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Terry was executive director of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Indianapolis through the 1940s [4] [5] [6] and represented the city at national YWCA meetings. [7] She helped run the city's Christmas Cheer fund and Easter parade, as founder and head of the Recorder Women Sponsors (later the Indianapolis Recorder Women’s Auxiliary), a churchwomen's charity fundraising group associated with the ...
There were several remarkable women in the early days of AA including but not limited to: Florence R. of New York, Sylvia K. of Chicago, Ethel M. of Akron, Ohio. AA co-founder Bill Wilson was Marty's sponsor. Marty wrote her story (personal experience) "Women Suffer Too" in the Story Section of second through fourth editions of the Big Book of AA.
Annie Johnson Flint was born on 25 December 1866 in a small town Vineland, New Jersey.Her father was of English descent, and her mother was Scottish. [3] She lost both parents in her early childhood.
On International Women’s Day, WWD and Berns Communications Group interviewed industry leaders on personal experience and finding success. The 2023 Most Inspirational Women Leaders Share an ...
Emily Perkins Bissell (May 31, 1861 – March 8, 1948) was an American social worker and activist, best remembered for introducing Christmas Seals to the United States. [ 1 ] Born in Wilmington, Delaware , she made a name for herself at a young age as the founder of that city's first public kindergarten and for her efforts to introduce child ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... (born June 12, 1945) [1] is an American singer of southern gospel music and an inspirational ... (including events for women's ...
Rivers' subsequent novels have all been in the inspirational fiction genre, as Rivers wants to "illustrate Christ and the Christian walk, to address difficult problems and write realistic stories." [ 6 ] In a letter on her webpage [ 7 ] Francine Rivers refers to the books written before her conversion to Christianity as her " B.C. " (before ...
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes.