following year, the Department of Pennsylvania, G.A.R. was organized in Philadelphia. The fraternity grew and by the turn of the century was a political and social force with wide power and influence. That influence grew locally, too, as the Lancaster County contingent was the only Pennsylvania county with

County. In April 1977 the physicians of Lancaster gathered to honor Dr. Elizabeth Bricker who would celebrate her 100th birthday on 25 April. After attending Pennsylvania State University for premedical studies, she was graduated in 1903 with thirty-three other women from the Woman's Medical College of