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University of Minnesota honored her career and contributions by renaming the Student Health Service to Boynton Health Service, the name it still bears. She died on December 21, 1977, in Miami after a brief illness. Boynton gave $ 20,000 to establish the Prudence
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Boynton for the job of Director. In his letter, he commented that he wasn't sure if a woman could do the job, but if there was one who could, it was Ruth Boynton. Because no woman had been in charge of a
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Boynton's two brothers during their final illnesses, when they were 12 and 20 years old and Nelly Boynton who also died during Ruth's youth. She started college at
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