Suffrage leader
Alice Stokes Paul
Jan 11, 1885 (Mt. Laurel NJ) – July 9, 1977 (Moorestown NJ)
Alice was born into a prominent Quaker family and raised in a strict religious environment. Among her ancestors were William Penn and the prominent Winthrop family of Massachusetts. She grew up with a keen sense of the Quaker tradition of service, in part because of her mother’s involvement as a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. At times, as a youngster, Alice would attend suffrage meetings with her mother.
Alice graduated at the top of her high school class (Moorestown Friends School), and then attended Swarthmore, a college co-founded in 1864 by her grandfather where she graduated in 1905 with a degree in biology.
After attending a summer session at the New York
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He enjoyed writing and his classmates liked the way he edited the school newspaper. One of those classmates who admired his writing was Jane Epstein, an attractive blonde, but she had no other interest in her Latvian classmate, well, until . . . but we’re getting ahead of the story. After high school, Ace majored in journalism at Kansas City Polytechnic Institute where he wrote a weekly column with the snappish, but perplexing title, “The Dyspeptic” for the school’s newspaper. Following his studies at the Institute, he landed a job with the Kansas City Journal-Post as a cub reporter.
One day, his press pass came in handy when that attractive blonde from his high school days, Jane Epstein, wanted to see a sold out Al Jolson concert. Ace had spent hours daydreaming about Jane, but that’s all it was, a daydream. Jane was pretty and popular and he was, well, bookish, and certainly not the big man on campus. When Ace learned of Jane’s plight, he took the initiative and let her know he could get them into the concert. Surprisingly, she accepted his offer, and six months later, they tied the