Carson , Ruth M. Charles R. Witherspoon, Wilma L. Dexter Perkins, Margaret C. Henry W. Hays, Harry H. Suskind, Doris U. Libby Pulsifier, Nancy B. Joseph Harris, Jane A. Manuel D. Goldman, Loma M. De Leslie L. Allen, Dr. William J. Knox, Jr. Sara Vance Stewart , Mrs. Gertrude Montfort, Gertrude M. Francis, Jr. But the new Settlement Houses of Rochester Foundation will be overseen by its own board and will hire a joint development director to handle fundraising.
Ron Thomas, executive director of Baden Street, said the settlement houses talked among themselves and with the Ad Council of Rochester about combining fundraising efforts for over a year. Thomas said a little more than half of his organization's funding comes from federal, state or local government, with the rest raised from United Way and private foundations.
Many public grants cap the amount that can be charged for administrative costs, putting more pressure on Baden Street to raise money from other sources, he said. There are only so many local donors, and competition for funds is stiff. Here groups of young women of foreign birth came to learn kitchen gardening, sewing and primary education.
When it was deemed best to bring this instruction into the neighborhood in which these young women lived, it was decided that a small settlement house would be the most effective means of teaching housekeeping and attractive home making. The location selected was that from which the girls came—the section of the city north of the railroad extending from Clinton Avenue to Hudson Avenue, and perhaps a half mile further north.
So successful were the efforts of Mrs. New plumbing was installed, the walls were repapered, the floors were painted , and neat muslin curtains were hung at the windows. The Settlement was a reality. When, a year later, in May, , the house was purchased, there was a registration of about three hundred girls, taught by sixty volunteer teachers. There were classes in plain sewing, shirtwaist making, darning, hemstitching, crocheting, embroidery, singing and basketry.
The enthusiastic response of the neighborhood to the Settlement House decided its directors and friends in the building of an Assembly Hall in the rear of the House. When it was completed in , social and athletic clubs for the boys in the neighborhood were organized alongside those that had been operating for the girls.
The basement of the Assembly Hall was equipped with shower, tub and spray baths for the daily u se of the women and children. Two evenings a week were set aside for baths for men and boys. This was done primarily through the efforts of the Settlement Board in appealing to the City. On July 4th a milk station was, therefore, opened with a nurse in charge to weigh the babies and instruct their mothers.
It soon became evident that the mothers of the neighborhood needed advice and instruction in the care of both sick and well babies. With the Board of the Settlement providing the funds, a professional nurse was hired. A volunteer nurse gave her time two days a week, visiting the homes of the ill and performing both nursing service and giving instruction in the care of the patients.
It was actually three years later, inn , that the Baden Street Dispensary had its beginnings. A small room in the Settlement House was equipped as a Dispensary through the generosity of friends and local business firms. Here a general clinic and ear, nose and throat clinics were held under the supervision of competent physicians. Another of the humanitarian activities that was organized to meet a great need in the neighborhood was the Day Nursery.
Many of the women in the area had to work to contribute toward the support of their families while others who were ill had no one to look after their children during the day. In , as a memorial gift, the six room cottage at 13 Vienna Street was purchased by a Rochester family transformed into a Nursery, and given to the Settlement.
It opened with an enrollment of f15 children who were cared for by a practical nurse. Baths, regular meals, naps and periods of play were provided for the nominal fee of five cents a day. In the meantime, the success of the medical and special clinics that were being held in a room at the Settlement House proved the need not only for a larger dispensary, but also for a resident nurse who would attend the clinics and make the necessary follow-up visits to the homes of patients.
In , the property at Baden Street was purchased by the Board, redecorated, furnished and equipped with clinic rooms, quarters for a resident nurse and one room to be used as a music room. The latter made possible a music schol for the small fee of 10 cents, could receive lessons from competent, volunteer teachers. When the pressure of expanding clinics made it necessary to take over the music room, the Settlement had already been able to help launch the Hochstein Music School for its neighborhood.
The new Dispensary opened with three clinics a week, in charge of three new physicians who volunteered their services. Then, as now, the effort was more to teach women how to prevent disease than cure it.
There were now eight clinics a week, averaging about patients a month. On May 15, , the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Settlement, the cornerstone of the new Dispensary building was laid.
In early , the settlement houses began working with the Ad Council of Rochester to clarify and develop their ideas.
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