MONTGOMERY COUNTY FIRST LADIES

In 1979 RITA C. BANNING was the first women to be elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.  In the 1983 election BANNING won re-election.  In 1986, BETTY LINKER was appointed to replace Commissioner Allan C. Myers, who had died while in office, which meant that two women were on the board. 

 

Four years later both Banning and Linker were returned to office. Linker died in 1989 and another woman, Floriana Bloss, was appointed, meaning that there were again two women on the board.

Nearly ten years after Rita Banning and Floriana Bloss left office RUTH DAMSKER joined the county board in 1999, and was reelected twice.  She served until 2008. 

 

LESLIE RICHARDS is the current female Montgomery County Commissioner.   

 

QUIZ: Who was the first female elected as Montgomery County Controller? 

 

Today’s Answer: DIANE MORGAN was the first female elected as County Controller in 2007.   

 

Source:  http://aboveavgjane.blogspot.com/2011/03/women-on-montgomery-county-board-of.html                

DESIGNERS

LIZ CLAIBORNE studied art in Europe rather than finish high school. She worked as a designer in New York for 25 years before founding her own firm in 1976. The company began designing stylish sportswear for working women, ultimately commanding a billion dollars a year.

 

DONNA KARAN started to design clothes as a teenager and studied at New York's Parsons School of Design.  Karan launched her first collection under her own name in 1985 and five years later added a ready-to-wear line, DKNY.  In 1991 she initiated a menswear line, soon adding children's clothing, perfume, cosmetics, hosiery, and other products to her design empire.
WHO SAID, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.  Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

 

ANSWER:   COCO CHANEL

 

Source: www.infoplease.com                www.brainyquote.com

 

GREAT QUEENS

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”

QUEEN VICTORIA the United Kingdom (1837-1901), & Ireland (1819-1901)

 

CLEOPATRA was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, and the last of the Ptolemy dynasty of Egyptian rulers.  As she tried to keep power for her dynasty, she made famous connections with Roman rulers Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

 

ISABELLA ruled Castile and Aragon jointly with her husband, Ferdinand. She's famous for supporting Columbus' voyage; she's also credited for her patronage of arts and education, instituting the Inquisition in Spain, and insisting that the Native Americans be treated as persons.

 

During her reign, CATHERINE II of Russia modernized and westernized Russia, promoted education, and expanded Russia's borders.

 

QUIZ: What was the name of the queen who ruled Egypt (1372-1350 B.C.) and also was the aunt of King Tut?

ANSWER:   QUEEN NEFERTITI 

 

 Sources:  http://thinkexist.com/quotes      http://womenshistory.about.com   

 

 



AUTHORS

Beginning with The Children’s Hour in 1934, LILLIAN HELLMAN’s award-winning plays presented powerful and bitter pictures of intolerance and exploitation. One of many Hollywood screenwriters who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee when asked about the politics of her friends and associates, Hellman was blacklisted from 1948 to the ‘60s. Her book, An Unfinished Woman, won a National Book Award in 1969.

 

JOANNA MACY has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change. She has written many books and led workshops for thousands of people around the world. Her “Work that Reconnects” brings a new way of seeing the world, helping to transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action.

QUIZ: Who was the Native North American woman guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?

ANSWER:   SACAJAWEA

 

Source: www.NWHP.org           

 

WOMEN ASTRONAUTS

On June 16, 1963 Russian Cosmonaut, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA, became the very first female to fly in space.  It was almost 20 years before the second Russian woman ventured into space.  SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA was the first woman to walk in space (July 25, 1984) while on an expedition to the Salyut 7 space station, and the first woman to make two spaceflights. 

 

SALLY RIDE was the first American female astronaut to fly into space (Jun. 18, 1983 and Oct. 5, 1984).  JUDITH RESNIK was the first Jewish-American in space. Reskin died on her second flight, in the Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger disaster, along with CHRISTA MCAULIFFE.

 

KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN was the first American woman to walk in space (Oct. 11, 1984).   There have been 56 women astronauts, 44 of them were from the United States.

 

QUIZ: Who was the First African-American woman in space?

ANSWER: MAE JEMISON

 

Source:  wikipedia.org     

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CEOs

GILLIAN CHRISTIE is

President and Owner of Christie Communications in California.  As CEO of Christie Communications, a full-service, organic marketing company exclusively helping ethical businesses, socially conscious organizations and charities broaden their impact through effective communication services, Gillian Christie has been helping organizations make peace profitable. The agency’s non-profit arm, Christie CommUnity Foundation, helps businesses partner with developing nations to facilitate growth, health and economic prosperity in communities such as Sudan, Sri Lanka and Rwanda.

