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WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME 2017

Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame is dedicated to honoring, in Doors open at 5pm perpetuity, women whose contributions have influenced the First Baptist Church direction of Alaska in any field, including, but not limited to the arts, 1100 W. 10th Ave, Anchorage athletics, business, community service, conservation, education, Ceremony starts at 6pm Admission free. government, health, the humanities, Native affairs, philanthropy, Light refreashments served. Donations accepted. politics, theology and science, among others.

For information on the ceremony call 907-279-4836. www.AlaskaWomensHallofFame.org 2017 Induction Ceremony

history The Alaska Women’s The idea to create the Alaska decided to work with the UAA the assistance of volunteers in Hall of Fame is a collaborative Women’s Hall of Fame arose in Consortium Library to digitize 2010 and is available through the project of the Zonta Club of 2008 when the Alaska Women’s the Profiles of Change. The Zonta Alaska Digital Archives at Anchorage, the Alaska Women’s Network’s Board of Directors Club of Anchorage had been http://vilda.alaska.edu/. Network, YWCA Anchorage, (AWN) discussed how to use its working on developing a website The Alaska Women’s Hall the Alaska Women for Political website to honor Alaska’s women to house a “virtual Alaska women’s of Fame is a non-profit Action, the Anchorage Women’s as part of Alaska’s fifty years of wall.” The two groups decided corporation holding 501(c) Commission, the University of statehood celebration. Two ideas to collaborate and a steering (3) status. The Zonta Club of Alaska Anchorage and a large were suggested: update the 1983 committee was formed. Anchorage is responsible for the number of interested Alaska Profiles of Change, a publication maintenance of the website. women. by the Alaska Commission on the The committee developed the Status of Women; and establish a Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame, Since 2009 the Alaska Women's Together, we have created way to recognize the women who solicited nominations from across Hall of Fame has inducted 160 a place to remember and embrace shaped Alaska. AWN solicited the state, selected 50 women to women and has displayed their the strong Alaska women who ideas and the Anchorage YWCA induct on March 6, 2009 and pictures and biographies on the came before us and walk beside volunteered meeting space. launched the website that hosts the website. The data is free and used us today. biographies of the honorees. by researchers worldwide. At a meeting on August 15, 2008, attended by women from The digitization of the Profiles throughout the community, it was of Change was completed, with past inductees • Audrey Aanes • Lucy Evely Cuddy • Celia Hunter • Lael Morgan • • • Kathleen Michael Dalton • • Ruth E. Moulton • • Alberta Daisy • Marie Darlin • Joan Hurst • Marge Mullen • Natalya Shelikof Schenck Adams • • Sarah Agnes James • Rie Munoz • Barbara Sweetland Smith • Annie Aghnaqa Alowa • Bettye J. Davis • Ruth Jefford • • Hannah Solomon • Eleanor Andrews • • Crystal Brilliant Jenne • Marie Matsuno Nash • Shirley Mae Staten • Changunak Antisarlook • Beverely D. Dunham • • Sadie Neakok • Ann Mary Stevens Andrewuk • Neva Egan • Margy K. Johnson • S Anne Newell • • Jane Ruth Angvik • • Marlene Johnson • Jane Vallett Sutherland • Clare Swan • • Kay Fanning • Alice Johnstone Niebergall • Dora Sweeney • Arne Beltz • Dolly Farnsworth • Carolyn Jones • Helen Nienhueser • Nancy Sydnam, M.D. • Laura Mae Bergt • • Dorothy M. Jones, Ph.D • Katherine Nordale • Francine Conat • Gretchen Bersch • • Eliza Jones • Ruth Elin Hall Ost Lastufka Taylor • Daisy Lee Bitter • Nan Elaine Fleischer • Jewell Jones • • Mary Taylor • Lydia Black • Carolyn Floyd • Mary Joyce • Ellen Paneok Pryor Thomas • Rita Blumenstein • Lucy Frey • Della Keats • • Peg Tileston • Connie Boochever • Nora Venes Guinn • Louise Kellogg • Leah Webster Peterson • Elizabeth Ann Tower, M.D. • Judith Brady • Dorothy Awes Haaland • Alice Dove Kull • Alice Petrivelli • • Alice Brown • Sandra Harper • V. Kay Lahdenpera • Ramona • Pauline Utter • Daphne Elizabeth Brown • Lorene Harrison • Thelma Langdon • Verna E. Pratt • Leonie von Zesch • Tikasuk Brown • Cornelia Hatcher • Anne P. Lanier, M.D. • Sisters of Providence • Elvira Voth • Thelma Buchholdt • Hazel Heath • Janie Leask • • Helen Stoddard • • Juanita Lou Helms • • Sharon Richards Whaley, M.D. • • Mildred Robinson • • Martha M. Roderick • Rosita Worl • Ellen Cashman Hermann • Kay Muriel Linton • Irene Rowan • Ada Wien • Orah Dee Clark • Diddy R. M. • Ethel Lund • Lisa Rudd • Caroline Wohlforth • L. Arlene Clay Hitchins, Ph.D. MBE • Wilda Marston • Susan Ruddy • Patricia B. Wolf • • Shirley Holloway, Ph.D. • Janet McCabe • Irene Ryan • Gertrude M. Wolfe • Carolyn Covington • Joerene Savikko Hout • Blanche McSmith • Grace Berg Schaible • Virginia Hill Wood • Marvel Crosson • Frances Howard • Marie Meade • Ruth Anne Marie • Esther Wunnicke • Katharine Crittenden • Wilda Hudson • Jo Michalski Schmidt, Ph.D • Betti Cuddy • Karen L. Hunt • Emily Morgan • Jo Ryman Scott

