Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
Women of Achievement 2003 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Mariel Loaiza and Marcela Mendoza Though from different countries, Mariel Loaiza and Marcela Mendoza reached Memphis by similar paths, each following her husband to a new life in the United States. Mariel arrived in Houston …
Women of Achievement 2002 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Nancy B. Sorak When she was a little girl, Nancy sometimes slept in her grandmother’s artist studio in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The other essential figure in her life, her mother, was deeply …
Women of Achievement 2001 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Janann Sherman Janann Sherman didn’t start out to be a historian. After high school she married Charlie Sherman and they both worked as electronics technicians in an Arizona Motorola factory. Ten years later, as a …
Women of Achievement 2000 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Donna Sue Shannon Donna Sue Shannon grew up in a neighborhood off Third Street and began a lifelong association with the YWCA as a Y Teen at Lauderdale School. Always a strong speaker, one year …
Women of Achievement 1997 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Deborah M. Clubb In March 1984, a group met to discuss establishing awards to recognize accomplishments of local women. They were all too familiar with the abundance of tributes for prominent men while women’s contributions …
Women of Achievement 1996 VISION for a woman whose sensitivity to women’s needs led her to tremendous achievements for women: Elinor ‘B’ Bridges Elinor ‘B’ Bridges has become a legend in her own time among the more recent generations of women activists in Memphis. Her work in women’s causes and in discovering women’s history reaches …
Women of Achievement2004 HEROISMfor a woman whose heroic spirit was tested andshown as a model to all in Shelby County and beyond: Dr. Margaret Rhea Seddon From Memphis to the dark reaches of space, Dr. Rhea Seddon has demonstrated her heroic spirit and has shown little girls everywhere that they, too, can reach their dreams. …
Women of Achievement 2003 HEROISM for a woman whose heroic spirit was tested and shown as a model to all in Shelby County and beyond: Wanda and Brenda Henson Brenda and Wanda Henson set out to create a peaceful place for retreat and education in rural Mississippi. Instead, they were confronted with verbal, legal and …
Women of Achievement 2001 HEROISM for a woman whose heroic spirit was tested and shown as a model to all in Shelby County and beyond: Jodie Gaines Johnson Jodie Gaines, daughter of a wealthy owner of a furniture factory in McKenzie, Tennessee, had just turned 18 when she was kidnapped April 18, 1978, by three …
Women of Achievement 1996 HEROISM for a woman whose heroic spirit was tested and shown as a model to all in Shelby County and beyond: Pauline Jones Hord From the day she began teaching first graders in 1929 to today as she teaches prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Pauline Hord has been …