 

TANYA NARATH is the Executive Director and CEO of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy. Under her collaborative and inspiring leadership, the Institute’s Leadership Training for a Sustainable Future program has developed a network of over 250 powerful leaders who are creating public policy that is environmentally friendly and socially equitable for a healthy economy and a sustainable community.

 

QUIZ: Who wrote the sonnet “The New Colossus” which is inscribed on the base of the Stature of Liberty?   

ANSWER:   Emma Lazarus

 

Source NWHP.org

 

WOMAN RULER

GOLDA MEIR (1898 – 1978) was an Israeli teacher and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.  Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people".  In 1974, after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978 of leukemia.

 

 On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at a New York City sweatshop, located on the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building in Manhattan.  146 of the more than 500 women, some as young as 12 years, either perished in the fire or jumped to their deaths that day. 
QUIZ: What was the name of the company for which they worked?

ANSWER:  TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY

 

Source NWHP.org  

           

ORGANIZERS

In Massachusetts, the Lowell family's textile mills worked to attract the unmarried daughters of farm families, expecting them to work a few years before marriage. These young women factory workers were termed “Lowell Mill Girls." Their average length of employment was three years.

In 1844, Lowell Mill factory workers organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA) to press for better pay and working conditions.  SARAH BAGLEY became the first President of the LFLRA. Bagley testified about the working conditions before the Massachusetts house that same year. When the LFLRA was unable to bargain with the owners, they joined with the New England Workingmen's Association. Despite its lack of significant effect, the LFLRA was the first organization of working women in the United States to try to bargain collectively for better conditions and higher pay.

QUIZ: Who led a march of Pennsylvania child mill workers to President Roosevelt's home on Long Island to dramatize the evils of child labor?

 

ANSWER: MARY HARRIS (AKA) MOTHER JONES

 

Source:  womenshistory.about.com

 

ACHIEVERS

LAURA BRIDGMAN (1829–1889) b. Hanover, N.H. was the first blind and deaf person to be successfully educated.  Under the guidance of Dr. S. G. Howe, of the Perkins School for the Blind, she learned to read and write and to sew, eventually becoming a sewing teacher at the school, where she remained until her death. As a girl and young woman, Bridgman was famous, her life and education described in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Her fame was later eclipsed by that of Helen Keller.

MARLEE MATLIN has appeared in a variety of popular television shows: The West Wing, Desperate Housewives, Seinfeld – just to name a few.  She also received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1986 movie Children of a Lesser God, and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009. Marlee Matlin is also deaf. She has shattered people’s preconceived notions of what deafness must mean for a person’s future and she has paved the way for others like herself.

QUIZ: Who was Helen Keller’s teacher?

ANSWER:   ANNE SULLIVAN

 

Sources:          www.Masterschannel.com       www.infoplease.com

JOURNALISTS

MARY LIVERMORE was an American journalist, philanthropist, and lecturer during the nineteenth century.  During the Civil War, she worked in hospitals, was a correspondent for numerous journals, an author, and edited her husband’s newspaper.  She was the only woman reporter at Lincoln’s nomination.  After the Civil War she was active in temperance, suffrage, and abolitionist movements.

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-1971) was the first female photojournalist, working for Fortune magazine and Life magazine. She published photos of the depression in a book, “You have Seen Their Faces”. During World War II, she documented military action in Africa and Europe.  Bourke-White later photographed Gandhi’s non-violent protests in India.  Her images of the Great Depression, WWII, and the liberation of the concentration camps reveal the startling human side of historical events.

QUIZ: Who said, “Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people”?

 

ANSWER: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

Sources:  www.historyswomen.com   www.nwhp.com

ATHLETES

“The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.”  TARA LIPINSKI Olympic Ice Skater

EDNA CAMPBELL is a professional basketball player with the WNBA Sacramento Monarchs and a breast cancer survivor.  Campbell travels across the country as a spokesperson for breast cancer awareness, encouraging women to do regular breast exams and inspiring those with cancer to have hope and courage in challenging the disease.

In 1960, WILMA RUDOLPH (1940–1994) became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals for track and field. This feat is even more astounding because she had been crippled by illness and was not able to walk until she was eight years old. She continued breaking records until she retired in 1962. In 1974, she was inducted into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame. To encourage young athletes, she founded the Wilma Rudolph Foundation in 1981.

