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Posted by YWM on March 17, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 17
1878: Art historian and educator Helen Gardner is born. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages remains a standard text for American art history classes. It was the first single-volume textbook to cover the entire range of art history from a global perspective.
1863: Anna Wessels Williams is born. Dr. Williams who worked as a bacteriologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States, helped develop the diphtheria antitoxin. She was the first woman to be elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association.
1862: Martha Platt Falconer is born. Falconer was an American social worker who helped transform U.S. institutions for delinquent or displaced and homeless young women from a system of incarceration to one 
based on rehabilitation.
1849: Zoologist and marine biologist Cornelia Maria Clapp is born. Although she was primarily known as an educator and did not author many scientific research papers, she was named in 1906 as being among the 150 most prominent zoologists in the U.S. by the journal American Man of Science.
1846: Illustrator Kate Greenaway is born. Greenaway was
an English children’s book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple verses about children, was a best-seller. Although she had no formal education or training, her work received awards and has continued through cards and calendars.
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Posted by sherrysaunders on March 17, 2010
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Posted by YWM on March 16, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 16
2009: Women’s Military Week begins today. It was proclaimed in California by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1912: Jean Rosenthal is born. Rosenthal is considered a pioneer in the field of theatrical lighting design. Some of her major contributions were the elimination of shadows by using floods of upstage lighting and controlling angles and mass of illumination to create contrasts without shadows.
1891: Irita Bradford Van Doren is born. Van Doren was an American literary figure and editor of the New York Herald Tribune book review for 37 years. The Irita Van Doren Book Award was established in 1960 by the publisher of the Herald Tribune.
1750: Caroline Herschel bornwas a German astronomer, the sister of astronomer Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets and in particular the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
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Posted by YWM on March 15, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 15
1930: Brigadier General Wilma Vaught is born. Vaught is the founder and president of the board of the Women In Military Service for America Memorial. Vaught was the first and, for 22 years, the only woman promoted to brigadier general from the Comptroller career field. Other firsts: first woman to head a board of directors of a major credit union; first woman to command a unit receiving the Joint Meritorious Unit Award; first woman to deploy with a Strategic Air Command bombardment wing on an operational deployment.
1887: Philanthropist, art curator and founder of Hillwood estate and museum, Marjorie Merriweather Post is born. At 27, Post became heir to her family’s Postum Cereal Company (later to become General Foods) fortune which was expanded into a larger line of food products, at the encouragement of Post, a shrewd businesswoman who foresaw the value of prepared food in an age of increasingly independent women. In 1936 Marjorie joined the Board of Directors of General Foods, becoming one of the first women to do so in a major American corporation.
1838: Alice Cunningham Fletcher is born. Cunningham Fletcher is most known for her fieldwork among Native Americans. She is recognized as a pioneering anthropologist who advocated for both Native American reform and education. Cunningham Fletcher also helped found the Association for the Advancement of Women (1873).
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Posted by joyinhome on March 12, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 12
1934: Virginia Hamilton, juvenile fiction writer, is born. Hamilton is the most honored writer of children’s literature. She died in 2002 of breast cancer.
1876: Helen Sumner Woodbury is born. Dr. Woodbury was a social economist whose investigative work centered largely on historical and contemporary labor issues surrounding women and children.
1877: Annette Abbott Adams is born. Adams is a lawyer and judge. In 1950, she served by special assignment on one case in the California Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to sit on that court.
1883: Ethel Collins Dunham is born. Dr. Dunham focused on premature babies and newborns, becoming chief of child development at the Children’s Bureau in 1935. She established national standards for the hospital care of newborn children, and expanded the scope of health care for growing children. Dr. Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.
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Posted by YWM on March 11, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 11
1959: Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry opened at Barrymore Theater with Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil in the starring roles. This was the first Broadway play written by an African American woman and directed by an African American, Lloyd Richards. The play ran for 530 performances, becoming the longest running Broadway play written by an African American.
1923: Agatha Barbara is born. Barbara served as the President of Malta from 1982-1987.
1922: Madeline Houston McWhinnery is born. McWhinnery was founder of the First Women’s Bank in New York City, the first full-service U.S. commercial bank to be predominantly owned and operated by women.
1903: Dorothy Schiff born is born. In 1939 Schiff bought the New York Post. She wrestled it through the NYC newspaper wars and it lasted as the only daily afternoon paper.
1869: Beatrice Winser is born. Winser was a pioneering leader in the visual arts and education as well as a women’s labor advocate. She also headed the Newark Public Library and Newark Museum.
1829: Dr. Sarah Dolley is born. Dolley was a physician and professional women’s advocate. In 1886, Dolley was one of a group of women physicians who established a Rochester clinic for women and children. The women who formed this clinic also founded the Practitioners’ Society, an organization of local women physicians and Dolley became its first president.
March 10
1965: Daisy Lampkin, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, died from the effects 
of a heart attack suffered the prior year.
1947: Kim Campbell is born. Campbell is first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Canada.
1913: “Conductor” of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman dies.
1867: Lillian Wald is born. Wald was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, suffragist and the founder of American community nursing. In 1893, 
she organized the Henry Street Settlement, otherwise known as the Visiting Nurse Society (VNS) of New York. The VNS program became the model for similar entities across America and the world.
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Posted by YWM on March 9, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 9
1976: West Point Military Academy accepts its first female cadet.
