Thank you so much Denise! Yes, your information does help very much and I appreciate it. Although I already e-mailed you to share these links, I want to also post them in this thread in the event there is anyone who would be interested in reading about Alice Ball; she was a remarkable woman.

http://www.hawaii.edu/news/kulama/000225/a_ball.html

http://starbulletin.com/2000/02/18/news/story3.html

http://www.hawaii.edu/news/kulama/000310/a_ball.html

Aloha from Honolulu, Jeanne