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MURIEL MORRIS GARDINER (MRS. JOSEPH BUTTINGER) WAS BORN IN Chicago on November 23, 1901. She died of cancer in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 6, 1985. Dr. Gardiner was a selfless, most devoted person who had a rigorous conscience and a rare intellect. At least from adolescence she fought for ideals as they relate to the helpless, the weak, the disenfranchised, and the oppressed. Always well traveled, exquisitely educated, and with it all possessing a sense of humor, she had no pretense and a humility.
Actually Muriel Gardiner wanted to be a teacher. She attended Wellesley from which she graduated in June, 1922. She recalled that before the national election in 1912, when she was not yet 11 years old, she led a quite serious parade of school-children for women's suffrage. At the very proper Faulkner School for girls, she was active on the debating team, editor of the yearbook, class president, and captain of the basketball team. Her family did not mind her debating, but they probably did not know of her socialist leanings. At Wellesley this interest continued—it was really a socialist attitude similar to that of the