Eolyn Carolyn Klugh Guy (born about 1901 – died October 9, 1963) was an African-American social worker, active with the YWCA.
Early life Eolyn Carolyn Klugh was raised in New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, the daughter of David Simpson Klugh and Adella Plyman Klugh. Her father was a prominent Baptist clergyman in Boston;"Prominent Negro is Dead" The Index-Journal (January 20, 1935): 5. via Newspapers.com her mother was an alumna of Spelman Seminary and active in churchwomen's organizations."Succumbs" The Pittsburgh Courier (October 20, 1928): 13. via Newspapers.com She attended Spelman Seminary and earned a bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1922."Colored Students and Graduates of 1923" The Crisis (July 1923): 111. She received a master's degree from Simmons College in 1928."Two Family Photograph Albums of prominent Boston African American Woman, Eolyn Klugh Guy, 1910–1933 (Sold)" Ian Brabner, Rare Americana.Simmons College, "Graduates" Microcosm (1928): 153. via Internet Archive
Career As a young woman, Klugh lived and worked at the Robert Gould Shaw House, a settlement house in Boston's South End."Robert Gould Shaw House, Fortieth Anniversary 1908–1948" brochure. She attended the national meeting of the YWCA in 1924, as Girl Reserve and industrial secretary of the St. Aubin Branch of the YWCA in Detroit."St. Aubin Branch YWCA" The Chicago Defender (May 3, 1924): A8. "Motor City Society" The Pittsburgh Courier (September 17, 1927): 12. via Newspapers.com In 1930 she attended the National Conference of Social Work in 1930, when it met in Boston."5000 Social Workers Attend Confab" The Pittsburgh Courier (June 21, 1930): 8. via Newspapers.com"5,000 Delegates at Social Workers Meet" The Chicago Defender (June 21, 1930): 2.
She published her research as "Colored Girls at Work in Boston" (1928) in Opportunity, the magazine of the National Urban League.Eolyn C. Klugh, "Colored Girls at Work in Boston" Opportunity (October 1928): 295–299.Mark Schneider, "The Boston NAACP and the Decline of the Abolitionist Impulse" Massachusetts Historical Review 1(1999): 99. She spoke at Wellesley College in 1932 on "Extra-Curricular Activities for the Negro".Wellesley College, "Addresses", Report of the President (1933): 76. via Internet Archive In 1946 Eolyn Guy was named program director of the 12th Avenue Center YWCA in Tucson, Arizona."YWCA Has Board Meeting" Tucson Daily Citizen (May 21, 1946): 3. via Newspapers.com"Four Agencies Get Increases" Tucson Daily Citizen (June 11, 1947): 2. via Newspapers.com She also served on the board of the YWCA in Tucson.Toki Schalk Johnson, "Toki Types" The Pittsburgh Courier (November 13, 1948): 8. via Newspapers.com"YWCA Board Hears Reports" Tucson Daily Citizen (May 21, 1947): 9. via Newspapers.com"Regional YW Meets Tuesday" Tucson Daily Citizen (October 7, 1946): 11. via NewspaperArchive.com
Personal life Eolyn Klugh was a bridesmaid at the wedding of poet and social worker Clarissa Scott Delany in 1926, and attended her funeral the following year."Mrs. Scott Delaney Buried Thursday" Baltimore Afro American (October 15, 1927): 2. via NewspaperArchive.com Eolyn Klugh married Harry Maurice Guy in 1932. They had a son, Harry Maurice Guy Jr. Eolyn Klugh Guy died in 1963."Eolyn K. Guy" Tucson Daily Citizen (October 15, 1963): 21. via Newspapers.com Her papers are archived in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.Eolyn C. Guy family papers (circa 1930–1948), The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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