a special thank you to talking circle media Each year Talking Circle Media has documented the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, allowing us to achieve our goal of honoring, in perpetuity, women whose contributions have influenced the direction of Alaska.

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Dixie (Johnson) Belcher Dixie Belcher has been and between Russia and the U.S. She for re-integration from prison. continues to be a tireless and founded "CAMAI" in 1987 to Belcher’s activism continues today, conscientious visionary for open that border and lectured using music and environmental achieving political and social extensively throughout the U.S., awareness through Turning the change through music, which including lobbying in Tide, a non-profit group focused brings people together in unique D.C. and Moscow. Her success on education about the effects ways. Belcher’s childhood included meant reunions for indigenous of pollution, acidification and connections with the Salvation families on both sides who hadn’t warming on the world’s oceans. Army, and her nominator says seen each other in forty years. She is active in Ocean Beat, she’s been "banging the drum" for As a former Girl Scout leader a program that brings youth in issues that move her ever since! and outdoor enthusiast, Belcher different countries together via Belcher organized Juneau’s St. Paul formed the Alaska Wilderness the internet to sing together with Singers, a 36-member folk rock Experience in 1979 for teens to a goal of raising awareness and Achievement in: group that performed in the 1970s learn environmental awareness inspiring action. Activism for throughout Alaska and Canada. with a focus on indigenous Native Belcher is an international Social and Her later musical enterprises culture. Over her lifetime, she speaker and a published author and Political Change included Performing Artists for founded or co-founded several is the recipient of several honors 1940 - Peace, bringing together Siberia public service organizations, from the Alaska State Legislature and Alaska families that had been including Juneau Hospice, homes as well as the recipient of the Soviet separated during the Cold War for troubled teens, prison inmate Peace Award. by the Bering Straits boundary programs, and a halfway house

