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Another Honor Won Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College, was honored along with 18 other notable women who were inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, during ceremonies on October 7. Smith President Ruth J. Simmons was on hand to accept the handsome Hall of Fame medal on behalf of the Smith College benefactor. In her will, Smith ex-pressed the hope that her bequest of some $400,000 would provide an endowment for a college that offered the highest quality undergraduate education for young women, enabling them to develop their intellects and talents and to participate effectively in all areas of American society. Other Hall of Fame honorees included Attorney General Janet Reno, author Eudora Welty and muck-raking journalist Ida Tarbell -- and the more obscure, but no less heroic in their contributions to American history -- Wilma Vaught, a highly decorated U.S. military woman, and Mary Edwards Walker, physician and Civil War field surgeon. Many Smith alumnae from New York state and contingents from the college and from Smith's hometown of Hatfield, Massachusetts, attended the Honors 2000 luncheon and the moving induction ceremony, where the sense of pride in the accomplishments of the women being honored was palpable. As one (male) observer put it: "Over the centuries, men have fought wars, won crucial athletic contests, wrested power in enormous economic and political crises, but pride in those achievements could not match the feelings of unity, solidarity and togetherness evident among the women attending this celebration." Four Smith alumnae are among the 150 notable women who are already members of the Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Goldstein Friedan '42, Anne Morrow Lindbergh '28, Felice Nierenberg Schwartz '46, and Gloria Steinem '56.

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