Gift supports ILR School’s Kheel Center archives

A prominent union leader's daughter who worked to support the struggling European labor movement in the wake of World War II has bequeathed a $100,000 endowment to the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives. The estate of Jean Dubinsky Appleton has established the fund to support the International Ladies? Garment Workers? Union collection. Appleton's father was David Dubinsky, president of the union from 1932 to 1966. Appleton died in 2015 at the age of 95. Her daughter, Ryna Segal, worked to establish the fund. It will support the International Ladies? Garment Workers? Union collection at the Kheel Center through fellowships for schoolteachers, travel expenses for students using the collection for research and dissertations, funds to conduct oral histories with former union officials, and digitization and preservation of collections materials. The endowment also will support translations of collection materials in Yiddish, the language of many union workers in the needle trades.