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	American Experience \| The Pill \| People & Events
		However, McCormick's willingness to fund such a controversial project, at a time when 30 states still had laws on the books restricting the sale and use of contraceptives, was a bold move.
		McCormick, loath to pass on the terrible disease to her offspring, vowed never to have children.
		McCormick was committed to Sanger's cause, and even helped out by smuggling diaphragms into the country for Sanger's birth control clinics during her trips abroad in the 1920s.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_mccormick.html (754 words)

	Katharine McCormick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. biologist, suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick fortune.
		McCormick agreed to fund Pincus research into oral contraception and she and Pincus persuaded Dr. John Rock to conduct human trials.
		Katharine McCormick is a character in T.C. Boyle's novel Riven Rock (1998), which is mainly about her husband Stanley's mental illness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katharine_McCormick (914 words)

	Katharine Dexter McCormick
		McCormick "was deprived of her husband's companionship when he was seriously stricken." In 1909, with a physician testifying that Stanley McCormick suffered from catatonia--now considered a form of schizophrenia--, a judge appointed three guardians to manage his affairs--Mrs.
		McCormick stayed involved with Pincus's lab even after the pill was approved and put on the market, funding research on its long-term effects and efforts to improve it, and providing housing for Pincus's researchers.
		McCormick was committed to improving the condition of humanity and to promoting science and science education to achieve that end.
	web.mit.edu /mccormick/www/history/kdm.html (1934 words)

	Student Notebook of Katharine Dexter (McCormick), 1896: Exhibits: Institute Archives & Special Collections: MIT
		The daughter of liberal parents—her father was a prominent Chicago lawyer who had been active in the anti-slavery movement; her mother, an advocate for women’s rights—Katharine was imbued with concerns for social justice and encouraged from an early age to excel at her schoolwork.
		Katharine McCormick had attended a lecture given by birth control advocate Margaret Sanger in 1917, and the two became friends.
		McCormick funded the research, which yielded successful results that were announced in 1956 and licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960.
	libraries.mit.edu /archives/exhibits/mccormick/index.html (461 words)

	Brief History of McCormick Hall
		Katharine Dexter McCormick, who is most responsible for the construction of the building, was also a central figure in many of the most important social and political struggles facing American women in the twentieth century.
		McCormick Hall stands as a monument to her belief that it is possible to combine graciousness and style with intellectual seriousness and persistent hard work.
		McCormick Hall was designed by Herbert Beckwith, a member of MIT's architecture faculty and a principal of the firm Anderson Beckwith and Haible.
	web.mit.edu /mccormick/www/history/brief_history.html (922 words)

	Global Campaign for Microbicides : Looking for Mrs. McCormick
		McCormick Fund Raising Drive is inspired by the story of Mrs.
		Katharine McCormick, a wealthy philanthropist who used her own resources in 1951 to commission a set of eminent scientists to create a safe, effective and easy to use oral contracepti
		McCormicks of the new millennium - visionary women and men who will make a stand for sexual health and provide the critical funding that will advance science and make microbicides a reality.
	www.global-campaign.org /mccormick.htm (202 words)

	Global Campaign for Microbicides : The McCormick Story
		Together, Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick set in motion the events that would lead to the discovery of the modern birth control pill.
		Sanger, an ardent activist for family planning and Katharine McCormick, heiress to the International Harvester fortune, saw what others could not--that women desperately needed and wanted a means to control their fertility.
		With McCormick's considerable wealth, they literally commissioned a group of eminent scientists to create what they wanted-an oral contraceptive pill that would be safe, effective and easy to use.
	www.global-campaign.org /m-story.htm (324 words)

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		Katharine Dexter was born in Dexter, Michigan, where her father, Wirt Dexter, made his fortune as a prominent Chicago corporate attorney.
		This stunning blow for Katharine McCormick, still in her early thirties and faced with an impaired, childless marriage, seemed to act as a catalyst for her activism and philanthropy.
		In pursuit of a treatment for her husband, McCormick became a prominent and demanding medical philanthropist, supporting the work of several notable psychiatrists and physicians and later pouring money into research in endocrinology—she established the Neuroendocrine Research Foundation at Harvard in 1927—believing that her husband’s disease could potentially be cured by hormone treatments.
	ebookpreview.abc-clio.com /ebooks/1576075338/pg_169.asp (575 words)

	McCormick scholars named: 5/6/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		THE KATHARINE MCCORMICK Bequest Committee has announced last month the winners of its 1998 fellowship and travel awards.
		This year's McCormick Fellows are Dr. Rama Balakrishnan, postdoctoral fellows in biochemistry; Dr. Aude Fahrer, postdoc in microbiology and immunology; Dr. L.
		Katharine McCormick was a lifelong feminist and supporter of medical research.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/1998/may6/mccormick56.html (134 words)

