page_title: Alida Avery
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Alida Avery / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Avery Hall facade of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film at Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. Pictured at night beneath a full moon.
context_page_description: Alida Avery was a Vassar College faculty member and a physician. In Colorado, she was thought to be the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state. She was also the Superintendent of Hygiene for Colorado. Avery was among the first women first admitted to the Denver Medical Society.
  She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.
context_section_description: In 1931, Avery Hall at Vassar College was named in honor of her role at the college as the first resident physician and professor of hygiene and physiology. She also was instrumental in the creation of an academic program for drama at the school.
caption: The Avery Hall facade of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film at Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. Pictured at night beneath a full moon.
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