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In this issue of The Woman Today, you’ll meet pioneers, rule breakers and advocates. Patricia Dennis, a longtime figure in the University of Minnesota Duluth’s theater department who has been a professor, a dean, the head of the department and a costume designer, will retire at the end of the school year. Andrea Busche writes about the Southernmannered woman’s legacy as an educator. A young woman’s colon cancer diagnosis has her pushing colonoscopies, and another offers support for builders and contractors through the Arrowhead Builders Association. Thirty-nine years ago, Cheryl Meese broke all the rules at the Kitchi Gammi Club. But times have changed for women at the private club. Dig in, readers, and be inspired.