Mary Kathryn "Kay" Brown Mary Kathryn "Kay" Brown Representatives from Anchorage. behalf of civil rights and social has championed progressive She chaired subcommittees and justice. It noted that Brown had ideals throughout a 40-year held leadership positions as a fought steadfastly "for the rights of career spanning service in state 10-year Finance Committee individuals in the face of annual government, the non-profit sector, member, and was a co-chair of the attempts by many of her peers in and the media. Brown has served bi-partisan Anchorage Caucus. both political parties and in both as a state legislator, Director of the While serving in the House, houses of the to State of Alaska Division of Oil and Brown helped pass legislation legislate away the liberties that we Gas, and Executive Director of the on fiscal policy, environmental Alaskans of the Last Frontier hold Alaska Democratic Party. She has protection, domestic violence, sacrosanct." also been a reporter, editor, and privacy, housing, health, and After retiring from the author. energy conservation. Brown was legislature Brown, continued to

Achievement in: Achievements impacting an outspoken advocate for civil be active in progressive politics by Public Policy Alaska include implementation of liberties, women’s rights, and the recruiting, training and electing and Politics oil and gas policies to maximize poor and disadvantaged. many public officials to national, the state’s income, fighting for "I tried to be a voice for those state and local positions. She said 1950 - open meetings and access to public who didn’t have a voice," she said. her greatest accomplishment has records, and her work establishing The Alaska Civil Liberties been to empower others to run for the Constitutional Budget Reserve. Union honored Brown as "Civil office and successfully influence Brown served from 1987-1996 Libertarian of the Year" in 1994 the political process. in the Alaska House of for her advocacy and courage on

Paula Easley

Paula Easley’s years of service Easley is a business owner, to create the national "unfunded to Alaska come in many forms, author, and columnist for local and mandates bill" that became the especially in the public policy arena national publications. Her business, first piece of legislation included regarding sound land-use policy, Easley Associates, advocates for in the 1994 Contract with natural resource development, and multiple-use land policies by America. Easley collaborates with mental health trust land guidelines. federal and state land owners in fiscally-conservative think tanks She was the first woman to serve Alaska. Her philosophy on the role around the nation and maintains as Executive Director of the Alaska of resource development as the grassroots lobbying networks Resource Development Council critical foundation for economic on regulatory and policy issues and served on numerous state, and development has influenced state affecting Alaska. federal boards and commissions. and federal land management Gail Phillips, former Speaker Paula held appointments by three policies since the 1970s. Her legacy of the House of Representatives Achievement in: presidents – Reagan, Clinton and is one of passionate advocacy for said, "Alaska has benefited greatly Advocacy for Bush – to national public land responsible resource development. from Paula Easley’s contributions Responsible Alaska policy boards and served on the Easley has been listed in the to sound resource development Resource Development National Council of Women Heritage Foundation’s "Annual policies that have benefited our 1936 - Advisors to Congress. Guide to Public Policy Experts" economic well-being". Her advocacy is based on the since 1995; was named by the U.S. Easley also serves as a Trustee conviction that public decision- Small Business Administration of the Alaska Mental Health Trust making must reflect a balance as its "Women in Business Authority. between environmental protection Advocate of the Year" in 1993 and enhancing the state’s economy. and was instrumental in helping

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Dr. Elizabeth (Fuller) Elsner "Alaska is no place for a woman pediatrician. She was one of only At the Fairbanks Regional doctor" were among the first two females out of 12 doctors, total, Public Health Center she initiated words to greet Dr. Elizabeth Elsner in the entire Territory. She was well-child exams, health education, when she arrived at her new job later responsible for the northern immunizations and disease at a Fairbanks medical clinic. Her half of Alaska as a public health screening. The center’s public medical career proved him wrong. doctor. health nurses still provide these Born in 1923, Elsner attended Elsner was the first practitioner key services to all of Interior Mt. Holyoke College and Yale to proactively address children’s Alaska. School of Medicine. Her thesis health in Alaska’s rural villages In the 1970s and 80’s, Elsner work at Sloan Kettering Institute and communities. Wherever she had multiple assignments at the for Cancer Research became an went, she set up well-baby clinics University of Alaska in Fairbanks. accepted method for treating to protect children’s health. She She served as campus doctor, Achievement in: certain cancers. Though she facilitated the first statewide taught nurses to provide better Medicine wanted to become a surgeon, the immunization and disease health care in the villages, and and Education 1923 - field was unwelcoming. She instead screening efforts (e.g. against instructed medical students under focused her medical school energy polio, measles, and tuberculosis). the WAMI program. to specialize in pediatrics. Alaska became the first state When her work was done, it Elsner and her husband came fully immunized against polio. was clear that Alaska was exactly to Fairbanks in 1953, and she She trained nurses to continue the right place for a woman doctor. immediately began as the town’s statewide rural health initiatives.

