102:(UVM) in 1937. While there, she recruited students for the school's first nursing program and established a scholarship program for returning veterans. Simpson wrote letters to the parents of the daughters who were entering the university. These letters showed the high standards she had set for women students at UVM. The letters said women "should not let her work pile up, nor sacrifice regular study hours to pleasant social demands, nor give more time than she can afford to ‘dates,’ sports, or other extra-curricular activities." Thirteen years after becoming the Dean of Women at the University of Vermont, a women’s dormitory was named Simpson Hall in her honor. She retired as Dean of Women in 1954. The university presents the Mary Jean Simpson Award to a female student every year at graduation. The award goes to a woman who best exemplifies Mary Jean Simpsons character, leadership and scholarship.
55:. When she got to Wheaton Seminary there was a scarlet fever epidemic where she was quarantined. Once she got out of quarantine she was asked to take over grades 5-9 at the Village School for the Spring Term. She took the job even though she had never taught before. Simpson said she had never felt so rich because she got paid $ 7.00 a week for teaching at the Village School. Later on she went back to St. Johnsbury Academy to get the credits for Mt. Holyoke. During this time, her father got sick, so she went to the University of Vermont instead of Mt. Holyoke to be closer to home. She majored in Latin and graduated in 1913 as a Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating Simpson got multiple jobs teaching. She started at Peoples Academy for three years, then for two years she went to Montpelier High School, and then during World War I she went back as the principle to Peoples Academy.
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