A WOMANWHOMADEADIFFERENCE By Ruth Hogan Ruth Hogan presented this paper in October 1997 at the Wednesday Club, a literary group celebrating its 100th year. A graduate of Arlington High School and Vassar Brothers Hospital School of Nursing, Mrs. Hogan was a school nurse in the Arlington School District for 26 years. She and her husband, Robert, married fifty-five years, live in Poughquag. They have one son and three grandchildren.
Mary Lucy Ham Alley
Without a doubt there have been countless women through the ages who have had extensive influence both on their contemporaries and on subsequent generations. They made a difference. A numberof womenhavehad an influenceon my life. Certainlymy grade schoolteacher,DorothyHowell,laterDorothyHitsman,had a major
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