[1] She received her education at Polytechnic High School (Los Angeles, California); Leland Stanford Jr. University (A.B.

[1] During World War I, she served as a Special agent to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1918–19, war service); American Red Cross Canteen Service, Hempstead, New York, 1918; New York YMCA; Nurses Committee (National YWCA headquarters), 1919.

Leaving Japan, she continued her trip around the world via the Suez Canal, spending nearly a year in northern Europe and Scandinavia.

[1] She was the author and director of the Cherry Blossom festival pageant which occurred in the White House gardens, on Easter Sunday, in 1927.

Having attended two Imperial garden parties when she and her husband were previously in Japan, she was thus able to make the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. a replica of the Japanese event.

[2] She also served on the Board of Patrons of "Ligue du Nord Contre la Tuberculose," with headquarters at the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France.