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New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame

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The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame was established in 2011, by the YWCA of Trenton, in Trenton, New Jersey.

Inductions into the hall of fame occur at the Annual Induction Gala, which is held in the Spring. Each inductee receives the Gerber Daisy Award, created in 2011 by Boehm Porcelain, of Trenton, for the hall of fame. The inaugural class was inducted on March 31, 2011.

The YWCA of Trenton—sponsor of the hall—was founded in 1904, to empower women, eliminate racism, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for everyone.

Inductees

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scope="row"|{{sortname|Kim|Guadagno}}

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|(b. 1959)

|2011

|Lt. Governor of the State of New Jersey

|{{cite news|last1=Harrison|first1=Brigid|title=Stepping out of the Shadows|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-38496525/stepping-out-of-the-shadows|accessdate=|newspaper=The Record|date=July 5, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124533/https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-38496525/stepping-out-of-the-shadows|url-status=dead}}; {{cite web|title=Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno (Class of 2011) State of New Jersey|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Guadagno.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107102429/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Guadagno.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Mary Jo|Abbondanza}}

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|(b. 1946)

|2011

|Executive Director of Health Promotions at St. Francis Medical Center

|{{cite web|title=Mary Jo Abbondanza (Class of 2011) St. Francis Medical Center|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_abbondanza.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107063248/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_abbondanza.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Edith|Savage-Jennings}}

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|(1924–2017)

|2011

|Civil-rights and women's rights

|{{cite web|title=Edith Savage-Jennings|url=http://www.museumofwomensresistance.org/edithsavagejennings.htm|website=Museum of Women's Resistance|accessdate=December 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618042819/http://www.museumofwomensresistance.org/edithsavagejennings.htm|archive-date=June 18, 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Edith Savage Jennings (Class of 2011) Civil Rights Icon|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Savage%20Jennings.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107062852/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Savage%20Jennings.html|archive-date=2016-01-07|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Meta|Griffith}}

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|(1909–2010)

|2011

|Business woman, community activist

|{{cite web|title=Meta Griffith posthumously (Class of 2011) Griffith Electric|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Griffith.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107084618/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Griffith.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Brenda|Ross-Dulan}}

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|(b. 1960)

|2011

|Wells Fargo

|{{cite web|title=Brenda Ross-Dulan (Class of 2011) President of Wells Fargo Bank|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Ross-Dulan.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107063250/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Ross-Dulan.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Christina|Seix}}

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|(b. 1950)

|2011

|Investment counselor, founder of Christina Seix Academy prep school for underserved kids

|{{cite web|title=Christina Seix (Class of 2011) Christina Seix Academy|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Seix.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107123900/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Seix.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Elise|Tretola}}

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|(b. 1966)

|2011

|Founded a non-profit organization to serve the needs of people with disabilities

|{{cite web|title=Elise Tretola (Class of 2011) Allies, Inc.|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Tretola.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107074651/http://njwomen.org/class_2011_Tretola.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Lynne|Azarchi}}

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|(b. 1963)

|2012

|Creator of Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum

|{{cite web|title=Lynne Azarchi (Class of 2012) Executive Director Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_azarchi.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107052117/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_azarchi.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Mary Higgins|Clark}}

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|(1927–2020)

|2012

|Novelist

|{{cite web|title=Mary Higgins Clark (Class of 2012) World Renowned Author|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_clark.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107031153/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_clark.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Carmen M.|Garcia}}

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|(b. 1958)

|2012

|Former Chief Judge of Trenton Municipal Court; member of the New Jersey State Patrol Board

|{{cite web|title=Carmen M. Garcia, Esq. (Class of 2012) Former Chief Judge Trenton Municipal Court|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_garcia.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107041831/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_garcia.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Lillian|Harrington}}

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|(b. 1934)

|2012

|Sister Harrington is a member of the Religious Teachers Filippini and president of Villa Victoria Academy

|{{cite web|title=Sr. Lillian Harrington, MPF (Class of 2012) President Villa victoria Academy|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_harrington.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107064629/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_harrington.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Francisco |first1=Georgiana |title=An 84th birthday surprise for Villa's Sister Lillian |url=https://trentonmonitor.com/Content/News/Parishes-Schools-Local/Article/An-84th-birthday-surprise-for-Villa-s-Sister-Lillian/4/88/18378 |work=trentonMOITOR.com |date=June 14, 2018}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Anne|LaBate}}

