CHAPTER LXVIII 

 MABEL T. BOARDMAN, A.M., LL.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI3 TO 



1914 



MABEL THORPE BOARDMAN was born in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, and was the daughter of William Jarvis and 

 Florence Sheffield Boardman. Miss Boardman received 

 her preliminary education in private schools in Cleveland and 

 New York and also studied in Europe. She received the honorary 

 degree of A.M. from Yale University in 1911, and of LL.D. from 

 Western Reserve University, Smith College, and the Georgetown 

 University. She also holds the degree of D.H.L. from Converse 

 College. 



Miss Boardman is a member of the Central Committee of the 

 American Red Cross, and was delegated to the Eighth and 

 Ninth International Red Cross Conferences in London in 1907, 

 and in Washington in 1912. She is now the secretary and a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee of the American Red Cross. The 

 remarkable preparedness of the American Red Cross in the recent 

 world war was largely due to the broad vision and leadership of 

 Miss Boardman, who was instrumental in stimulating the organi- 

 zation of Red Cross medical units long before our country entered 

 the war. For her activities she has been decorated by the King of 

 Sweden and the Emperor of Japan. 



Miss Boardman served as Commissioner of the District of 

 Columbia, 1920 to 1921, for which position she was so eminently 

 qualified because of her executive and business ability. It was a 

 source of great disappointment to the citizens of the national 

 capital that she was not reappointed, so that she might have con- 

 tinued her splendid efforts for the welfare of 165,455 women and 

 132,316 children out of a total population of 437,571. 



Miss Boardman is the author of a valuable work entitled 



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