Eolyn Klugh Guy Explained

Eolyn Klugh Guy
Birth Name:	Eolyn Carolyn Klugh
Birth Place:	c. 1901
Death Date:	October 9, 1963
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	social worker
Known For:	settlement house and YWCA work

Eolyn Carolyn Klugh Guy (born about 1901 – died October 9, 1963) was an African-American social worker, active with the YWCA.

Early life

Eolyn Carolyn Klugh was raised in New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, the daughter of David Simpson Klugh and Adella Plyman Klugh. Her father was a prominent Baptist clergyman in Boston;^[1] her mother was an alumna of Spelman Seminary and active in churchwomen's organizations.^[2] She attended Spelman Seminary and earned a bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1922.^[3] She received a master's degree from Simmons College in 1928.^{[4] [5]}

Career

As a young woman, Klugh lived and worked at the Robert Gould Shaw House, a settlement house in Boston's South End.^[6] She attended the national meeting of the YWCA in 1924, as Girl Reserve and industrial secretary of the St. Aubin Branch of the YWCA in Detroit.^{[7] [8]} In 1930 she attended the National Conference of Social Work in 1930, when it met in Boston.^{[9] [10]}

She published her research as "Colored Girls at Work in Boston" (1928) in Opportunity, the magazine of the National Urban League.^{[11] [12]} She spoke at Wellesley College in 1932 on "Extra-Curricular Activities for the Negro".^[13] In 1946 Eolyn Guy was named program director of the 12th Avenue Center YWCA in Tucson, Arizona.^{[14] [15]} She also served on the board of the YWCA in Tucson.^{[16] [17] [18]}

Personal life

Eolyn Klugh was a bridesmaid at the wedding of poet and social worker Clarissa Scott Delany in 1926, and attended her funeral the following year.^[19] Eolyn Klugh married Harry Maurice Guy in 1932. They had a son, Harry Maurice Guy Jr. Eolyn Klugh Guy died in 1963.^[20] Her papers are archived in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.^[21]

Notes and References

1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4941461/the_indexjournal/ "Prominent Negro is Dead"
2. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28726945/adella_klugh_1928/ "Succumbs"
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=-sARAQAAMAAJ&dq=Eolyn+Klugh&pg=PA111 "Colored Students and Graduates of 1923"
4. https://www.rareamericana.com/pages/books/145605/sr-harry-maurice-guy-eolyn-carolyn-klugh-guy-david-simpson-klugh/two-family-photograph-albums-of-prominent-boston-african-american-woman-eolyn-klugh-guy-19101933 "Two Family Photograph Albums of prominent Boston African American Woman, Eolyn Klugh Guy, 1910–1933 (Sold)"
5. Simmons College, "Graduates" Microcosm (1928): 153. via Internet Archive
6. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m039pd755?datastream_id=content "Robert Gould Shaw House, Fortieth Anniversary 1908-1948"
7. "St. Aubin Branch YWCA" The Chicago Defender (May 3, 1924): A8. via ProQuest
8. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28726676/eolyn_klugh_1927/ "Motor City Society"
9. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28726766/eolyn_klugh_1930/ "5000 Social Workers Attend Confab"
10. "5,000 Delegates at Social Workers Meet" The Chicago Defender (June 21, 1930): 2. via ProQuest
11. Eolyn C. Klugh, "Colored Girls at Work in Boston" Opportunity (October 1928): 295-299.
12. Mark Schneider, "The Boston NAACP and the Decline of the Abolitionist Impulse" Massachusetts Historical Review 1(1999): 99.
13. Wellesley College, "Addresses", Report of the President (1933): 76. via Internet Archive
14. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28729779/eolyn_klugh_guy_1946/ "YWCA Has Board Meeting"
15. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28729898/eolyn_klugh_guy_1947/ "Four Agencies Get Increases"
16. Toki Schalk Johnson, "Toki Types" The Pittsburgh Courier (November 13, 1948): 8. via Newspapers.com
17. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28729422/eolyn_klugh_guy_1947/ "YWCA Board Hears Reports"
18. https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-07-1946-1055571/ "Regional YW Meets Tuesday"
19. https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-oct-15-1927-1055530/ "Mrs. Scott Delaney Buried Thursday"
20. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28712943/eolyn_klugh_guy_obit_1963/ "Eolyn K. Guy"
21. https://oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=e;idT=UCb184128018 Eolyn C. Guy family papers (circa 1930-1948)