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3 unusual facts about Martha Sharp


Martha Sharp

Dr. Robert Dexter, head of the Department of Social Relations for the Executive Committee of the AUA, along with Quaker representative Richard Wood traveled to Europe to start contacts in Geneva, London and Paris, to create a network of relief workers and sympathetic politicians.

She attended Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, and later studied in the field of Social Work at Northwestern University’s Recreation Training School centered in Hull House, a Chicago settlement.

Along with Waitstill, Martha administered a relief program after seeking advice from Alice Masaryk and other prominent Czechs.



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