Nora B Adams

Nora B. Adams was an African American Seattle Public School principal who left more than $1 million in her estate to three of her major interests.

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Dr Ethel Schwartz Weinberg

1970: Dr. Ethel Weinberg organized and received American Medical Association approval for the first internship in acute care medicine. This later evolved into the specialty of emergency medicine.

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Ada Mahon

Educator and highly regarded prewar principal of Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, which at the time had a majority Japanese American student body.

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Clara Breed

Clara Estelle Breed was a children’s librarian in the San Diego Public Library system who supported the Japanese American community during World War II.

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Dr Eleanor Gossard Shore

Dr. Eleanor Shore initiated the Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine, to promote gender equality in career development and allow junior faculty to balance family life with their professional responsibilities without missing out on opportunities for advancement and promotion.

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Eda Buddecke

The Buddecke sisters founded St. Nicholas School at the behest of a group of Seattle parents who wanted their daughters to have the benefit of a first-class nonsectarian college-preparatory education.

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