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The Maine Women's Hall of Fame was created in 1990 to honor the achievements of women associated with the
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of
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. The induction ceremonies are held each year during March, designated as
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. Nominees are chosen by the public via an online nomination form. The
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displays the hall of fame in its Bennett D. Katz Library, and also hosts the hall of fame online at the university's website. The nomination form lists three criteria for eligibility: :1) Woman's achievements must have had a significant statewide impact :2) Woman's achievements significantly improved the lives of women in Maine :3) Woman's contribution has enduring value for women. Nominations have a December deadline of any given year. The first two inductees in 1990 were
Mabel Sine Wadsworth Mabel Antoinette Sine Wadsworth (October 14, 1910 – January 11, 2006) was an American birth control activist and women's health educator. Influenced by the work of Margaret Sanger, she organized door to door campaigns in rural Maine in the 1950 ...
and
Margaret Chase Smith Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was th ...
. Wadsworth had devoted her life to multiple issues, including maternal health and family planning, founding the Wadsworth Women's Health Center. She was a member of the board of Board of Directors of Legal Services for the Elderly, and helped raise funds for noteworthy organizations. Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to serve in the
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. She ran for
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in the 1964 Republican Party primarily, but lost out to
Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Re ...
. She was also the first Republican to speak out against the tactics of fellow Senator
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, in her June 1, 1950 address on the floor of the Senate. Two decades after its inception, the list of Inductees contains an Olympic gold medalist,
Joan Benoit Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American wo ...
, two more United States Senators,
Olympia Snowe Olympia Jean Snowe (; born February 21, 1947) is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senate, United States Senator, representing Maine for three terms from 1995 to 2013. A lifelong member of the Republican Party (Unit ...
and
Susan Collins Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, she has held her seat since 1997 and is Maine's longest-serving member of ...
, and the mother of a Senator, Patricia M. Collins who herself had been mayor of a Maine city. Geneticist Elizabeth S. Russell joined the list, as did the President
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Nancy H. Hensel. Author and Holocaust survivor
Judith Magyar Isaacson Judith Magyar Isaacson (July 3, 1925 – November 10, 2015) was a Hungarian-American educator, university administrator, speaker, and author. Born in Hungary into a Jewish family, Isaacson was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp with her ...
has been honored by an induction into the hall of fame. With the 2011 inductees, the hall of fame had honored 35 women for their contributions to Maine and to the female population.


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Maine Women's Hall of Fame home page

Marti Stevens Interactive Improvisational Theater
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