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Dove Kull
Juneau, Alaska
NationalityAmerican
Other namesAlice Montgomery Kull, Dove M. Kull
Occupationsocial worker
Years active1923-1983

Dove Kull (1897-1991) was a social worker from

Native Alaskans in the Aleutian Islands. She also secured the funds for the first child care center in Alaska and directed the first home-health service for the elderly in the State. She was posthumously inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
in 2015.

Biography

Alice Montgomery[1] was born on May 17, 1897[2] near Perry in the Oklahoma Territory and was raised in Oklahoma.[3] After completion of her secondary education, Montgomery enrolled in the University of Oklahoma (OU), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. Between 1922 and 1923, she worked as a newspaper editor of the society and feature pages and then began teaching English at Fairfax High School in 1923. In 1925, Montgomery married Alexander E. Kull, left Fairfax Schools in 1926, and in 1927 obtained a Master's in English from Columbia University.[4]

Kull began a career in social work, working at various state and federal positions.

Salvation Army in Oklahoma City until 1959.[4]

In 1959, after 37 years of service in Oklahoma, Kull moved to Alaska.

Kotzebue and began working with the US Public Health Services Department to provide health services to native Alaskan villages in the bush.[7]

After 2 years, she returned to Juneau and established the first accredited home-health service in Alaska, Alaska Homemaker Services, to help the elder community remain in their homes as long as it was feasible. Kull worked with Homemaker until the mid 1970s[5] and in 1976 was appointed to a state Senior Housing Committee. As part of the committee, she was pivotal in attaining senior housing in Juneau and establishing the Older Alaskan's Commission in 1981, serving three terms on the Commission. In addition, she was part of the Planning Committee of the White House Conference on Aging and a representative to the State committee on Services to the Elderly.[1] Kull retired in 1983[9] but continued her lobbying for women's rights, children's issues, and native rights.[7]

Kull died on December 8, 1991, in Juneau, Alaska.[6] Posthumously, she was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Alice "Dove" M. Kull (1897 - 1991)" (PDF). University of Alaska. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Dove M Kull". Family Search. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Dove Kull (1897-1991)". National Association of Social Workers. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "Guide to the Dove Kull papers 1915-1991". Anchorage, Alaska: Archives and Special Collections at the UAA-APU Consortium Library. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Alice Dove (Montgomery) Kull". 1991. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Dove Kull". Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: News OK. December 19, 1991. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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  9. ^ Crosby, Dani; Rasband, Liz (2 May 1983). "Sitka Students Study in Juneau". Sitka, Alaska: Daily Sitka Sentinel. p. 3. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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