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I said, “Oh yes, I'm sure of that, but of course the people we're going to be working with are the people who operate this and the employers and workingmen who have to live under this law. Those are the ones we thought we'd consult.”

“Well, I think you ought to have some direct contact with education. It occurred to me that Marion Dickerman would be an excellent person. She's a woman. She's socially minded. And she's an educator.”

I thought I should drop - that Marion Dickerman would be a good member of that commission! She's all right. She's an educator all right. She'd been a school teacher in some public school system upstate and then she had opened a little school called the Nightingale School. She had bought some old private girl's school in New York, Todhunter School. Mrs. Roosevelt had put up a great deal of money for that. Marion Dickerman had come down, taken charge of it and was the principal of this private, select school for very young girls. It didn't fit them for college, but was for the very young girls - I suppose seven to fourteen or fifteen. It was a select private school for girls in New York City and not very large. It would hardly appear that she was one of the great educators of America, although she was clearly