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  Governor Barbara Roberts Home
Governor Roberts, a fourth generation Oregonian, was born in Corvallis on December 21, 1936 and grew up in Sheridan, where she graduated from Sheridan High School.
During her term as governor, Roberts was recognized as a strong advocate for public education, human rights and services, environmental management, and streamlining state government.
The Roberts administration was known for its strong gay rights advocacy and its appointment of women and minorities to positions in state government.
www.ohs.org /education/focus_on_oregon_history/GHO-Governor-Roberts.cfm   (631 words)

  
  Barbara Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara K. Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democratic politician.
Roberts is a fourth generation Oregonian and grew up in Sheridan, Oregon, where she graduated from Sheridan High School.
Barbara Roberts was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1981.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Roberts   (740 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Barbara Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democrat who served as Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, the first woman to hold that office after elected to office.
Barbara Roberts, a fourth generation Oregonian, was born in Corvallis, Oregon on December 21, 1936 and grew up in Sheridan, Oregon, where she graduated from Sheridan High School.
Roberts ran with strong opposition from Sen. Jim Gardner in the Democratic primary in 1990 and but after winning the primary was subsequently elected to succeed Governor Neil Goldschmidt.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Barbara_Roberts   (891 words)

  
 Portland's Walk of the Heroines: Honoring Barbara Roberts
Governor Roberts is recognized as a strong advocate for environmental management, as a state and national leader for human and civil rights, and as one of America’s foremost “re-inventors” of effective government.
Roberts began her years of public service as an advocate for disabled children as she fought for the educational rights of her autistic son.
A descendant of Oregon Trail pioneers and a fourth generation Oregonian, Barbara Roberts was born in Corvallis, Oregon on December 21, 1936.
www.woh.pdx.edu /heroines/BarbaraRoberts/bio/index.html   (929 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts - About Me
Barbara Roberts - About Me You will find Barbara in Weichert Realtors’ Silver Spring office conveniently located at 10801 Lockwood Drive in Silver Spring right off of Colesville Road where there is ample free parking.
Barbara is an avid listener who leverages her combination of business expertise, negotiation skills, technology know-how, dedication and academic credentials in Business and Accounting to assist you in accomplishing your real estate goals in the metropolitan DC / Maryland area.
Barbara demonstrates her commitment to community, especially her interest in housing in her role as a member of the executive board of the Camp Square Hill apartments – an affordable housing community in Montgomery County.
www.barbroberts.com /aboutme.htm   (256 words)

  
 Conquest-Fall 1999/ Profile - Barbara Roberts
Roberts, 51, received chemotherapy, radiation and breast-preserving surgery to treat her cancer.
Although the treatments were difficult, Roberts says she found the strength to make it through and is grateful to be alive today.
Roberts says her faith in God and the support she received from family, friends and the health care team at M. Anderson helped her overcome the challenge of confronting breast cancer.
www3.mdanderson.org /public/conquest/public_html/FALL1999/roberts.htm   (324 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts Obituary
Barbara had been a resident here for over 56 years, and was a former employee of the Westfield Telephone Office.
Barbara was a volunteer at the Granville Library and Schools, baked pies for the Granville Harvest Fair, was an avid knitter and gardener, loved music and cooking, and will always be remembered for her gift of hospitality to all.
Barbara is survived by her husband of 56 years, Edward C. Roberts; two sons, Edward C. Roberts, Jr.
www.tolland-ma.gov /Public_Documents/F00017C30/S00642510   (271 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Barbara Roberts, MD Barbara Roberts, MD, is an expert in the field of women's cardiac health.
Roberts was the first female cardiologist in Rhode Island and also the first woman accepted into the Gorlin cardiology fellowship at the former Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Roberts lectures across the country on the topic of heart disease in women, discussing how gender bias may contribute to the problem, and providing a common sense guide to treatment and reducing risk.
www.lifespan.org /tmh/news/experts/roberts.htm   (320 words)

  
 biography - Barbara Roberts, MD (Rhode Island)
MEET LOCAL LEGEND: Barbara Roberts, M.D. Barbara Roberts, M.D. “I was determined to be a doctor.
Barbara Roberts has long been passionate about women's rights and women's health issues, especially heart disease.
To address the international epidemic of heart disease in women, Roberts also is involved in ProCOR, an e–mail and Internet–based organization committed to global cardiovascular health, and especially women's heart health in the developing world.
www.nlm.nih.gov /locallegends/Biographies/Roberts_Barbara.html   (586 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts
I met Barbara Roberts two years ago when she was a featured author of the Nye Beach Writers' Series in July 2002.
Barbara Roberts is a fourth-generation Oregonian; a descendant of Oregon Trail pioneers raised to believe that girls could do anything.
Barbara Roberts is a brave, clear-spoken woman of indefatigable energy.
www.writersontheedge.org /Roberts.html   (388 words)

