Other (less commonly suggested) possibilities include writer and actress Dorothy Dean and socialite Dorothy King, both of whom also kept the company of gay men. In the early 1980s, Mel Dahl was ...

From 1935 to 1983, Dorothy Dean was the face of The Spokesman-Review's Home Economics department, publishing recipes, operating a test kitchen and fielding thousands of telephone calls from cooks.

"Dorothy Stratton was one of the truly great people in the history of Purdue University, higher education and indeed our nation," said Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. "She served as Dean of Women ...

Dorothy Stratton became the first full-time dean of women at Purdue in 1933 and served in that role until 1942. In her nine years at Purdue, Stratton forged a path for women wanting to study more than ...