QUIZ: Who defeated Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "battle of the sexes” tennis match?

ANSWER: BILLY JEAN KING

Source www.NWHP.org



ENVIRONMENTALISTS FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING

LUPE ANGUIANO (b. 1929) is an educator who has always worked for the equality of all people. She is a passionate environment volunteer, helping to protect "Mother Earth" from global warming and other destructive environmental hazards.  Anguiano was also a United Farm Workers’ Volunteer, working directly under the direction of Cesar Chavez in Delano, California. She led the successful grape boycott in the entire State of Michigan in 1965.

SUSAN SOLOMON (1956) is a professor of atmospheric chemistry and climate science at MIT.   Her groundbreaking research on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole was part of the basis of the international treaty that has effectively regulated damaging chemicals.   She is also a leader in climate science, and is best known for seminal work showing that climate changes due to human increases in carbon dioxide will last for more than a thousand years.

QUIZ: Who wrote the book “Silent Spring” which brought the world’s attention to the toxic effects of pesticides?

 

ANSWER: RACHAEL CARSON 

 

Source www.NWHP.org

 

FAMOUS NURSES

JOYCE SLINSKY (retired RN, New Jersey) - A registered nurse for 45 years, with 39 of those years in the ER (emergency room) of John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, was presented with an official proclamation from the state Senate and Assembly in reverence to her career. On January 20, 2007 she was honored as a retiree and highly valued member in her community of Brick, New Jersey.

MARY TODD LINCOLN - Better known as Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln proved her critics wrong (as a Southerner, her loyalty to the Unionist cause was suspected) by putting in almost impossible hours frequenting hospitals, cleaning wounds and consoling and feeding those soldiers suffering unbearable pain.

QUIZ:  Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?

ANSWER: CLARA BARTON

Source: www.nursing-school.org

FEMALE SPIES

EDITH CAVELL was a nurse from England who was working in Belgium during WWI.   While not a spy, she secretly helped British, French, and Belgian soldiers to escape from behind the German lines. She housed as many as 35 refugees at once in the nursing school where she was the administrator.  By 1915 she had helped more than 100 British and an additional 100 French and Belgian soldiers. But the Germans grew suspicious and arrested her in August.  Her trial lasted only two days and, in spite of appeals from both the American and Spanish ambassadors for clemency, resulted in a death sentence.  On the morning of October 12th, 1915, Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad and buried nearby. Eventually her body was exhumed and returned to her native soil in Great Britain for reburial - you will find these words on her statue in St Martin’s Park - "'Humanity, Fortitude, Devotion, Sacrifice".

QUIZ: Who is often called the “female Paul Revere”?

ANSWER:  On April 26, 1777, sixteen year old SYBIL LUDINGTON rode 40 miles through the night on horseback to gather soldiers to protect Danbury. The 400 troops that assembled successfully thwarted the British. 

 

Source http://womenshistory.about.com   

IRISH PIRATE QUEEN

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

Irish tomboy GRACE O'MALLEY was the infamous pirate queen.  This notorious lady boasts of having commanded 3 galleys, 20 ships and over 200 men.  She was born in the 1530's in County Mayo, Ireland.  She was a feared sea pirate, an adept seafarer, a shrewd trader and a knowledgeable Chieftain.  Her crew respected her for her knowledge and fighting ability. This twice widowed and twice imprisoned woman was also a mother.  She won many battles against the British and yet it was QUEEN ELIZABETH I, who pardoned her death condemnation.  It is the stuff of legends in Ireland, how this pirate went alone to visit the British Queen and not only got herself pardoned, but also earned in her, a good friend and ally.  Even today, Ireland has many a song on her life that continues to make her immortal, with even the coming generations.

QUIZ: Who was the first female President of Ireland?

ANSWER:     MARY ROBINSON

Source: www.NWHP.org

ARTISTS

EDNA HIBEL was the youngest artist at the time to have a painting purchased by a major American museum for its permanent collection in 1940. Her thousands of followers know her sensitive portrayals of mothers and children from all cultures. She uses many media on a wide variety of surfaces. Internationally renowned, she is the only foreign artist to twice exhibit her work in the Soviet Union, and the only foreign woman to produce a television documentary in that country.

ROSE MARIE WILLIAMS MCGUIRE as artist, educator, poet, and illustrator has worked in several mediums for fifty-four years teaching the spectrum of ages.  Her sculptures and printed works reflect the recycled objects in everyday use. FOUND OBJECTS is the central them of her art, which is on exhibit in THE PETTIE HOUSE GALLERY in Atlanta, Georgia.

