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Amelia Dranga

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Dranga was also president of the Woman's Medical Society of Western Pennsylvania. She was one of the women doctors who planned a hospital for women and children in Pittsburgh in 1902. "I do not think that there is another profession which offers such advantages to women as does the medical," Dranga
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Amelia Dranga taught school in Los Angeles before going east to medical school. Her internship in the Allegheny County hospitals opened the system to female medical students. She was the first woman to take the intern examination at
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From its founding in 1900 until her death 33 years later, she was the medical director of the Pittsburgh Milk and Ice Fund Association, and ran a popular twice-weekly baby clinic as part of that work.
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Amelia A. Dranga was born in Otsego, Wisconsin, and raised in California, the daughter of Niels G. O. Dranga and Emily Ogden Dranga. Both of her parents were born in Norway. Her younger sisters
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medical school offered Amelia Dranga Scholarships in her memory, funded by the Congress of Women's Clubs of Western Pennsylvania, for women pursuing medical careers.
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Late in life, Dranga publicly described "regret" that she had never married. Amelia Dranga died in 1933, aged 67 years, in Pittsburgh. The
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both found careers in blind education. Her brother Theodore Dranga married artist
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Dranga was the first chairman of the Committee on Prevention of Blindness.
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Otsego, Wisconsin
Pittsburgh
American Birth Control League
Mary Dranga Campbell
Wilhelmina Dranga Campbell
Helen Thomas Dranga
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mary Dranga Campbell
Wilhelmina Dranga Campbell
Helen Thomas Dranga
Radcliffe College
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
West Penn Hospital
American Birth Control League
eugenics
sex education
University of Pittsburgh


"Some Outstanding Women of Pittsburgh's 200 Years"
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"School Marms"
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"DR. AMELIA DRANGA.; Pioneer Pittsburgh Woman Physician and Welfare Worker"
"Benefit of Sick Babies"
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