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Jewish Women on the Map - Bryn Mawr College

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Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010-2899
United States

In 1922, Rose Pesotta completed the program at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Workers.  She was later elected as one of the first female vice-presidents of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

Lillian Laser Strauss, a graduate of the college and a pioneer in public health and child welfare in Pennsylvania, was  the director of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Workers in Industry.  As a member of the board of directors of the Bryn Mawr College Summer School, she helped to establish several county nutrition clinics.

See also: Rose Pesotta and Lillian Laser Strauss in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Bryn Mawr College." <http://jwa.org/onthemap/bryn-mawr-college> (May 24, 2012).