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- catalog abstract "Collection documents Shouse's personal life as well as her volunteer and professional work and her support of the performing arts. Papers include correspondence, photographs, diaries, certificates, scrapbooks, financial records, travel diaries, obituaries, press releases, programs, maps, etc.".
- catalog contributor b10042338.
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Czechoslovakia Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Fairfax County (Va.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Germany Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Germany History 1945-1955.".
- catalog coverage "United States Officials and employees.".
- catalog coverage "Vienna (Va.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (Va.)".
- catalog date "1878".
- catalog description "An ardent supporter of the perfoming ares, Shouse began as a volunteer fundraiser for the National Symphony Orchestra. She also organized and sponsored the Candlelight Concerts in Washington, D.C. to supplement salaries of NSO musicians (1935-1942), and served as chair of the President's Music Committee's Person-to-Person Program (1957-1963), which produced annual calendars of national and international performances and organized the first International Jazz Festival (1962). In 1961, she donated 40 acres of her farm at Wolf Trap to the American Symphony Orchestra. In 1966, Shouse donated 100 acres and funds for an open-air theater to the National Park Service, and Wolf Trap came into being as the only national park for the performing arts.".
- catalog description "Catherine Filene Shouse Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "Collection documents Shouse's personal life as well as her volunteer and professional work and her support of the performing arts. Papers include correspondence, photographs, diaries, certificates, scrapbooks, financial records, travel diaries, obituaries, press releases, programs, maps, etc.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00014".
- catalog description "Philanthropist and founder of Wolf Trap Farm Park, Shouse was born in Boston, Mass., the daughter of A. Lincoln Filene and Therese (Weil) Filene. She attended Bradford Academy (1911-1913), spent one year at Vassar College (1913-1914), and graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. (1918). While an undergraduate, she organized a series of conferences to promote jobs for educated women. Shouse was hired as assistant to the chief of the Women's Division of the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor (1917). She published Careers for Women (1920) and was the first woman to receive a master's degree in education from Harvard University (1923). Shouse married economist Alvin E. Dodd in 1921; they had one daughter, Joan, and divorced in 1929. Two years later Shouse married Jouett Shouse, a former congressman from Kansas.".
- catalog description "The first woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee (1925), Shouse served as editor of the Woman's National Democratic Committee's Bulletin (1929-32). Shouse was the first woman to chair the board of the Federal Prison for Women (1926), where she instituted job training and rehabilitation programs. In 1929 she founded the Institute of Women's Professional Relations, which organized national conferences on opportunities for women with more than a high school education. A successful fundraiser, Shouse organized the General Clay Fund in 1949 to help the U.S. Army's Assistance Program for German Youth as well as the Hungarian Relief Fund to aid victims of Soviet repression in 1956. An avid dog breeder, Shouse was the president of the Potomac Boxer Club and publicity chair of the Old Dominion Kennel Club, and a judge in shows around the country.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent "13.7 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1878".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Czechoslovakia Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Fairfax County (Va.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Germany History 1945-1955.".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog spatial "Hungary.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "United States Officials and employees.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog spatial "Vienna (Va.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Vienna.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia.".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog spatial "Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (Va.)".
- catalog subject "Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.".
- catalog subject "American News Women's Club.".
- catalog subject "American Symphony Orchestra League.".
- catalog subject "Art patrons United States.".
- catalog subject "Arts fund raising.".
- catalog subject "Arts publicity.".
- catalog subject "Beauharnais, Helen Kotchoubey, Princess de.".
- catalog subject "Bush, Barbara, 1925-".
- catalog subject "Career education.".
- catalog subject "Centers for the performing arts Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Civic leaders United States.".
- catalog subject "Cohen, Elaine Pear.".
- catalog subject "Coolidge, Grace.".
- catalog subject "Custody of children United States.".
- catalog subject "Democratization Germany.".
- catalog subject "Divorce United States.".
- catalog subject "Dog shows United States.".
- catalog subject "Dogs Breeding Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Dogs Judging United States.".
- catalog subject "Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937.".
- catalog subject "Eisenhower, Mamie Doud, 1896-1979.".
- catalog subject "Entertaining Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "Fascism and youth.".
- catalog subject "Filene family.".
- catalog subject "Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937.".
- catalog subject "Filene, Lincoln, 1865-".
- catalog subject "Fund raising United States.".
- catalog subject "Hill family.".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Gerald.".
- catalog subject "Institute of Women's Professional Relations.".
- catalog subject "International relief charities.".
- catalog subject "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007.".
- catalog subject "Joint custody of children United States.".
- catalog subject "Ladd family.".
- catalog subject "Lewis, Boyd.".
- catalog subject "Lockhart, H. (Hugh)".
- catalog subject "Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999.".
- catalog subject "Music festivals United States.".
- catalog subject "Music patrons Virginia Vienna.".
- catalog subject "National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)".
- catalog subject "Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993.".
- catalog subject "O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-".
- catalog subject "Ocean travel.".
- catalog subject "Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985.".
- catalog subject "People-to-People (Organization). President's Music Committee.".
- catalog subject "Performing arts Finance.".
- catalog subject "Performing arts United States.".
- catalog subject "Performing arts Virginia.".
- catalog subject "Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965.".
- catalog subject "Philanthropists United States.".
- catalog subject "Political refugees Hungary.".
- catalog subject "Prey, Hermann, 1929-1998.".
- catalog subject "Publicity.".
- catalog subject "Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950.".
- catalog subject "Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-2001.".
- catalog subject "Robertson family.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.".
- catalog subject "Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968.".