{"id":39779,"date":"2024-08-22T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=39779"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T12:53:36","slug":"frances-perkins-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/frances-perkins-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Labor Reformer Honored, in Words and in Bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Frances Perkins, a visiting prof in the mid-1900s, was remembered with an alumni event and the unveiling of a statue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When Frances Perkins became U.S. Secretary of Labor under FDR in 1933, American women had held the right to vote for a mere 13 years. The nation\u2019s first female cabinet member, Perkins was a barrier-breaker who enjoyed a long and impressive career\u2014one that included serving as a visiting lecturer in the ILR School from 1957 until her death in 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perkins\u2019s time on the Hill was notable enough to merit a mention in the second volume of the University\u2019s official history; it observes, among other details, that she \u201cnever went hatless and frequently wore white gloves and pearls while lecturing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-August\u2014fittingly, with Labor Day just two weeks away\u2014alumni who knew and learned from Perkins all those decades ago gathered on campus for an oral history event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-1024x515.jpg\" alt=\"still frame from a video of a panel discussion about Frances Perkins\" class=\"wp-image-39635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-1024x515.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-1536x773.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-1264x636.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-632x318.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-316x159.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-400x201.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-200x101.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1-100x50.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Telluride-HOuse.01_36_46_07.Still003-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Donald Bazley<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alumni reminisce at Telluride House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That same day, a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2024\/08\/public-service-legacies-two-ithaca-women-preserved-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life-size statue<\/a> of her was dedicated in downtown Ithaca. (A brief video from the ceremony, as well as from the dedication of a statue by the same artist honoring longtime Cornell employee and Ithaca resident Lucy Brown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8U7ifMvgxGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located at the corner of North Cayuga and Seneca streets, it depicts Perkins sitting on a bench, holding a pen and paper, and turning as if in mid-conversation with a seatmate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remembrance event, which was captured on video for posterity, took the form of a panel discussion at <a href=\"https:\/\/telluridehouse.org\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telluride House<\/a>\u2014where Perkins, its first female resident, lived for the last five years of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her relationship to the residence was so close, in fact, that house members served as pallbearers at her funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>Perkins&#8217;s relationship to Telluride was so close that house members served as pallbearers at her funeral.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The alums, who\u2019d lived in Telluride at the same time as Perkins, shared a wide variety of memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They ranged from the charming\u2014the fact that Perkins would host an annual lobster dinner, complete with Champagne, as a thank-you gift to students\u2014to the tragic: her zeal for promoting the interests of organized labor stemmed, in part, from having personally witnessed NYC\u2019s 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives due to unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"statue of Frances Perkins in downtown Ithaca\" class=\"wp-image-39636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-1264x948.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-632x474.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-316x237.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Panel_discussion_Perkins_screengrab3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Mary Catt<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The bronze statue, by sculptor Meredith Bergmann.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the notable alumni anecdotes: Perkins\u2019s deft snub of infamous Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa\u2014then under federal investigation for alleged corruption and collaboration with the Mafia, and later to vanish after a presumed mob hit\u2014who\u2019d come to Telluride for a reception after delivering a lecture on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMiss Perkins refused to come down for the reception, until his staff insisted,\u201d recalled Chris Breiseth, PhD \u201964, who is board chairman emeritus of <a href=\"https:\/\/francesperkinscenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a nonprofit<\/a> dedicated to preserving her legacy. \u201cShe was already in bed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Miss Perkins refused to come down for the [Jimmy Hoffa] reception, until his staff insisted. She was already in bed.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Chris Breiseth, PhD \u201964<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a student was sent to knock on Perkins\u2019s door to tell her that Hoffa insisted upon meeting her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She acquiesced\u2014\u201cLet it never be said that a former Secretary of Labor refused to meet a major labor leader,\u201d she declared\u2014put her hat on, went down to greet him, and exchanged a few brief words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith that,\u201d Breiseth recalls, \u201cshe pivoted and went back to bed, before a photo could be taken of the two of them together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Perkins teaching at ILR (Rare and Manuscript Collections).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Published August 22, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Perkins, a visiting prof in the mid-1900s, was remembered with an alumni event and the unveiling of a statue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":39210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alumni_hub_syml_posts":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-39779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-beyond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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