Helen Hale Tuck Cohron (1894 – September 6, 1957) was an American educator, clubwoman, and college dean. She was acting Dean of Women at Howard University from 1919 to 1922, and an active clubwoman in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s.
Helen Hale Tuck | |
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 Helen Hale Tuck, from the 1921 yearbook of Howard University | |
| Born | 1894 Oberlin, Ohio |
| Died | September 6, 1957 New York City |
| Other names | Helen Cohron |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, college dean |
Early life and education edit
Tuck was born in Oberlin, Ohio, the daughter of Henson C. Tuck and Ella C. Hale Tuck. Both her parents were born in Ohio; her father, a local businessman, was involved in the Niagara Movement and local politics.[1][2] She graduated from Oberlin High School in 1912.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree and a teaching certificate in physical education at Oberlin College in 1917.[4] She later earned a master's degree in education at Columbia University.[5]
Career edit
Tuck moved to Louisville then to Washington, D.C., to be Girl Work Secretary of the War Work Council of the YWCA during World War I.[6][7] She taught physical education courses at Howard University from 1918[8] and was acting Dean of Women[9][10] from 1919[11] until 1922, when she resigned to marry, and was succeeded by Lucy Diggs Slowe.[12] She also taught at Miner Teachers College.[5]
Tuck was a clubwoman in Cleveland in the late 1920s,[13][14] then moved to New York City. She served on the board of the National Urban League, and was active in Utopia Children's House,[15] the Juvenile Welfare Council,[16] the Visiting Nurse Service,[17] and the Harlem branch of the YWCA.[5]
Personal life edit
Helen Tuck married Morehouse College alumnus George E. Cohron,[18] later manager of the Harlem office of the Social Security Board,[19] in 1922.[20] She died in 1957, aged 63 years, in New York City, after a long illness.[5]
Her nephew Arch Parsons[21] was a journalist and newspaper editor in New York, Washington, and Baltimore, and worked in the Carter administration.[22][23]
References edit
- ^ Kornblith, Gary; Lasser, Carol (2018-12-05). Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio. LSU Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8071-7015-1.
- ^ "Village Housing: 62 N. Pleasant Street". Oberlin College Archives. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ^ "1912 OHS". Oberlin High School. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ^ Oberlin College (1918). Course Catalog. pp. 251, 252.
- ^ a b c d "Mrs. George Cohron, Ex-Dean at Howard" The New York Times (September 7, 1957): 14. via TimesMachine
- ^ "$400,000 to Be Spent for Work among Colored Girls". The New York Age. 1918-09-28. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Washington Letter". The New York Age. 1919-02-22. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ University, Howard (1918). Catalogue.
- ^ Official Register of the United States: Persons in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service, Exclusive of the Postal Service. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1922. p. 77.
- ^ University, Howard (1918). Catalogue. p. 19.
- ^ "New Day at Howard". The Washington Post. 1919-08-17. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Logan, Rayford W. (1969). Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. NYU Press. pp. 198–199. ISBN 978-0-8147-0263-5.
- ^ "Cleveland Matrons Plan Clever Benefit". The Pittsburgh Courier. 1929-03-23. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Society to Assist in Entertaining Business League". The Pittsburgh Courier. 1926-07-31. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Utopia Children's House Board of Managers Honors Lester A. Walton at Dinner- Meeting". The New York Age. 1938-04-09. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Toyery for Harlem Children to Open at 39 West 135th Street". The New York Age. 1942-07-04. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Broadway Stars on Program Given by Visiting Nurse Group". The New York Age. 1944-12-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Nesfield, Carl (1962-08-04). "G. E. Cohron (Mr. Social Security) Retires after 25 Years in New York". The Pittsburgh Courier. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Social Security Board". Opportunity. 15: 348. November 1937.
- ^ "News of the Alumni", Oberlin Alumni Magazine 19(October 1922): 35.
- ^ Carter, Stephen L. (2018-10-09). Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster. Henry Holt and Company. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-250-12198-1.
- ^ "Arch Parsons, 78, editor and reporter for The Sun". The Baltimore Sun. 2001-01-19. p. 39. Retrieved 2022-02-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bernstein, Adam (January 18, 2001). "Longtime Reporter Arch Parsons". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2022.