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After losing her brother, a doctor, in WWI, Jessie Mauney was inspired to become a doctor. Despite gender discrimination, she persisted and earned a medical degree from Tulane Medical School, practicing from 1927 until 1985. Her clinic was in her home in Blue Mountain. She was Blue Mountain College's first Alumna of the Year in 1969.
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