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t •Mrs. Margaret G. Hawkins leaveslegacy of teaching and serviceWhen Mrs. Margaret Gregory Hawkins was buried yesterday (Thursday) in the family plot at Arbutus Memorial Cemetery, she left behind a legacy of teaching and civic involvement.Mrs. Hawkins, 93, who had lived over 50 years at 1532 Druid Hill Ave., was a woman determined to keep up with the professional life of her husband, the late Dr. Mason A. Hawkins, Morgan professor—and long time principal of Douglass High School.At the 40th anniversary of the DuBois Circle in 1946, Mrs. Hawkins was honored as one of the five founders of the club and “a leader among club womenof the city and one of the women to whose efforts the YWCA in Baltimore owes . much of its growth.”The members of the DuBois circle read widely and discussed books and current events at their meetings. Most of their husbands were professionals. The Circle is still active since its founding in 1996 as an auxiliary to the Niagara Movement which later became the National Association for the Ad-vancement of Color'd People.Mrs. Hawkins was chairman of the Board of Main* gres for the Druid Hill Ave. branch of the YWCA and one of the first of her ra»-e to be a member of the Central branch.She was a staunch Republican but the late Gov. Albert C. Richie, a Democrat, appointed her the first black woman to be a member of the board of managers of the Maryland Training School for ColoredGirls.■ The school is r.ow integrated with the Mt. Rose School for Girls at Keisters-town, Md.She was born In Williamsport, Pa., and graduated from the P;eparatory Department of Howard University, where her father was a professor. She attended St. Augustine College, Raleigh, N.C. and Boston University where she majored in-Education.She taught history two years in Bordentowri, N.J. before coming to Baltimore where she taught American history at Douglass High School where she met ner husband who was then the principal. When they married she retired from rteach-mg.• • •She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, toe Fort Nightly Whist Club, the S.S. Club, and the Women’s Civio League. She helped organize the local USO during WWII. She remained active until 4 years ago when she entered the hospital. She died Monday night at the Stearns Nursing Home.Mrs. Hawkins Is remembered by her family as a woman “who had an aptitude for getting close to people and knowing how to handle them... how to handle personnel.”While she was a member of the women’s division of the Civilian Defense Mobilityrt'.»% r'Tp iV..A*1:FOUNDER - Mm. Marga-ret Gregory Hawkins, shown here In 1946 when she was honored as one of the five charter members of the DuBois Circle. She is remembered for “her aptitude for getting close to people” and her role in the YWCA and other city or-ganizationi.zation during World War II, her philosophy of life was much quoted — “co-operating with the inevitable.’*She is survived by two sons, Gregory Hawkins, a lawyer, Mason A. Hawkins Jr., a teacher in Baltimore’s public schools; and a daughter-in-law, Mrs, Hawkins. Other survivors include a brother, T. Montgomery Gregory, a retiredteacher.Funeral arrangements were handled by Russ Funeral Home.$18,486 estateto Mrs. Hayesa ii
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Apr 12, 1969
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