"Alice Augusta Ball" (July 24,1892-December 31,1916)

Pharmaceutical chemist,was born in Seattle,Washington in 1892to Laura and James P.Ball Jr.Her grandfather was .J P. Ball,the well known daguerreotype Photographer and her father was a promising lawyer.James P.Ball,Sr.moved to Hawaii for health reasons in 1903 with his family and opened a studio.He died less than a year later and the family returned to Seattle in 1905.Alice entered the University of Washington and graduated with two degrees in Pharmaceutical in 1912 and Pharmacy in 1914.In the fall of 1914,she entered the College of Hawaii(later the University of Hawaii) as a graduate student in chemistry.On June 1,1915,she was the first African American and the first woman graduate with a master of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Hawaii.In the 1914-1915 academic year she also became the first woman to teach chemistry at the institution.Alice major adviser assigned her a research project involving the effect of chulmooga oil on patients with Hansen disease.Her research developed a successful treatmentfor those suffering from the diease.World War 1 borke out in March 1916,while giving a demonstration,in her class she inhaled chlorine gas used for chemical warfare she returned to Seattle for medical treatment and return to Hawaii in the fall to resume teaching.The side effects were so serve that she had to Seattle in October in December she died.Her obituary appeared in the Honlulu Star-Bueltin January 1, 1917 where she was remembered by students and faculty members "helpful,cherry, patient,yet optimistic.