Gloeckner, Mary Louise Carpenter, 1904-1978

Mary Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, born in Philadelphia, 26 August 1904. She received her M.D. from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She practiced general medicine in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and was active in a variety of local, state, and national medical organizations, including as the the first woman Vice-President of the American Medical Association. Dr. Gloeckner retired from practice and most of her organizational activities in 1975. She died 4 November 1978.