Women Pioneers in Medicine

The Susan G. & Edmund W. Gordon Community Partnership
&
The CEJJES Institute

Invite you to a Luncheon

To Celebrate Four Dynamic Women

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Paramount Country Club
(former Dellwood Country Club)
60 Zukor Road, New City, NY

12 Noon to 1 PM Exhibit & Reception
1PM to 3PM Luncheon

Tickets $95 per person

Please RSVP before October 27, 2011

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THE HONOREES

Susan G. Gordon, MD, has devoted her life to advancing the health and well-being of children in and beyond Rockland. A pediatrician in Rockland for over 50 years, she was also Associate Professor of Pediatrics at both New York Medical College and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She worked to promote racial integration of the East Ramapo School District and later served as an active member of the District's Board. A graduate of Howard University, her influence extends to the Lexington School for the Deaf, which named its Health Center after her; the National Panel of the Measurement of the Program Effects of Head Start; the Board of Trustees of Nyack Hospital; the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Purpose Center, Inc. in Spring Valley; and the Harriet Tubman Child Health and Guidance Clinic in Harlem, which she founded with her husband, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon.

Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD was the first African American to complete a residency at the New York Psychiatric Institute, and was the first practicing child psychiatrist in Rockland County. Denied admission to Cornell Medical School because of her race and an internship at Babies Hospital because of her gender, she was the third black woman to attend Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was Chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Service for Infants and Children at Harlem Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was co-founder of the Rockland County Center for Mental Health, now a part of the Yeager Mental Health Center, which named its child development center after her.

Martha "Bobby" MacGuffie, MD was a pioneering surgeon and activist who touched lives in Rockland and throughout the world. She was the first female surgeon to graduate from Columbia Presbyterian Medical School, the first female plastic surgeon to practice in this area, and established the first burn unit at Nyack Hospital, where she served on the medical staff for over five decades. A mother of eight children, she directed her grief over the loss of her two beloved sons from a mysterious blood borne illness into founding SHARE (the Society for Hospital Resources and Exchange) in 1987, which continues to grow and provide medicine, medical supplies, and care to orphans affected by the AIDS epidemic in Kenya with great dedication and compassion.

Frances Pratt, RN, has fostered a lifelong commitment to advancing the health and welfare of others as a civil rights leader and as a nurse and health care administrator. Subjected to racial injustice, rampant discrimination, and the attendant poverty of growing up African American in the south during the struggle for civil rights, she came to Rockland County in her teens and has become one of its leading advocates for the cause of social justice and civil rights. She is the longtime President of the Nyack NAACP and a longstanding member of the Hudson Valley NAACP, and was the recipient of the New York State Harriet Tubman Spirit Award for her many decades of struggle against racism and inequality.

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Honorary Celebration Committee
Hon. Connie Coker, MSN, NMW	Carol Paul
Hon. Harriet Cornell	Michael Rader, MD
Tanya England	Laura Sudarsky. MD
Ellen Jaffee	Willie Trotman
Lynn Cluess Manzione	Usha Wright
Stella Marrs

Celebration Committee
Rosalyn Akalonu, Co-Chair	Clement Osei, MD - Co-Chair
Denet Alexandre	Laurie Miller McNeill
Carol Bonilla Bowman	Paul Nagin
Jamila Brathwaite	Rabia Nagin
Constance L. Frazier	Norbert Rainford, MD
Merle P. George, BSN, PNA	Christian Sampson
Jessica Gordon Nembhard	Susan Shurtleff
Byron Hurlock	Holly Zuber-Banks

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The Susan G and Edmund W. Gordon Community Partnership

Mission Statement

The Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon Community Partnership is a 501(c)(3) not-for profit organization that seeks to support and expand the community work initiated by Dr. Susan G. and Dr. Edmund W. Gordon and the CEJJES Institute. We are dedicated to continuing the struggle for social justice in Rockland County as exemplified by the more than fifty years of social change efforts of the Drs. Gordon and seek through our programs to unify, empower and educate the people of the Rockland African Diaspora.

The CEJJES Institute

Mission Statement

The CEJJES Institute is a cultural, educational, and research foundation dedicated to improving the educational and social conditions for all disenfranchised people. The Institute has a particular emphasis on the lives of children of color.

5 Cooper Morris Drive, Pomona, New York 10970 Ph: 845-362-8610

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Proceeds to support Twhe Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon Community Partnership Programs at The CEJJES Institute. In addition, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Share Africa.