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The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
Rushville is a Schuyler County community of about 3,000 roughly 60 miles west of Springfield, Illinois. Illinois governor JB Pritzker expressed his condolences to all those affected by the crash ...
After he died in 1984, Mason and her brother were involved in a protracted legal battle with their stepmother over their father's will and his cremated remains. In 1999, they obtained their father's ashes. [6] Portland Mason had a debilitating stroke shortly after her father's ashes were spread in Vevey, Switzerland in November 2000. [3]
The Women and Leadership Archives has its roots in Mundelein College, which was founded and operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), and provided education to women from 1930 to 1991, when it affiliated with Loyola University Chicago. The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, named after Mundelein College's longest ...
Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine, the youngest of three children of Phyllis (née Schuyler) Thaxter, former actress, and future Maine Supreme Court justice Sidney St. Felix Thaxter; [2] her siblings were brother, Sidney W. Thaxter, and sister, Hildegarde Schuyler Thaxter (later the wife of federal judge Edward Thaxter Gignoux).
"The City of Mason urgently needs any information you can provide in locating a missing person," the alert said. Allen is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds. She has brown hair and ...
Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary updated the set for subjects who died between 1951 and 1976. The work for the fourth volume was a joint project of Radcliffe College and Harvard University Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and edited by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green.
A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump Sunday and landing 13,500 feet (4,100 meters) later at a northern Illinois ...