July 22, 1942 – March 22, 2022

Helen was a founding member of the Women’s Labor History Project, the predecessor of Working Women’s History Project. She served as a WWHP vice president of programming and was active in the national Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). She worked in the Chicago Public Schools and represented school nurses in Chicago Teachers Union until she retired in 2011. Helen chaired the Chicago Teachers Union Women’s Rights Committee for 25 years. She later represented retirees as a CTU delegate. She believed women in traditional roles have powerful stories to tell and wrote Working Without Uniforms: School Nursing in Chicago 1951-2001, which was published by WWHP in 2002. She is greatly missed and remembered for her many contributions to WWHP.