{"id":4132,"date":"2014-03-31T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:26:53","slug":"kalamazoo-college-pioneer-lucinda-hinsdale-stone-now-in-the-congressional-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/kalamazoo-college-pioneer-lucinda-hinsdale-stone-now-in-the-congressional-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College Pioneer Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Now in the Congressional Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4135\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/ucindaStone0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4135 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/ucindaStone0011-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College pioneer Lucinda Hinsdale Stone\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/ucindaStone0011-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/ucindaStone0011.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucinda Hinsdale Stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College has long honored <strong>Lucinda Hinsdale Stone<\/strong> for her leadership at the College during its formative years in the mid-1800s. Now she has been honored by the United States Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Fred Upton, who represents Southwest Michigan, read a tribute to Stone into the Congressional record recently on the occasion of Women\u2019s History Month and Stone\u2019s bicentennial year of birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Speaker, Women\u2019s History Month is a time for all Americans to pay tribute to the generations of women who have made our world a better place in which to live,&#8221; said Upton on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 27, 2014. &#8220;Today, it is my great honor to recognize Kalamazoo, Michigan\u2019s Lucinda Hinsdale Stone for her efforts to advance education reform and women\u2019s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon moving to Michigan in 1843 with her husband, Dr. James Stone, Lucinda became the first principal of the Ladies Department at the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan, which would soon become Kalamazoo College. Together, Lucinda and James Stone helped shape the school\u2019s direction, in part by introducing coeducation and promoting abolitionism and women\u2019s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lucinda Hinsdale Stone invited noted abolitionists and educators Frederick Douglass and Henry James Thoreau into her home and classroom. She also was a charter member of the Ladies Library Association in Kalamazoo (the third-oldest such club in the U.S.), and she organized the People\u2019s Church of Kalamazoo, the Michigan Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs, and the Women\u2019s Press Association. Susan B. Anthony dubbed her the &#8220;Mother of Women\u2019s Clubs in Michigan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/sesquicentennial-stand\/\">Read a brief historical note about Stone by Kalamazoo College Professor Emerita of English <strong>Gail Griffin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College has long honored Lucinda Hinsdale Stone for her leadership at the College during its formative years in the mid-1800s. Now she has been honored by the United States Congress. Congressman Fred Upton, who represents Southwest Michigan, read a tribute to Stone into the Congressional record recently on the occasion of Women\u2019s History Month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[54,149],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-english","tag-k-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Kalamazoo College Pioneer Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Now in the Congressional Record - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College has long honored Lucinda Hinsdale Stone for her leadership at the College during its formative years in the mid-1800s. 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Now she has been honored by the United States Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Fred Upton, who represents Southwest Michigan, read a tribute to Stone into the Congressional record recently on the occasion of Women\u2019s History Month and Stone\u2019s bicentennial year of birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Speaker, Women\u2019s History Month is a time for all Americans to pay tribute to the generations of women who have made our world a better place in which to live,&#8221; said Upton on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 27, 2014. &#8220;Today, it is my great honor to recognize Kalamazoo, Michigan\u2019s Lucinda Hinsdale Stone for her efforts to advance education reform and women\u2019s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon moving to Michigan in 1843 with her husband, Dr. James Stone, Lucinda became the first principal of the Ladies Department at the Kalamazoo Branch of the University of Michigan, which would soon become Kalamazoo College. Together, Lucinda and James Stone helped shape the school\u2019s direction, in part by introducing coeducation and promoting abolitionism and women\u2019s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lucinda Hinsdale Stone invited noted abolitionists and educators Frederick Douglass and Henry James Thoreau into her home and classroom. She also was a charter member of the Ladies Library Association in Kalamazoo (the third-oldest such club in the U.S.), and she organized the People\u2019s Church of Kalamazoo, the Michigan Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs, and the Women\u2019s Press Association. Susan B. 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