Eolyn Klugh Guy

Eolyn Carolyn Klugh was raised in New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, the daughter of David Simpson Klugh and Adella Plyman Klugh. Her father was a prominent Baptist clergyman in Boston;[1] her mother was an alumna of Spelman Seminary and active in churchwomen's organizations.[2] She attended Spelman Seminary and earned a bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1922.[3] She received a master's degree from Simmons College in 1928.[4][5]

As a young woman, Klugh lived and worked at the Robert Gould Shaw House, a settlement house in Boston's South End.[6] She attended the national meeting of the YWCA in 1924, as Girl Reserve and industrial secretary of the St. Aubin Branch of the YWCA in Detroit.[7][8] In 1930 she attended the National Conference of Social Work in 1930, when it met in Boston.[9][10]

She published her research as "Colored Girls at Work in Boston" (1928) in Opportunity, the magazine of the National Urban League.[11][12] She spoke at Wellesley College in 1932 on "Extra-Curricular Activities for the Negro".[13] In 1946 Eolyn Guy was named program director of the 12th Avenue Center YWCA in Tucson, Arizona.[14][15] She also served on the board of the YWCA in Tucson.[16][17][18]

Eolyn Klugh was a bridesmaid at the wedding of poet and social worker Clarissa Scott Delany in 1926, and attended her funeral the following year.[19] Eolyn Klugh married Harry Maurice Guy in 1932. They had a son, Harry Maurice Guy Jr. Eolyn Klugh Guy died in 1963.[20] Her papers are archived in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.[21]