 This view caused somewhat of an upheaval in the Suffragette movement at the time, which focused on women's peacekeeping role, and the WCWA folded in 1940.Undaunted, Beard set about finding homes for the collected archives and concentrated on Smith and Radcliffe archival initiatives, and thanks to Margaret Storrs Grierson, Smith now has the Sophia Smith Collection.Voss-Hubbard remarked that the formation of archives often rests with non-archivists and in the words of Beard, that the "stimulation of interest" is possibly the greatest achievement.