[poochee]

A thread to post the accomplishments of women in our society.

Women's Art Women's Vision 2008 Theme

To honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women’s lives, we have chosen Women’s Art: Women’s Vision as the 2008 theme for National Women’s History Month.

The history of women and art is quintessential women’s history. It is the story of amazing women’s accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history. Join us in ensuring that their accomplishments are never forgotten.

http://www.nwhp.org/whm/index.php

[poochee]

Roosevelt Names Last of Cabinet 1931, first woman named to Cabinet
By James A. Hagerty
Special Dispatch to the New York Times

Hyde Park, Feb. 28 - The completion of his Cabinet was announced today by President-elect Roosevelt when he named Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana as Attorney General, Daniel C. Roper of Washington as Secretary of Commerce and Frances Perkins, head of the State Labor Department, as Secretary of Labor.

Excerpt from: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene...4.html#article

[poochee]

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[Gabriel]

Thanks Pooches....pretty cool

[SlackAli]

Originally Posted by poochee

A thread to post the accomplishments of women in our society.

No wonder there's so few replies then

[Gabriel]

Funny guy

[Mulderator]

It is divisive to classify achievements by race or sex in my view. It just continues the sterotypes. Why can't it just be achievements?

[poochee]

Ida Eisenhower
Mother of Dwight D. Eisenhower
By Anne Adams

As General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned and then
directed the Allied assault on D Day, June 6, 1944 , it
was the high point in a long military career that
would later lead to the presidency. Yet what was
interesting and even ironic was that his family's
religious heritage did not support his profession, for
his parents and in particular his mother were devoted
pacifists.

Excerpt from: http://www.historyswomen.com/amazingmoms/Ida.html

[jesseem]

Originally Posted by SlackAli

No wonder there's so few replies then

Or maybe just way too many still unrecognized.

[poochee]

Nelly Bly World Traveling
Investigative Reporter
By Anne Adams

In the late Victorian era when most young women were content to remain close to home there were a few who extended their horizons to explore their world and even write about what they discovered. Today we often call these persons investigative reporters and most every newspaper or TV news department has them. Yet in the 1880s women reporters were almost non-existent. Except for Nelly Bly, who was not only unique in being a reporter but also in how she did it.

The reporter the world came to know as Nelly Bly was born Elizabeth Cochrane in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1867 but she left there as a teenager for Pittsburgh to pursue a writing career. She got her start in 1885 when she attracted editorial attention at the Pittsburgh Dispatch upon her submission of a contrasting opinion to an editorial. The editors were impressed with her spirit and they offered her a job as a reporter.

As her first assignment Elizabeth suggested a series of pieces on divorce, and while the editors doubted that someone so young could handle such a delicate and controversial subject they agreed. However, she did it well, using personal stories from the women in her boarding house, and there were two important results. First, the series sold papers and second, it was her first use of the pseudonym Nelly Bly, which came from a popular Stephen Collins Foster song.

Nelly followed with an expose of the terrible conditions in Pittsburgh ’s slums, prisons, and work places. However, some locals did not welcome such attention so the newspaper suggested she leave town for a while. She headed for Mexico where she continued to submit similar exposes of the official corruption and poor living conditions south of the border. Mexican officials weren’t pleased and soon she was returned to the U.S. but she did manage to smuggle her notes out in her luggage explaining to inspectors that the suitcase contained “unmentionables.”

Nelly headed for New York and there she proposed an article series to Joseph Pulitzer of the World, the city’s most widely read paper. She intended to reveal the terrible conditions in the city’s mental institutions and for that she had to go undercover. After practicing what she felt were the right shrieks and grimaces before a mirror, she checked into a boardinghouse with no identification. There she staged a violent scene in the dining room and was whisked off to a mental “asylum.” Ten days later she emerged with tragic stories of cruel nursing personnel, poor food service, and filthy conditions. The resultant articles brought the necessary reforms and Nelly was now a celebrity.

Excerpt from: http://www.historyswomen.com/socialr.../NellyBly.html

[poochee]

Harriet G. Hosmer
American Sculptor
1830 - 1908

Harriet Hosmer was a great woman sculptor who brought respect to both her native land and her sex by her brilliant work. Her life and work was proof that Americans could be sculptors and that a woman could handle a chisel as well as a paint brush.

