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 1501 North Troy Street
.Arlington, Virginia
July 31, 1944
Dear Mrsg Peal:

I've got the whole thing figured out-e Dewey is going to win the
election and then Herbert Brownell will appoint lairo Peal to the Supreme
Court and you can come back here and help run the YMMA and Heaves knows
at that time it needs some help. I hope, however, that Mr. Peal might
change his mind and come back to Washington.on something less than a
Supreme Court appointment as most of those men up there look entirely
too healthy to bring you here immediately.

Have you continued with your volunteer work this summer? The pamph~
let you did for the counseling department is being reprinted this fall with
a change in about four words and a change in the picture on the front. That
is hOW’gOOd it is. Mrs, Shepard suggested the change in the four words on
the second page.

You’ve probably heard about Mrs. Shepard's leaving. I‘m not sure that
I've entirely a clear picture of it yet, but in a rather cloudy and unlogical
way I blame Marion Emerine. Mrs. Shepard's relationships with the board didn‘t
seem to be perfect, but it was not until the last flare up over Marion Emerine
and whether or not she was to be fired (the whole thing was going on while you
were here)vthat the conflict came out in the opena 'The board felt, I guess,
that Mrs. Shepard could have held Marion down, that she should have had more
control over Marion. And knowing Marion, I'd say that the board expected the
impossible. It seemed also that Mrs. Shepard was in sympathy mdth Marion‘s
attitudes on several questions, and finally Mrs. Shepard sent a letter to the
board saying she was resigning for a number of reasons. She listed the fact
that the power in the board seemed to be centered in the hands of a few and she
had understood that a YWCA was to operate democratically, that she had opposed
the actions of the board in the way in which they were firing the industrial
secretary, and She felt that the board was making it impossible for any progress
to take place inter racially. The board was not happy over Mrs. Shepard’s letter
which she first read to the heads of departments before it has presented to the
board. Then, Margaret Shreffler wrote a letter to the board, commending Mrs.
Shepard and stating how the staff regretted losing her, which in turn was signed
by all the staff members. This did not increase the joy of the board any.
Mrs. Thomas, is of course, extremely sympathetic with Mrs. Shepard. It seems to
me that Marion Emerine embodied the community pressure for inter-racial practices,
that the board embodies the conservative block in the community which is going to
fight every inch of the way and Mrs. Shepard, a liberal, was caught in between the
cross fire. Miss Emerine resigned just before Mrs. Shepard did and quietly rem
tired to a mountain retreat she had bought in Maine. It seems that she has money
of her own, in fact that she need be very little concerned about a job as a means
of support. However, I don't believe that situation exists as far as Mrs. Shep--=
ard is concerned and I feel that Marion Emerine cared very little that she got
Mrs. Shepard out of a job, a job she might have held until she was ready to re—
tire and until the general secretary the board has wanted for a number of years
gets ready to take the job.

Now about the next general secretary. You remember me telling you about
Mabel Cook, who must be very like your friend Dorothy. well, Miss Cook is the

 

 choice of the board for general secretary and has been for some time. But she
doesn't have the paper qualifications for a general.’ But she has had a responn
sible job in the U80 and is nearly ready to take over a general secretary. But
she would probably wish to finish her job in the USO, and that's why I say that
Mrs. Shepard, without Marion Emerine, could have stayed here until the war was
over and until she was ready to retire and unti Miss Cook was ready to take
over. (Marion on several ocassions had asked Miss Haynes and me if we didn‘t
want to form.a committee with her, Call on Mrs. Shepard and demand that she
clear the way for more direct action, which Miss Haynes and I refused to do. So
I know that Miss Emerine was consciously pushing Mrs. Shepard and didn‘t care
what happened.)

I was inclined to think that Marion wasn”t particularly effective and didn‘t
in any way need concern us, if we didn't care to be concerned. I believe that
you had a very definite reaction to her, which if I'd given more weight to, might
have been able to do something, at least to more actively oppose Marion. As it
has turned out, she has influenced youngersmembers of the health education departs
ment, the Girl Reserves, the Music Deparhnent, etc., Mrs. Shepard's secretary,
and countless others and it has been a very far reaching influence. I don't be»
lieve that Miss Shreffler wanted to take the job here in the first place, and she
has been most unhappy the whole year and has fallen.in with Marion on a number of
occasions. Miss Shreffler may have been a very good Girl ReServe secretary in
the past, but in this job I think she was a complete failure. And I feel part”
icularly sorry about her two young assistants on their first YWCA'jobs. They
have no other job to compare this one with, therefore they have no discrimination.
They are very sure that there is everything wrong with a YWCA and nothing right.
One is going on to younger girls” work in the Brooklyn'YlCA, Mrs. Louise Spray,
and the other is going to stay here.

Some of us are wondering whether harion will be taken on the national staff
as an industrial secretary, because she is just about what they want. If they
do take her on, I've lost some of my respect for national's judgment.

As to our new general secretary, when she get's here. She‘s a very dynamic
person and is going to be in a very tough spot inter-racially, especially if the
national convention this next year votes to make## YWCA'S interracial. Of course,
that doesn't mean that YWCA'S are forced to adopt that policy; but it will give
the interracial groups here a good basis for sniping. And if any general sec-
retary can satisfy both the interracial groups who will be pushing on the exter-
ior and the conservative board, that general secretary is a magician. Maybe
Miss Cook is a magician, that remains to be seen. Before the next general is
ready to come in, it seems that we are to have an interim with Miss Charest as
the general.

I don't know whether this means much to you, but after my experience with
Marion Emerine, I’m going to attach a little more weight to such secretarial
shenanigans in the future and not shrug them.off as I've done. Her influence
has been as far reaching as anything I've ever seen, and it's been rather inter-
esting to watch it come out in the open.

When do you next think you'll get to washington? I'm having myvacation the
15th of August to the 15th of September. If you don't get to Washington this

fall, I'll come up to New York to see you for a day or two when I can get away.

So it goes in the YWCA, this year having made me a much wiser person.

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