	Katharine McCormick
		Later that year Katharine married Stanley McCormick, the son of Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical harvester.
		McCormick was one of the main opponents of Alice Paul and the militant wing of the American Woman Suffrage Association that wanted to introduce the methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
		McCormick used the wealth she inherited from her husband to fund projects such as the research that led to the discovery and development of an oral hormone contraceptive.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWmccormick.htm (292 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / A woman lost to history, finally found
		Katharine McCormick was the rare woman who fought for a bachelor of science degree from MIT at the beginning of the last century.
		But McCormick's involvement with MIT is just a footnote to her remarkable life story.
		When the McCormick family later tried to cut Katharine out of Stanley's $35 million will, they were stymied after her lawyers produced a love letter, written in Geneva during their honeymoon, promising her his entire fortune.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/09/02/a_women_lost_to_history_finally_found (735 words)

	McCormick, Robert Rutherford - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MCCORMICK, ROBERT RUTHERFORD [McCormick, Robert Rutherford] 1880-1955, American journalist, b.
		He worked with his brother, Joseph Medill McCormick, in the management of the Chicago Tribune, and, after serving in World War I, he became sole owner of the newspaper.
		McCormick's works include The American Revolution and Its Influence on World Civilization (1945) and The War without Grant (1950).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mccormicrr.html (253 words)

	Conditions for women change over 3 decades
		She was one of about 20 women in the class of 1963, and almost all of them lived together freshman year on Bay State Road in Boston.
		"Katharine McCormick bought a brownstone at 120 Bay State Road, and there was room for 18 students, so MIT tried to get 18 freshwomen every year to fill it," Jansen said.
		After McCormick Hall opened in the early 60's, the number of women admitted to MIT increased.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V111/N39/wmn.39n.html (1694 words)

	Faculty residents of four dormitories to leave positions after this spring
		Resnick sees McCormick Hall as a "reflection of the spirit" of Katharine Dexter McCormick '04, an early champion of the cause of women students at MIT.
		Katharine McCormick believed women students should be "autonomous, open, and independent-minded," Resnick explained.
		This academic year is Resnick's eighth at McCormick, however, and she feels it is time for a change.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V105/N56/hsmstr.56n.html (827 words)

	AMA (Virtual Mentor) Did You Know? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Drs Gregory Pincus and Min Chueh Chang of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and John Rock, a prominent Catholic gynecologist, were instrumental in the clinical development and testing of the birth control pill.
		At the urging of Margaret Sanger, an ardent supporter of women’s rights, Katharine Dexter McCormick provided the critical financial support for this breakthrough research.
		McCormick was heir to the International Harvester fortune and one of the first women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.ama-assn.org /ama/pub/category/print/10522.html (538 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Top Pharmaceuticals: Oral Contraceptives
		Margaret Sanger, women's rights advocate and founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, was in her 80s in 1950, but she was determined to raise money for contraception research.
		In 1953, she brought her friend Katharine Dexter McCormick, who was one of the first women graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an heiress, to visit Pincus and tour his lab.
		McCormick also funded the first clinical trials, which were conducted by John Rock, a gynecologist, with patients in his private practice.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325oralcontraceptives.html (832 words)

	Katharine McCormick (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Katharine McCormick is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Beautiful women and extremely handsome men were rigorously selected to become movie stars and when they were cast in movies with romantic scenes of love, kissing, hugging, and flirting, an entire culture was transformed as it became more acceptable to show feelings of affection in public.
		In the UK the new generation growing up after the Second World War, had grown tired of the rationing and austerity of the 1940s and 1950s and the Victorian values of their elders.
	www.experiencefestival.com.cob-web.org:8888 /katharine_mccormick (1019 words)

	Technology Review: 77 Mass Ave.
		Katharine Dexter McCormick, Class of 1904, also lent Drake and her fellow women undergraduates a hand, Drake said.
		A leader in the women's-suffrage movement and one of the earliest financial supporters of the research that led to the development of the birth-control pill, McCormick was a significant presence in Drake's day.
		McCormick also tried to prod the women out of the typical mid-1950s mind-set.
	www.technologyreview.com /read_article.aspx?id=14688 (874 words)

