11 Facts About Dove Kull

Dove Kull secured the funds for the first child care center in Alaska and directed the first home-health service for the elderly in the State.

Dove Kull was posthumously inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Dove Kull began a career in social work, working at various state and federal positions.

Dove Kull was instrumental in developing the state adoption protocols at the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare, worked at a state mental health hospital, and taught between 1933 and 1935 at Oklahoma City University.

In 1940, Dove Kull returned to school, earning her master's degree in Social Work from OU.

In 1959, after 37 years of service in Oklahoma, Dove Kull moved to Alaska.

Dove Kull was hired by the Department of Health and Welfare in Anchorage to help in preparation for statehood to plan social services for Alaskan Athabaskans and homesteaders of south central Alaska.

Dove Kull was the first social worker to attend the needs of peoples living in the Aleutian Islands.

Dove Kull left the service of the State in 1967, moved to Kotzebue and began working with the US Public Health Services Department to provide health services to native Alaskan villages in the bush.

Dove Kull worked with Homemaker until the mid 1970s and in 1976 was appointed to a state Senior Housing Committee.

Dove Kull retired in 1983 but continued her lobbying for women's rights, children's issues, and native rights.