Dr. Epstein was a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University for five decades. Her research centered on the overlapping influences of schools, families, and communities on children's learning and development.
Dr. Hayes was a member of the nursing faculty at the University of Delaware for more than three decades. In retirement, she founded and sponsored the university's annual Evelyn Hayes Innovations in Healthcare Symposium.
Dr. Amos served as dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Utah for two decades. During her long tenure, she also served as associate vice president for health sciences and as founding chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
Dr. Coultas served as president of La Roche College (now University) in Pittsburgh from 1975 to 1981. Before her presidency, she taught as a professor of psychology and served as the college's dean of students.
Dr. Haipt was a faculty member in the education department at the College of New Rochelle in New York. In retirement, she founded Serviam Girls Academy, a middle school for girls in Wilmington, Delaware.
Gillespie graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1949. After several years working for Curtis Publications, she returned to her alma mater, where she would serve in various alumni relations roles for nearly 40 years.
In 1971, Schmertz co-founded the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Later in life, she became the first woman to serve as a senior vice president at American Express.
Dr. Kane was a curator with Yale University's Garvan and Related Collections of American Art for nearly six decades. She was a scholar of American decorative arts who specialized in early American furniture, seventeenth-century silver, and contemporary craft.
Dr. Dinnerstein joined the University of Arizona in 1975 as founding director of the women's studies program. Four years later, she became founding director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women.
Dr. Chilton was a pioneer in the field of plant biotechnology. While on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, she and a team of colleagues created the first genetically modified plants while studying how to remove harmful bacterium from the DNA of trees.
Dr. Newkirk was the first faculty member of color in the College of Home Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where served as chair of the department of home economics education for 20 years. Dr. Newkirk was also the first African American elected president of the American Home Economics Association.
