HALL OF FAME

Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937- )
First female Secretary of State and highest ranking woman in the U.S. government under President Clinton. As a professor at Georgetown University, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international affairs and Russian and Central and Eastern European politics. In President Clinton's first term, she was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of the National Security Council. Additional Resources: Blood, Thomas. Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Dobbs, Michael. Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999. Blackman, Ann. Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright. New York, New York: Scribner, 1998. NOTES: "A Lisa Drew book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-357) and index. Oral History. University of Virginia, White Burkett Miller Center, at the Jimmy Carter Library. Atlanta, Georgia.

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century. Her best-known work, Little Women, has appeared continuously in print since its first publication in 1868-69. A prolific author of books for American girls, Louisa May Alcott is best remembered for Little Women, one of the 270 published works by the Pennsylvania-born woman. This endearing novel captured forever the period's ideals and values of middle class. Additional Resources: Work: A Story of Experience. With a new introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick. New York: Arno Press, 1977 [1873]. NOTES: Part of the "Rediscovered fiction by American women series." Reprint of the 1st edition, published by Roberts, Boston. Little Women. Boston: J. Redpath, 1868. Hospital Sketches. Boston: J. Redpath, 1863. Little Men. Boston: J. Redpath, 1871. Flower Fables. George W. Briggs & Co., 1855. (Cambridge, MA: Metcalf and Company, Stereotypers and Printers). Papers 1820-1888, 150 items. Harvard College Library, the Houghton Library, Manuscript Department. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Linda G. Alvarado (1952- )
Alvarado, a Hispanic-American businesswoman who started her own construction firm in 1976, has broken many barriers in that historically male-dominated world. As co-owner of The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, Alvarado is also the first Hispanic-American, male or female, to own a major league baseball franchise. Linda G. Alvarado has changed the ‘male only’ image of construction contractors across the United States and opened doors to increasing numbers of women and minorities to enter construction and non-traditional fields of endeavor. Alvarado is founder and sole owner of Alvarado Construction, a large commercial and industrial general contracting/site management, and design/build firm in Denver, CO, President of Palo Alto, Inc. Restaurant Company, and co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. Oneof the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business Magazine, awarded the 1996 U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year distinction, honored by the prestigious Sara Lee Corporation Frontrunner Award, awarded the 2001 Horatio Alger Award, inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame(2002), named to the White House Commission for Hispanic Excellence in Education, named Woman of the Year by the Mexican American Foundation, and received the National Women’s Economic Alliance Director’s Choice Award. Ms. Alvarado’s recognition awards for business and philanthropic activity is two pages long and still growing.

Dorothy H. Andersen (1901-1963)
Pediatrician and pathologist who was the first to identify cystic fibrosis and developed a simple, definitive diagnostic test for the disease. Dorothy H. Andersen, pediatrician and pathologist, was the first scientist to identify the disease, cystic fibrosis. Her research and discovery in 1938 of this, at that time, fatal disease led the way to modern day advances in the treatment and management of the illness. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, 1922, and the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1926, Andersen overcame the prevailing discrimination against women in medicine and spent most of her professional career at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. Additional Resources: Familial Cirrhosis of the liver with storage of abnormal glycogen. Laboratory Investigation, Baltimore, 1956, 5: 11-20. Cystic Fibrosis of the the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease. A clinical and pathological study. American Journal of Diseases of Children, Chicago, 1938, 56:344-399. Papers 1930-1965 (1 document box). Columbia HSL Archives and Special Collections. Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library. NY, NY.

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