Tennys Thornton (Bowers) Owens

Although not an artist herself, raising money for more than 100 most esteemed business leaders in Tennys Owens has transformed non-profit and community causes, the state when she was inducted the “business of art” into the art of including the new millennium, into the Alaska Business Hall of community service, demonstrating Alaska's 50th anniversary, and Fame. that art does matter. Using art Anchorage's 100th anniversary, She has been honored by for the good of the community plus some great projects in- the Anchorage Chamber of ultimately became Owens' legacy between. Commerce with the ATHENA shortly after arriving in Alaska as a Early on, Owens forged her Society membership and she has young Air Force wife in 1967. own way in the business world, received the YWCA Women of Opening in 1971, Artique Ltd. contributing an important Achievement award. A founding was the first gallery established perspective to influential business member and first woman chair in Alaska. Over its 45 years, the boards, all the while opening doors of the Anchorage Economic gallery broadened its focus from for other women to contribute and Development Corporation board, Achievement in: original art to a gamut of mediums, help make key decisions about Owens served many profit and Art Frontiers and Business developing extensive marketing Alaska's future. nonprofit boards and committees 1940 - and publishing capabilities for over With an impressive record throughout her career, including 27 80 artists. of business achievement, years on boards for National Bank As a publisher, Artique demonstrating business excellence, of Alaska and Wells Fargo. marketed fine art prints to a and inspiring leadership and network of galleries throughout community awareness, Owens’ Alaska. Owens implemented her awards and honors are many, concept of “prints for a purpose,” including recognition as one of the

Elizabeth "Betty" Parent, Ph.D.

Elizabeth “Betty” Parent is an was a successful student, an early experience of Native people in educational leader and a trailblazer. childhood/Head Start advocate, Moravian missions in She is the first Alaska Native and the busy mother of three Alaska is a definitive work on woman to earn a PhD, and the first young children. cultural assimilation. She accepted Alaska Native woman to become During the late 60's she also a professorship at San Francisco a full professor. Along the way she became involved in community State University, where she retired has mentored many and fought for activism for Alaska Native people. as a tenured professor emerita in justice for Alaska Native people. She helped found the Alaska Native 2000 after 20 years. Parent was born in Western Club on the UAF campus. She was Throughout these busy years Alaska into a blend of Athabascan involved in the early days of the Parent raised three successful and Yupik culture. She experienced Alaska Native Land Claims and children- Brian, Siobhan and hardship early in life with the was a founding member of the Liam Wescott. She also always death of her father and two siblings Tundra Times Board of Directors mentored students throughout Achievement in: before she reached school age. She She decided to apply to Indian Country. The Betty Educational Leadership and took strength from school and Harvard University for her Parent Achievement Award is Advocacy for Native Peoples developed a deep love of learning. master’s degree and was awarded presented annually to promising 1941 - She was encouraged by her beloved a fellowship. Upon graduation, Native American students at San aunt, Alice Harris. she pursued her doctorate at Francisco State University. She excelled at the University Stanford University. Her seminal of Alaska in Fairbanks where she dissertation on the educational

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Cathryn "Cathy" (Robertson) Rasmuson

