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Eureka Springs, Arkansas ~ Thursday, August 7, 2008
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(02/28/08)Shirley Pyron.................5 Elizabeth Kelley..............6 Albena Link...................7 Valerie Damon Hubbard.........8 Lacey Powell..................9 Cora Pinkley Call.......10 & 11 Karen Gros...................12 Georgette Garner.............13...
Of wonderful women, past and present
(02/28/08) Last spring, Carroll County Newspapers introduced A Celebration of Women. This publication featured some of the special women in the area, along with some articles about women's history. In 2008, we are building on the success of last year's product. This year's edition includes more of the special women of the county, in shorter and lighter presentations... 
The top 30 women of the past millennium
(02/28/08)People like to argue about lists, and this one has enough subjectivity to trigger lots of discussions. The following list appears on Sunshine for Women, "the Internet's place where women and men who love women can find some warmth and light." Sunshine's pick for Most Influential Man of the Millennium was a humble inventor whose 15th-century invention literally changed the course of world history for all time. ... 
Shirley Pyron
(02/28/08)March is dedicated as Women's History Month, but history never goes out of style for Shirley Pyron. She can trace her roots back to an ancestor who arrived in America in 1608, and other ancestors were involved in establishing a government in Carroll County... 
Elizabeth Kelley
(02/28/08)When we asked Elizabeth Kelley if a bank president had to be stodgy, she laughed and pointed to the gown hanging in her office. She had dressed up as Glenda the Good Witch for Mardi Gras festivities at the Crescent Hotel the previous weekend. When the staff had a Mardi Gras party at the bank a few days later, she put on the outfit again...
Check it out...
(02/28/08) The Internet has some nice resources for topics related to women's history. The following sites are a good place to start. This is the history of the countless ordinary Arkansas women who sustained society with their unpaid labor as lovers, companions, homemakers, cooks, cleaners, farm hands, raisers of children, nurses to the sick, conveyors of tradition, and keepers of the faith. ... 
Albena Link
(02/28/08)You won't find a tougher group gathered around a table than the Quorum Court, and Albena Link fits right in. Oh, sure, the Justices of the Peace get along nicely with each other, but each of the 11 JPs has an agenda to represent his district, and the county as a whole...
for girls...
(02/28/08) Dare to Dream has created videos for middle schools to give girls positive, multi-cultural role models from all kinds of careers. They encourage you to download appropriate pages and interviews from the web site to use with your students. The interviews are wonderful, and the site also encourages you to invite live mentors from your community to talk to the students. There is nothing like the ability to ask questions of someone whom you know and respect who is standing before you... 
Valerie Hubbard Damon
(02/28/08)With titles like Grindle Lamfoon and the Procurnious Fleekers, Valerie Hubbard Damon's illustrated books clearly have a lighthearted tone. But there's more to them than just entertainment for kids. Like the best of children's literature, her books appeal to the child in us all... 
Women continue to struggle for pay parity
(02/28/08)During World War II, when "Rosie the Riveter" entered the workforce to fill jobs vacated by men who had gone off to war, the National War Labor Board encouraged employers to pay them a wage similar to what men would make for the same job. That didn't happen, of course, and when the men came home from war, they took their jobs back at higher rates of pay... 
Lacey Powell
(02/28/08)People often joke that life is like high school, and sometimes the comparisons are hard to ignore. Lacey Powell became president of the Green Forest Chamber of Commerce at 25, but she said her relative youth didn't seem like a real factor to her. She relied on the same leadership skills she had used as president of her class at Berryville High School... 
Leveling the playing field
(02/28/08)"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." Historians now question whether Wellington actually uttered that famous quote, but no one questions its significance. The lessons learned through sports last a lifetime: teamwork, discipline, strategies and tactics... 
Cora Pinkley Call
(02/28/08)Cora Pinkley Call was an amazing person! She is remembered for her great love of nature and books that she wrote and published. But, what most people do not realize, in my opinion, is what really caused her inspiration and curiosity of nature. According to history, Cora's big interest was nature, but really the interest in nature was only a part of her story. ... 
Karen Gros
(02/28/08)Imagine getting paid to indulge your passions. Karen Gros loves to cook, and she loves French culture. So once a month, she holds a cooking class in her kitchen, and this summer, she'll guide a group of travelers for a week in Paris. A separate group will spend 10 days with her in Provence. Travel is much less intimidating with a knowledgeable guide who speaks the language... 
Georgette Garner
(02/28/08)She remembers being motivated by the social consciences of women like Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt, but no one had a bigger influence on Georgette Garner than her sister. "She inspired me with how she treated others, and how she encouraged and supported me. ... 
Sharon Spurlin
(02/28/08)Maybe someone can think up a new term to replace the word "nonprofit." Sharon Spurlin kept coming back to that word when she talked about a lifetime of volunteer work with different groups. "I've never liked that word, 'nonprofit,'" she said, and she explained how philanthropy benefits the receiver, the giver, and the entire community... 
Marcie Brewster
(02/28/08)Is there any harder way to make a living than with small-scale agriculture? An online dictionary defines "hardscrabble" as "providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers."... 
Susan Brashears
(02/28/08)At Brashears Furniture, "Things Are a Little Different Here," but the past year got a little too different. In July, a new store opened in Springdale, and Doug and Susan Brashears have had quite a year. Making the new store a reality was every bit as challenging as you might guess. "This last year been really hard," Susan acknowledged. "We worked from early in May to September without a day off…and they were long days."... 
Kamara Hoppe
(02/28/08)Women's history has been a struggle to remove obstacles, and maybe we're getting close to that goal. As a senior at Green Forest High School, Kamara Hoppe thinks she can do just about anything. She has good reason to think so--she's excelled in so many areas already... 
Tanya Smith
(02/28/08)On a rainy, chilly afternoon a few weeks ago, Tanya Smith tried to explain why she has dedicated herself so completely to the rescued animals at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. That dedication became easier to understand during a driving tour around the refuge. She talked about the stages of growth over the last 16 years, from bare necessities to large grassy compounds... 
Clare Doss
(02/28/08)This collection of profiles would not be complete without a visit with someone who will come of age in the new millennium. Clare Doss has lived her entire young life south of Berryville. At 12 years of age, she is still very much a kid, but she has already demonstrated a real talent for writing. She made it to the national finals last year in an essay contest sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution...
A future without limits
(02/28/08)
--from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962), by Muriel Spark (1918-2006) --- A woman may be elected president this fall. A woman currently serves as Speaker of the House, behind only the president and the vice-president in the chain of command. Girls growing up now in this country have never had more opportunity. There will always be some limitations because of the physical differences between women and men. We may never see a woman playing middle linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys... |
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