What is less well-known is the life that made the legacy possible.
Adults ask little boys what they want to do when they grow up.
They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress. The Ingraham home in Brooklyn, where she grew up with her sister and two brothers, was not entirely conventional. Both her father, a lawyer, and her mother, a prodigious activist who headed the national YWCA, were role models. Initially, that kind did not include good student. At the University of Wisconsin, she met medical student Henry Bunting, and earned a master's and a doctorate in agricultural bacteriology.