When Cathy Rasmuson moved healthcare to Alaska. She chaired adventures has been dog-mushing to Alaska nearly 50 years ago to the capital campaign for the the Iditarod Trail with Joe teach speed reading in Anchorage, Providence Hospital Cancer Center Reddington in 1993. She and she had no idea she would spend and was also instrumental in her colleagues followed the race her life dedicated to the betterment establishing the Pediatric Newborn and experienced the hospitality of all Alaskans, especially its most Intensive Care Unit at Providence. of Alaskans across the state. vulnerable citizens. Rasmuson is Rasmuson came from a Her affection for rural Alaska best known as a loyal friend and Canadian family of modest was greatly influenced by that mentor, an advocate for at-risk means, who were her role models experience. youth, and as a philanthropist. by example of being empathetic Cathy Rasmuson’s life reads She has served on the Rasmuson and caring. After earning a BA like a fairy tale, where she has Foundation Board of Directors in English from the University of been fortunate enough to serve as Achievement in: since 1997, as well as the boards of Alberta, she worked there in public actual fairy godmother as the Vice- Philanthropy and Covenant House Alaska, Alaska relations before deciding to seek Chair the Rasmuson Foundation. Community Service Children's Services, and McCauley adventure in Alaska. Shortly after She is known as the heart of the Home, which is a safe place for arriving, she attended a Valentine’s Rasmuson Foundation. 1946 - pregnant and homeless teen girls party where she fortuitously met to stay. Ed Rasmuson, who became her Through the Rasmuson loving partner for the next 48 Foundation work, she has focused years. on bringing better access to One of her most memorable

Teri May (Laws) Rofkar

Teri Rofkar, a Raven from School in 1974, was married in 2013 and an Honorary Doctorate the Snail House, was a renowned October 1974 and arrived in Sitka, in Fine Arts from the University of artist, a weaver know Alaska, in 1976. She grew up in a Alaska Southeast in 2015. nationally and internationally for household where both parents were The more Rofkar practiced her spruce tree root baskets and artists. In the summers Rofkar her art utilizing the traditional Ravenstail robes. She explored visited her maternal grandmother techniques, the more she gained and mastered the gathering and in the village of Pelican, Alaska insight into Tlingit culture and its Ravenstail weaving technique of who introduced her to traditional connections between the present twining used in the 6,000 year-old Tlingit weaving and gathering and the past, the culture and the Tlingit traditional culture. Then, techniques at an early age. natural world, science and math. throughout her thirty-year career Her Ravenstail robes and As an individual, she cared deeply as an artist Rofkar generously spruce root baskets are in the about how to live, and create, shared this traditional knowledge collections of museums throughout responsibly in today’s world. Tlingit Name: by leading workshops, teaching the country. She received many Chaas’ Koowu Tla’a and giving demonstrations and, of distinguished awards for her Achievement in: course, through the examples of art, such as the NEA Heritage Tlingit Culture and the baskets and Ravenstail robes Fellowship Award for Traditional Traditional Weaving she created. Arts in 2009 (the nation’s highest 1956-2016 Born in California, she moved award for traditional folk arts and to Anchorage as a young child, crafts), the Rasmuson Foundation graduated from Dimond High Distinguished Artist Award in

