Abstract Painters – September 2016 Newsletter
The Denver Art Museum is currently hosting a Touring Exhibit entitled “The Women of Abstract Expressionism.” Two abstract painters are profiled in this newsletter.
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Youth Organization Founders – August 2016 Newsletter
Many of the women reading this newsletter will have spent some of their formative years either as Girl Scouts or in a 4-H club. Studies show, in fact, that 70% of today’s women leaders were Girl Scouts in their youth! What readers may not know is that both of these organizations were founded by women – Juliette Gordon Low and Jessie Shambaugh.
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Advocates for Animals – July 2016 Newsletter
Women have been at the forefront of many social issues. These included suffrage for all, property rights, labor reforms, expansion of mental health facilities, helping immigrants with their adjustment, and, of course, educational reforms. Now, attention can be focused on animals as well. Two women who work with and on behalf of animals are featured – Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Temple Grandin.
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Stewards – June 2016 Newsletter
Of the five leadership traits needed in the 21st century as espoused by The Athena Group Learning Institute, stewardship is the one least expressed in the leadership development literature. Two amazing stewards are profiled – Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Katherine Siva Saubel, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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Runners and Athletes – May 2016 Newsletter
On May 7, 2016, the inaugural Women’s Right to Run 19K will be held in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of women’s rights (where the first women’s rights convention was held in 1848). The unusual distance of 19k was selected to acknowledge the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enfranchised women. Joan Beloit Samuelson and Jackie Joyner-Kersee are featured.
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