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Vesta Mildred Little
12020-11-06T03:09:19+00:00Riza Miklowski9698c57ff68a3ce4118b9f6b0ec0c3612e895e5e102plain2020-11-06T03:12:31+00:00Riza Miklowski9698c57ff68a3ce4118b9f6b0ec0c3612e895e5eVesta Mildred Little (1887-1937, OC 1910) was a administrator and secretary. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1910 with a B.A. degree. After graduation, she was employed at the Y.W.C.A. as the director of physical training in South Bend, Indiana until 1913. She left her position in that year and became the physical director at the Y.W.C.A. in Detroit, Michigan. In 1918, Little left her position to spend a year in France helping with reconstruction work in the aftermath of World War I. She returned to the United States in 1919, when she became an executive officer of the E. St. Branch of the Y.W.C.A. in Washington, D.C. She was appointed as the general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. for the District of Columbia in 1920. She continued to work in that position until she became the general secretary for the Y.W.C.A. in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1923. She held that position until her death in 1937.