Summer Olympics Athletes – March 2020 ENewsletter
Simone Biles, who will be competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, is the most decorated athlete in the history of gymnastics’ world championships.
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Women in History: Television – Kalon Women column February 2020
It is rewarding to acknowledge that women paved the way for television as we know it today! In addition to being in front of the camera as actresses, they ran production studios, innovated with new types of programming, and set the stage for the television industry.
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Photographers – February 2020 ENewsletter
A recent article on Dorothea Lange with her signature photo of “Migrant Mother” prompted us to write this month’s enewsletter on two women photographers: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange.
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Women Composers in History – Kalon Women column January 2020
Perhaps it will not surprise you if we add composing music to the list of traditionally male-dominated fields. The women composers whom we know through history persevered against tremendous odds and discrimination, in order to actually compose and then have their music performed and known to the general public.
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Television Pioneers – January 2020 ENewsletter
As in every other field of endeavor, television also has its women pioneers. Characters on television, particularly women characters, evolved as society evolved.
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Composers – ENewsletter December 2019
Would you consider composing music to be a traditionally men’s field? Surprisingly, over the centuries it has been difficult for women to succeed in this male-dominated field. Not that women didn’t have the ability or passion for this endeavor. This month we feature two dedicated women composers: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach and Florence Beatrice Smith Price.
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