Dorothy Medders Robinson Papers

Dorothy Medders Robinson (1901-1982) attended Columbia University and graduated with a batchelor's degree in economics and social science. She studied in the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University in psychology and studied New Testament Greek at Westminster Theological Seminary. She married Dr. Orris Grovenor Robinson, who served as minister of Calvary Methodist Church in Washington. The couple had two daughters and a son.

Besides being active in church work, Dorothy Robinson was deeply interested in peace issues. She served as president of the Carroll County, Maryland, Board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1933 until 1936, and was president of the Maryland State Board from 1936 to 1939. Robinson served as National Vice President from 1939 to 1941 and as National President from 1941 until 1946. She subsequently served as Treasurer of both the United States section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom International.

Robinson travelled extensively for Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1946, she was a delegate to the United States Section of the International Congress in Luxembourg and she attended International Executive Committee meetings in Geneva from 1946 to 1949 as Consultative Member.

In 1966, she accepted the general chairmanship of the Jane Addams Hall of Fame Committee which culminated in the the induction of Addams on May 19, 1968.