Mary Foy (onye na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ)

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Mary Foy

Mary Emily Foy (July 13, 1862 - February 21, 1962) bụ nwanyị mbụ na-elekọta ọbá akwụkwọ nke Los Angeles Public Library, nke a họpụtara n'ọrụ ahụ na 1880 mgbe ọ dị afọ 18. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'afọ gara aga na Los Angeles High School.[1] Ọ rụrụ ọrụ naanị afọ anọ mana ọ hapụrụ ihe nketa maka ndị na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ Los Angeles iji cheta.[2][3]

Oge ọ malitere[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

A mụrụ Foy na Los Angeles, California.[3]

Ndị bu ya ụzọ[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

Ụmụ nwanyị rụrụ ọrụ enyemaka na Los Angeles Public Library ruo ọtụtụ afọ. Mgbe e guzobere ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ na 1872, a machibidoro ụmụ nwanyị iji ya mee ihe.

Otú ọ dị, ọnọdụ a gbanwere ngwa ngwa. N'ime ọnwa isii mbụ nke ọrụ ya, ụlọ ọrụ ahụ kwurịtara ikwe ka "ladys" bụrụ ndị otu, na-ahapụ ha iji kaadị ndị otu" ndị ikwu ha nwoke iji nweta ohere ịnweta nchịkọta ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ. Na 1876, ọbá akwụkwọ gbakwunyere "Ụlọ ụmụ nwanyị" na mgbagwoju anya ya. Ọ bụ ezie na ụlọ ọhụrụ ahụ enweghị akwụkwọ, ọ nwere ọtụtụ magazin ndị a ma ama yana sofa na oche dị mma maka ụmụ nwanyị klọb iji mee ihe.[4]

A họpụtara John C. Littlefield, onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Los Angeles Weekly Express, dị ka onye na-elekọta ọ́bá akwụkwọ mbụ nke obodo ahụ na 1872. Littlefield bụ onye ụkwara ume ọkụ ma na-ese siga n'ọfịs ya nke na-ewute ndị ahịa.[5] Onye nọchiri ya n'afọ 1879 bụ onye a na-azụghị aha ya, Patrick Connolly, onye, a tụrụ aro ya, bụ onye aṅụrụma nke furu ihe karịrị ụbọchị ya n'ọrụ ma bụrụ onye ụlọ ọrụ ọbá akwụkwọ ahụ chụpụrụ, nke ṅụrụ iyi ịkpọ aha "onye na-elekọta ọbá akwụkwọ nwanyị".

N'ọbá akwụkwọ ọha na eze Los Angeles[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

Foy, nwa nwanyị dị afọ iri na asatọ nke onye ahịa Samuel Foy, jụrụ onye agbata obi nke ndị Foys, Mayor John Toberman, maka ọrụ ahụ ma ọ dụrụ ya ọdụ ka ọ kpọọ ndị otu City Council niile, nke o mere. Ọ nọrọ n'oge ọkọchị nke 1880 na mpaghara San Francisco Bay, na-arụ ọrụ na ndị na-ahụ maka ọbá akwụkwọ na San Francisco na Oakland iji mụta ọrụ ya.

O mechara dee na ọrụ ya n'ọbá akwụkwọ dị na Main na Temple Streets na Los Angeles gụnyere:[3]

ịmepụta usoro katalọgụ, idebe akaụntụ ọbá akwụkwọ, na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye ọbịa na Ladies Reading Room, na-eje ozi dị ka onye nnọchiteanya maka egwuregwu chess na-aga n'ihu na Newspaper Room, na idozi nzọ ndị e mere na saloon dị n'okpuru na ajụjụ ndị dị ka, "Ònye dere Webster's Dictionary: Noah ma ọ bụ Daniel?"

Dị ka Sheri D. Irvin si kwuo, n'oge ahụ, a na-ahọpụta ụmụ nwanyị n'ọkwá obodo Los Angeles maka ebumnuche ebere dịka mkpa nwanyị maka nkwado ego. Mgbe Onye isi obodo Toberman hapụrụ ọrụ, a họpụtara bọọdụ ọbá akwụkwọ ọhụrụ na nwanyị ọzọ a họpụtara n'ọnọdụ Foy. Otú ọ dị, Foy ahapụghị n'ụzọ dị jụụ: Ọ "bipụtara okwu nkwụsịtụ na akwụkwọ akụkọ ebe ọ katọrọ bọọdụ [na-apụ apụ] maka enweghị itinye aka na mmasị na ọbá akwụkwọ". Nwanyị a họpụtara iji dochie Foy bụ nwa nwanyị L.D. Gavitt, Jessie.[6]

Ụlọ ebe amụrụ Mary Foy na July 13, 1862, ebe ọ bi bụ Los Angeles Historical Cultural Monument No. 8.[7]

Dị ka onye nkuzi na onye na-akwado ikike ụmụ nwanyị[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

O mechara kụzie na Alameda School na Downey na Eighth Street School na Los Angeles ma site na 1903 ọ na-akụzi na Los Angeles High School.[7]

Onye na-ede akwụkwọ akụkọ bụ John Adams, na-ede na Downey Eagle, kwuru na Foy bụ "nwanyi siri ike" nke "na-eme mkpọsa maka Woodrow Wilson n'oge ọrụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị mba ya ma lụọ ọgụ ruo ọtụtụ iri afọ maka California Progressive Movement na Women's Rights".[3] E depụtara ya na akwụkwọ afọ 1913 nke Los Angeles High School dị ka "nwaanyị a ma ama na klọb na onye na-akwado ụmụ nwanyị".

Ndụ onwe onye[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

Na Febụwarị 21, 1962, Foy nwụrụ. Ọ dị afọ 99.[3]

A kwanyeere Foy ùgwù site n'ịmepụta Ụlọ Mary Foy California n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha na eze ọhụrụ dị na Fifth na Olive Streets, ọ bụ ezie na ụlọ ahụ abụghị akụkụ nke imezigharị ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ mgbe e wughachiri ya mgbe nnukwu ọkụ abụọ gasịrị na 1986.[2]

A na-akọ akụkọ banyere ọrụ Foy na Los Angeles Central Library na Susan Orlean's The Library Book .

Ihe odide[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

  1. Los Angeles High School Graduates 1875 to 1885. Archived from the original on 2006-10-31. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Library recalls Mary Foy: But still no room. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Even libraries tend sometimes to forget. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.
  4. Debra Gold Hansen, Karen F. Gracy, and Sheri D. Irvin, "At the Pleasure of the Board: Women Librarians and the Los Angeles Public Library, 1880–1905", p. 314
  5. Orlean (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8. 
  6. Orlean (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Leader of Women's Movement taught locally. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved on 2023-06-17.. thepaperink.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05.

Njikọ mpụga[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ[dezie | dezie ebe o si]

  • Jane Apostol, Mary Emily Foy: "Miss Los Angeles n'onwe ya", 1996