Helen O'Bannon
Helen Bohen O'Bannon (1939 – October 19, 1988) was an economist and the Secretary of Public Welfare for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Helen O'Bannon was born in 1939 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She majored in economics at Wellesley College and later earned a master's degree at Stanford. O'Bannon was an associate dean at the Carnegie Institute between 1973 and 1976, where she strove to make the university more accessible to women.
In 1976 O'Bannon published an economics text titled Money and Banking: Theory, Policy, and Institutions' (Harper and Row, ISBN 0-06-044877-6). O’Bannon was Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare from 1979 until 1983, when she returned to academia, becoming the first woman to hold the position of vice president at the University of Pennsylvania. She died on October 19, 1988 after a long illness.
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O'Bannon
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O'Bannon (surname)
O’Bannon is an Irish surname. The name refers to:
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The name O'Bannon comes from the Gaelic word for white, "Ban" and means "little white one".
USS O'Bannon (DD-987)
USS O'Bannon (DD-987), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon (1776–1850), an early hero of the US Marine Corps.
O'Bannon was laid down on 21 February 1977 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 25 September 1978; and commissioned on 15 December 1979, Commander Marshall R. Willenbucher in command.
Homeport
Originally assigned to Naval Base Charleston, South Carolina; when it was closed by the Congressional BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) committee in 1994 transferred to Naval Station Mayport, Florida.
Deployments and Ports of Call
UNITAS XXXII: Cartagena, Columbia; Rodmin, Panama; Manta, Ecuador; Lima, Peru; Valparaíso, Chile; Talcahuano, Chile; Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Puerta la Cruz, Venezuela
Baltops '92: Edinburgh, Scotland; Kiel, Germany (with bus rides to Berlin); Karlskrona, Sweden; Denmark; Norway; Severnmorsk, Russia (with bus rides to Murmansk, Russia)
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