Dove Kull

Dove Kull (1897-1991) was a social worker from Oklahoma. After a 37-year career in Oklahoma, serving as second-in-command of the Works Progress Administration and later designing the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare's adoption policies, Kull moved to Alaska and became the first social worker to administer service to Native Alaskans in the Aleutian Islands. She also secured the funds for the first child care center in Alaska and directed the first home-health service for the elderly in the State. She was posthumously inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Biography Alice Montgomery was born on May 17, 1897 near Perry in the Oklahoma Territory and was raised in Oklahoma. After completion of her secondary education, Montgomery enrolled in the University of Oklahoma (OU), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. Between 1922 and 1923, she worked as a newspaper editor of the society and feature pages and then began teaching English at Fairfax High School in 1923. In 1925, Montgomery married Alexander E. Kull, left Fairfax Schools in 1926, and in 1927 obtained a Master's in English from Columbia University.

Kull began a career in social work, working at various state and federal positions. During the Dust Bowl she served as second-in-command of the Oklahoma branch of the federal Works Progress Administration. worked at a state mental health hospital, She was the first social worker to attend the needs of peoples living in the Aleutian Islands. She secured the federal funds for the first accredited child care facility in the state, which was established in Juneau. She 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. but continued her lobbying for women's rights, children's issues, and native rights.

Kull died on December 8, 1991, in Juneau, Alaska. Posthumously, she was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.