Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Edith Brown
Librarian who co-founded Boston’s Paul Revere Pottery, which provided worthwhile employment for young North End Italian and Jewish women
Edith Guerrier
Artist who co-founded Boston’s Paul Revere Pottery, which provided worthwhile employment for young North End Italian and Jewish women
Gladys A Moore Perdue
Boston organist
E Alice Taylor
Beautician and community activist, formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
Margarita Muñiz
Margarita Muñiz (1950-2011) worked in Boston Public Schools for 39 years, 30 of them as the principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, the premier dual language school in Massachusetts.
Dr Evelyn Abdalah Menconi
Lebanese-American cultural ambassador in Boston
Labeebee Hanna Saquet
Served as a bridge between Arab Americans and the general public, beginning in 1930 when she directed Arabian Nights, a Boston Syrian Tercentenary celebration presented at Symphony Hall.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.