1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected to the West.
1928: Graciela Olivarez is born. Olivarez was a lawyer who advocated for civil rights and for the poor. In 1970, Olivarez became the first woman and the first 
Latina to graduate from the Notre Dame Law School. She was offered a scholarship to the school while she was serving as director of the Arizona branch of the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, despite the fact that she lacked a high school diploma. The Notre Dame Hispanic Law Students Association presents an award in her name annually.
1936: Glenda May Jackson is born. Jackson is a British Labour politician and actress, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Highgate since 1992. As an actress, she won Academy Awards for Women in Love and A Touch of Class.
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Posted by YWM on March 8, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 8
1945: Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Navy nurses to serve active duty in WW II receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps.
1943: Lynn Redgrave is born. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962. Redgrave won a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. She has been vocal about her health problems associated with bulimia and breast cancer which resulted in a mastectomy.
1923: Lydia Rapoport is born. Rapoport’s legacy is the refinement and update to the thinking and curriculum in social work. Rapoport was a leading educator in developing social worker curriculum for colleges, examining and defining the necessary skills for the social work practitioner and educator and examining the theoretical basis for social casework.
1886: Alice Throckmorton McLean is born. In 1940 McLean organized the American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS). McLean succeeded in building a sizable organization to prepare the home front for war.
1857: Women workers in New York City strike for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions.
1856: Author and library scientist Mary Wright Plummer is born. Plummer graduated from the first class of the first library school, the Library School of Columbia College, in 1888. She created the second program in library studies. She is also credited with creating a separate room for the children’s collection and originating the idea of having special training for children’s librarians.
1824: Civil War nurse Emily Elizabeth Parsons is born. Parsons identified a need for caregivers to tend to wounded soldiers and, despite health challenges, stepped up to the task.
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Posted by YWM on March 7, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 6
1976: Dorothy Hamill wins the World’s Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg.
1937: Valentina Tereshkova is born. Tereshkova is the first woman in space (1963), now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. On this mission, lasting almost three days in space, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body’s reaction to spaceflight.
1924: Sarah Caldwell is born. In 1976, Caldwell became the first female conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, with La traviata.
1921: Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
1906: Nora Blatch is the first woman elected to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
1856: Rachel v. Walker (1834), a case in which an enslaved woman sued for her freedom and won, became the basis of the legal argument by Dred Scott in the historic and infamous Dred Scott v Emerson ruling of the Supreme Court. The ruling said that enslaved Africans in the U.S. were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States.
1791: Anna Claypoole Peale is born. Peale was an American painter, specializing in portrait miniatures and still life paintings.
March 7
1938: Race car driver Janet Guthrie is born. Before becoming the first woman ever to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, Guthrie was misbehavin’! She was a pilot and flight instructor, an aerospace engineer, a technical editor and a public representative for some of the country’s major corporations.
1917: Prima ballerina Janet Collins is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Collins became the first Black artist to perform on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1908: Anna Magnani is born. Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in 
The Rose Tattoo, a role that was written especially for her.
1893: Lorena A. Hickok is born. Hickok aka ‘Hick’ was an AP journalist who covered Eleanor Roosevelt during the presidential campaign and for some time after. She is credited with pushing the First Lady to write her own newspaper column, “My Day”, and to hold weekly press conferences specifically for female 
journalists. There has been speculation about a possible romantic nature to their relationship.
1869: Educator Abby Lillian Marlatt is born. Marlatt graduated from Kansas State College with a B.S. and received her M.S. from 
the same institution. She then taught home economics and later became the first director of the home economics department. During World War I she helped the state of Wisconsin to plan how to join in the national efforts towards conserving food.
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Posted by YWM on March 5, 2010
We are celebrating Women’s History Month, YWM style. All month-long, we will feature women of the past and present who misbehaved and changed the history of our country as well as paved the way for future women leaders.
March 5
1985: The Mary McLeod Bethune commemorative stamp is issued by the U.S. Postal Service as the eighth stamp in its Black Heritage USA series.
1920: Leontine T.C. Kelly, the first African-American woman to become a bishop within the Methodist denomination.
1885: Louise Pearce, M.D., a physician and 
pathologist and one of the foremost women scientists of the early 20th century, is born.
1854: Philanthropist and misbehaver Mary Elizabeth Garrett is born. Garrett changed the future of Johns Hopkins University, paving the way for women medical students. She also established the Bryn Mawr School for Girls as well as Bryn Mawr College.
1854: Social reformist and pioneer of free kindergarten Eliza Ann Cooper Blaker is born. Blaker also served as secretary-treasurer of the kindergarten department of the National Education Association.
1840: Realist novelist and short story writer Constance Fenimore Woolson is born.
1819: Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt, a writer and actress, is born. Mowatt is known as the first “lady” elocutionist because she was the first female to enter the career of public reader.
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1878: Art historian and educator Helen Gardner is born. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages remains a standard text for American art history classes. It was the first single-volume textbook to cover the entire range of art history from a global perspective.
1863: Anna Wessels Williams is born. Dr. Williams who worked as a bacteriologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States, helped develop the diphtheria antitoxin. She was the first woman to be elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association.
based on rehabilitation.
an English children’s book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple verses about children, was a best-seller. Although she had no formal education or training, her work received awards and has continued through cards and calendars.
