Mary Foy (onye na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ)
Mary Emily Foy (July 13, 1862 - February 21, 1962) bụ nwanyị mbụ na-elekọta ọbá akwụkwọ nke Los Angeles Public Library, nke a họpụtara n'ọrụ ahụ na 1880 mgbe ọ dị afọ 18. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'afọ gara aga na Los Angeles High School.[1] Ọ rụrụ ọrụ naanị afọ anọ mana ọ hapụrụ ihe nketa maka ndị na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ Los Angeles iji cheta.[2][3]
Oge ọ malitere dezie
A mụrụ Foy na Los Angeles, California.[3]
Ndị bu ya ụzọ dezie
Ụmụ nwanyị rụrụ ọrụ enyemaka na Los Angeles Public Library ruo ọtụtụ afọ. Mgbe e guzobere ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ na 1872, a machibidoro ụmụ nwanyị iji ya mee ihe.
- Otú ọ dị, ọnọdụ a gbanwere ngwa ngwa. N'ime ọnwa isii mbụ nke ọrụ ya, ụlọ ọrụ ahụ kwurịtara ikwe ka "ladys" bụrụ ndị otu, na-ahapụ ha iji kaadị ndị otu" ndị ikwu ha nwoke iji nweta ohere ịnweta nchịkọta ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ. Na 1876, ọbá akwụkwọ gbakwunyere "Ụlọ ụmụ nwanyị" na mgbagwoju anya ya. Ọ bụ ezie na ụlọ ọhụrụ ahụ enweghị akwụkwọ, ọ nwere ọtụtụ magazin ndị a ma ama yana sofa na oche dị mma maka ụmụ nwanyị klọb iji mee ihe.[4]
A họpụtara John C. Littlefield, onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Los Angeles Weekly Express, dị ka onye na-elekọta ọ́bá akwụkwọ mbụ nke obodo ahụ na 1872. Littlefield bụ onye ụkwara ume ọkụ ma na-ese siga n'ọfịs ya nke na-ewute ndị ahịa.[5] Onye nọchiri ya n'afọ 1879 bụ onye a na-azụghị aha ya, Patrick Connolly, onye, a tụrụ aro ya, bụ onye aṅụrụma nke furu ihe karịrị ụbọchị ya n'ọrụ ma bụrụ onye ụlọ ọrụ ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ chụpụrụ, nke ṅụrụ iyi ịkpọ aha "onye na-elekọta ọbá akwụkwọ nwanyị".
N'ọbá akwụkwọ ọha na eze Los Angeles dezie
Foy, nwa nwanyị dị afọ iri na asatọ nke onye ahịa Samuel Foy, jụrụ onye agbata obi nke ndị Foys, Mayor John Toberman, maka ọrụ ahụ ma ọ dụrụ ya ọdụ ka ọ kpọọ ndị otu City Council niile, nke o mere. Ọ nọrọ n'oge ọkọchị nke 1880 na mpaghara San Francisco Bay, na-arụ ọrụ na ndị na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ na San Francisco na Oakland iji mụta ọrụ ya.
O mechara dee na ọrụ ya n'ọbá akwụkwọ dị na Main na Temple Streets na Los Angeles gụnyere:[3]
- ịmepụta usoro katalọgụ, idebe akaụntụ ọbá akwụkwọ, na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye ọbịa na Ladies Reading Room, na-eje ozi dị ka onye nnọchiteanya maka egwuregwu chess na-aga n'ihu na Newspaper Room, na idozi nzọ ndị e mere na saloon dị n'okpuru na ajụjụ ndị dị ka, "Ònye dere Webster's Dictionary: Noah ma ọ bụ Daniel?"
Dị ka Sheri D. Irvin si kwuo, n'oge ahụ, a na-ahọpụta ụmụ nwanyị n'ọkwá obodo Los Angeles maka ebumnuche ebere dịka mkpa nwanyị maka nkwado ego. Mgbe Onye isi obodo Toberman hapụrụ ọrụ, a họpụtara bọọdụ ọbá akwụkwọ ọhụrụ na nwanyị ọzọ a họpụtara n'ọnọdụ Foy. Otú ọ dị, Foy ahapụghị n'ụzọ dị jụụ: Ọ "bipụtara okwu nkwụsịtụ na akwụkwọ akụkọ ebe ọ katọrọ bọọdụ [na-apụ apụ] maka enweghị itinye aka na mmasị na ọbá akwụkwọ". Nwanyị a họpụtara iji dochie Foy bụ nwa nwanyị L.D. Gavitt, Jessie.[6]
Ụlọ ebe amụrụ Mary Foy na July 13, 1862, ebe ọ bi bụ Los Angeles Historical Cultural Monument No. 8.[7]
Dị ka onye nkuzi na onye na-akwado ikike ụmụ nwanyị dezie
O mechara kụzie na Alameda School na Downey na Eighth Street School na Los Angeles ma site na 1903 ọ na-akụzi na Los Angeles High School.[7]
Onye na-ede akwụkwọ akụkọ bụ John Adams, na-ede na Downey Eagle, kwuru na Foy bụ "nwanyi siri ike" nke "na-eme mkpọsa maka Woodrow Wilson n'oge ọrụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị mba ya ma lụọ ọgụ ruo ọtụtụ iri afọ maka California Progressive Movement na Women's Rights".[3] E depụtara ya na akwụkwọ afọ 1913 nke Los Angeles High School dị ka "nwaanyị a ma ama na klọb na onye na-akwado ụmụ nwanyị".
Ndụ onwe onye dezie
Na Febụwarị 21, 1962, Foy nwụrụ. Ọ dị afọ 99.[3]
A kwanyeere Foy ùgwù site n'ịmepụta Ụlọ Mary Foy California n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha na eze ọhụrụ dị na Fifth na Olive Streets, ọ bụ ezie na ụlọ ahụ abụghị akụkụ nke imezigharị ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ mgbe e wughachiri ya mgbe nnukwu ọkụ abụọ gasịrị na 1986.[2]
A na-akọ akụkọ banyere ọrụ Foy na Los Angeles Central Library na Susan Orlean's The Library Book .
Ihe odide dezie
- ↑ Los Angeles High School Graduates 1875 to 1885. Archived from the original on 2006-10-31. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Library recalls Mary Foy: But still no room. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Even libraries tend sometimes to forget. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.
- ↑ Debra Gold Hansen, Karen F. Gracy, and Sheri D. Irvin, "At the Pleasure of the Board: Women Librarians and the Los Angeles Public Library, 1880–1905", p. 314
- ↑ Orlean (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
- ↑ Orlean (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Leader of Women's Movement taught locally. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.
Njikọ mpụga dezie
Ịgụ ihe ọzọ dezie
- Jane Apostol, Mary Emily Foy: "Miss Los Angeles n'onwe ya", 1996