Title: MRS. S. S. (CLARA) GOLDWATER COLLECTION Type: Papers Date: 1936-1958 (Predominantly, 1936-1945 Size: 1 Folder ID#: 461 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
Scope & Contents
The papers of Mrs. S. S. Goldwater were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in April of 1971 by her daughter, Ms. Cuthbert Daniel and were opened for research in May of 1984.
Mrs. Goldwater taught English in the normal school that later became Hunter College. In 1920, with John Haynes Holmes, John Dewey, Roger Baldwin, and John Lovejoy Elliott, she founded the Teachers Union Auxiliary, New York City and served as its president for many years. In the thirties a number of teachers disassociated themselves from the Teachers Union and joined the Teachers Guild, which was organized as a local of the American Federation of Teachers, A.F.L. Mrs. Goldwater served as president of the Teachers Guild Associates, an affiliate organization composed of persons interested in the teaching profession but not actively engaged in it. She also served on the board of trustees of the Society for Ethical Culture and was active in its John Elliott Institute of Human Relations. She was married to Dr. S. S. Goldwater who was the Director of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. She died at the age of eighty-four in June of 1958.
The papers of Mrs. Goldwater consist of several of her speeches and a transcript of a radio broadcast and luncheon program sponsored by the Teachers Guild Associate. The papers are arranged in chronological order
One photograph has been placed in the Archives Audio-Visual Collections.
Goldwater, Ms. S. S.; Obituary notice [June 25, 1958]
___________________ Speeches, [1936], [1941], [1945]
"Loyalty and the Educator", Radio broadcast. . . January 1936
Teacher Guild Associates, Fifteenth Anniversary Luncheon, April 1937.