WHO SAID:  “If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.” 

ANSWER: OPRAH WINFREY 

Source www.NWHP.org

BEAUTIES

ELIZABETH ARDEN opened her first beauty salon in New York in 1907, forming the cornerstone of an international empire of salons, beauty products, and chic image. Arden and her rival, Helena Rubinstein, made cosmetics acceptable to “respectable” American women. Under the name Elizabeth Graham, from the 1930s–early 1960s she ran the Maine Chance Stables in Kentucky where the 1947 Kentucky Derby winner was bred.

ESTÉE LAUDER with her husband, Joseph Lauder, developed a line of cosmetics but was unable to convince Madison Avenue that her small advertising budget was a worthwhile account. She therefore relied upon the innovative notion of sampling, allowing potential customers to try the product before they bought it. Despite her small ad budget, she successfully targeted the high end of the market, selling exclusively through department stores and boutiques. The best known products are Youth Dew beauty oil, Clinique, and Aramis for men.

QUOTE:  Who said, “I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.”? 

 

ANSWER:  GLORIA VANDERBILT

 

Source:  www.infoplease.com    www.brainyquote.com

               

FIRST WOMAN TO PASS THE NEW YORK STATE BAR EXAM

KATHERINE "KATE" STONEMAN was a self-taught practitioner of the law who passed the New York State Bar Exam in 1886, becoming the first woman ever to do so. However, her formal application to join the bar was swiftly rejected on the basis of her gender. Three Supreme Court justices denied her admission, citing "No precedent."  After her rejection, she successfully campaigned to modify the state's Code of Civil Procedure in order to allow for the admission of all qualified applicants, regardless of race or gender.  After her admission to the bar she went on to study law formally at Albany Law School, and graduated from Albany Law School in 1898.  Stoneman was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 2009.

WHO SAID: "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live." 

ANSWER:     JANE ADDAMS 

 Source www.NWHP.org

http://womenshistory.about.com 

A COLONEL & A JUSTICE

COL. JEANNIE LEAVITT is the first woman to take command of a United States Air Force combat fighter wing.  After entering the Air Force in 1992 with an aerospace engineering degree, Leavitt became the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot in 1993. Since then, Leavitt added four master’s degrees to her educational credentials and a number of military medals, such as a Bronze Star.  Leavitt has logged more than 2,500 hours in the F-15 Strike Eagle, including 300 hours flying in combat primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Leavitt is in charge of 5,000 active duty men and women, and 12,000 civilians in the base population at the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, NC; one of only three units of F-15Es, the service’s premier fighter jets. 

For Col. Leavitt's full biography see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Fighter_Wing

QUIZ: Who was the first female justice appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981?

ANSWER: In 1981 SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR was appointed by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice.

Source www.NWHP.org

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

 “The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”               Rosalyn S. Yalow

 

MARIE CURIE is considered the most famous of all women scientists. She was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics, 1903; and Chemistry, 1911).  By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold medal at the Russian lycee in Poland upon the completion of her secondary education. In 1891, almost penniless, she began her education at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903, her discovery of radioactivity earned her the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911, she won it for chemistry.

 

IRENE CURIE was the daughter of Marie Curie. She furthered her mother's work in radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize (Chemistry, 1935) for discovering that radioactivity could be artificially produced.

QUIZ: Who was the first woman since Marie to win an unshared Nobel Prize for chemistry (1964)?

 

ANSWER:  DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for her enormous contributions to disease control by determining the structures of penicillin and insulin. 

Source www.NWHP.org



MICROBIOLOGIST & A THEATER OWNER

HATTIE ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Pediatrician and Microbiologist developed the first effective remedies for Haemophilus influenzae, reducing the mortality rate from nearly 100 percent to less than 25 percent. Alexander was also among the first scientists to identify and study antibiotic resistance, which she correctly concluded was caused by random genetic mutations in DNA.  In 1964, she became the first woman elected president of the American Pediatric Society.

LAURA KEENE was the first woman to run a theater.  Originally a success on the English stage, Keene settled in New York City in 1855 and became the first woman to manage her own theatre and theatrical company.  Her production of "Our American Cousin" was playing at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was assassinated.  Keene's dress cuff, stained with what is purportedly the slain president's blood—she cradled his head after he was shot—is in the Smithsonian Museum.

QUIZ: Who invented the first practical dishwasher?

 

ANSWER: JOSEPHINE COCHRAN invented the first practical dishwasher in 1886.

