Edythe Lutzker

Edythe Lutzker married and raised a family before being able to enroll at the City College of New York at the age of 46 in 1950. She graduated from the first arts and science class in the college that included female students. She went on to receive a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1959. Mrs. Lutzker became a medical historian and wrote a book on the first group of women to get medical degrees in England in the 19th century, "Women Gain a Place in Medicine," published in 1969. She also wrote a full-length biography of one of them, "Edith Pechey-Phipson, M.D.: The Story of England and India's Foremost Pioneering Woman Doctor."With Carol Jochnowitz, she co-wrote a biography of Waldemar M. Haffkine, a bacteriologist who discovered vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.