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Charlene Kanter Sales

Charlene Kanter Sales received her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. A practicing lawyer until 1986, she has since become active in community concerns, sitting on the Young Women’s Board (president) and Women’s Board of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, the board of the Jewish Family and Community Service Agency, and Hadassah (group president). She also chairs the Sisterhood Ritual Committee at Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook, Illinois.

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Bertha Kaplan Spector

Born in a Russian shtetl, Bertha Kaplan Spector became a bacteriologist whose authoritative research helped to control an epidemic of amebic dysentery during the Chicago Century of Progress World’s Fair. Her work contributed to a better understanding of the disease, as well as to new standards of hygiene.