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Pearl Kendrick

(1890 – 1980) Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances. During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in..Read More

Loney Clinton Gordon

(1915 – 1999) Loney Clinton Gordon made a remarkable impact on children by her determination to succeed at her second-choice career as a lab technician. Gordon left her Arkansas birthplace as a young girl to move with her family to Michigan. She earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics and..Read More

Grace Eldering

(1900 – 1988) Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances. During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in..Read More