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  Mary Ward and the Passmore Edwards Settlement
The settlement was founded by Mary Ward (1851 -1920) a grand daughter of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby, and niece of Matthew Arnold.
Mary Ward was a strong advocate of the enhancement of schooling for children with disabilities.
Mary Neal had begun a Saturday 'playroom' for children in Marchmont Hall - and Mary Ward realized that there was considerable potential in the work.
www.infed.org /walking/wa-ward.htm   (745 words)

  
  Profile of Mary Ward
Mary Ward was born in Ballylin, near Ferbane, Co. Offaly in April 1827.
Mary Ward was involved in recording its different stages of construction and both her drawings and Mary Rosse's (William's wife) photographs were crucial for the recent restoration of the Leviathan at Birr castle.
Ward was left to raise the large family, and maintain the finances, while Harry continued his varied interests and social activities.
www.universityscience.ie /pages/scientists/sci_mary_ward.php   (711 words)

  
 Mary Ward (nun) Summary
Mary Ward's was not the only contemporary initiative to challenge the status quo, but it was the most far-reaching and controversial—and remained so long after her death.
The Wards belonged to the persecuted English Roman Catholic minority, and Mary was taught her faith by the Jesuit chaplains secretly employed in their households, and by female relatives, several of whom served prison sentences for persistent nonconformity to the established Church of England.
Interest in Mary Ward grew during the twentieth century and, in the context of changing attitudes, her reputation grew to the point where in 1982 John Paul II extolled this "remarkable Yorkshire woman … a pioneer of the active unenclosed congregations for women."
www.bookrags.com /Mary_Ward_(nun)   (1716 words)

  
 Mary Ward
As was the norm at that time, Mary Ward and her sisters did not go to school, but were taught by a governess at home.
Mary Ward was involved in recording its different stages of construction, and her drawings and
Ward was left to raise the large family, and maintain the finances, while Harry continued his varied interests and social activites.
members.tripod.com /~Irishscientists/scientists/MARYWARD.HTM   (681 words)

  
 Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School is a co-educational secondary school founded in 1985 by the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now Toronto Catholic District School Board).
The school is named after Mary Ward, founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loretto Sisters) and carries the traditions of Christian community and excellence in education that have been developed by the Loretto Sisters.
Mary Ward is one of three TCDSB schools selected to participate in the Energy Drill, which aims to reduce energy consumption while generating a culture of energy conservation.
www.tcdsb.org /schools/maryward.asp   (1150 words)

  
 Mary Ward (scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary often visited him at his home and, as she was an excellent artist, sketched each stage of the process.
Mary and her husband were traveling in it with the Parsons boys and their tutor in 1869, when Mary was thrown from the car on a bend in the road.
Mary’s microscope, accessories, slides and books are on display in Castle Ward, in County Down, her husband’s home.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Ward_(scientist)   (787 words)

  
 Mary Ward - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
An aunt Mary Lloyd was married to the 2nd Earl of Rosse.
On 31 August 1869, when she was 42, Mary, Henry and two of Lord Rosse's sons were traveling on a steam carriage invented by their father when it jolted and threw Mary to the ground where she was crushed by one of its heavy wheels and died instantly.
Ward was thrown from the seat and fearfully injured, causing her almost immediate death.
www.irishmidlandsancestry.com /content/offaly/people/ward_mary.htm   (1300 words)

  
 The Mary Ward Centre
Mary Ward achieved fame in her lifetime as the best-selling novelist Mrs Humphry Ward but she had an enduring impact on public education through the pioneering work she initiated at the Settlement she founded which now bears her name.
Mary Ward’s declared aim was to promote ‘equalisation’ in society and the building was soon crammed with local residents enjoying ‘the hundred pleasures and opportunities that fall mainly to the rich’.
It was Mary Ward’s work with children at the Settlement that was to have the greatest influence on the English educational system.
www.marywardcentre.ac.uk /Welcome/Welcome-Mary.asp   (382 words)

  
 Mary Ward C.S.S. - Centre for Self Directed Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School was founded in 1985 a year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mary Ward.
Mary Ward, founder of the Loretto Sisters' order, the Institution of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was often described as a dangerous innovator because she held views about education and the role of women that were considered radical in her time.
At Mary Ward an understanding of multiple intelligences and learning styles is recognized through an innovative model of curriculum delivery that integrates learning guides with a diverse range of instructional methodologies including lectures, seminars, labs, small group work, independent study and one-on-one instruction.
www.maryward.ca /about/program.php   (767 words)

