by Jill Tietjen | Mar 1, 2012 | In The News, Newsletters
March 12, 2012 is a special day for many women in the United States and around the world – it marks the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting! In 1911, Juliette Gordon Low was searching for something useful to do with her life. She was in England and met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement. On March 12, 1912, from her home in Savannah, Georgia, Juliette (whose nickname was Daisy) made her historic phone call to a friend who was a distant cousin and said “I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!” Eighteen girls formed that first troop including Margaret “Daisy Doots” Gordon, her niece and namesake, who was the first registered member.
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by Jill Tietjen | Feb 1, 2012 | In The News, Newsletters
During February of each year, we celebrate Black History Month. We also celebrate the special holiday of Valentine’s Day, when we honor the people we love. Some writers have characterized “music” as love in search of a word. Linking music with Black History month in this month’s enewsletter, we feature African-American women in the music field – singer Ella Fitzgerald, composer Florence Beatrice Smith Price, and pianist Hazel Harrison.
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by Jill Tietjen | Jan 2, 2012 | In The News, Newsletters
Although we haven’t had a woman president in the U.S. yet, women have served as members of the Cabinet since Frances Perkins was appointed Secretary of Labor in 1933. As we head into the presidential election year of 2012, we are pleased to profile four of these pioneering women.
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by Jill Tietjen | Dec 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
Native American women have left an important legacy of being strong leaders. When writing our book, we strived to find evidence of the early Native American women, to tell their stories. Sadly, many of their names have been lost to history; much of early Native American culture was an oral tradition. In this edition of our newsletter, we are proud to profile Nancy Ward, Sarah Winnemucca, Annie Dodge Wauneka, and Wilma Mankiller. These leaders literally fought in battle, fought for the rights of their people, and worked to make lives better for all.
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by Jill Tietjen | Nov 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
During the month of November comes that veritable feast – a time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends. In this month’s newsletter, we highlight two women from our bestselling book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America who made it possible for us to be confident about the storage conditions for the poultry that we eat and for making recipes that we can reproduce many times.
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by Jill Tietjen | Oct 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
On October 1, 2011, the National Women’s Hall of Fame inducted eleven women in the Hall at its home in downtown Seneca Falls, New York – the “Birthplace of Women’s Rights”. Each year the Hall inducts both historical women and present day women who are role models who have made, or continue to make a difference in all of our lives.
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