Mariana Bertola

Mariana Bertola (May 7, 1865 — December 7, 1955) was an American educator, physician, and reformer based in California.

[1] Mariana attended San Jose State Normal School[2] and, later, Cooper Medical College at Stanford University, graduating in 1899.

[7] She arranged for translators for Italian-speaking patients at San Francisco-area hospitals and gave lectures on health topics in the Italian community and to women's groups throughout the city.

She was also founder in 1909 of the Vittoria Colonna Club for Italian women in San Francisco,[8] and a member of the Cosmopolitan Educational Foundation.

During the Fatty Arbuckle scandal she was outspoken as head of the WVC on the need for more protections for women in the entertainment industry.

Mariana Bertola, from a 1915 publication.
Mariana Bertola, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, May Showler Groves, Minna McGauley, Maud Wilde, Jeanette Lawrence, Miriam Van Waters, David Starr Jordan, Annie Florence Brown, Gertrude Atherton
Mariana Bertola, while she was a teacher; from an 1894 publication.