Dr. Mary Hill Fulstone, California/Berkeley - Mu, 1950 Woman of the Year

Dr. Mary Hill Fulstone, California/Berkeley - Mu, 1950 Woman of the Year

“Dr. Mary,” as she was affectionately known, began her practice in 1920, a year when the status of women was a hotly contested issue. Women were competing with men on a near equal basis, but the acceptance of a woman doctor was slow. Mary Fulstone married Fred Fulstone, a rancher in Smithville, Nevada. She had a government contract putting her in charge of heath service for Native Americans. She cared for them without the assistance of drugs and often without running water or electricity. Mary established an office in the 1920s, treating people in the vicinity where she lived. In 1938 she began traveling to other areas, using a not very reliable car and sometimes even a horse and buggy. She was the first alumna named Delta Zeta's Woman of the Year in 1950.