Photos • Biography • Facebook • Twitter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abby Snow Belden
A yearbook photo of a young white woman with dark hair, wearing a white blouse
Abby Snow Belden, from the 1918 yearbook of Smith College
BornAugust 2, 1896
Hatfield, Massachusetts
DiedApril 18, 1969
Center Harbor, New Hampshire
Other namesAbbie Snow Belden
Occupation(s)Physical education professor, camp director

Abby Snow Belden (August 2, 1896 – April 18, 1969) was an American physical educator, on the faculty at Smith College. She was an accomplished horsewoman and active in hiking, camping, and other outdoors activities in New England.

Early life and education

Belden was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Clarence Eugene Belden and Nellie Maud Snow Belden. [1] [2] She was a teenaged horse racer in Northampton, Massachusetts. [3] [4] She graduated from Northampton High School in 1914, and from Smith College in 1918. [5] She earned a teaching certificate in hygiene from Wellesley College in 1920. [6]

Career

Belden taught physical education at the University High School at the University of Chicago from 1920 to 1921. [7] In 1925, she was promoted to full professor status in the department of hygiene and physical education at Smith College. [8] She was faculty director of the Outing Club at Smith. [9] [10] In 1930, she organized a "foxless fox hunt" for the club. [11]

Belden directed Camp Tahoma Junior in Pike, New Hampshire, [12] [13] until 1927. [14] She founded and directed Camp Winnicut at Lake Winnipesaukee. [15] She also taught riding at a nearby boys' camp, Camp Tecumseh. [16] She was a founding member of the Sportswoman Guild, [17] and a member of the American Physical Education Association, [18] and the Appalachian Mountain Club. [19] She spoke at the New England Trail Conference in 1927, on training her pet collie to pull a "light toboggan" while camping in winter. [20] She served on the steering committee of the New England Trail Conference. [21] [22]

Belden ran for a seat on the Northampton City Council in 1929. [3] [23] In 1942, she joined the staff of Marot Junior College. [24] She held a seat on the school board in Moultonborough, New Hampshire in 1946, [25] and was a town trustee in the early 1960s. [26] [27]

Personal life

Belden died in 1969, aged 72 years, at a nursing home in Center Harbor, New Hampshire.

References

  1. ^ The William Snow Family: Descendants of William Snow, who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1635. Snow & Farnham Company, printers. 1908. p. 45.
  2. ^ Lockwood, John Hoyt (1926). Western Massachusetts: A History, 1636-1925. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Incorporated. p. 59.
  3. ^ a b Byrnes, Robert D. (October 18, 1929). "Politics". Hartford Courant. p. 20. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Toniko in Six Heats". The Boston Globe. July 30, 1914. p. 8. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Smith College, Class of 1918 (1918 yearbook): 22. via Internet Archive
  6. ^ Smith College, The Report of the President to the Board of Trustees (October 14, 1921): 38.
  7. ^ University of Chicago, Annual Catalogue (1921): 56.
  8. ^ "The February Meeting of the Trustees". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. 16: 329. May 1925 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ "Outing Club Activities" The Smith Alumnae Quarterly 17 (July 1926): 496-497.
  10. ^ "At School and College". Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society. November 26, 1927. p. 15. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Twenty Smith Girls in Foxless Fox Hunt". The Boston Globe. November 27, 1930. p. 23. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ A Handbook of Summer Camps: An Annual Survey. Porter Sargent. 1926.
  13. ^ "Bradford". The United Opinion. August 5, 1921. p. 8. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Campers Guests at Tea". The Montclair Times. May 25, 1927. p. 7. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Sargent, Porter. A Handbook of Summer Camps: An Annual Survey 12(1935): 599.
  16. ^ "Camp Tecumseh - Archive Photo Album". Tecumseh Alumni. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  17. ^ "The Sportswoman Guild". The Sportswoman. 3: 3. February 1927.
  18. ^ "New Members Admitted to the Association by Vote of the Executive Committee, November, 1919" American Physical Education Review (December 1919): 526.
  19. ^ "Nominees for Membership, June, 1925" Bulletin of the Appalachian Mountain Club 18(June 1925): 152.
  20. ^ "Urges Using Pet Dogs for 'Huskies' on Trails". The Boston Globe. December 17, 1927. p. 5. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Final Meeting of Trails Conference". The Boston Globe. December 17, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Trail Conference Meets in Boston March 1 and 2". The Boston Globe. February 18, 1929. p. 12. Retrieved July 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Northampton Elects H. C.Bliss as Mayor". The Boston Globe. December 4, 1929. p. 18. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "1918". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. 33: 128. February 1942.
  25. ^ Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Moultonboro (1946): 3.
  26. ^ Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Moultonboro (1960): 3.
  27. ^ Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Moultonboro (1962):3.
Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Abby_Snow_Belden&oldid=1144600924"