by Michele Genthon | Apr 1, 2025 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
The First Woman selected as conductor of the Seattle Symphony cannot be seen as she progresses through the standing members of the orchestra that crowd the stage. At just over 5’ tall, she comes into view only when she shakes hands with the concertmaster and steps up...
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 | May 26, 2020 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
NASA is sending another telescope like the Hubble into space, and it has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. For the first time in NASA’s 61-year history, a billion dollar program has been named for a woman. “[Naming the telescope after Roman]...
by Michele Genthon | May 19, 2020 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. [Victoria Woodhull] In 1870, the New York Herald published a letter to the editor written by Victoria Claflin Woodhull, announcing her...
by Michele Genthon | May 12, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
May Sinchi Breen was called “The Ukulele Lady,” and even “The Goddess of Uke,” but her love of the instrument was not instant. When she was 30 years old Breen received a ukulele as a Christmas present, but she took it back to the department store to exchange it for a...
