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it had inherited from its former owners. The lawyer who accompanied her recalled that Ballard was "like a drill boring . . . into stone", in wearing down the resistance of university officials, who responded and developed the arboretum into what it became.
Ultimately, Ballard felt that the best legacy she could leave was to empower her own daughters to help to empower other women.
Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.
Women's Way annually awards the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize to a recently published female author who
Ernesta Drinker Ballard
Ernesta Drinker Ballard (1920 – August 11, 2005) was an American horticulturalist and feminist. Among the founders of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and Women's Way, Ballard was the executive director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society from 1963 to 1981, credited by "The New York Times" with bringing its annual Philadelphia Flower Show to "international prominence."
Life.
Ernesta Drinker was born in 1920 to Henry Drinker, a well-known