FAMOUS AND GREAT WOMEN.
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First female Secretary of State and highest ranking woman in the U.S. government under President Clinton. As a professor at Georgetown University, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international affairs and Russian and Central and Eastern European politics. In President Clinton's first term, she was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of the National Security Council. Additional Resources: Blood, Thomas. Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Dobbs, Michael. Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999. Blackman, Ann. Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright. New York, New York: Scribner, 1998. NOTES: "A Lisa Drew book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-357) and index. Oral History. University of Virginia, White Burkett Miller Center, at the Jimmy Carter Library. Atlanta, Georgia.
Louisa
May Alcott (1832-1888)
Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls
in the 19th century. Her best-known work, Little Women, has appeared
continuously in print since its first publication in 1868-69.
A prolific author of books for American
girls, Louisa May Alcott is best remembered for Little Women, one of the 270
published works by the Pennsylvania-born woman. This endearing novel captured
forever the period's ideals and values of middle class.
Additional Resources:
Work: A Story of Experience. With a new introduction by
Elizabeth Hardwick. New York: Arno Press, 1977 [1873]. NOTES: Part of the
"Rediscovered fiction by American women series." Reprint of the 1st edition,
published by Roberts, Boston. Little Women. Boston: J. Redpath, 1868.
Hospital Sketches. Boston: J. Redpath, 1863. Little Men. Boston:
J. Redpath, 1871. Flower Fables. George W. Briggs & Co., 1855.
(Cambridge, MA: Metcalf and Company, Stereotypers and Printers). Papers
1820-1888, 150 items. Harvard College Library, the Houghton Library,
Manuscript Department. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Linda
G. Alvarado (1952- )
Alvarado, a Hispanic-American businesswoman who started her own construction
firm in 1976, has broken many barriers in that historically male-dominated
world. As co-owner of The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, Alvarado is also the
first Hispanic-American, male or female, to own a major league baseball
franchise. Linda G.
Alvarado has changed the ‘male only’ image of construction contractors across
the United States and opened doors to increasing numbers of women and
minorities to enter construction and non-traditional fields of endeavor.
Alvarado is founder and sole owner of Alvarado Construction, a large
commercial and industrial general contracting/site management, and
design/build firm in Denver, CO, President of Palo Alto, Inc. Restaurant
Company, and co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. Oneof the 100
Most Influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business Magazine, awarded
the 1996 U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year
distinction, honored by the prestigious Sara Lee Corporation Frontrunner
Award, awarded the 2001 Horatio Alger Award, inducted into the Colorado
Women’s Hall of Fame(2002), named to the White House Commission for Hispanic
Excellence in Education, named Woman of the Year by the Mexican American
Foundation, and received the National Women’s Economic Alliance Director’s
Choice Award. Ms. Alvarado’s recognition awards for business and philanthropic
activity is two pages long and still growing.
Dorothy
H. Andersen (1901-1963)
Pediatrician and pathologist who was the first to identify cystic fibrosis and
developed a simple, definitive diagnostic test for the disease.
Dorothy H. Andersen, pediatrician and
pathologist, was the first scientist to identify the disease, cystic fibrosis.
Her research and discovery in 1938 of this, at that time, fatal disease led
the way to modern day advances in the treatment and management of the illness.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, 1922, and the Johns Hopkins University
Medical School, 1926, Andersen overcame the prevailing discrimination against
women in medicine and spent most of her professional career at Babies
Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
Additional Resources:
Familial Cirrhosis of the liver with storage of abnormal glycogen.
Laboratory Investigation, Baltimore, 1956, 5: 11-20. Cystic Fibrosis of the
the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease. A clinical and pathological
study. American Journal of Diseases of Children, Chicago, 1938,
56:344-399. Papers 1930-1965 (1 document box). Columbia HSL Archives and
Special Collections. Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library. NY, NY.
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