  
 J. Paul Leonard Library: Experientia Docet: The Career of Mary Ward at San Francisco State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ward's career was shaped by her studies at the Normal School, and she later drew upon these experiences to create continuity on campus.
Ward was a student at the campus's first location on Powell Street, she was an administrator at the Buchanan Street campus, and she was instrumental in planning for our current location.
Ward fought for on-campus housing so that students could focus on studies and building community instead of commuting, and the most prominent evidence of her contributions to the University remains the residence hall that was named in her honor.
www.library.sfsu.edu /special/maryward.html   (3557 words)

  
 Mary Augusta Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1851.
Mary Ward's declared aim was 'equalisation' in society, and she established educational settlements first at Marchmont Hall and later at Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury, London.
Mary Augusta Ward died in London, England, and was interred at Aldbury in Hertfordshire, near her beloved country home Stocks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Augusta_Ward   (1029 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mary Ward
To this law the difficulties of Mary Ward were mainly due, when on the propagation of her institute in Flanders, Bavaria, Austria, and Italy, she applied to the Holy See for formal approbation.
Ferdinand II had welcomed the congregation to their dominions, and together with such men as Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, Fra Domenico de Gesù, and Father Mutio Vitelleschi, General of the Society of Jesus, held the foundress in singular veneration.
The second institute was at length approved as to its rule by Clement XI in 1703, and as an institute by Pius IX in 1877.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15551c.htm   (759 words)

  
 Mary Ward
Mary Ward was an English Catholic reformer who founded female religious communities dedicated to charitable works and education for girls.
Ward also attempted to reform vocational possibilities for catholic women, but was unsuccessful largely because of the opposition of male church officials.
Mary Ward left behind a large number of writings pertaining to her life and Institute.
ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/literature/ward.html   (354 words)

  
 Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary: United States Province
Over 400 years ago, Mary Ward was born into a world not unlike ours in difficulties, except that now the world’s disasters come to us instantly via satellite communications.
To Mary, God was the “Friend of all friends.” She lived her fidelity with cheerfulness and a passion for truth.
Mary and her companions established free schools, nursed the sick and visited prisoners.
www.ibvm.us /maryward.html   (688 words)

  
 Mary Ward & The Mary Ward Association
Mary Ward lived in an age of religious intolerance, when all deviation was savagely persecuted by whichever faith tradition was in the ascendant.
Mary herself possessed all the qualities of a true Yorkshire woman: courage, tenacity, deep faith, cheerfulness and a forthright common sense.
The two branches of the Mary Ward foundation are now known as the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
www.stbedes.org.uk /about/mary-ward.html   (677 words)

  
 Centennial Historical Presidents: Mary Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Following the death of SFSU's President Anderson in the summer of 1927, Dean of Women Mary A. Ward served as acting president until a new candidate was appointed that fall.
Ward, "the first lady of San Francisco State," was one of Frederic Burk's early students at SF State.
Ward was an expert in the training of mathematics teachers, and her Stanford master's thesis is still the best assessment of SF State's "Individual Instruction" method.
www.sfsu.edu /~100years/history/ward.htm   (146 words)

  
 PCS Employee of the Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mary Ward is a Supervisor of Special Education for the Pittsylvania County Schools.
Ward is a very dedicated employee of the school system.
During her years of service to the Pittsylvania County, Mary Ward has been perceived by her colleagues as a "team player".
www.pcs.k12.va.us /staff/mary-ward.htm   (238 words)

  
 Address to the young people of the Mary Ward Schools
It is also an occasion for you to reflect on the life and work of this great woman, who knew so well how to harmonize the demands of her life as a faithful member of the Church with the new requirements of the age in which she lived.
As members of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto and of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Toronto, you find in the charism of your Foundress the wisdom and insights needed to persevere in the mission which Christ has entrusted to you.
Continue to live your vocation in joy and humility, as true daughters of that Pilgrim of hope whose abiding treasure was the life of grace within her, from which she draw energies for a task which because of its dynamism and enterprising spirit seemed unusual and inexplicable to many of her contemporaries.
www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1985/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19851005_scuole-mary-ward_en.html   (1212 words)

  
 Mary Ward
This is a hallway in Mary Ward with red lockers on the sides.
This is the two floor library in Mary Ward, seen from the second floor.
This is another picture of Mary Ward's library, and above those drawings at the top of this picture, the second floor of the library sits.
alexpictures1.tripod.com /mary_ward.html   (894 words)

