Hello, My name is Alice Augusta Ball, on my big day, You will see me coming up and creating the cure for Hansen's Disease (The Ball Method), otherwise known as Leprosy, a very rare disease that affects the skin, eyes, nose, and peripheral nerves. I, Alice Augusta Ball was born on the 24th of July, 1892 in Seattle, Washington to my parents James and Laura Ball. My father was a lawyer and newspaper editor, and my mother and grandfather were respected photographers. My grandfather James Ball Sr. was one of the first black Americans to make use of the daguerreotype, which is the process of printing photographs onto metal plates. I went to the University of Washington, The University of Hawaii, and Broadway High school. After I got my degree from the University of Hawaii for pharmaceutical chemistry in 1912, I was a very known black girl from Honolulu. After graduating, I was offered many scholarships. Alongside my pharmacy instructor, William Dehn, I co-published a 10-page article called "Benzoylations in Ether Solution" which is a very uncommon accomplishment for a black woman. I received top grades in science when I graduated from school in 1910. Making and creating the cure for leprosy was very hard, not knowing if I could or should put this much of a chemical, making many concoctions and spills, inhaling many chemicals for it and finally found the right one, chaulmoogra tree oil. It was the first injectable leprosy treatment. The oil was only mildly-successful. I had to manipulate the oil into different molecular weights for it to be successfully working. My cure became the most effective cure for leprosy until antibiotics were created. In 1915 I became the first woman and first Black American to graduate with a master's degree from the College of Hawaii. I was also the first African American "research chemist and instructor" in the College of Hawaii's chemistry department. I also became the first woman and African American to graduate with a Master of Chemistry at the University of Hawaii (UH) in 1915 and became the first African American female chemistry instructor. My work has also inspired many black people, if not otherwise females, to create and follow their dreams for many more accomplishments and successfulness. Black excellence is very important in this very world. I wish all black women will take this experience and make the same things, if not better than what the ones from the beginning of time have done. And all black excellence progresses.