Eleanor M. Hosley

Eleanor M. Hosley
Eleanor M. Hosley, from the 1927 yearbook of Wellesley College
Born	February 18, 1906 Newton, Massachusetts
Died	June 6, 1997 Beverly, Massachusetts
Occupation	Social worker

Eleanor Merriam Hosley (February 18, 1906 – June 6, 1997) was an American social worker based in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was director of the Day Nursery Association from the 1940s until 1971. She worked with psychoanalyst Anny Rosenberg Katan, and was a co-founder of the Cleveland Center for Child Development in 1960.

Early life and education

Hosley was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Walter Alexis Hosley and Caroline Simmons Eddy Hosley. Her mother, a Smith College graduate,^[1] was president of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts,^[2] and her father was a Harvard-trained medical doctor.^[3] Her grandmother founded and ran the day nursery in Springfield, Massachusetts.^[4] She graduated from Newton High School in 1923, and from Wellesley College in 1927.^[5]

Career

Hosley was a social worker based in Cleveland. She taught child development courses at Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and was director of the Day Nursery Association of Cleveland from the 1940s until her retirement in 1971.^[6][7] She published a handbook, A Manual for the Beginning Worker in a Day Nursery (1946). In 1960 she was co-founder of the Cleveland Center for Child Development, with Anny Rosenberg Katan and Robert A. Furman.^[8] She spoke at professional conferences and to community organizations on the importance of quality child care.^[9][10] "Inadequacy of public assistance grants and making scapegoats of people who receive them, including their children, also does severe damage to some young children of a kind that is not easily repaired," she said in 1963.^[11]

Publications

In addition to her handbook for day nursery workers, Hosley published in academic and professional journals including The Family,^[12] Child Welfare,^[13][14] The Journal of Nursery Education,^[15] The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,^[16] and Young Children.^[17]

• "The Day Nursery's Function in Supportive Treatment" (1943, with Marcella S. Farrar)^[12]
• A Manual for the Beginning Worker in a Day Nursery (1946, 1949)^[18]
• "Case Work in Day Care Centers" (1951)^[13]
• "Individualizing the Day Nursery Program for the Child" (1954)^[14]
• "Community Responsibility for Housing Day Care Centers" (1960)^[15]
• "Part-Time Care: The Daycare Problem" (1964)^[16]
• "A Joint Approach in Working with Parents" (1964)^[19]
• "The Long Day" (1965)^[17]
• "Group Day Care a Service any Responsible Parent Might Need" (1965)^[20]
• A Century for Children – A History of the Day Nursery Association (1998, published posthumously by the Hannah Perkins Center for Child Development)^[21]

Personal life

Hosley died in 1997, at the age of 91, in Beverly, Massachusetts. The Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development in Cleveland presents the Eleanor M. Hosley Memorial Award to professionals who demonstrate 'kind, effective consideration of the needs, feelings and rights of children".^[22]

References

1. Smith College, Class of 1900 (1900 yearbook): 37.
2. "Consumers' League Fights Sweatshops; Urges Merchants Not to Buy Goods Made There". The Boston Globe. 1932-04-07. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-01-16 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Secretary's Report, Harvard College Class of 1900. 1910. p. 187.
4. "Mrs. C. D. Hosley Dead". Transcript-Telegram. 1917-06-18. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-01-16 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Wellesley College, Legenda (1927 yearbook): 60.
6. Hosley, Eleanor M. (2006-04-17). "Letter: Eleanor M. Hosley to Carol R. Lubin, November 29, 1967; in the Planned Community Archives, Catherine A. Baum Digital Collection" – via Mason Archival Repository Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. "History of Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development". Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
8. "Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
9. "Claims ignorance as lack of centres to care for children". The Sun Times. 1968-05-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
10. Spong, Richard (1965-05-12). "Day-Care Problem Gets New Attention". Iowa City Press-Citizen. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Pre-School Children's Needs, Problems Related by Officials". The Idaho Statesman. 1963-11-17. p. 31. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
12. Farrar, Marcella S.; Hosley, Eleanor M. (December 1943). "The Day Nursery's Function in Supportive Treatment". The Family. 24 (8): 283–293. doi:10.1177/104438944302400801. S2CID 79921737 – via Internet Archive.
13. Hosley, Eleanor (1951). "Case Work in Day Care Centers". Child Welfare. 30 (7): 12–15. ISSN 0009-4021. JSTOR 45396759.
14. Hosley, Eleanor (1954). "Individualizing the Day Nursery Program for the Child". Child Welfare. 33 (7): 3–8. ISSN 0009-4021. JSTOR 45400630.
15. Hosley, Eleanor (1960). "Community Responsibility for Housing Day Care Centers". The Journal of Nursery Education. 15 (4): 130–131. ISSN 2334-3982. JSTOR 42716859.
16. Hosley, Eleanor M. (September 1964). "Part-Time Care: The Day-Care Problem". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 355 (1): 56–61. doi:10.1177/000271626435500107. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 145252591.
17. Hosley, Eleanor M. (1965). "The Long Day". Young Children. 20 (3): 134–139. ISSN 0044-0728. JSTOR 42641870.
18. Hosley, Eleanor M. (1949). A Manual for the Beginning Worker in a Day Nursery. Child Welfare League of America.
19. Hosley, Eleanor (1964). "A Joint Approach in Working with Parents". Child Welfare. 43 (4): 187–191. ISSN 0009-4021. JSTOR 45397807.
20. Hosley, Eleanor M. (1965). "Group Day Care a Service any Responsible Parent Might Need". Child Welfare. 44 (6): 344. ISSN 0009-4021. JSTOR 45397407.
21. "Publications". Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
22. "Remembering Dr. John Kennell". Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2023-01-16.