by Michele Genthon | Jul 22, 2018 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
One of my favorite Northwest First Women is Stagecoach Mary, the First African-American Woman mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Mary was a slave born in Hickam County, Tennessee, where she lived for the first thirty years of her life. Her birth is not...
by Michele Genthon | May 18, 2017 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
One of the many beauties of Sue Monk Kidd’s fiction is her expression of the hearts of women, through their own words. This is accomplished with language that paints pictures in the reader’s mind and both tickles and challenges the reader’s soul. So, it was with...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 12, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
Sutematsu Yamakawa Oyama was the first Japanese woman to earn a bachelor’s degree. Her remarkable feat occurred in the late 1800’s at Vassar College. Sutematsu was part of a Japanese experiment that is engagingly recounted in Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P....
by Michele Genthon | Aug 30, 2015 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
Last week Captain Kristen Griest, an Apache helicopter pilot, and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver, a military police officer, both completed the Army’s Ranger School, and they made the national news. Their feat pitted them against the best of the men in the military and...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 25, 2014 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Religion
A descendant of the founders of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Katharine Drexel was born into a philanthropic family. At a private audience with Pope Leo XIII, Katharine asked the Pope to send missionaries to the Native Americans whose plight had come to her...
