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She just died last year; an obituary: articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-01/features/ct-met-re... She was featured in a recent fundraising campaign at her alma mater, North Central College: northcentralcollege.edu/x47826.xml And on a personal note, she was born exactly on the same day as my grandmother, 29 November 1919.

oh wow, this is really cool.

A newspaper story about her appeared in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 13, 1958: [photo] Joins Staff Dr. Ruby S. Hirose has recently been transferred to the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital as a bacteriologist. Before coming here, she was affiliated with the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., and the VA Hospital at Dayton, Ohio. Born in Kent, WAsh., Dr. Hirose received her college education at the University of Washington, Seattle, and did graduate work at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1932. She first worked in the Biological Division of the William S. Merrill Company in Cincinnati. During the war she was connected with the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology, University of Cincinnati, a consulting laboratory doing toxicological work. She also taught at the University of Indiana Medical School as an instructor in microbiology and doing research on cancer using antimetabolites. Dr. Hirose is living on the hospital grounds here. Only two years later, her obituary was published in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 8, 1960: Dr Ruby Hirose, VA Hospital Chemist, Dies Dr Ruby S Hirose, 54, 1009 S. Kiner St, died on Friday afternoon in the Reading Hospital. She was a member of the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital staff. Dr Hirose, who previously lived in Dayton, O., was born in Kent, Wash. She held a doctorate in chemistry. Her parents were the late Shiusaku and Tome (Kurai) Hirose. Surviving are two sisters, Mary T. Hirose, Chicago, and Toki, wife of Dr. Isaac Jawasaki, Honolulu; and a brother, Kimeo Hirose, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thank you for such detailed information, Brenda! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

Share Hirose's legacy with the wonderful women in your life by sending a free ecard featuring her from the Smithsonian Institution Archives: blog.photography.si.edu/2011/03/16/ecards-womens-history-... Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Harold Lethbridge (1880-1944) who had spent his youth on Forest Vale Station, observed much of the habits and customs of the Gunggari people. He studied at Brisbane Grammar School and having graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1904, he commenced a long career as a medical practitioner in Narrandera, in the Riverina Region where he worked closely with the Wiradjuri people of NSW. During the First World War, Harold served with the Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt, France, and England; his wife Gwen followed him wherever possible. The Lethbridge collection contains over 50 letters from Harold to his father, describing in detail his experiences in the Casualty Clearance Stations, and his pioneering work in No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall - assisting men who were limbless, and for this work, he was awarded an MBE in 1918. Later in life, Harold became a collector and translator of Aboriginal songs and was given the name 'The great white father' by descendants of the Wiradjuri people, in recognition of his service to their community. Several of the songs he collected have been recorded, notably 'Maranoa Lullaby' which was performed by Aboriginal tenor Harold Blair in 1950 and chosen by the National Film and Sound Archive as one of its ‘Sounds of Australia' - you can listen to a snippet of this recording online. More contemporary recordings include - the Wiggles 'Emma' in 1991 and the Brodskey Quartet in 2015. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/forest-vale-station