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Ellen Gilchrist (1935-2024)
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Anne Moody (1940-2015)
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Mart Crowley (1935-2020)
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Charles Henri Ford (1913-2002)
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Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954)
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Frank Stanford (1948-1978)
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William Alexander Percy (1885-1942)
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Lewis Nordan (1939-2012)
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Ellen Douglas (1921-2012)
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