Elsa Saladino (Malapit) Sargento

Growing up in the Philippines of Alaska to obtain a teaching Americans, which was initiated in in the 1940s, Elsa couldn’t imagine certificate. In 1977, she received her 2003, with the goal of increasing she would become a community Master of Education and obtained interaction and community service leader of 30,000 Filipinos in her School Administrative with mainstream society. For these Alaska. She has been an educator, Certificate in 1981. She received efforts, she was inducted into the a community volunteer and a many awards during her 23 years international “Asian Academy Hall policy staff member for two Alaska in the Anchorage School District. of Fame” in 2004 and recognized governors. In 1996 as a volunteer, Sargento nationally as one of the Top Twenty She credits her father who helped launch Bridge Builders Outstanding Filipino Americans in said, “The best inheritance I can of Anchorage, a non-profit 2006. give you is your education. It will organization connecting diverse Sargento’s inclusiveness and give you light wherever you go.” racial and cultural groups. She effectiveness has enhanced both Her scholastic efforts launched her has served as a board member or the long-term and new-citizen Achievement in: decade’s long career as an educator. president of the organization for communities of Anchorage for 40 Education and Elsa and Angel Sargento met the past 20 years. She led their years. She has been a role model Community Leadership and married in the Philippines and efforts to address teenage gang and mentor of scores of young 1946 - migrated to Alaska in 1974. They challenges in Anchorage in the late people through her professionalism have raised three children together. 1990s. and community service. She worked as a bi-lingual tutor She was also the founder of and earned credits at University the Alaska Federation of Filipino

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Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller was 40 years, all in Alaska's Territorial the Native people of Alaska a pioneer for the Aleut (Unangan) days. She became an outspoken spanned the disciplines of people who blazed the way in advocate and strong activist for the education, midwifery, church and education, public speaking, and rights and culture of her people social work. She was remembered community activism. She was and was dedicated to helping in the Aleut Corporation an outstanding Alaska Native them. In her career, she influenced Newsletter for her "lifelong, tireless educator who worked for decades thousands of children and adults efforts to enhance the capabilities in rural Alaska villages and towns. across Alaska. of her people to cope with their She was the first teacher in As a Native woman in the changing way of life." She was Atka, the surviving village in early years of the 20th century, recognized by the Department of the central Aleutians, where she Seller set an example of the value Interior in 1950 when she received taught for four years. She was the of education that has rarely been a special award for commendable Achievement in: first of her people to be a certified equaled. In 1922 she was asked to service. That same year Congress teacher and went on to teach in write three articles about the Aleut awarded her a medal for Alaska Native Education her hometown of Unalaska on the people. Published in 1923 by The "outstanding service to her people." 1884-1980 Aleutian chain, in Akhiok (Alitak) Pathfinder of Alaska, they are of After she retired, she continued to on Kodiak Island, in Tyonek, and great importance to any study of lecture about Alaska and the Aleut Eklutna. the Aleut people. people. Her teaching spanned almost Her outstanding work among

Carol Swartz

Carol Swartz has served as discussions, and responded to the Peninsula Women's Services Director of the Kachemak Bay changing needs of the area. Swartz in cooperation with dedicated Campus of enthusiastically spearheaded the community members and College/UAA in Homer for 31 advocacy, planning, and design agencies. As its director, she and years. With her energetic and of the Campus’s facilities and others developed core services collaborative leadership style, programs. and collaborated with hospital, and together with dedicated Swartz is the founding director school, law enforcement and faculty, staff and community of KBC’s annual Kachemak Bay judicial system staffs to advocate board, she created and expanded Writers' Conference, a premier for the state's developing legal, accessible and diverse cultural and cultural event that has earned public safety, and social services educational opportunities on the significant national recognition. and shelter networks to address southern Kenai Peninsula. Since 2002, this conference has domestic violence and sexual Achievement in: Early in her career Swartz hosted award-winning Alaska and assault. Higher Education and recognized that education is the national novelists, essayists, and Dedicated to community Community Development key to making a transformative poets who have inspired many service, Swartz has served on many 1950 - difference in our world and to through their creative work and boards of directors and has been people’s well-being. Accordingly, presentations. the recipient of various awards, she championed adult and After arriving in Homer in including the YWCA Women of youth access to education, as 1980 to serve as the first clinical Achievement, Governor’s Award well as promoted the role of the social worker/co-director at the for the Humanities and the Campus in Homer's economic new Community Mental Health University of Alaska Meritorious development, fostered community Center, Swartz founded South Service Award.

class of 2016 Pictured (Back L-R): Margy Johnson, Shirley Staten, Janet McCabe, Jo Michalski (Front L-R): Dr. Anne P. Lanier, Sandy Harper, Eliza Jones, Dr. Nancy Sydnam

