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An 18-member commission, along with input from the Library of Virginia and professors of women's history, selected the women to be honored with statues sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York. The granite plaza and Wall of Honor were opened in October 2018 and the monument was officially unveiled with the first seven completed statues on ...
Scott was born on July 30, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia. She attended Bryn Mawr College from 1914 through 1916 and graduated from Barnard College in 1921. She received a doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago in the mid-1930s. [1] She went on to teach at Westhampton College, a women's college now part of University of Richmond. [2]
She also served as the Executive Director of "Drive Smart" for close to a decade, on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation, on the Virginia State Bar Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (6 years), and on the Women's Monument Commission (which is presently working on the Virginia Women's Monument). [1]
Upon becoming Virginia's first lady in 2018, [4] [5] Northam chaired the Virginia Children's Cabinet and led efforts to expand upon and improve early childhood education in Virginia. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Northam maintained an office in the Patrick Henry Building along the Governor and his cabinet secretaries, and also chaired the Virginia STEM ...
Zillhardt earned her private pilot, instructors and commercial ratings in 1940, becoming the first woman in Virginia to earn an instrument rating pilot's license. [3] [4] she went on to operate the Woodrum Flying Service flight school and charter service. In 1949 she organized the Roanoke Jaycees All State Air Show. In 1950 she won the 1st ...
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy, also known as the U.D.C. Memorial Building, is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia, that serves as the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [2]
She was quoted in an editorial in August, 1914 edition of The American Club Woman Magazine, stating "The best work of women's clubs is done in the awakening of the civic conscious." [3] Caldwell died in 1946. [2] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Caldwell's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of ...
Cohn quickly became heavily involved in the civic affairs of her adopted city. [2] Around 1911, she joined the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, [1] and in 1920, she was a charter member of the Richmond League of Women Voters; [2] beginning as treasurer of the latter group in the 1930s, she later became active with the state chapter, at various times serving as its vice ...