  
 Leading by Listening: Barbara Roberts' Conversation With Oregon (9/1/96)
Roberts knew that undertaking such a complex issue-one that must eventually be resolved at the ballot box-required early and broadly representative participation by Oregonians.
Roberts suggests that her determinedly collaborative leadership style is at least in part rooted in gender differences.
Roberts' personal approval ratings never fully recovered from the hit she took when she joined the long line of Oregon leaders who had failed to overhaul the state's tax system.
www.govexec.com /archdoc/0996/0996s4s2.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When Roberts finished her term, Oregon had the lowest unemployment rate in 25 years and the highest investment in the state's history while preserving Oregon's comprehensive land use system, stopping construction of two unneeded dams and supporting the Endangered Species Act and the Clinton Forest Plan.
Roberts' "Conversation With Oregon" allowed her to use interactive television to speak with thousands of Oregonians on government, taxes and state priorities.
Prior to being elected governor, Barbara Roberts was elected Oregon's Secretary of State, serving from 1985 to 1991.
www.eli.pdx.edu /staff/bio_BR.htm   (929 words)

  
 Portland State | News | Barbara Roberts, Oregon's First Woman Governor, Gives Personal Papers to PSU Library
Barbara Roberts recently agreed to give her large collection of personal papers to the PSU Library.
Roberts began her career in public service as an advocate for children with disabilities in 1969.
Roberts became Oregon's first woman governor in 1991, one of the first ten women governors in the United States, and completed her term in 1995.
www.pdx.edu /news/7824   (380 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts - Oregon Coast Online Magazine - Coast Impressions
When Barbara Roberts' husband, Frank Roberts, was dying of lung cancer, she was the Governor of Oregon and he was an Oregon State Senator.
Barbara says she developed secret ways of grieving so as not to appear "weird." "I do not know who made these rules about 'appropriate grieving," Barbara writes.
Barbara Roberts is the solo guest at the July 20 Nye Beach Writers' Series.
www.coastimpressions.com /home.cfm?dir_cat=14992   (691 words)

  
 Cascadia: EVENTS - Opening of the Barbara Roberts House
Keynote speaker former Governor Barbara Roberts said how some people might get parks or fountains named after them, but for her, having Cascadia name a renovated 10-unit psychiatric site after her was a greater honor.
Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn praised Barbara Roberts House and programs to help relocate people from the state hospital, saying it "makes clinical sense, is compassionate, the right way for people to live, and makes economic sense."
Barbara Roberts House currently has 6 residents and will be full, with 10 residents, by the end of the summer, Ford said.
www.cascadiabhc.org /events/e05_barbara_roberts.htm   (423 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts: Governor, author and humanitarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Roberts: Obviously, you don’t stay married 16 or 17 years if you … We met in high school and actually married in the middle of my senior year in high school.
Roberts: It was built in 1911, and so it’s approaching 100 years.
Roberts: 1993 was just a horrible year, and yet it was a year of growth.
www.thewritersgroup.cc /View_her_work/barbara_roberts.htm   (3034 words)

  
 Dr. Jeffrey T. Roberts--About Us
Roberts founded and directed the Monadnock Clinic in Jaffrey, NH until 1996, at which time he moved his practice to Peterborough, NH.
Barbara is the Senior Associate Research Director of the Clinic as well as a Chiropractic Assistant for Dr. Roberts.
Barbara is Nationally Certified and an active AMTA professional member for the last 13 years.
www.drrobertschiromassage.com /aboutus   (373 words)

  
 NewSage Press presents Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology by Barbara Roberts
When former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts’ husband, Frank Roberts, was dying from lung cancer, she had to look inside of herself as well as beyond herself to find ways to survive what felt unbearable.
Barbara Roberts provides accurate and timely information that will help us make good, end-of-life decisions for ourselves or for someone we love.Å This is a touching story about love and loss, and grief and growth.
But no contradictions: To know Roberts is to know compelling honesty, freshness, humor, hope.The people of Oregon were fortunate to have her as governor (if for but one term—the hard years in which she lost her husband.) Now, with her book and its themes so unusual for a political figure, we all get to share.
www.newsagepress.com /deathwithoutdenial.html   (6031 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Barbara Roberts delivers news important to Arkansas viewers each weekday at 12 Noon on KARK 4 Mid-Day, alongside Meteorologist Mike Francis.
As for her roots, Barbara’s family hails from Trinidad in the West Indies.
Barbara, her husband and children spend weekends exploring and learning about Arkansas.
www.kark.com /bios/barbara_roberts.asp   (216 words)

  
 Physician Profile: Barbara Roberts, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Barbara Roberts, MD, FACC, is director of the Women's Cardiac Center at The Miriam Hospital.
Roberts has long been interested in women's health issues.
Roberts was also among the first group of Ms.
www.lifespan.org /svclines/profile/roberts.htm   (257 words)

