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Women in the Curriculum / Women's Studies

Maryann Hartman Awards

1992 Award Winners
Honoring three Maine women

Glenna Atwood

Glenna Wolton Atwood has been an innovative and courageous teacher all her life. In the early 1970s, she made sex education acceptable to the entire school she worked in by pioneering it first in her home economics course. In the same spirit of innovation, she began a childcare program to give child development students firsthand experience and she created an independent living curriculum which was so successful that is was adopted by schools across the nation. Atwood has lived with Parkinson's disease for over a decade. Determined to educate herself and others about this progressive disorder, she found available information sparse and depressing. After much research, she wrote the book, Living Well With Parkinson's and her positive involvement led her to international prominence as a leading spokesperson for those with the disorder. Glenna was a role model, teacher, and friend, not only to those with Parkinson's, but to all those with whom she came into contact with. She died in November, 1998.

Constance Carlson

Constance Hedin Carlson pursued accomplishment and service all her life, particularly in the world of higher education. At each level in her career in Maine, Carlton has been the first woman to attain distinction: in 1972 she was the first woman selected as outstanding professor at the University of Maine; she was the first woman to become Dean of a college at the University of Maine, the Bangor Community College, where she served from 1972-1979; and she was the first woman to serve as president of a campus in the University of Maine System at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, from 1980 - 1986. Her life of service paralleled her accomplishments in education. Carlson served on a number of boards of directors, served as Chair of Husson College's Board of Trustees, and was the first woman to chair the Bangor Public Library's Board of Trustees and Board of Managers. She actively participated in the Maine Humanities Council Bangor Seminar where her knowledge, compassion, and humor enhanced the entire community. She died in May, 1997.

Harriet Henry

The first woman appointed as a judge in Maine, Harriet Putnam Henry served as an at-large District Court Judge from 1973-1990. Born in Kentucky, Henry moved to Portland in 1958 after working in Washington D.C. for the Quartermaster General and the National Security Agency. Nationally recognized as an expert in marine law and as an advocate for women judges, Henry is also known for her work in the areas of child abuse and child support. Her extensive volunteer experience includes membership in the original Maine Commission on the Status of Women, the Portland Housing Authority , and the Cumberland County Child Abuse and Neglect Council. Henry served as Chair of the Maine Commission on the Status of Women, the Portland Housing Authority, and the Cumberland County Child Abuse and Neglect Council, Chair of the Maine Commission on the Future of the Courts, Chair of the Professional Ethics and Judicial Responsibility Committee of the national Conference of Special Court Judges, and Chair of the Child Abuse Committee of the Women Judges Foundation for Justice.

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