Sandra Day was born in El Paso, Texas on March 26, 1930, the daughter of Harry Alfred Day, a rancher, and Ada Mae. She grew up on a 198,000-acre cattle ranch near Duncan, Arizona. The ranch was nine miles from the nearest paved road. The family home did not have running water or electricity until Sandra was seven years old. For most…
Happy Leif Erikson Day
Happy Leif Erikson Day October 9 is recognised as the day Leif Erikson, Norse adventurer, reportedly visited the New World circa 1000 AD. He is credited as the first European to 'discover' America, 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The exact details of his voyage are not entirely known, and the earliest recordings of 'Vinland', the…
Women in History- Frances Perkins
Fannie Coralie Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1880. She was the daughter of Susan Bean Perkins and Frederick W. Perkins, the owner of a stationer's business. The family could trace their roots to colonial America, and the women had a tradition of work in education. She spent much of her childhood…
Women in History- Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts was born on May 31, 1924, in Mattoon, Illinois. She was the daughter of railroad dining car waiter Bert Fitzgerald Roberts and Hildren Brodie. Her parents separated when she was 6 years old and she was then raised primarily by her mother and grandmother. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in…
Women in History- Patsy Takemoto Mink
Patsy Takemoto Mink was born December 6, 1927 in Hāmākua Poko on the island of Maui, to second-generation Japanese American parents. She attended Maui High School and in 1944, Mink graduated from high school as class valedictorian. With the entry of Japan into World War II in 1945, her father resigned his local position, and…
Women in History – Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm was born Shirley St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to Caribbean parents. Her parents both worked two jobs and found raising the children at the same time hard on the family, so in November 1929 when Shirley turned five, she and her two sisters were sent to Barbados to…
Women in History- Dr. Mae Jemison
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison. The family moved to Chicago, when Jemison was three years old, to take advantage of the better educational and employment opportunities there. As a young girl growing up in Chicago she knew she…
Women in History- Dr. Virginia Apgar
Dr. Virginia Apgar was born on June 7, 1909 in Westfield, New Jersey. She graduated from Westfield High School in 1925, knowing that she wanted to be a doctor. Apgar graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929, where she studied zoology with minors in physiology and chemistry. In 1933, she graduated fourth in her class from Columbia University College of Physicians…
Celebrating Higgins Boats
On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in LCVP boats (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, also known as Higgins boats) as part of Operation Overlord. This invasion would change the course of World War II and live on in our history as D-Day. With the 75th anniversary of D-Day upon…
Women in History-Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was born May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. Ride attended Portola Junior High and then Birmingham High School before graduating from the private Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles on a scholarship. Ride attended Swarthmore College for three semesters, took physics courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with…
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