  
 Loaded Orygun: Barbara Roberts on 46/47--Gee, Sounds Familiar!
Barbara is working off the same talking points as everyone else signing onto the anti-Fair Elections campaign.
Frankly, I'm shocked that you are still trying to claim that the Fair Elections people are "changing the subject" when, in fact, they provided full disclosure on their funding sources to you in yesterday's thread and explained the formatting glitch that resulted in a late filing.
Governor Roberts is a friend, and a supporter of my campaign, but I disagree with her on this issue.
loadedorygun.blogspot.com /2006/11/barbara-roberts-on-4647-gee-sounds.html   (1662 words)

  
 About WHF | Barbara Roberts, FACC
Newball, H., Friedeward, W., Roberts, B., and Levy, R.: Effect of elevated triglycerides on the diffusing capacity of man. Amer.
Roberts, B. H., Cohn, P. F., Holman, B. L., Adams, D., and See, J. R.: Comparison between regional myocardial blood flow measurements and results of exercise tests.
Roberts, BH and Thompson, P. Is There Evidence for the Evidence Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women.
www.womensheartfoundation.org /content/about_whf/RobertsBarbara.asp   (777 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Barbara Roberts": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
According to Barbara Roberts in trance as Liz:...
But the young enlisted men were often at one base for months at a time, with little to do-and Barbara Roberts, a young wife and mother and Sunday school teacher, wanted to do something to keep them entertained.
Barbara Roberts - MD Report -- Access critical doctor performance information such as certifications and disciplinary actions.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Barbara-Roberts   (577 words)

  
 Pete and Barbara Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Their children are Timothy Roberts of Liberty Center, Kimala Roberts of Tallassee, Ala., and Jeffrey Roberts of Decatur.
Dale Roberts is retired from Elway Express after 23 years of service and from Vitro Electronics after 11 years of service.
Barbara Roberts is retired from Stratoflex/Parker Hannifin after 26 years of service.
www.topix.net /content/kri/2489609725205861320433705029171494019983   (307 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts, MD, participates in White House launch of American Heart Month -- February 4, 2004 - Jones and Bartlett
Barbara Roberts, MD, participates in White House launch of American Heart Month -- February 4, 2004 - Jones and Bartlett
Bush invited everyone to participate in National Wear Red Day, this Friday, February 6th, to symbolize individual and national commitment to education and treatment of this major health problem.
In her ground breaking new book, Dr. Roberts explains the real-life effects of the grim statistics on women’s heart disease and the way gender bias may contribute to the problem, and provides a common sense guide to treatment and reducing risk. 
www.jbpub.com /showcontent.cfm?id=136   (278 words)

  
 Santa Barbara Wedding Directory - Excellence in Wedding Related Services & Santa Barbara Destination Weddings
Our group reflects the community spirit of Santa Barbara which fosters a sense of health, beauty and good will among local residents and Santa Barbara visitors.
Because of the beauty of the South Coast, Santa Barbara has become world renowned as an ideal location for your wedding.
The Santa Barbara Event Professionals take pride in connecting future brides and grooms with local Santa Barbara wedding services and information.
www.sbep.com   (274 words)

  
 Barbara Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As Branch Manager of the St. Armands Circle office, Barbara Roberts has the opportunity to work with many of Sarasota's top producing agents.
Barbara's tireless commitment to the success of her associates contributes to her achievements and the continued success of Michael Saunders & Company.
She feels honored to be part of this exceptional company and brings a unique leadership to the management team.
www.michaelsaunders.com /AgentProfile/20.aspx   (129 words)

  
 ROBERTS, Florence Barbara
Florence Barbara Roberts 78, passed away at home Aug. 23 2006, after a courageous battle with cancer.
Florence is survived by her husband of 25 years, Tom Roberts of Concord; daughters, Nancy Cunningham-Staggs (Brian) of Fresno and Jill Cunningham-Gillespie (Allan) of Danville; son, Rod Cunningham of Belmont; and stepsons, Paul Roberts (Cathy) and Craig Roberts (Fiamma).
She was a wonderful grandmother to her nine grandchildren: Matt, Evan, and Claire Staggs; Allyson and Clifford Gillespie; Scott and Kelly Cunningham; and, Cole and Paige Roberts.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/06/MNROBERTSF28.DTL   (409 words)

  
 ODHS news release 3/17/06, news adv
The dedication of the Barbara Roberts Human Services Building is set for 11 a.m.
A permanent display will be unveiled in the building lobby, chronicling Governor Roberts' contributions to Oregon human services.
A bi-partisan bill passed by the 2005 Oregon Legislature called for renaming the building in honor of Governor Roberts, who began her public service as a legislative advocate for children with disabilities, fighting for the educational rights of an autistic son.
www.oregon.gov /DHS/news/2006news/2006-0317.shtml   (175 words)

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