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|(b. 1953)

|2012

|Community volunteerism; president of Segal LaBate Commercial Real Estate

|{{cite web|title=Anne LaBate (Class of 2012) President Segal LaBate Commercial Real Estate|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_labate.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425212910/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_labate.html|archivedate=April 25, 2012}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Alice|Paul}}

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|(1885–1977)

|2012

|Women's Right Suffragist and author of the Equal Rights Amendment

|{{cite journal|title=Suffragist Alice Paul's Memoirs: Pros and Cons of Oral History |first=Amelia R. |last= Fry|journal=Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies|volume=2|issue= 2|date= Summer 1977|pages=82–86|series=Women's Oral History|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|doi=10.2307/3346017 |jstor=3346017 }}

scope="row"|{{sortname|C. Vivian|Stringer}}

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|(b. 1948)

|2012

|Head coach of the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team

|{{cite web|title=C. Vivian Stringer (Class of 2012) Head Coach Rutgers Women's Basketball|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2012_stringer.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107092914/http://njwomen.org/class_2012_stringer.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Lisa P.|Jackson}}

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|(b. 1962)

|2013

|Administrator of the U.S. EPA

|{{cite web|title=Biography of Lisa P. Jackson|url=http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/biography-lisa-p-jackson|website=EPA|publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency|accessdate=December 27, 2015}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Amy B.|Mansue}}

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|(b. 1964)

|2013

|President and CEO of Children's Specialized Hospital

|{{cite web|title=President's Message|url=http://www.childrens-specialized.org/about-us/who-we-are/presidents-message|website=Children's Specialized Hospital|accessdate=December 27, 2015}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Becky|Halstead}}

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|(b. 1959)

|2013

|Retired United States Army Brigadier general; first woman graduate of United States Military Academy to rise to the rank of general officer

|{{cite news|last1=McEntee|first1=Marni|title=Brigadier general in Germany is first female West Point grad to reach rank|url=http://www.stripes.com/news/brigadier-general-in-germany-is-first-female-west-point-grad-to-reach-rank-1.23749|accessdate=December 28, 2015|work=Stars and Stripes|publisher=Stars and Stripes|date=September 1, 2004}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Eleanor V.|Horne}}

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|(b. 1945)

|2013

|Second Vice Chair to NNSTOY (National State Teachers of the Year) Board of Directors; community activist and retired Vice President of Educational Testing Service

|{{cite web|title=Eleanor Horne|url=http://www.nnstoy.org/boardmembers/eleanor-horne/|website=NNSTOY|accessdate=December 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125121411/http://www.nnstoy.org/boardmembers/eleanor-horne/|archive-date=January 25, 2016|url-status=dead}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|June|Ballinger}}

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|(b. 1949)

|2013

|Executive Artistic Director, Passage Theater Company

|{{cite web|title=June Ballinger|url=http://passagetheatre.org/staffbios/june-ballinger/|website=Passage Theatre Company|accessdate=December 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120044233/http://passagetheatre.org/staffbios/june-ballinger/|archive-date=January 20, 2016|url-status=dead}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Gloria|Bonilla-Santiago}}

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|(b. 1954)

|2013

|Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Rutgers University

|{{cite web|title=Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D|url=http://bonilla-santiago.camden.rutgers.edu/|website=Rutgers|publisher=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Mary G.|Roebling}}

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|(1905–1994)

|2013

|Chairwoman of National State Bank; first woman head of a national bank

|{{cite news|title=Mary Roebling, 89, First Woman To Head Major U.S. Bank, Dies|work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1994 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/obituaries/mary-roebling-89-first-woman-to-head-major-us-bank-dies.html|accessdate=December 18, 2015 |last1=Pace |first1=Eric }}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Beverly|Richardson}}

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|(b. 1946)

|2014

|Vice President, Burlington County College

|{{cite web|title=Dr. Beverly Richardson (Class of 2014) Vice President Burlington County College|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_richardson.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924004021/http://www.njwomen.org/class_2014_richardson.html|archivedate=September 24, 2015}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Ivonne|Diaz-Claisse}}

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|(b. 1967)

|2014

|President of HISPA (Hispanics Inspiring Students' Performance and Achievement)

|{{cite web|title=HISPA President and CEO|url=http://www.hispa.org/node/5|website=HISPA|publisher=HISPA.org|accessdate=December 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107045643/http://www.hispa.org/node/5|archive-date=January 7, 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Ivonne Diaz-Claisse, PhD (Class of 2014) President & CEO HISPA|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_claisse.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107094604/http://njwomen.org/class_2014_claisse.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Mildred B.|Gershen}}

