Gladys Boone

Gladys Boone
Boone, from a 1922 newspaper
Born(1895-01-31)January 31, 1895
Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, U.K.
DiedApril 23, 1982(1982-04-23) (aged 87)
Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationsEconomist, college professor

Gladys Boone (January 31, 1895 – April 23, 1982) was an English-born American economist and college professor. She was on the faculty at Sweet Briar College from 1931 to 1960.

Early life and education

Boone was born in Stoke-upon-Trent, the daughter of Frederick T. Boone and Florence Adams Boone. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1916 and a master's degree in 1917. Her master's thesis was titled "The Poor Law of 1601, with some consideration of modern developments of the Poor Law problem." She completed a doctorate in economics at Columbia University in 1941, with a dissertation titled "The Women's Trade Union Leagues in Great Britain and the United States of America".

Career

Boone was a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association in Birmingham after college. As a graduate student in the United States, she taught at Bryn Mawr College and at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and was an assistant editor of a social sciences encyclopedia. In 1923 she was executive secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's Trade Union League, and taught at Philadelphia Labor College. In summer 1924 she taught at the Woolman School.

Boone became a professor at Sweet Briar College in 1931, chaired the social studies division there. She chaired the economics committee of the Lynchburg Interracial Commission in the 1930s, spoke to women's clubs, traveled in the Soviet Union, and was active with the YWCA and was a director of the Virginia Consumers' League. During World War II she worked with the National War Labor Board. She was vice president of the Southern Economic Association, and contributed to the Encyclopædia Brittanica. She retired from Sweet Briar College in 1960.

Publications

Personal life

Boone died in 1982, at a nursing home in Lynchburg, Virginia, at the age of 87. She donated 1930s-era toys, books, photographs, postcards, and possibly propaganda posters from the USSR to the library at Sweet Briar College.

References

  1. 1 2 "News and Notes". American Journal of Sociology. 26 (4). The University of Chicago Press: 522. 1921. ISSN 0002-9602.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Roydhouse, Marion W. (2001). "Gladys Boone". Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Retrieved 2026-09-12.
  3. ↑ "Bryn Mawr Instructor Accepts Post at Tech". The Pittsburgh Press. 1922-06-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-09-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Liberal Club Discusses British Labor Party" (PDF). The College News. February 27, 1924. p. 1.
  5. ↑ "'Various Races'". The New Student. 3 (18): 8. June 21, 1924 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Personnel Notes". Southern Economic Journal. 9 (1). Southern Economic Association: 97–100. 1942. ISSN 0038-4038.
  7. ↑ "Wed. Club Hears Gladys Boone; Teacher of Sweet Briar Speks on Relation of Manners to Economics". Danville Register and Bee. 1932-12-01. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-09-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. 1 2 Carey, Janika (January 18, 2016). "'Art for the People' opens in Pannell Gallery". Sweet Briar College. Retrieved 2026-09-12.
  9. 1 2 Boone, Gladys (1937-05-30). "League Seeks Shorter Hours; Early History of Fight for Better Working Conditions Recalled". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. 27. Retrieved 2026-09-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Back Matter". Southern Economic Journal. 12 (2). Southern Economic Association. 1945. ISSN 0038-4038.
  11. 1 2 von Briesen, Martha (1960-06-03). "2 Veteran SBC Professors WIll Retire at Term's End". The News and Advance. p. 25. Retrieved 2026-09-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Boone, Gladys (June 15, 1926). "British Workers at Oxford". The Survey. 56 (6): 371–372 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ Elliott, Margaret (1942). "Review of The Women's Trade Union Leagues in Great Britain and the United States of America". The American Economic Review. 32 (4). American Economic Association: 919–920. ISSN 0002-8282.
  14. ↑ Herbst, Alma (1942). "Review of The Women's Trade Union Leagues in Great Britain and the United States of America". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 223. [Sage Publications, Inc., American Academy of Political and Social Science]: 250–251. ISSN 0002-7162.
  15. ↑ "Gladys Boone, 1895-1982". Bulletin of Sweet Briar College. 65 (3): 3. Spring 1982 – via Internet Archive.