Lois Howes
As an avid naturalist and talented self-taught botanist, she convinced the Save the Dunes Council to make the pivotal purchase of Cowles Bog in 1953.
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Elsie Scott
Publish health nurse for the San Juan Islands, a remote, rural archipelago in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest between the Washington mainland and Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Dr Eve Slater
In 2002 Eve Elizabeth Slater, M.D., became the first woman to become assistant secretary for health in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr Hannah E Myers Longshore
When Dr. Hannah Myers Longshore began a private practice in Philadelphia, in 1853, she was the city’s first woman doctor.
Dr Mary Dixon Jones
In 1888, Dr. Mary Dixon Jones was the first person in America to propose and perform a total hysterectomy for myoma (a tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus.
Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
Russian biologist and environmental activist
Barbara E Plampin
After moving to Dune Acres in 1988, Barbara Plampin had time for her passion of botany, meticulously studying the Dunes’s habitats and becoming a persistent advocate for natural land preservation and an expert botanist in her own right.
Dr Marjorie Apthorpe
Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.
Belinda Morieson
Belinda Morieson was Branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Victoria Branch (ANF(Vic)) from 1989-2001.
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.