The National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls today has announced this year’s inductees. Ten women were named at The Gould Hotel in Seneca Falls.
They include:
--Tenley Albright, winner of the silver medal in figure skating at the 1952 Olympics, and the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
--Nancy Brinker, with a promise to her dying sister, she launched the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
--Martha Graham, creator of the Martha Graham Dance Company, whose contributions transformed the art form.
--Marcia Greenberger, a legal advocate whose work has affected virtually every major law of importance to women and girls in the U.S. for more than 40 years.
--Barbara Iglewski, a professor of microbiology and immunology who discovered how bacteria communicate with each other.
--Jean Kilbourne, internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising
--Carlotta Walls LaNier, in 1957, at the age of 14, she became the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine; nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
--Philippa Marrack, one of the world’s leading research scientists investigating T-cells.
--Mary Harriman Rumsey, the founder of The Junior League.
--Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women and publisher of Ms. Magazine; also the founder of The Feminist Majority.
The new inductees will join the 255 women already enshrined in the Hall. Induction ceremonies are in October.
A special committee reviews the nominations of women for selection into the Hall of Fame, and inductions are held every other year.
The Women’s Hall of Fame is getting ready to move into the former Seneca Knitting Mill. Renovations are underway, and it’s hoped the hall can start to make the move next year.
