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Arlene Halko
Arlene A. Halko (April 15, 1933 – March 22, 2007) was an American medical physicist and gay rights advocate, based in Chicago. She was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 1996. Early life Halko was born in Chicago, the daughter of Peter Halko and Frances Maciejewski Halko. Her father was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia. She attended Visitation High School and Mundelein College. She completed doctoral studies in physics at the University of Rochester. Career Halko was a medical physicist, and was on the staffs at Michael Reese Hospital and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Cook County Hospital, both in Chicago. She was Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Her research was published in academic journals. She was the first lesbian president of Dignity/Chicago, an organization of gay Catholics. In 1985 she co-founded Chicago House, a social service agency assisting people with HIV/AIDS who needed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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