Georgia Rose Metzinger was born November 11, 1910 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Her father was Dr. Leon Metzinger and her mother was May (Longwick) Metzinger.  Dr. Burt graduated from Central High School and North Dakota Agricultural College, both in Fargo.  She attended medical school at the University of Chicago.  After an internship at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Chicago she earned her medical degree in 1936.  Dr. Burt subsequently spent three years as a resident pediatrician at the Michigan State Hospital for Children in Detroit.  She married Dr. Arthur Cullen Burt in December of 1935.  During the first years of World War II, while her husband was serving overseas in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Burt worked at Abbot Hospital in Minneapolis.  In 1943 she returned to Fargo and abandoned her medical practice to be a full time mother to her three children Nancy, Sally, and John.  After nearly twenty years as a full time mother Dr. Burt completed a fellowship at the pediatrics department of the Children's Hospital Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.  She joined the staff of the Fargo Clinic in 1968 where she would establish the first department of adolescent medicine in North Dakota.  Dr. Burt was an avid gardener and a ham radio enthusiast.  She had her own radio talk show and a TV show called "Doctor On Call" both of which focused on adolescent's problems.  Politically conservative, Dr. Burt would frequently contribute letters to the editor to local newspapers and for a time she served as Chairman of the National Republican Women.  She failed in a bid for a seat on the Fargo City Commission in 1962.  Dr. Burt was well known for her support of area high school and university sports teams.  She was named Bison Booster of 1973, only the second woman to receive that award, by the Fargo Chamber of Commerce.  In 1973 she also received a YWCA Leadership Award and the Fargo Optimists Club's Friend Of Youth Award.  She died on March 4, 1995 in Fargo at the age of 84. 
 

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