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Matilda Smyrell Calder 1896 (Mrs. Lawrence Thurston)
Address in 1937: c/o Miss Florence G. Tyler 156 Fifth Ave New York NY
BS 1896, LittD 1925 Mount Holyoke College
Phi Beta Kappa
teacher 1896-1897 private school
teacher 1897-1900 Middletown CT
teacher 1900-1902 Central Turkey American Board School for Girls Marash Turkey
traveling secretary 1904-1906 Student Volunteer Movement
teacher 1906-1911 Changsha China
president 1913-1928 Ginling College China
adviser 1928-1936 Ginling College China
president emeritus 1936-?? Ginling College China
Married 1902; husband was a minister; died 1904
Source
All information from One Hundred Year Biographical Directory of Mount Holyoke College 1837-1937, Bulletin Series 30, no. 5; published and compiled by the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts