I am pleased to have my book SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL: Growing Up in the 1950s at North East Neighborhood House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, included in the Authors and Artists section (p. 28) of the Summer 2024 issue of the Grinnell Magazine. I was in the Grinnell College Class of 1966. I am glad to have the news of my book shared with other alums.
Arnold's book "chronicles my childhood as I interacted and shared meals with other settlement house residents, participated in clubs, sports and community activities, and observed the roles of the staff and my social worker parents. Few other families lived at a settlement house as ours did. The book ends with my graduation from Grinnell." Settlement House Girl captures a time when settlement houses were in transition from their root in immigrant communities at the turn of the 20th century to becoming today's modern social service agencies.