Recognitions Related To My Education, Career, Speaking, and Writing
under construction, like the rest of myself
Born and raised in Michigan
Science studies Harvard College, Cambridge Massachusetts
Certified, Harvard Medical School, Audiology-Audiometry, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
The Harvard Pre-School Project, under the Direction of Burton White, MD PhD
Co-Founder, Nursing Mothers Association, Boston, Massachusetts 1965
Our Bodies, Ourselves, initial writing staff ~1968 (mimeographed first editions, led by Norma Swenson, Boston, Massachusetts)
Certified, Peri-natal specialist, ASPO, NY, NY. 1969
Member of the Board of Trustees, American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics, Inc. (ASPO)
Southwest Regional Director, ASPO (directed national certification for MDs, RNs, RPTs), 1967-1995
Southwest Regional Coordinator, Action for Children's Television, 1969-1973
Appointed to Phi Alpha Theta (International History Honor Society)
Appointed to Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)
Graduated: Texas Woman's University, Magna cum laude
Honor Cords, Top Honors, English, History, Biology
Who's Who of Women in America
Who's Who in Finance and Industry
Who's Who is the South and Southwest
Who's Who International
Who's Who Among Women in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Greatest Women of the Twenty-First Century
Member, National Society of Fundraising Executives, Date of origin through 1992
Outstanding Staff Achievement Award, Minority Student Association, University of North Texas, "For outstanding services to help us pass on the torch" 1994 (one I was most honored to have received).
Author: Childbirth Today: Prepared and Positive, 1978. 369 page soft cover (currently under revision)
Served on Mental Health Commission, Child Abuse Prevention Committee
Served Dallas Mental Health Council, first Child Abuse Committee
Established the Family Life Information Centre, Inc., a 24-hour resource for "the family," parenting education, preventive health awareness, establishing outreach peri-natal and job-training centers for expectant mothers, Project: Abandoned Mother & Child (a foster family program for battered and abandoned women and their children), family counseling program headed by a professional therapist with a team of MA-PhD colleagues (no cost to the public), a Milk Bank for very ill premature neonates (infants) with the ARC picking up donated Mothers Milk at women's homes, a 24-hour Hot Line for family life and parenting questions—all with highly trained volunteers (including RNs, MDs, PR/advertising executives, and grant specialists; identified, performed needs assessment and established the Displaced Homemaker Program (now national), and Family Outreach. Additionally, an extensive family life library (with volunteer degreed librarians), funded by the State of Texas, Childcare Consultation & Training. Dallas, Texas.
Writer, columnist, Denton-Lewisville Leader, Garland News, Dallas Morning News (editorial on violence in society).
Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, (first Anglo, first female) Ways and Means Committee. Facilitated first strategic planning 3-day conference.
Chair, North Dallas County Medical Board-1995-6 (Dallas County Hospital District)
Leadership Dallas, 1977-78 (Ongoing LD Alumni Association through ~ 1995)
Member, Dallas Forty (until ~ 1997)
Member, Dallas Friday Group (1980s-1995)
Founding chair, PROJECT! OUTREACH, Inc. 1998-2003
Resides in Texas, writing, xeric gardening, adapting life after invasive breastcancer, learning to live with "renewed abilities © (dis-ABILITIES)": a genetic vision disorder, Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS), and TBI (I keep trying). Traveling as the opportunities arise (leisure, public speaking, poetry reading, story-telling). Advocate to individuals with PPS, Stargardt's, and after extensive research, writing and speaking to change public mindset about sexual abuse/child predators/clergy and church employee abuse.
(n.b: All of this and $1.00 buys me a cup of coffee to keep my brain cells stimulated)
Favorite Quote: "The real
difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new
ideas, but in escaping from the old ones (John Maynard Keynes)."
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