| Administrative History | Suzanne Ferrière (1886-1970) served as Deputy Secretary General of Save the Children Fund (SCF) from 1920-1927 and was a member of the Executive Board of the Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants (UISE) from 1921-1946. She went on missions on behalf of SCF to Russia in 1924 where she suffered a serious accident which immobilized her for some time, to Ukraine, Scandinavia, Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, London, Rome and South America (1924). In Latin America she ensured the creation and affiliation of several national committees. In 1943 she went to Palestine and met Henrietta Szold. During the war she was a member of the UISE temporary Committee of Management. She left the Union when the Committee's mandate ended in 1946, in order to take up the functions of the Secretary General of the International Social Service. She was author of 'Les Etats-Unis au secours de l'Europe 1918-23' (1923). She also served as a member of the Comité International de la Croix-Rouge [International Committee of the Red Cross] from 1924-1951. Her uncle was Frederic Ferrière (1848-1924), one of the founders of UISE, whose reports from Vienna at the end of WWI, of the plight of starving children in the city, were among the most powerful to influence Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton in founding SCF. |