The Liz Library presents Irene Stuber's Women of Achievement


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April 12
WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AND HERSTORY

Compiled and Written by Irene Stuber.
04-12 TABLE of CONTENTS:

DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS

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04-12 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS

B. 04-12-1883, Imogen Cunningham, pioneer photographer of plants and portraits.

B. 04-12-1898, Eleanor Touroff Glueck, noted criminologist, research associate in criminology at Harvard Law School and with her husband (who became a professor while she didn't) did extensive studies of the criminal mind and juvenile deliquency. They published jointly from 1927 to 1972 and shared many honors.

B. 04-12-1904, Lily Pons, soprano with the Metropolitan Opera with a range from middle C to F sharp above high C.

B. 04-12-1917, Marietta Tree, helped found Sydenhan Hospital in Harlem (1944), member New York City Commission on Human Rights (1959), mother of author Frances Fitzgerald and model Penelope Tree.

B. 04-12-1933, Montserrat Caballe, bel canto soprano of world and Metropolitan Opera fame.

Event: 04-12-1933, Ruth Bryan Owen, is appointed U.S. envoy to Denmark, the first woman to represent the US as a foreign minister.

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