GLOECKNER, Mary Louise Carpenter, M.D., PAPERS, [1933 - 1979]

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GLOECKNER, Mary Louise Carpenter, M.D., PAPERS, [1933 - 1979]

1933 - 1979

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Scattered professional and social correspondence, [1933-(1953-1978)], including several notes from Catharine Macfarlane, M.D. Scattered minutes, reports, correspondence, notes, meeting announcements, and related material for several organizations in which Gloeckner was active, including the American Cancer Society, the Philadelphia Division, [1958-1978]; the American Medical Association [1951-1975], including a few diary entries, 1970, reflecting some of her activities as the first woman Vice-President of the Association; the American Medical Women's Association, 1971-1972; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, [1969-1973]; Conshohocken Civilian Defense Council-Medical Division, 1957-1960; Montgomery County Medical Society, [1942-(1964-1972)]; Pennsylvania Medical Society, [1950-1973]; the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1969-1971. Miscellaneous materials relating to various memberships, honors, and awards. Speeches and papers on such topics as cancer, civil defense, ecology, health careers, preventive medicine, travel in England, and women in middle age.

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Gloeckner, Mary Louise Carpenter, 1904-1978

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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. ...