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The first Women in <br /> Careers , Honors and other <br /> The first Public Health Nurse in Orange County (a <br /> woman of color) was <br /> Adelia Compton, R. N. in 1924 to 1960. <br /> She was employed to work mainly in the black <br /> community, and was paid from the proceeds of the <br /> Christmas seals sales by the Chapel Hill Community <br /> Club, by the Red Cross, and contributions from the <br /> community she served. <br /> Francis Hargraves: "She provided not only nursing care, <br /> but saw to other needs as well. " <br /> Rebecca Clark: " I remember she came to check on me <br /> every day after my last child was born in 1936, to see <br /> that everything was alright. " <br /> The first (and only) Orange County Woman to win the <br /> United States Golf Association's Women's Amateur <br /> Championship was <br /> Estelle Lawson Page in 1937. <br /> Joe Page, her brother-in-law: "She was the most famous <br /> women 's athlete in North Carolina. " <br /> The first Woman physician in private practice in Chapel <br /> Hill was <br /> Marina Henry in 1939. <br /> Several Chapel Hillian's, including, Bootsie Patterson <br /> and Mary Arthur Stoudemire remember her Her <br /> practice was in the little building next to the former <br /> Institute of Government Building on West Franklin <br />