by Michele Genthon | Jan 20, 2022 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
Ann Baumgartner was the First Woman to pilot a jet airplane. Airplanes enchanted Baumgartner from the day Amelia Earhart, the First Woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, visited her grade school class. She and her father would go to the airport and watch mail...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 28, 2019 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Margaret Bourke-White went where few women, and not too many men, had been. She was the First Woman war correspondent, the First Woman allowed in combat arenas. She was also the First Westerner to photograph Soviet industry and the First Woman to have a photo on the...
by Michele Genthon | May 28, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Please Note: All words in italics are direct quotes from Jeannette Rankin. The other words are from my research on this historical dynamo or from my imagination. Thank you to Ana Maria Spagna and Laura Pritchett for proposing this in one of their workshops. As the...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 7, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement, Politics and Government
Even though she was born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Clara Shortridge Foltz’s life may not have been dissimilar from some women today. She was a mother and career woman; she ignored barriers; and she had the courage to achieve in areas where there were no...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 31, 2018 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Many have paid tribute to Aretha Franklin but few have outlined all her achievements as a First Woman: –First Woman inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame (and second in the UK) –First Woman to have 100 titles...
