Women in History at WomanTalkLive
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Women in History: Did You Know?
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Bessie Olive Cole earned her doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1913 with the highest grade average in her class. She continued her interest in pharmacy through teaching and became the first woman in the country to hold a full professorship in pharmacy.
She enrolled in the University of Maryland School of Law in 1920, the first class to admit women, and became a specialist in pharmaceutical law.
Today the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association in Baltimore houses the Dr. B. Olive Cole Museum, acknowledging her as the first lady of pharmacy.
Another amazing woman.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is committed to telling and preserving the stories of Maryland’s unsung heroines and honoring their many contributions. Whether nurturing our families, volunteering in the community, leading an organization, working in a school, hospital or religious institution, campaigning for a political candidate, working in our factories, or creating a work of art, these women have played an integral role in helping to build Maryland’s future.
Find out how you can submit an unsung heroine for consideration.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center...the first state center of its kind in the nation providing a place to learn and teach about the contributions of Maryland women throughout the state’s history.The initial home of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is open in Baltimore City at 39 West Lexington Street at Liberty Street!Hours of operation are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm. Admission is FREE!And, be sure to follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for updates on the Center.
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Women in History: Did You Know?
Thursday, December 19, 2013When her family moved from Baltimore to Rockville, MD in the 60′s, Joyce Siegel became deeply concerned that less than a mile away in the historically poor Scotland community, classmates of her children were living in shacks lacking running water, sewer and trash collections. She joined several organizations addressing housing issues of the poor in Montgomery County, MD and worked to upgrade the living conditions in the Scotland area.
Housing became the focus of her volunteerism and professional life as well, serving as public affairs officer of the county’s Housing Opportunities Commission and then as president of the nonprofit Interfaith Housing Coalition, working to find affordable housing for homeless families.
Joyce also co-founded a scholarship program in 1996 that has awarded $300,000 to help offset educational and training expenses of low- and moderate-income families living in Montgomery County subsidized housing.
She set a positive example for what one determined woman can accomplish to help others.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is committed to telling and preserving the stories of Maryland’s unsung heroines and honoring their many contributions. Whether nurturing our families, volunteering in the community, leading an organization, working in a school, hospital or religious institution, campaigning for a political candidate, working in our factories, or creating a work of art, these women have played an integral role in helping to build Maryland’s future.
Find out how you can submit an unsung heroine for consideration.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center...the first state center of its kind in the nation providing a place to learn and teach about the contributions of Maryland women throughout the state’s history.The initial home of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is open in Baltimore City at 39 West Lexington Street at Liberty Street!Hours of operation are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm. Admission is FREE!And, be sure to follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for updates on the Center.
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Women in History: Did You Know?
Thursday, December 12, 2013Building on her early experience as a reporter in Europe during World War II, Baltimore’s Martha Elizabeth Murphy Moss went on to become vice president of the Afro-American Company, publisher of the country’s largest chain of weekly newspapers for blacks.
She used her editorials to push for the hiring of more African American police and firefighters, and worked with the NAACP in a lawsuit against the University of Maryland Law School for its non-inclusive admission policy that eventually played a part in the Supreme Court decision to outlaw segregation in public schools.
Another amazing woman.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is committed to telling and preserving the stories of Maryland’s unsung heroines and honoring their many contributions. Whether nurturing our families, volunteering in the community, leading an organization, working in a school, hospital or religious institution, campaigning for a political candidate, working in our factories, or creating a work of art, these women have played an integral role in helping to build Maryland’s future.
Find out how you can submit an unsung heroine for consideration.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center...the first state center of its kind in the nation providing a place to learn and teach about the contributions of Maryland women throughout the state’s history.The initial home of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is open in Baltimore City at 39 West Lexington Street at Liberty Street!Hours of operation are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm. Admission is FREE!And, be sure to follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for updates on the Center.
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Women in History: Did You Know?
Thursday, December 5, 2013
In December 1989, Garrison Keillor remarked on his radio program “We need a new Christmas carol” and invited listeners to send him their suggestions. Fourteen-year-old Caroline “Carrie” Mallonee, a student at Baltimore Friends School and a participant in programs at the Peabody Conservatory, sat down at her piano and composed The Carolers at My Door. It was faxed to Keillor, it won the contest, and was performed on the “Prairie Home Companion” the following Saturday night.
Caroline continued writing music, going on to receive her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s from the Yale School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music from Duke University.
She has continued composing, often on commission, and now directs the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat, a summer workshop for composers, improvisers and performers.
An amazing girl who has grown into an amazing young woman.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is committed to telling and preserving the stories of Maryland’s unsung heroines and honoring their many contributions. Whether nurturing our families, volunteering in the community, leading an organization, working in a school, hospital or religious institution, campaigning for a political candidate, working in our factories, or creating a work of art, these women have played an integral role in helping to build Maryland’s future.
Find out how you can submit an unsung heroine for consideration.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center...the first state center of its kind in the nation providing a place to learn and teach about the contributions of Maryland women throughout the state’s history.The initial home of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is open in Baltimore City at 39 West Lexington Street at Liberty Street!Hours of operation are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm. Admission is FREE!And, be sure to follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for updates on the Center.
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Women in History: Did You Know?
Thursday, November 28, 2013When World War II cut off the supply of eligible men, Adelyn Breeskin was named acting director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, and finally gained the title of director in 1947.
Breeskin was the first woman in the United States to head a major art museum. She served through the early Sixties, overseeing the collection of some 80,000 drawings, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, gaining national attention for both herself and the museum. Baltimore’s celebrated patrons of the arts – the Cohn sisters – were carefully cultivated by Breeskin and subsequently donated their entire collection of paintings by Picasso and Matisse to the museum.
In 1960 Breeskin left the museum to found the Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, later moving to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, where she served as senior curatorial advisor until her death in 1986 at age 90.
Another truly amazing woman.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is committed to telling and preserving the stories of Maryland’s unsung heroines and honoring their many contributions. Whether nurturing our families, volunteering in the community, leading an organization, working in a school, hospital or religious institution, campaigning for a political candidate, working in our factories, or creating a work of art, these women have played an integral role in helping to build Maryland’s future.
Find out how you can submit an unsung heroine for consideration.
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The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center...the first state center of its kind in the nation providing a place to learn and teach about the contributions of Maryland women throughout the state’s history.The initial home of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is open in Baltimore City at 39 West Lexington Street at Liberty Street!Hours of operation are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm. Admission is FREE!And, be sure to follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for updates on the Center.