Julia Child

Became first woman to be inducted into the Culinary Institute Hall of Fame

Celebrated her 30th anniversary on PBS

Appeared on "The American Red Cross Emergency Test"

Aired a week-long special series, "Julia Child in Italy"; rebroadcast in 1986-87

Hosted a series of six one-hour videotapes, "The Way to Cook"

Appeared regularly as a correspondent and cooking editor on ABC's "Good Morning America"

Was the first woman elected a member of the American chapter of the chef's society, La Commanderie des Cordons Bleus de France

Debuted her long-running series on PBS, "The French Chef"

Returned to the United States; settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts

With Beck and Bertholle contracted to write cookbook, "French Cooking in America"; published in 1961

Has also hosted the TV series, "Julia Child & Company" and "Dinner with Julia"

Husband Paul Child joined the US state department after the war and was assigned to the Embassy in Paris; the couple lived there for six years during which Child studied French cooking

Opened a cooking school, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, in France with partners Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle during the 1950s

Served as a clerk in the OSS during WWII; met future husband who was a mapmaker