Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 17, 1995 TAG: 9509180093
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SENECA FALLS, N.Y. LENGTH: Medium
Eileen Collins, who piloted the space shuttle Discovery on an eight-day mission in February, was honored along with Ann Bancroft, who in 1986 became the first woman to trek to the North Pole.
A national committee selected 18 honorees from the arts, medicine, industry, government, law and social reform.
They include singer Ella Fitzgerald; Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court; and anti-lynching crusader Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, an organizer of black women's organizations who died in 1924.
Others are Elizabeth Dole, the first woman Secretary of Transportation, now president of the American Red Cross; political scientist and educator Nannerl Keohane, the first woman president of Duke University; and Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo.
The induction ceremony will be held Oct. 14. The Hall of Fame was established in 1969 in this Finger Lakes town where the women's rights movement began in 1848. Women eventually won the right to vote in 1920.
The other inductees, honored posthumously, include:
Virginia Apgar [1909-1974], physician who invented a life-saving health assessment test for newborns called the Apgar Scale.
Amelia Bloomer [1818-1894], founded and edited ``The Lily,'' the first newspaper devoted to reform and equality for women.
Mary Breckinridge [1881-1965], nurse-midwife and founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, created to provide health care in rural areas.
Anne Dallas Dudley [1876-1955], key leader in passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote; Tennessee suffrage and political leader.
Mary Baker Eddy [1821-1910], first American woman to found a worldwide religion, the Church of Christ, Scientist.
Margaret Fuller [1810-1850], author, feminist, Transcendentalist leader and teacher.
by CNB