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Women in the Curriculum / Women's Studies

Maryann Hartman Awards

1996 Award Winners
Honoring three Maine women

Judy Guay

Born in Old Town, Maine, Judy Guay devoted her life to community service and economic justice. She was an active volunteer for over twenty-five years in areas ranging from children's dental health to services for the homeless to economic equity. In 1979, Guay was one of the first women to serve on the Bangor School Committee, a post she held until 1993, acting as a voice for people from low-income neighborhoods in Bangor. She founded the Maine Association of Independent Neighborhoods (MAINE) in 1981 and has served as its president ever since. In 1983, Guay was named Public Citizen of the year by Maine's chapter of the National Association of Social Work. She spent over fifteen years working with AID for Families with Dependant Children (AFDC) through her job with Catholic Charities of Maine. Guay was active in the Coalition for Economic Justice, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, People's Theater of the Pine Tree Folk School, and the Maine Women's Fund. Judy Guay passed away in 2006.

Trish Riley

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Trish Riley has dedicated her career to promoting sound public health policy and advocating for the elderly. She received both her B.S. and M.S. in Education from the University of Maine, and as the first woman president of the University's student government, (1972-73), she organized the first women's symposium here. Riley's service has included work in the following organizations: the Maine Committee for the Aging, the Bureau of Maine's Elderly, and the Maine Public Health Association. In 1981, Riley was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging and in 1985 she was the first woman to be honored as Maine's Public Administrator of the Year by the American Society for Public Administration. A resident of Brunswick, Riley presently holds the positions of president of the Center for Health Policy Development and executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.

Clarice Yentsch

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Clarice Yentsch is a pioneer in the fields of Biology and Ocean Science. In 1964, she received her B.S. in Natural Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and in 1970, her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Nova University. Yentsch became the founding director of the Flow Cytometry, Cell Sorting Facility at Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor in 1974, where she continues to work. As a research scienctist she is noted for her groundbreaking work on the development of red tides.

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