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Identifier	clloy_211
Title	[Edward Pierce letter to Los Angeles County Superintendents, June 26, 1902]
Creator	Pierce, Edward T., 1851-1919
Date Created	1902 June 26
Description	A letter, typewritten on letterhead from the State Normal School in Los Angeles, CA, and embossed with the school's crest. The letter confirms that Mary Workman has completed the Kindergarten Course in the State Normal School at Los Angeles.
Historical Background	Born into a politically prominent Los Angeles family, Mary Julia Workman founded the Brownson House Settlement Association in 1901 and led it for 19 years. She became the first woman to join the Municipal League, a civic watchdog group. A Roman Catholic who built cooperative relationships with church leaders, she founded the diocesan chapter of the National Council of Catholic Women in 1924. She led the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission from 1927 to 1928 and helped establish local chapters of the League of Women Voters and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Throughout her life Workman was active in numerous social and religious efforts in her native city. The California State Normal School was a teaching college founded in 1862 whose original campus was located in San Francisco. In 1881, the first branch campus was announced in Los Angeles, on what later became the site of the Central Library of the Los Public Library system. In 1887, the California legislature changed the name of the two normal schools to simply "State Normal School." In 1919, the State Normal School at Los Angeles became the Southern Branch of the University of California, now the University of California, Los Angeles.
Type	text
Physical Description	1 leaf ; 28 cm
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8870232n
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	Materials in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Language	eng
Subject (Name)	Workman, Mary Julia, 1871-1964; State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Teachers--California--Los Angeles; Teachers colleges--California--Los Angeles; Kindergarten teachers--Training of;
Form/Genre	Letters (correspondence);
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 2: Mary Julia Workman, Box 2, Folder 13
Transcription	State Normal School. . . EDWARD T. PIERCE. PRESIDENT OF FACULTY Board of Trustees: EX-OFFICIO {HENRY T. GAGE, GOVERNOR THOM J. KIRK, SUPT. PUB. INSTRUCTION R. H. F. VARIEL, PRESIDENT HENRY W. O'MELVENY JOHN S. COLLINS E. J. LOUIS LEE A. PHILLIPS EDWARD T. PIERCE, SECRETARY Los Angeles, California, June 26, 1902. To County Superintendents:-- This is to certify that Miss Mary Workman has completed the work of the Kindergarten Course in the State Normal School at Los Angeles, and has been granted the diploma of the school. Respectfully, Edward T. Pierce. President.