Mildred Fairbanks Stone

Bloomfield, New Jersey

Father	Franklin A. Stone
Siblings	Sister Marjorie Twin brothers
Education	Fairview Elementary School Bloomfield High School 1920 Vassar College 1924
Employment	Home Economics teacher, Bloomfield High School Clerk, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Agency Field Secretary, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Directory of Policyholder Services, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Assistant to the President, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Assistant Secretary, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Affiliations	Program Chairman, Newark New Jersey Life Underwriters Association President, Newark Chapter of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters Member, League of Life Insurance Women of New York Member, Advertising Club of New Jersey American Association of University Women Audubon Society Bloomfield Board of Education Bloomfield Historical Society Brookdale Baptist Church Community Chest Council of Social Agencies Friends of Bloomfield Library League for Family Service Mountainside School of Nursing New Jersey Historical Society Oakeside Cultural Commission Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association Public Health Nursing Association United Fund
Awards	1924 Phi Beta Kappa 1928 first woman Certified Life Underwriter 1934 first woman officer of Mutual Benefit Life - Agency Field Secretary 1956 Bloomfield Outstanding Citizen Award 1961 American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters Newark Chapter Distinguished Service
Interests and Hobbies	Knitting scarves for Seaman's Church Institute Vacationing in Lake George, New York Gardening
Publications	A Short History of Life Insurance Better Life Insurance Letters Calling and its College: A History of the American College of Life Underwriters Extraordinary Ellen, the First Lady of Life Insurance: The Story of Ellen M. Putman, CLU Since 1845: A History of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company; Life Insurance Teacher who Changed an Industry: A Biography of Dr. Solomon S. Huebner
Additional Comments	When she was promoted at Mutual Benefit, she was feted in the office but then went home while the male executives and officers of the company went out to the men-only Essex House in Newark to celebrate. Stone said, "That was all right with me! That's just the way it was."