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NWHP's First Teacher of the Year Award
Jeff Hinton was chosen as the first recipient of the Nevada Women’s History Project teacher of the Year. He currently teaches U.S. and world history at the Northwest Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas. The criteria for the award included a lesson promoting Nevada women’s history in the classroom, plus recommendations from colleagues. Jeff did a comparative study of pioneer women in Rhyolite and Las Vegas, focusing mainly on Gladys Fulkner and Helen Stewart. His study examined the hardships endured by women as well as how the women took leadership roles in their community. His students also were encouraged to investigate Nevada women selected from the Southern Region’s book, Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor.
Selection Committee member Mary Gafford said: “Jeff carried out in detail the required objective of the award to the fullest degree… A myriad of educational learning resources were made available…This shows that he is aware of the importance of covering the wide spectrum of learning techniques available.” Committee member Holly Van Valkenburgh pointed out that his application was “well-planned and focuses on ‘features and characteristics of life in early Nevada’ through the lives of two southern Nevada women….Utilizing the lives of women, especially one in each town, was the means of personalizing the quest for his students…” Other committee members included Doris Drummond and Lisa-Marie Lightfoot. Jeff will receive a $500 check at the May 2nd luncheon meeting of the Southern Nevada Women’s History Project.
The award contest was announced by letter throughout Nevada, as well as being posted on the Web sites of both the Nevada Women’ s History Project and the Nevada Council for History Education. If this state award is to continue, we need additional funding. Please consider contributing to this award.
Dr. Linda Karen Miller, Chair
Teacher of the Year Committee
NWHP Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Saturday, June 20 – 11:30 to 1:30 ($30)
Silver Oak Country Club
Dr. Karen Abbott
Da Vinci's Robotic Surgical System
Nevada Women’s History Project welcomes Dr. Karen Abbott at our Annual Meeting and Luncheon on June 20th. Dr. Abbott, a member of NWHP, will tell us about the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System. The da Vinci robot enables a surgeon to perform complex operations using a minimally invasive approach. This system combines the skills of a surgeon with computer-enhanced technology and robotics.
Dr. Abbott is a Reno obstetrician and gynecologist as well as an urologist. She received her medical degree from the University of California at Davis and did both her residency requirements in San Francisco: the surgical program at the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and her OB-GYN residency at Mt. Zion Hospital.
We invite NWHP members, guests, and prospective members to attend our luncheon at the Silver Oak Golf and Country Club, located at the north end of Carson City. Send your check for $30, made out to NWHP, to the NWHP office, attention Holly Walton-Buchanan, 770 Smithridge Dr., Suite 300, Reno, NV 89502-0708 no later than June 6. Questions: call 772-2086 or 787- 8779.
Carleen Ernest
Test Your Knowledge of Women’s History
This new section will draw from a series of rather tough questions about famous – and infamous – women in American history, gathered from the National Women’s History Project Web site (www.nwhp.org) as well as our own Nevada Women’s History Project Web site (www.nevadawomen.org). In case you need to check your responses, the answers are found on the bottom of this page.
- What woman wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment (1923)?
- Who was the first “First Lady” to develop her own political and media identity?
- Which Mexican-American woman was the leading money winner in the Ladies Professional Golf Association for many years?
- Which African-American woman founded Bethune-Cookman College, established the National Council of Negro Women, and served as an advisor on minority affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
- Who organized Nevada’s first private school and was the first instructor and librarian at the new University of Nevada (1887)?
- Who was the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, thus sparking the civil rights movement of the following decade?
- Who was the first African- American woman elected to Congress?
- Which Reno, NV, woman became the second female Director of the U. S. Mint (1961-69)?
- Which African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and who also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organizing work?
Holly Walton-Buchanan
(answers)
SOUTHERN REGION MEMBERS
Mark Your Calendar: Saturday,
March 27, 2010
For More on Famous Nevada Women
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