Harriet Hosmer was born in Watertown, Massachusetts into a physician’s family. Due to the death of her mother and older sister from tuberculosis, her father, an eminent physician, encouraged her to spend much time outdoors in the open air. Harriet soon became an excellent athlete. She loved nature and became quite adept at hunting, fishing, rowing, and horseback riding. Spending this time outdoors helped her to gain a thorough knowledge of animal life, and when while she was but a child she began to model dogs, horses, and other animals in a clay pit near her home.

Formal education was of secondary importance to Harriet. She attended school at Lenox, Massachusetts and her school days were not marked by scholarship or attention to the routine of school life. Nature was her school and teacher. She often despaired of those who were appointed to be her instructors. Finding sculpting her forte, Harriet went to St. Louis to study anatomy, since she could not gain admission to the conservative medical schools of the East. Human Anatomy, which was a necessary course of study for sculptors, was usually forbidden to women.

http://www.historyswomen.com/thearts...etGHosmer.html

[Skivvywaver]

We have black history month, we celebrate cinco de mayo, we have womens history month and we have Memorial day.

We celebrate with other religions at their time of worship. We are a good people.

Now, can we have "white dudes" month? You know, just for "white dudes"??

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Skivvywaver

We have black history month, we celebrate cinco de mayo, we have womens history month and we have Memorial day.

We celebrate with other religions at their time of worship. We are a good people.

Now, can we have "white dudes" month? You know, just for "white dudes"??

Stop whinning.

[poochee]

Maria Tallchief
Prima Ballerina 1925

Maria Tallchief has been recognized as the most accomplished ballerina to come out of the United States. She has studied with such notable dance teachers and choreographers as Bronislava Nijinska and George Balanchine. Her uniqueness and her outstanding ability blended together to create one of the most vital chapters in the history of American Dance (http://kennedycenter.org/honors/hist...ree/maria.html).

Maria Tallchief was born on January 24, 1925 on an Indian reservation in Fairfax, Oklahoma. While her father was a member of the Osage tribe, her mother was of Irish and Scottish descent. When Maria was quite young, her family moved to Los Angeles where Maria began music and dance lessons. Her first dance teacher was dance pioneer Bronislava Nijinska and after she studied with him for five years Maria joined the Ballet Russe de Montte Carlo. Because of her talent, she soon became a soloist in this ballet company and performed in a variety of ballets such as Scheherezade , Gaite Parisieene, and George Balanchine's Serenade. While dancing in Song of Norway Maria met choreographer George Balanchine and the two were married in 1946. Maria became his inspiration for several of his ballets and together they turned his Ballet Society into the New York City Ballet.

Excerpt from: http://www.historyswomen.com/history...Tallchief.html

[poochee]

MONICA
A.D. 332-387
Mother of St. Augustine

Monica was a remarkable woman that is numbered among the mothers of great men. Her son was Augustine, who became the foremost of the Latin Church Fathers and one of the most influential Christians of all times. The church and the world owe a great debt to Monica for giving us her brilliant, holy, and mighty son.

Monica was born in 332 A.D. to Christian parents who were moderately wealthy. Her home was at Tagasta in North Africa and she was cared for by an old Christian maid servant, who had also cared for Monica’s father as a baby, and it is by this sweet woman that Monica is said to have been brought up in the Christian faith.

Monica was given in marriage to Patricus, an unbeliever, who was later found to have a violent temper and given to an adulterous, immoral life. While she must have suffered greatly in this relationship, Monica is never known to have been impatient or reproachful of her husband. Following the advice in 1 Peter 3, Monica sought to win Patricus to the Lord by her conduct rather than her words. By her loving behavior and perseverance, Monica won her mother-in-law to Jesus Christ, and Patricus, too, became a Christian near the end of his life.

Being a peacemaker at heart, Monica was well known for healing rifts between people. She was also well esteemed by her acquaintances for a sterling character which included forsaking bitterness and gossip and ministering to those who were teachers or pastors of churches. But she had one great burden on her heart; the salvation of her family.

The rest at: http://www.historyswomen.com/amazingmoms/Monica.html