Not Pictured: Annie Aghnaqa (Akeya) Alowa, Kathleen Dalton, Juanita Lou Helms, Crystal Brilliant Jenne, Alice Petrivelli

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class of 2015 Pictured L-R: Marie Darlin, Alice Johnstone, Ramona Gail Phillips, Daisy Lee Bitter, Marie Meade Seated: L. Arlene Clay

Not pictured: Laura Mae Bergt, Lucy Evelyn Cuddy, Dolly Farnsworth, Alice Dove Kull, Ruth Anne Marie Schmidt Ph.D., Ann Mary Stevens, Elvera Voth.

class of 2014 Pictured L-R: V. Kay Lahdenpera, Janie Leask, Eleanor Andrews, Verna E. Pratt, , Francine Conat Lastufka Taylor, Jane Vallett Sutherland Niebergall, Beverly D. Dunham, Mary Jane Fate

Not pictured: Katie John, Kay Muriel (Townsend) Linton, Barbara Sweetland Smith, Gertrude M. Wolfe

class of 2013 Pictured: Judy Brady, Diddy Hitchins, Karen Hunt, Marie Nash, Anne Newell, Carolyn Covington, Jewell Jones

Not pictured: Arne Beltz, Daphne Elizabeth Brown, Joan Hurst, Dorothy M. Jones, DSW, Mary Joyce, Thelma Langdon, Emily Morgan, Ruth E. Moulton

class of 2012 Pictured: (Back L-R) Irene Sparks Rowan, Carolyn Floyd, Audrey Aanes, Carolyn Jones, Sharon Richards, (Front L-R) Wilda Hudson, Gretchen Bersch, Rosita Worl

Not pictured: Connie Boochever, Louise Kellogg, Ellen Evak Paneok, Lisa Howell Starr Rudd, Hannah Paul Solomon, Pauline Utter, Dr. Leonie von Meusebach Zesch, Susan L. Ruddy

class of 2011 Pictured: (Back L-R) Patricia B. Wolf, Caroline, Wohlforth, Lael Morgan, Joerene Hout, (Front L-R) Lanie Fleischer, Clare Swan, Elaine Abraham

Not pictured: Katharine Crittenden, Betti Cuddy, Ruth Elin Hall Ost, Leah Webster Peterson, Martha M. Roderick, Helen Stoddard Whaley

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class of 2010 Pictured (Back L-R) Jo Scott, Peg Tileston, Helen Nienhueser, Shirley Holloway, Marlene Johnson (Front L-R) Ethel Lund, Marge Mullen, Georgianna Lincoln, Bettye J. Davis, Betsy Tower, Nora Dauenhauer

Not pictured: Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams, Alice Brown, Hazel Heath, Virginia Hill Wood

class of 2009 Pictured: (Back L-R) Frances Howard Elmore, Carol Comeau, Fran Ulmer, Arliss Sturgulewski, Katie Hurley (Front L-R) Sarah Anges James, Wilda Marston, Dana Fabe, Esther Wunnickle

Not pictured: Lucy Frey, Rie Munoz, Emily Ivanoff Brown, Thelma Buchholdt, Susan Butcher, , Orah Clark, Marvel Crosson, Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Neva Egan, Kay Fanning, Helen Fischer, Nora Guinn, Dorothy Awes Haaland, Lorene Harrison, Cornelia Templeton Jewett, Mildred Hermann, Celia Hunter, Ruth Jefford, Della Keats, Lena Morrow Lewis, Blanche McSmith, Lisa Murkowski, Sadie Neakok, Katherine Nordale, Sarah Palin, Elizabeth Peratrovich, Sisters of Providence, Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson, Irene Ryan, Grace Berg Schaible, Nell Scott, Lidia Selkregg, Natalya Shelikof, Dora Sweeney, Ada B. Wien

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