Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Sauer, Anne

Branco, Jessica

Bennett, John

Crowley, Zachary

2000

Hayes, Ethel Munroe, 1873-1950

 

Ethel Munroe Hayes (1873-1950), W1896, was a member of the first class of women admitted to Tufts and head librarian of the college for more than twenty years. Hayes House on the Medford campus was named in her honor, and a scholarship was founded in her name to benefit Jackson College students.

Born September 20, 1873, Hayes resided in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the same house on Medford Street, her entire life. Hayes entered Tufts after graduating from Somerville High School in 1892, as part of the first group of women who were admitted to the college. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors in 1896.Immediately following graduation, she began working for the college's library staff. She was made acting librarian in 1908, a promotion which coincided with the facility's relocation to Eaton Memorial Library from PackardHall. In 1917 she was made head librarian, a position she held for the next twenty years. From 1937 to 1943, she served as the college's reference librarian. She retired after forty-seven years of service in 1943 and was made reference librarian emeritus of the college.

At the time of her retirement, a scholarship was named in her honor by the Association of Tufts Alumnae. The Ethel M. Hayes Scholarship was to be annually presented to a Jackson College student working to support her studies, in recognition of high scholastic achievement.

She was also recipient of the Tufts Alumni Council's Distinguished Service Medal, and was made a member of the council in 1943.She was a charter member of the Association of Tufts Alumnae, organized in 1905. She served as its treasurer from 1927 to 1950.

Hayes was also a member of the Boston Branch of American Association of University women, the American Library Association , the Somerville Historical Society and the Women's Republican Club of Boston.

Hayes died at the Method Orthopedic Nursing Home in West Medford, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1950.

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
Dugger, Edward Jr., 1919-75
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