Martha Catching Enochs

Letter
January 29, 1930

Photograph
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1904 Program:

Present address: 616 West Capitol Street, Jackson, Miss.

Martha and Mary Enochs will spend the summer at Colorado Springs.

November 1905 Kalends:

Martha Enochs is at Battle Creek, Michigan.

July 1929 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs lives at home and "helps and advises the whole family in their business and social contacts."

May 1933 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs' activities are recorded in the April issue of the Journal of the American Association of University Women. We quote from the journal: "To fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Florence Dymond, Martha Catching Enochs, of Jackson, Miss., has been appointed Southeast Central Sectional Director.
Miss Enochs graduated from Goucher College in 1903. In the same year she became a charter member of the Southern Association of COllege Women, and has since then been actively indetified weith the work of that organization and later of the AAUW in Mississippi. At the time of her appointment as director she was chairman of the State COmmittee on Fellowships. Miss Enochs has been particularly interested in promoting adequate standards in the schools and colleges of the state. Her services in securing educational facilities for women led to her appointment, at therequest of college women of Mississippi, as a member of the central Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi for a term of twelve years. She is also a meber of the Committee of the Mississippi Educational Association which has been owrking on a reorganization of the state educational institutions, and was recently appointed a member of the State Board of Education, a position never before held by a woman."

November 1934 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs represented Goucher College at the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Miss., held October 21-23, 1934.

February 1935 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs represented Goucher at the Mississippi State College for Women on their Founder's Day Program, October 21-23. She made one of the responses to Dr. B. L. Parkinson's address of welcome. Martha is Director of the Southeast Central Section of the A.A.U.W.

November 1937 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs has become prominent and vital in the life and meetings of the Southern Association of College Women. She has held many responsible offices with the Association and does quite a bit of travelling in the interest of it.

July 1939 Alumnae Quarterly:

Martha Enochs wrote that she could not be present, but would have the next best experience. Dr. Robertson was to be the speaker at University of Mississippi, where she would meet him.

November 1944 Alumnae Quarterly:

We are proud and very much pleased to know that the SOutheast Central Region of the AAUW has voted to name its fellowship for Martha Catching Enochs. The A.A.U.W. Journal for September 1944 includes the following account:
MARTHA CATCHING ENOCHS FELLOWSHIP
"The Southeast Central Region, at the regional meeting in Chattanooga in APril, voted to name its fellowship for Martha Catching Enochs, of the Jackson, Mississippi Branch,- a choice which will be welcomed by the many AAUW members who know Miss Enochs through her service to the AAUW as Director of the SOutheast Central Section from 1933 to 1941, and now as member of the national Social Studies Committee. She has also served as fellowship chairman for Mississippi, and was a charter member of the Southern Association of College Women in that state. In her region she is known for untiring efforts in behalf of education and of various civic activities. She has just completed twelve years of service as a member of the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi.
But the story of Miss Enochs' achievements is not adequately told in the naming of offices she has held. Perhaps her most distinctive service has been her quiet influence and example in undertaking responsibility for bettering conditions about her, and her interest in education as the chief means by which progress can be made. Miss Enochs is a graduate of Goucher College."

Winter 1955 Alumnae Quarterly:

Nes of the death of Martha Enochs came just too late for inclusion in our last Quarterly. Mollie Cullom Walker sent a long newspaper clipping from a Jackson, Miss., paper which gave a sympathetic and generous account of Martha's many activities, particularly in the field of education. She always had the fragile appearance and gentle manner which earned her the name "Angel" in college days, so that all through her life friends were amazed at the load of responsibility she carried so cheerfully. Her passing leaves an emptiness in our class that cannot be filled.

IN MEMORIAM
From the time of her graduation in 1903, Martha Catching Enochs was closely associated with the educational interests of the Southeast. She was a charter member of the Mississippi Division of the Southeast Association of College Women, to which she gave most generously of time and effort to improve educational facilities for women. When the A.A.U.W. absorbed the regional organizations of college women, she became a member of its Board of Directors for the Southeast Central Region, which later named its fellowship for her in recognition of her outstanding work. She served on various committees, local and national, and acted as chairman of the National Nominating Committee in 1945.
For twelve years Miss Enochs was a member of the Board of Trustees of Institutes of Higher Learning in Mississippi, just as her father had been before her. In 1938, Millsaps Colelge bestowed the degree of Litt. D. upon her.
Not only in the field of education was she known and loved, but in the welfare and civic organizations of her city and state as well. She served the Community Chest annually and was President of the Community Chest of Greater Jackson in 1945. Women's groups were organized under her direction for the sale of Liberty Bonds and for the United War Fund. The Red Cross and Civil Defense were among the groups that were grateful for her kind and untiring efforts. Such public service led to her election as chairman of Social Agencies in 1946. As General Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. she was in close touch with the work she most loved, - the guidance and educational encouragement of young women.
Such a life, devoted to servinc others, cannot fail to inspire others to follow in her footsteps. What greater tribute can be paid to one of our graduates, when her days are finished and she lays down the burden? - EDA BRIGGS FROST