Background
Olmsted, Mildred Scott was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Henry J. and Adele Brebant (Hamrick) Scott.
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Mildred Scott Olmsted
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Smith College, 1912; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Smith College, 1974; certificate (College Settlements' Association fellow), University of Pennsylvania School Social Work, 1913; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1987; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Haverford College, 1988.
Career
Secretary, Main Line Federation Churches
secretary, Young Men’s Christian Association service in military camps in the United States and France
international relief work, American Friends' Service Committee, France and Germany, World War I;
assistant director, White Williams Foundation, 1920-1922;
leader, European and Russian Good-will Tour, 1932;
national executive director, United States section Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
member international Executive Committee, United States section Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1935-1949;
executive director emeritus, United States section Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1966-1990. Member of the United States delegate to international congresses, Prague, Grenoble, Zurich, Luhacovice, Luxembourg, Paris, Copenhagen, Birmingham, England, Stockholm, Asilomar, United States, The Hague, Nyborg, Denmark, Tokyo, New Delhi. Representative UNCouncil Non-Governmental Orgns., 1949, Confs.
Church and War, 1950, Conference Church and Peace, 1953. Organized 1st Soviet-American Women's Conference, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Moscow. Representative International Women's Congress, New Delhi, 1970, Women, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Arms Control, Washington, 1978, World Conference Religion for Peace, from 1971.
Organized social service department Bryn Mawr Hospital, became head worker. Co-founder School in Rose Valley, 1929. Mem.state and local boards National Youth Administration, 1938-1940.
Director National Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription, 1942-1947.
Achievements
Membership
Member Consultative Peace Council. Vice chairman National Peace Conference, 1940-1951, Joint Friends' Peace Committee. Member governing board Post War World Council, 1944.
Governing council Upland Institute Social Conflict Management. Board Philadelphia Birth Control League. Member board Promoting Enduring Peace.
Member Executive Committee peace education American Friends Service Committee. Clerk Providence FriendsMeeting, from 1970. Member Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends Commision on Projects and Concerns, from 1974.
Co-chairperson Sane Peace Award Dinner, October 1978. Member A.A.U.W., American Academy Certified Social Workers, World Affairs Council, Foreign Policy Association, Women's Overseas Service League, Turn Toward Peace Movement (member of council and Executive Committee from 1961), Morris, Tylerarboreteums, National Association Social Workers, American Civil Liberties Union (Pennsylvania director), League of Women Voters, S.E. Pennsylvania Civil Liberties Union (vice chairman), The Nature Conservancy, Planned Parenthood, International Planned Parenthood, National Wildlife Federation, International Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, National Trust Historic Preservation.(home and garden placed on historic preservation list).
Interests
Connections
Married Allen Seymour Olmsted II, October 30, 1921 (deceased 1977). Children: Peter Scott (deceased), Enid Scott Olmsted Burke, Anthony Scott.
