Announcement was made here today by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs that Ruth Gruber, twenty-two-year old Brooklyn Jewess, a Ph.D., has been awarded this year’s Yardley Fund Fellowship for research in some creative field of endeavor.
This is the fifth annual award of the fellowship, which was established in memory of the late Margaret Yardley who was first president of the Federation. The awards are administered by the executive board of the latter body, in cooperation with the committee on Fellowship Awards of the American Association of University Women and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Dr. Gruber was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Cologne, Germany, in the summer of 1932 at the age of twenty. There she had gone on a fellowship for advanced study. She has been doing considerable literary work and lecturing and three weeks ago returned from Cuba where she had been making a study of economic and social conditions.
At a luncheon this week at the home of Mrs. M. Casewell Heine, one of the leaders of the Federation in suburban Maplewood, Dr. Gruber announced that she will comply with the conditions of the new award by writing a book “to determine what role the modern woman writer is playing in the shifting economic, social and artistic worlds; how the recent upheavals in Europe have influenced her and how her writing today is preparing her for a vital contribution to the future. The book will deal with representative women writers of England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Soviet Russia, Holland and the Scandinavian countries.”
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