Background
Hommel, Flora Nadine was born on March 16, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Morris and Rae (Albaum) Suhd.
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Flora Nadine Hommel
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Education
Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Science cum laude, Wayne State University, 1958. Studied psychoprophylactic method of painless childbirth (Lamaze method) with Drs. Lamaze and Vellay.
Career
Founder, executive director Childbirth Withoug Pain Education, Lamaze Birth without Pain Education Association, Detroit, since 1958. Montrice, teacher Lamaze method of painless childbirth, since 1958. Consultant, lecturer, workshop leader for medical, nursing, student and lay groups.
Board directors International Childbirth Education Association, since 1960. Established biennial conferences Childbirth Without Pain Education Association some with co-sponsorship with Nurses Association of America College Obstetricians and Gynecologists, presenter workshops and papers, 1962^. Presenter keynote address Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1974, and papers, 1972-1982.
Presenter papers to Congresses of International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, Paris, Bogota, Colombia, London, Rome, West Berlin. Founder, minister The Association for Integration of the Whole Person, since 1975.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Detroit area New Jewish Agenda, 1974-1984, treasurer, 1979-1984. Board directors Metro-North Gray Panthers Metro Detroit, since 1988, covenor, 1991-1994, board directors Gray Partners Project Fund, since 1992, chairman health care committee. Board directors National Gray Partners and Health Care Committee, 1992-2000.
Chair Women's Conference of Concerns Health Task Force, since 1988. Presenter paper to committee on Paul Robeson, Museum African American History, 1989. Member International Society Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics (honorary life), United States Peace Council (charter member 1974, representative Nelson Mandela reception, 1990), National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Universal Health Care Action Network.
Connections
1 child, Claudia Hommel.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1958
Awards
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Recipient Key to the City of Detroit, Mayor Coleman A. Young, 1973, Twenty Year Gold Logo pendant Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1978, Achievement award Women's Conference of Concerns, 1979, City Council Spirit of Detroit award, 1985, Thirty Year award Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1988, Thirty-five and Still Going award Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1993, Woman of Wayne State University Headliner award, since 1995. Selected by Faculty Wives and Social Service Department of Wayne State University as one of twelve women making history contributions to Detroit, 1982. Inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, 1994. Honored at Wayne State College of Nursing 25th anniversary celebration, 1995, City Council of Detroit Resolution, 1995. Honored by Wall of Tolerance co-chairman Rosa Parks and Morris Dees National Campaign Tolerance, 2001, 45 Year Achievement of Continued Growth and Customer Satisfaction, 1959-2004.Recipient Key to the City of Detroit, Mayor Coleman A. Young, 1973, Twenty Year Gold Logo pendant Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1978, Achievement award Women's Conference of Concerns, 1979, City Council Spirit of Detroit award, 1985, Thirty Year award Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1988, Thirty-five and Still Going award Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, 1993, Woman of Wayne State University Headliner award, since 1995. Selected by Faculty Wives and Social Service Department of Wayne State University as one of twelve women making history contributions to Detroit, 1982. Inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, 1994.
Honored at Wayne State College of Nursing 25th anniversary celebration, 1995, City Council of Detroit Resolution, 1995. Honored by Wall of Tolerance co-chairman Rosa Parks and Morris Dees National Campaign Tolerance, 2001, 45 Year Achievement of Continued Growth and Customer Satisfaction, 1959-2004.