Englewood Makes History

Organizations & Institutions (149 total)

  • Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) is a labor union for medical professionals. The Englewood Professional Nurses' Association was created in 1974 by the nursing staff at Englewood Hospital, led by Ann Twomey. Local hospitals and medical centers asked for the…
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  • Helicon Home Colony was an experimental community and societal framework. Political activist Upton Sinclair founded it. The plan was for the community to be run democratically with a board of directors. The community would farm to supply its food source and the children would be…
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  • Franklin School taught grades kindergarten through sixth. It was founded in 1907. 
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  • Englewood Junior High School taught grades seven through nine. It was founded in 1917. 
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  • Donald Quarles Early Childhood Center is a public school that teaches Preschool and kindergarten. It opened in September of 1959.
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  • The Englewood Housing Authority was created in 1976 with Michael Terrace as the first Executive Director. The organization is made of a seven-member board. The director appoints five, the mayor appoints one, and the Department of Community Affairs appoints one. Originally…
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  • The Rotary Club is an international service organization. The Englewood branch was founded in 1923. The Englewood branch focuses a lot of its work on local youth. The club also supported many local humanitarian organizations.
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  • The Community Chest is a charitable organization. The mayor Cornelius P. Kitchel organized a committee to create a community chest in June 1932. This was due to the flood of social services needs caused by the Great Depression. Elisabeth "Betty" Reeve Cutter Morrow was selected…
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  • The Social Service Federation of Englewood emerged from the civic reform spirit that characterized the turn of the twentieth century. Its roots trace back to 1898, when members of the Woman’s Club of Englewood organized boys’ clubs to provide structured recreation and moral…
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