(1950)

The gymnast won a silver medal on the balance beam at the 1970
World Championships, thus becoming the first American woman
to win a medal in World Gymnastics.

 
                                 Boys Town, Nebraska near Omaha.

                                
                               Father Edward J. Flanagan, Founder.

Dionne became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the
Food and Agriculture Organization, and a U.S. Ambassador
of Health.