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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Mary Ellen Avery</p>
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<p>My next door neighbor was professor of pediatrics at
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Woman’s Medical College in Pennsylvania—Dr. Emily Bacon—
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and she kindly reached out to me in many ways, and
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I saw her life as more exciting and meaningful than most of
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the women I knew—who were my mothers friends, for example,
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who were busy doing good works, raising children
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(and I admired them greatly), but I still thought Emily Bacon had
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something going for her in terms of reaching out to all children.
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But mainly, she reached out to me, and I’m eternally grateful.
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So I applied to Johns Hopkins and Harvard. And Harvard
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didn’t take women at that time but I didn’t know it, and
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Johns Hopkins did. In fact they had to. They were
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founded by a woman who had insisted that they wouldn’t get
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the money to build the school if they didn’t take women on
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an equal basis with men, and I thought, “Hey,
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that neutralizes the problem in one dimension,”
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and Emily Bacon graduated from Johns Hopkins. So there was
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no question where I was going to go to medical school.</p>
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<p>I received the National Medal of Science in 1991. It is
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America’s highest award for all of science. And so there had been
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very few pediatricians if any, that had ever been given the medal.
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They’ve given maybe ten or fifteen a year. It’s presented
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by the President of the United States to the nominee.
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This has been very, very rewarding. And I feel that
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I am a citizen of this one world and that I can resonate with people
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with a lot in common—it’s called science and science methods.
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And I am so saturated and pleased to share it with anybody
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who will listen, and that makes for a very fulfilling life.</p>
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