 1966
223. "Lib Can Create Animosity," (interview with MH), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 22, 1971
224. Untitled (Role of Women), 1972
225. "A Look at the Future--American Women in Business," Arizona Press Women Conference, 1976
226. "Impressions of American Women on the Move," Houston, Texas, November, 18-21, 1977
227. "Time to Speak Out," n.d.
228. "The World Women Want," n.d.
229. "The Militant 70s," n.d.
230. "The Issues of Leadership for Women in Today's World," n.d.
231. "Women Who Care," n.d.
232. "Room at the Top," [notes], n.d.
233. "Creating Positive Attitudes about Women: An Editor's Point of View, (excerpts from), n.d.
234. "Status and Stature for Today's Woman" (excerpts from), n.d.
235. Untitled (Ladies Home Journal), [draft], n.d.
236. Untitled (Woman Power), [drafts, notes], n.d.
237. Untitled speeches on the Status of Women, n.d.
SERIES 8: NOTEBOOKS & DIARIES
238. Passports, 1952-1976
239. Notes and Ideas (unbound), n.d.
240. Notes and Ideas (unbound), n.d.
241. Notes and Ideas (unbound), n.d.
242. Notebooks
BOX 7 (FOLDERS 243 - 264)
243. Notebooks
244. Notebooks
245. Notebooks
246. Notebooks
247. Notebooks
248. Notebooks
SERIES 9: PHOTOGRAPHS, C. 1920S-1985 (564.1 - .271)
249. Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, 1950-1978; n.d. (564.1 - .16)
250. Committees, Awards, Events, 1949-1985; n.d. (564.17 - .36)
251. Hickey School for Secretaries, 1983; n.d. (564.37 - .46)
252. Ladies Home Journal, 1975-1982; n.d. (564.47 - .78)
253. Portraits, c. 1920s-1982; n.d. (564.79 - .109)
254. Red Cross--American, 1969-1982; n.d. (564.110 - .119)
255. Red Cross--League of Red Cross Societies, 1961-1973 (564.120 - .128)
256. Speaking Engagements, 1950; n.d. (564.129 - .134)
257. Travel, Africa, 1975 (564.135 - .139)
258. Travel, International, 1952-1981 (564.140 - .152)
259. Travel, China, 1979 (564.153 - .158)
260. Travel, China, 1979 (564.159 - .200)
261. Travel, China, 1979 (564.201 - .250)
262. University Commencements & Honors, 1966-1975; n.d. (564.251 - .263)
263. University of Missouri-St. Louis Commencement, Slides, 1975 (564.264 - .271)
264. Negatives, 1979-1982 (China Trip and 1 Portrait)
BOX 8 (FOLDERS 265 - 272)
SERIES 10: ARTIFACTS, 1944-1983
265. Red Cross Pin; Press Badge (Republican National Convention, 1976); Handkerchief (China, 1944) 266. Honorary Degree, Cedar Crest College, 1952
267. Woman of Achievement Award, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1956
268. Certificate of Appointment, President's Commission on the Status of Women (signed by JFK), 1962 [hanging on wall in WHMC office]
269. Alumni Achievement Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1972
270. Service Award, Red Cross, 1973
271. Service Award, National Association for Mental Health, 1975
272. Fiftieth Anniversary Plaque, Hickey School, 1983
INDEX
Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, f. 38-45
Affirmative Action, f. 63-65, 124
Africa, f. 38, 115-119, 125
Agency for International Development, f. 46-49
aging, f. 50-52, 126-127, 164-167
American Red Cross, f. 59-79, 197-204 (see also Red Cross)
American Youth Foundation, f. 93-95, 194
awards, f. 1, 47
biographies, f. 2-4, 6, 11,
Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., f. 89-92, 180, 185, 190
Missouri Federation, f. 90
China, f. 120-123, 128-129
commencements, f. 9, 168-171, 173, 175
Department of State, f. 135
education, f. 96-98, 130-132, 152
Elderworks, f. 50
Equal Rights Amendment, f. 153
Henry Luce Foundation, f. 96-98
Hickey, Margaret, f. 1-256
Writings, f. 18, 21-23, 32-37, 42-44, 55, 68, 80-81, 85, 117, 119, 122-123, 239-248
Speeches, f. 155-237
Hickey School for Secretaries, f. 13-17, 170
Articles of Incorporation, f. 13
Fiftieth Anniversary, f. 16
honorary degrees, f. 7, 9, 168, 173
International Association for Volunteer Education, f. 103, 209
International Council on Social Welfare, f. 53-57
International Committee of the Red Cross, f. 80-88 (see also Red Cross)
Israel, f. 43, 55-57
Junior League, 141, 179, 191, 207
Ladies Home Journal, f. 18-28, 188, 235
Public Affairs, f. 18, 21-23
Salute to Second Century, f. 24, 188
Women of the Year, f. 27-28
League of Red Cross Societies, f. 80-88, 204 (see also Red Cross)
League of Women Voters, f. 105
Lillian D. Wald Committee, f. 106
National Association of Mental Health, f. 108
National Committee on Careers for Older Americans, f. 50-52
National Council on Social Welfare, f. 58
National Federation of Press Women, f. 107
National Institute of Social Sciences, f. 109
Perkins, Carol, f. 115-116, 118
Red Cross--American, f. 59-79, 197-204
Centennial, f. 71
charter and bylaws, f. 60
EEO Advisory Committee, f. 63-65
mission statements, f. 69
National Conventions, f. 70-77,
Red Cross--League of Red Cross Societies, f. 80-88, 204
Ad-Hoc Committee on Social Development, f. 80
International Festival of Red Cross Health Films, f. 82
International Conferences, f. 87-88
resumes, f. 8
Rockefeller, Nelson, f. 110
Seventeen Career Book for Young Women, f. 29-36
United Nations, f. 147, 157
University of Missouri-St. Louis, f. 9-12, 173
Vietnam War, f. 143
voluntarism, f. 140-148, 205-212
War Manpower Commission, f. 37
Women's Advisory Committee, f. 37
women's issues, f. 95, 149-159, 162, 213-237
careers, f. 91, 95
education, f. 152
Equal Rights Amendment, f. 153
feminism, f. 6, 155, 223, 229
women's studies, f. 113, 159
Women's Studies Advisory Council, University of Arizona, f. 113
Women's Voluntary Service, f. 99-101
World War II, f. 12, 37, 160-162, 213
YWCA, f. 114, 176
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