  
 Images of Mary Ward Settlement, London., England, by Smith and Brewer
Mary Ward Settlement (originally known as the Passmore Edwards Settlement, founded in 1890; renamed in 1921 after Mary Ward's death)
Mary Ward House in Tavistock Place is the headquarters of the National Institute for Social Work in London.
The Settlement is credited with a number of innovations: educational classrooms for children with disabilities, the development of play centers for children, and the creation of a structure whereby middle-class professionals and working-class members of the local community could work together to improve the community.
www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/england/london/settlement/settlement.html   (450 words)

  
 Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)
Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Tasmania, the daughter of Thomas Arnold (second son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby) and eldest of eight children.
Mary Ward and the Passmore Edwards settlement written by Mark K. Smith can be found online.
The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre in Queen Square, London, is a thriving complex and celebrates the contribution made by her to learning.
www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /ward.htm   (667 words)

  
 Ai giovani delle scuole di Mary Ward, 5 ottobre 1985
Sono sinceramente felice che voi stiate commemorando il quarto centenario della nascita di Mary Ward con questo pellegrinaggio a Roma.
Mary Ward, come numerosi altri modelli e santi cristiani del passato, ha superato i confini della sua nazione e ha portato anche a popoli di altre culture e lingua gli effetti fecondi della sua opera.
Che questo pellegrinaggio al centro della cattolicità per il IV centenario di Mary Ward rafforzi la vostra fede e vi infonda nuovo entusiasmo nel vostro impegno per costruire una società più giusta, pacifica e fraterna.
www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1985/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19851005_scuole-mary-ward_it.html   (1163 words)

  
 Mary Ward C.S.S. - Centre for Self Directed Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she was born into a world not unlike ours in difficulties.
Born in 1585 into a devoted family in Yorkshire, from childhood Mary Ward knew religious prosecution, not unlike trouble spots in today's world: raids, imprisonment, executions.
At age 15 Mary Ward was called to become religious.
www.maryward.ca /about/history.php   (192 words)

  
 Mary Ward, Quilt Maker, Artist of the Month
Fiber artist Mary Ward is a life-long Washington County, New York resident.
Mary has successfully completed many custom pieces and is happy to discuss your ideas.
Mary Ward may be reached on Mondays between 10 am and 4 pm at 518-639-8806.
www.larac.org /Artist_of_Month/2005/Mary_Ward.html   (468 words)

  
 Order of Mary Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mary Ward, the foundress of the IBVM had a vision that women in time would “do great things”.
Mary Ward’s vision is as meaningful today as it was back in the seventeenth century.
This award is named in honour of the foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and is given to a person who best embodies her qualities.
www.lorettoalumnae.ca /forms1.htm   (779 words)

  
 AIM25: University College London: Ward Family Papers
Administrative/Biographical history: Thomas Humphry Ward, who married Mary Augusta Arnold in 1872, was a Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford, where he was Tutor from 1870 to 1881, when the family moved to London.
During the First World War, Mary Ward was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to undertake a series of articles to explain to Americans what England was doing during the war.
Dorothy Ward helped with the work of the Passmore Edwards Settlement (now Mary Ward House) which her mother founded, and with children's play centres and a school for invalid children.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=1548&inst_id=13   (317 words)

  
 Mary Ward founded D-Art alone.
Ward had told participating artists that the show was insured.
But it was Mary Ward who was the dreamer — the flawed visionary.
HOWEVER, she was not on the scene prior to Mary Ward.
www.dallasartsrevue.com /ArtSpaces/D-Art/MaryWardnotJudyS.shtml   (1272 words)

  
 Division of Cancer Epidemiology And Genetics (DCEG): Branches: Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch: ...
Ward received an M.S. in ecology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from The John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Ward is responsible for developmental work using geographic information systems for exposure assessment of environmental contaminants.
Ward MH, Zahm SH, Blair A. Pesticides and cancer risk: Clues from epidemiology studies of farmers and the general population.
dceg.cancer.gov /people/WardMary.html   (1078 words)

  
 Used-Books for Sale from Mary Ward Books, Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print Books
If you have any further questions about an individual book or require a more detailed condition report please e-mail Mary Ward Books or use our 'ask question' button, found on every book description page.
Mary Ward Books holds a large selection of off-line second hand and out of print books.
Mary Ward Books, Blyford, Suffolk, IP19 9JR, United Kingdom.
www.marywardbooks.com   (297 words)

  
 The Mary Ward Centre
The Mary Ward has around 170 tutors so it is not possible to provide direct contact addresses for them all.
The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre is housed right in the centre of London, in WC1, in two inter-connecting Georgian family houses, no's.
The Mary Ward Legal Centre is round the corner from the Mary Ward Centre at no's.
www.marywardcentre.ac.uk /Location.asp   (347 words)

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