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Mabel Cratty (June 30, 1868 - February 27, 1928) was an American educator and served as the General Secretary of the National Board of the YWCA from 1906 until her death in 1928. ==Biography== Mabel was born to Harold and Mary Cratty in Bellaire, Ohio. Mabel had a brother, Donald, and a sister, Anna. Her uncle was the Methodist bishop James Mills Thoburn.〔 She attended public school and received her teacher's education at Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU). After graduating from OWU in 1890, Mabel became a public school teacher. From 1900 to 1904, she was the principal of a high school in Delaware, Ohio.〔 She received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from OWU in 1922. Mabel left Delaware, Ohio in 1904 to take a position with the YWCA in Chicago. She became the Secretary of the Board in 1906 and served in other capacities for the YWCA as well. In addition to this and other work with the YWCA, Mabel Cratty was involved with a variety of other organizations, including World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (CCCW). The Women's Building on the campus of George Williams College (GWC), built in 1926, was renamed Mabel Cratty Hall in her honor in 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gwcconferences.com/about/our-history.html )〕 Her papers from 1904 to 1928 are a part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Smith College. At the time of her death, she lived in New York.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mabel Cratty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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