 

Source www.NWHP.org

MARY GOLDA ROSS

MARY GOLDA ROSS was the first woman engineer at Lockheed’s Missiles Systems Division (1952), and the first known Native American woman engineer. At Lockheed, Ross designed missiles and rockets, and developed systems for human space flight and interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus.

After retiring, she began a second career as an advocate for women and Native Americans in engineering and mathematics.

When she was 96 years old, Mary Golda Ross asked her niece to make her something very special: the first traditional Cherokee dress that Ross, the great-great-granddaughter of renowned Chief John Ross, would ever own.  Ross wanted to wear her ancestral dress to the opening of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of the American Indian. Wearing that dress of green calico, Ross joined in the procession of 25,000 Native peoples that opened the museum.  

QUIZ: Who invented the Barbie doll?

 

ANSWER:  RUTH HANDLER

 

Source: www.NWHP.org

 

SCIENTIST & NASA SPECIALIST

GRACE MURRAY HOPPER was a pioneering computer scientist and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Hopper joined the Navy Reserve during World War II and worked as one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1 Computer. She later wrote the first computer programming compiler (1952) and conceptualized COBOL, one of the first modern programming language (1954). Upon her retirement she was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest non-combat award given by the Department of Defense.

DR. MARY CLEAVE was a mission specialist at NASA and flew on space flights in 1985 and 1989. Her extensive research is in the field of soil and water pollution with a special focus on the need for minimum river flow to help maintain certain game fish. She served as NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission and also managed NASA’s Ocean Color Satellite Program in Washington, DC.

QUIZ: Who developed a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags, which was patented in 1870?

 

ANSWER:     MARTHA KNIGHT  

 

Source:  www.NWHP.org

COMMEDIAN RED HEADS

LUCILLE BALL was American TV's most popular comedienne for over a decade, beloved for her blazing red hair and slapstick situation comedy gags. Lucille Ball starred in five different TV shows during her career; the original, I Love Lucy (1951-57), became one of the great TV landmarks of the 1950s. The show was consistently ranked #1 in the ratings and continued in reruns for decades.  A 34-cent U.S. postage stamp honoring Ball was unveiled in August of 2001. 

From 1967 to 1978 CAROL BURNETT hosted one of the most popular shows on television, The Carol Burnett Show. A "variety hour" that was mostly comedy, the show featured the redheaded and rubber-faced Burnett in slapstick skits and movie parodies with regular cast members Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner and Tim Conway. Burnett tugged her ear at the end of every episode as a silent greeting to her grandmother.

WHO SAID:  “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart?”

ANSWER:  ERMA BOMBECK  

Source www.infoplease.com

 

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INVENTORS

KATHARINE BURR BLODGETT was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from the University Of Cambridge (1926) and the first woman research scientist for General Electric’s Schenectady, New York laboratory (1920). Blodgett received eight US patents, most famously for inventing low-reflectance "invisible" glass. The legacy of her work is still seen today in camera lenses, computer screens, eyeglasses, and many other applications.

During the Civil War (1860 – 1865) women inventors in the United States, received more patents than in the previous 70 years (72).  A variety of medical instruments and devices were invented and patented by women during the nineteenth century, including sterilization techniques and devices, medical beds and chairs, field ambulances and stretchers, splints, and an improved speculum.

 

WHO SAID:  “When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.”

 

MAGGIE KUHN   

 

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SINGERS

BEVERLY SILLS was a child prodigy, a radio star at age 7. She made her operatic debut in 1946 at the Philadelphia Civic Opera and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. She has served as chairwoman of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Sills served as national chair of the March of Dimes' Mothers' March on Birth Defects for 10 years. In 1998, Sills received the MS Hope Award for her work with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

 

CHRISTINA AGUILERA includes themes of female empowerment in her music. She has been noted for her vocals, music videos and constantly reinventing her image and music. Aguilera has dedicated much of her time as a philanthropist for charities, human rights and world issues.  As one of the top selling artists of the early 2000s, Billboard named Aguilera as the top female artist of 2000 and 2003. 

 

QUIZ: What woman was issued a patent for the windshield wipers in 1905?

ANSWER:    MARY ANDERSON

 

Source NWHP.org 

 

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SUFFREGETTES

ERNESTINE ROSE (1810-1892) joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others in 1840 fighting for passage in New York of the married women's property bill which took 20 years to be passed in full. In 1850, she called for "political, legal, and social equality with man." Her lectures included themes of anti-slavery, temperance and freedom of thought. Anthony wrote that the suffrage movement pioneers "begin with Mary Wollstonecraft—then Frances Wright—then Ernestine L. Rose."

