by Michele Genthon | Sep 25, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
I would like to have been a fly on the wall when Rick Singer and Kevin Falls “pitched” their idea for a new television series about a woman baseball player who makes it to the major leagues. The series, aptly named Pitch, debuted last week on Fox. Ginny Baker is the...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 18, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
“To be the head of an institution that’s associated with knowledge and reading and scholarship when slaves were forbidden to learn how to read on punishment of losing limbs, that’s kind of something.” [Carla Hayden] In the United States 83% of librarians are women,...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 11, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
There has never been a building at any of the major military academies named after a woman—until now! The First Woman to have this honor is Grace Hopper whose name will grace the U.S. Naval Academy’s new cyber facility. Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 20, 2016 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Simone Manuel is the First African American Woman to win an individual gold medal in swimming. Her time in the 2016 Olympics of 52.70 seconds set both an American and Olympic record. An amazing feat for a woman who belongs to the meager 1.3% of African Americans who...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 16, 2016 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
For every sport and every event in the Olympics, there is a First Woman who won a medal in a sport when women were permitted to compete. Their names would fill a ledger book. The women featured here hold more than one first (although not all in the Olympics):...