from Wicked Local Milton

Dr. Wilhelmina Van Dyke Lord never thought of herself as a pioneer. Not when she went to one of the first medical schools in the nation to accept female students, the University of Michigan, in 1938. Not when she became the first female resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1941. Not when she became chief of the medical staff at Milton Hospital in the 1970s. (Read the full story here.)