Women Architects in History – Kalon Women column July 2019
Women contribute in every field of endeavor – including as architects. Their contributions have been recognized for more than 100 years in this profession.
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College Presidents – July 2019 ENewsletter
Women’s contributions to education which include everything from endowing the schools to running them have occurred at every level from pre-school through graduate school. In this month’s ENewsletter we profile two women who served as college presidents, where they improved higher education with their groundbreaking accomplishments.
The second president of Bryn Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas,was raised in a Quaker family and overcame her father’s objections to attend college. She graduated from Cornell University in 1877 and then pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Leipzig.
Women Nobel Laureates in History – Kalon Women column June 2019
We wrote about some of the women who were Nobel Laureates a few years ago but there are others! Here is a recap about these famous international awards.
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Fashion and Dressmaking – June 2019 ENewsletter
Until the mid-1800s, people were not able to purchase clothing commercially or in sizes to fit them. Maternity clothing would not be commercially available until the early 1900s. Two women who contributed enormously to advances in dressmaking and clothing are Ellen Curtis Demorest and Lena Bryant. Let’s learn more about these two groundbreaking fashionistas.
Ellen Curtis Demorest is widely credited for being the first woman to create paper patterns for making clothing. She worked in a millinery shop after completing her schooling.
Women Contribute to Our Arts and Culture in Many Ways – Kalon Women Column May 2019
As we are all aware, women contribute to our arts and culture in many ways. As visual artists, they have enhanced books, painted portraits of people and landscapes, and developed abstract art forms.
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Women in Baseball – May 2019 ENewsletter
It’s springtime and for many sports fans, thoughts turn to baseball. In a previous ENewsletter, we profiled two amazing women in baseball – Effa Manley and Linda Alvarado. Effa Manley was the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (2006); she managed and co-owned the Newark Eagles of the Negro Baseball League. In 1946, her team won the Negro League World Series. Linda Alvarado is the current co-owner of the Colorado Rockies. She is an inductee into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and the National Women’s Hall of Fame. This month, we profile two other baseball pioneers – Edith Houghton and Nancy Lotsey.
Edith Houghton’s father played semiprofessional baseball and taught her to play at a young age. By age 10, she was the starting shortstop for the Philadelphia Bobbies. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, she played for the New York Bloomer Girls and the Boston team.