The frozen food industry owes a great deal to MARY ENGLE PENNINGTON, who worked during the first half of the 20th century on the industrial processes which made frozen fruits, vegetables, and fish such successful products. She was the first female member of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers and one of the first female members of the American Chemical Society.

QUIZ: Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932?

ANSWER:     AMELIA EARHART

Source NWHP.org 

 

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INVENTOR & PUBLISHER

PATRICIA ERA BATH (1942) is an Ophthalmologist and Inventor; her invention of the Laserphaco Probe was an important milestone in the advent of laser cataract surgery. Bath co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness (1976) committed to “protect, preserve, and restore the gift of sight.” She broke ground for both women and African Americans in medicine and ophthalmology, including being the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.

KATHARINE GRAHAM (1917-2001) was a publisher and the first woman president of a Fortune 500 company when she became president and then publisher of the Washington Post from 1963 to 1979. In 1971, she resisted tremendous pressure and threats when she printed the Pentagon Papers. In 1972, she supported the aggressive investigation of the Watergate burglary. The Post received a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1973. Her autobiography Personal History won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

QUIZ: Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872?

ANSWER: VICTORIA WOODHULL       

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STEM EDUCATOR

MARLYN BARRETT K-12 STEM Educator is a coordinator of science instruction for Worcester County Public Schools and a project director for a grant which provides professional development for 135 teachers in 14 counties throughout Maryland. Her responsibilities include directing the grant, meeting with other county coordinators and higher education partners, and teacher training, impacting thousands of Maryland students and inspiring them to become the future of science.

WENDY ABRAMS founded Cool Globes, a non-profit organization established to raise awareness of global warming and to inspire individuals and community leaders to embrace solutions. She also demonstrates her commitment to a healthy environment a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense, the National Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Resources Defense Council C4 Action Fund.

“Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”  MAE JEMISON, ASTRONAUT

QUIZ: Who was the first American female Astronaut?

SALLY RIDE

  

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March 2

CATHERINE "KATE" SHELLEY (1865-1912) was a Midwestern United States railroad heroine at the age of 16.  She was the first woman in the U.S. to have a bridge and a train named after her.
For the full story of Katie see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Shelley

"Brave Kate Shelley"       Poem by ~Hailey E. Yocum

Young Kate Shelley
Brave as can be
She went on a journey
A life-risking journey

Young Kate Shelley
Brave as can be
Saw Engine 11 go down
Then rushed down to help

Young Kate Shelley
Brave as can be
Had a bloody travel to the Moingona Station
"OW!" ties, and splinters jabbing her in the hands and knees

Young Kate Shelly
Brave as can be
Bloody but sure, she would arrive to the Moingona Station
Cooed for help, everyone safe and sound!

QUIZ: Who was the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court?  

Answer: BELVA LOCKWOOD  

MARCH IS NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

THE THEME FOR NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2013 IS:

“WOMEN INSPIRING INNOVATION THROUGH IMAGINATIONCELEBRATING WOMEN IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS”

The 2013 STEM Honorees represent a remarkable range of accomplishments and a wide diversity of specialties including medicine, robotics, architecture, computer programming, atmospheric chemistry, and primatology. These women’s lives and work span the centuries of American history and come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We are proud to honor them and all women seeking to advance these important fields.  The Honorees are

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander Microbiologist

Marlyn Barrett K-12 STEM Educator

Patricia Era Bath Ophthalmologist

Elizabeth Blackwell Physician

Katharine Burr Blodgett Physicist and Inventor

Edith Clarke Electrical Engineer

Rita R. Colwell Molecular Microbial Ecologist

Dian Fossey Primatologist

Susan A. Gerbi, Molecular Cell Biologist

Helen Greiner Mechanical Engineer

Grace Murray Hopper Computer Scientist

Olga Frances Linares Anthropologist

Julia Morgan Architect

Louise Pearce, Physician and Pathologist

Jill Pipher Mathematician

Mary G. Ross Mechanical Engineer

Susan Solomon Atmospheric Chemist

Flossie Wong-Staal Virologist and Molecular Biologist

QUIZ: What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election? 

                           

 ANSWER: SUSAN B. ANTHONY The sentence was a $100 fine, but not imprisonment; true to her word in court ("I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty"), she never paid the fine for the rest of her life, and an embarrassed U.S. Government took no collection action against her. After her trial Anthony petitioned the US Congress to remove the fine in January 1874.