Dorothy Durdin

Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.

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Diana Dyason

Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.

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Naomi Chapman Woodroof

Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).

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Julia Flisch

Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Helen A Whiting

Whiting worked hard to promote African American education and to improve classroom conditions in 1930s and ’40s Georgia (US state).

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Dorothy Moses Alexander

Founded by visionary dance instructor Dorothy Moses Alexander, the Atlanta Ballet began performing in 1929. Alexander’s dream of bringing quality ballet to the Atlanta community resulted in the Dorothy Alexander Dance Art Group—the first regional ballet company in the United States.

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