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letsdothis3 ago

Well, this is starting to get REALLY interesting..don't have much time now.. so quick data dump:

Century 21 President Joseph E. Gandy with Planned Parenthood executive director Lee Minto and Richard M. Nixon at the U.N. Pavilion, Seattle World's Fair, August 10, 1962 - https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/seattle/id/3402/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Minto

Lee Minto (born 1927) is an American women's health activist and sex education advocate. She served as Executive Director of the Seattle-King County chapter of Planned Parenthood for 27 years, and was instrumental in Washington State Referendum 20, a referendum in 1970 that successfully legalized early pregnancy abortion in the state of Washington

In 1967, Washington psychologist Sam Goldenberg organized a meeting of medical, legal and religious professionals to discuss the health crisis created by lack of access to safe abortions, and Minto was invited to attend.[3][1] Aside from her work at Planned Parenthood, Minto was already aware of the need for safe abortions through administrative work at the University Unitarian Church,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(global_health_organization)

PATH is an international, nonprofit global health organization based in Seattle, with 1,600 employees in more than 70+ offices around the world. Its president and CEO is Steve Davis.

Much of their history seems to have been scrubbed.. https://www.path.org/about/our-story/

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1ismOwARjUsJ:https://www.path.org/about/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ch

Launched in 1977 by three intrepid researchers, PATH was a new kind of health organization: a nonprofit that would deliver the expertise, resources, and innovations of private industry to improve health for all.

Still trying to work out who those 3 researchers were...

About CEO Steve Davis https://www.wghalliance.org/bio/steve-davis-ma-jd/

PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) https://www.myphilanthropedia.org/top-nonprofits/international/water-sanitation-hygiene/2011/path-program-for-appropriate-technology-in-health

This document provides leads to the early management https://path.azureedge.net/media/documents/tdy97-winter.pdf