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“An Ever-Widening Circle of Friendship”:
YWCA Overseas Secretaries from China to Liberia |
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Virginia Heim George (1908-circa 2003)
 Virginia L. Heim
(from certificate of accreditation from the YWCA, 1946)
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| 1908 |
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri |
| 1929 |
B.A., University of Wisconsin |
| 1929-40 |
YWCA Program Director, working with industrial workers, Kansas City, Utica, Pittsburgh; YWCA Camp Director |
| 1937 |
Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduate study in group social work |
| 1940-43 |
Executive Director, YWCA, Rio de Janiero, Brazil |
| 1943-45 |
Regional Assistant Director of USO, Brazil, Caribbean area |
| 1946-48 |
Program Consultant, YWCA, Czechoslovakia; worked with women’s groups in Germany as part of military government |
| 1948-51 |
YWCA of the USA National staff, working with business and industrial young women |
| 1951-53 |
Group work and recreational director, YWCA, Oakland |
| 1953-66 |
Executive Director, YWCA, Yakima, Washington, and Utica, New York |
| 1962-71 |
Advisor, YWCA, Taipei, Taiwan; Colombia; and Lima, Peru |
| 1971 |
Executive Director, YWCA, Omaha |
View finding aid for Virginia Heim George Papers
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 Virginia Heim (fourth from left) with YWCA staff, Rio de Janiero, September 1943 |
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“[Coming to Puerto Rico] I kept thinking of what the past 5 years in Brazil had meant to me – and now – what will this new chapter bring? New experiences, more knowledge – new friends, and I hope an ever-broadening of oneself.”
[Diary entry, Puerto Rico, 14 November 1945 |
“In the afternoon I went to the ‘Y’ to see the program staff. The ‘Y’ was cold & damp & no heat at all…The spirit of the staff, too, was as cold as the weather…. Am trying once again to get caught up with my correspondence. It seems like a never ending task. There always seems to be no end to the things I should do…It is something trying to speak this language. It seems like an almost impossible task.”
[Diary entry, Prague, 8 October 1946 |
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 Virginia Heim’s Christmas
letter from
Taiwan, undated (circa 1960s) |
 New Year letter from Bogata,
Columbia, 1970 |
 “The YWCA Story,” 1965 |
 Virginia Heim (right) and
others
in Bogota, Columbia, circa 1966-71 |
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