Ella Flagg Young, Portrait of a Leader by Smith, Joan K - 1979

Ames, Iowa: Educational Studies Press and the Iowa State University Research Foundation, 1979. Hard cover. Fine in poor dust jacket. DJ flaps tucked inside; remainder missing.. 0 272 p. B&W photos. Charts. Notes by chapter, pages. Index. Brown cloth covered boards. Gold spine titles. Crisp white text pages. Frontispiece portrait. Biography of educator Ella Flagg Young, b.1845, Buffalo, NY-d.1918, Chicago, IL. Her career spanned more than 50 years of Chicago's growth. She became the first woman to head a major city school system, the first woman to be paid $10, 000 per year for a public service job, and the first woman to be president of the National Education Assn. She was Supt. of Schools in Chicago, 1909-1915.