Happy Women's Day

We are WOMEN!

March 8th is International Women's Day.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Author and lecturer. An illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf, blind and mute. Through the work of teacher Anne Sullivan, she learned to overcome these daunting handicaps and became a powerful and effective national spokesperson on behalf of others with similar disabilities.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) Trailblazing First Lady and wife of President Franklin Roosevelt. She spent her adult years working in politics and social reform. Her warmth and compassion inspired the nation, and she later became U.S. Delegate to the United Nations. The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights was largely her work, and she chaired the first-ever Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (1961).

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century. Her best-known work, Little Women, has appeared continuously in print since its first publication in 1868-69.

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (1921 - 2009) Founder in 1968 of the Special Olympics. She helped establish the National Institute for Child Health and Development and the President's Committee on Mental Retardation (1961). She established a network of mental retardation research centers at major medical schools across the United States and created "Community of Caring," a program for the reduction of mental retardation among babies of teenagers, developing 16 model centers and 150 programs in public school