	Women in Philanthropy
		Katherine Dexter McCormick Second woman to earn a degree (BS) in science (biology) from MIT (1904), Dexter married (1904) an heir to the International Harvester fortune, Stanley McCormick, youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical harvester.
		Katharine built a story book castle, Riven Rock, in Santa Barabra, Ca where she took Stanley to live surrounded with peace, beauty, and harmony.
		At age seventy-one, McCormick was wealthy in her own right and determined to develop a cheap, easy to use, safe, effective, artificial contraceptive pill.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/philo.html (1370 words)

	McCormick funds available to women: 3/4/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED for financial support from the Katharine McCormick Fund for Women.
		McCormick, a lifelong feminist and supporter of medical research, bequeathed $5 million in 1969 to assist and encourage women pursuing careers in academic medicine at Stanford.
		A committee is established each year to choose McCormick Scholars, who will each receive a $15,000 award for postdoctoral fellowship support and an additional $1,000 as a travel supplement.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/report/news/1998/march4/mccormickfunds.html (113 words)

	Pardue named McCormick lecturer: 12/10/97
		The annual McCormick Seminar, "Drosophila Telomeres: Evolutionary Links Between Telomeres and Transposable Elements," will be held Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m.
		Pardue's research focuses on genetic, biochemical and cytological studies of structural elements of chromosomes, with emphasis on telomeres, heterochromatin and transposable elements.
		This May, the McCormick Committee will institute a new annual lectureship, "Women Leaders in Science, Industry and Public Policy." The first distinguished lecturer will be Joan Brugge, professor of cell biology at Harvard University.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/december12/pardue.html (317 words)

	Giving to MIT: Recognizing our donors > Recognition societies
		To honor those donors who continue this practice, MIT in 1994 established the Katharine Dexter McCormick 1904 Society (KDMS).
		Katharine Dexter McCormick '04 was one of the most generous individual benefactors in MIT's history, and her largest gift came as a bequest.
		For more information on continuing Katharine Dexter McCormick's legacy with a planned gift, please contact us.
	giving.mit.edu /who/recognition.html (362 words)

	McCormick, Joseph Medill - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MCCORMICK, JOSEPH MEDILL [McCormick, Joseph Medill] see under McCormick, Robert Sanderson.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "McCormick, Joseph Medill" at HighBeam.
		Modest mansion Col. McCormick's 'country home' remains remarkedly understated.(Neighbor)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-mccormicj.html (131 words)

	Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women's Rights (Greenwood Publishing Group) doi:10.1336/0275980049 (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The issues for which Katharine Dexter McCormick (1874-1967) fought are as important today as they were 75 years ago: birth control, sex education, abortion, equal pay for equal work, and freedom from sexual harassment.
		This biography tells how she was a driving force in the battle for the women's vote, the formation of the Women's League of Voters, the creation of Planned Parenthood, and the development of the birth control pill.
		The book reveals that McCormick stepped forward when others were afraid to act, and her unflagging fidelity to the cause made possible the social, political, and scientific achievements that today mark the difference between misery and opportunity for millions of women.
	dx.doi.org.cob-web.org:8888 /10.1336/0275980049 (224 words)

	Health and Medicine: Reproductive Health:Manuscript Division
		Esther Katz, the editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, spoke about Sanger and the process of selecting and editing documents for publication at a Library of Congress “Books and Beyond” program in March 2003, a webcast of which is available for viewing [moving image].
		In the early 1950s, Sanger introduced philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick to biologist Gregory Pincus (44,000 items; 1920-69; bulk 1950-67) [catalog record], who was then studying the hormonal aspects of mammalian reproduction and had recently begun testing the therapeutic properties of steroid compounds for the drug company G.D. Searle.
		Shortly thereafter, McCormick provided funding for Pincus to develop the “birth control pill,”; an oral contraceptive released on the market as Enovid in 1960.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/repro_health.html (636 words)

	Amita News
		Profesor Widnall joins fellow MIT alumnae Ellen Swallow Richards, SB 1873, Katharine Dexter McCormick SB, 1904 and Shirley Jackson SB '68, PhD '73 among the 195 women who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since its founding in 1969.
		The film focuses on the roles of Katharine Dexter McCormick '04 and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in the development of the Pill in the 1950s.
		Katharine Dexter McCormick provided almost all the funding for the controversial research into the Pill.
	alumweb.mit.edu /groups/amita.old/news.html (708 words)

	The history of birth control on MedicineNet.com
		"Sanger and her patron Katharine McCormick felt that not only should women of all classes have quality birth control, but it should be a type of birth control that women have power over.
		McCormick's husband, Cyrus McCormick -- heir to the International Harvester Company fortune -- was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
		Fearing that the disease was inherited, she resolved never to have children -- and dedicated huge sums to the search for woman-controlled contraception.
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51170 (1454 words)

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