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|(1927–2018)

|2014

|President and CEO of Moderate Income Management Company

|{{cite web|title=Mildred B. Gershen (Class of 2014) President & CEO Moderate Income Management Co. Inc.|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_Gershen.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107133314/http://njwomen.org/class_2014_Gershen.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Hazel|Gluck}}

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|(b. 1934)

|2014

|Partner, MBI GluckShaw

|{{cite web|title=Hazel Gluck (Class of 2014) Partner MBI GluckShaw|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_gluck.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107085736/http://njwomen.org/class_2014_gluck.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Kim C.|Hanemann}}

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|(b. 1963)

|2014

|Vice President of Delivery Projects & Construction, PSE&G

|{{cite web|title=Kim C. Hanemann (Class of 2014) Vice President – Delivery Projects and Construction Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G)|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_hanemann.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107064624/http://njwomen.org/class_2014_hanemann.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Nina D.|Melker}}

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|(b. 1961)

|2014

|Sr. Vice President of Hopewell Valley Community Bank

|{{cite web|title=Nina D. Melker (Class of 2014)|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2014_melker.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107094746/http://njwomen.org/class_2014_melker.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Etta Rudolf|Denk}}

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|(b. 1961)

|2015

|Senior VP Bank of America New Jersey

|{{cite web|title=Etta Rudolf Denk (Class of 2015) Senior Vice President – NJ Market Manager Corporate Social Responsibility / Market President Team Bank of America New Jersey|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_denk.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107063906/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_denk.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Jennifer A.|Downing}}

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|(b. 1972)

|2015

|Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mercer County Prosecutor's Office

|{{cite web|title=Jennifer A. Downing, Esq. (Class of 2015) Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mercer County Prosecutor's Office|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_downing.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107040302/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_downing.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Caren S.|Franzini}}

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|(1959–2017)

|2015

|Financial/economic advisor, former Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority

|{{cite web|title=Franzini Ends Productive and Respected Tenure|url=http://www.njeda.com/Press-Room/News-Articles/Press-Releases/FRANZINI-ENDS-PRODUCTIVE-AND-RESPECTED-TENUR|publisher=New Jersey Economic Development Authority|accessdate=December 28, 2015|date=July 25, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Caren S. Franzini (Class of 2015) President Franzini Consulting, LLC.|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_franzini.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107072824/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_franzini.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Patricia A.|Hartpence}}

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|(b. 1956)

|2015

|Assistant Vice President for Corporate Giving NJM Insurance Group

|{{cite web|title=Patricia A. Hartpence (Class of 2015) Assistant Vice President for Corporate Giving NJM Insurance Group|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_hartpence.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107091401/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_hartpence.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Virginia|Long}}

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|(b. 1942)

|2015

|Legal counsel, retired justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey

|{{cite web|title=Virginia Long biography|url=http://www.foxrothschild.com/virginia-long/|website=Fox Rothschild LLP|accessdate=December 28, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Justice Virginia Long (Class of 2015) Counsel Fox Rothschild, LLP|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_long.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107070101/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_long.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

scope="row"|{{sortname|Sheila|Gallagher-Montone}}

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|(b. 1956)

|2015

|Retired Times of Trenton publisher

|{{cite web|last1=Rojas|first1=Christina|title=Times of Trenton Publisher Sheila Gallagher-Montone announces retirement|url=http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2015/01/times_of_trenton_publisher_sheila_gallagher-montone_to_retire_at_end_of_january.html|website=nj.com|publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC|accessdate=December 28, 2015|date=January 5, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Sheila Gallagher-Montone (Class of 2015) Publisher (Retired effective 1/30/15) The Times of Trenton|url=http://njwomen.org/class_2015_montone.html|website=The New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame|publisher=YWCA Trenton|accessdate=December 27, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107122840/http://njwomen.org/class_2015_montone.html|archivedate=January 7, 2016}}

See also

Footnotes

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Further reading

  • {{cite book|last1=Berry|first1=Mary Frances|title=Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution|date=1988|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington, IN|isbn=0-253-36537-6|edition=|url=https://archive.org/details/whyerafailedpoli00berr|url-access=registration}}
  • {{cite book|last1=De Roche|first1=Linda|title=Mary Higgins Clark: Life and Letters|date=2011|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-0-313-36637-6|edition=}}

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