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Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister of Providence

“My sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair.”   Mother Joseph of...

The Hambleton Project

The Hambleton Project—Portland’s Lesbian Cancer Support Network—was a grass roots...

Lisa Andrus-Rivera

Lisa Andrus-Rivera is indeed a heroine, both to the hundreds of students she has taught in the...

Lenore Ruth Beck Frimoth

Lenore Ruth Beck Frimoth is the heroine for many persons beginning with her immediate family:...

Mildred Berselli

Mildred ("Millie" for short) was born May 13, 1916, in New York City. Mildred's...

Shirley Tengberg Berselli

Shirley Anne Tengberg Berselli died Sept. 27, 2009 in her Dunthorpe home of complications of...

Rita Bettenburg

Born August 2nd, 1951 in Minneapolis Minnesota, Rita is the middle of three children.  She has...

Harriet Bodner

Harriet was born in Portland in 1920 and has lived here virtually her entire life. Her mother Helen...

Esther Dudick Brenes

In the summer of 1910, Esther Dudick Brenes was born in Minneapolis, the first of three children to...