User:FloNight
My articles about women and women's groups
My articles about interesting women and the groups that they were involved with. Most are short and still loads of work, so feel free to expand them.
2011
- Anna Eliot Ticknor who started the Society to Encourage Studies at Home is called the mother of correspondence schools in the United States.
- Ida A. Bengtson was the first bacteriologist hired by the United States Public Health Service's Hygienic Laboratory.
- Beatrix Hamburg, American psychiatrist, whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. She was the first African-American to attend Vassar College, and was also the first African-American woman to attend Yale Medical School. Her daughter Margaret Hamburg is the commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Susan Wojcicki is an American businesswoman who is a senior vice president in of charge of product management and engineering at Google. Until recently she has been called "the most important Googler you've never heard of." Currently 16th on Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women(2011).
- Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin was a Chippewa attorney. In 1914 Baldwin was the first Native American student and first woman of color to graduate from the Washington College of Law. She worked in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was an officer in the Society of American Indians.
- Gertrude Greene was an abstract sculptor and painter from New York, New York. Gertrude and her husband, artist Balcomb Greene, were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art.
- Adele Brandeis was an art administrator, who during the Great Depression of the 1930's worked for the WPA Federal Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Brandeis did art-research for the Index of American Design, a comprehensive collection of American material culture, and managed the creation of visual artwork by local artists. Brandeis wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal starting in 1945.
- Rowena Spencer is an American physician who specialized in pediatric surgery at a time when it was unusual for a female to become a surgeon. She was the first female surgical intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the first female appointed to the full-time surgery staff at Louisiana State University, and the first female surgeon in Louisiana.
2010
- JoAnn H. Morgan is an aerospace engineer who was a trailblazer in the United States space flight program as the first female engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John F. Kennedy Space Center and the first woman to serve as a senior executive at Kennedy Space Center.
- Patty Prather Thum was American painter and art critic. [1] Thum received an honorable mention for book illustration of "Robbie and Annie: A Child's Story" at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Hello!
I'm an administrator on Wikipedia-en, and have oversight and checkuser tools. During 2011 I will hold a seat on the Wikimedia Foundation Ombudsman Commission and will not be using my Checkuser tool on Wikipedia English. I read and answer emails for the Wikimedia Foundation and sometimes take action on site based on information in them. If you have a question about any of these actions contact me. Please let me know if I can be of assistance to you.
I am FloNight on: wikimediastrategy en.Wikipedia Commons Wikiversity Wiktionary Wikibooks Wikisource Wikiquote Metawiki, Wikinews Outreach
See my WikiMatrix for details about my accounts.
User:Sydney Poore is my second account on most wikis where I have an account.
Useful stuff
- User:Alison/c (childrens' privacy)
- To Do
- Firefly Vodka (needs move and re-write after Afd.)
Diplomacy
Useful links
- List of contributors to an article
- Category:BLP articles lacking sources
- Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents
- Recent changes to category living people. [1]
- Reference generator [2]
- Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky
My new articles from the List of Registered Historic Places in Kentucky
- A-L African Cemetery No. 2 (Lexington, Kentucky), Audubon (Scott County, Kentucky), Allenhurst (Scott County, Kentucky), Baumann House, Blau's Four Mile House, Camp Springs House, Cardome Centre, Corner in Celebrities Historic District (Franklin County, Kentucky), First African Baptist Church and Parsonage (Scott County, Kentucky), Garrard Mills, Giddings Hall, Georgetown College, Governor William Owsley House, Hawkins House, Henry Clay's Law Office, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Kentucky), Jennings-Salter House, Johnston-Jacobs House, Kort Grocery, Lincoln County Courthouse (Stanford, Kentucky)
- M-Z McConnell Springs, Old Garrard County Jail, Payne-Desha House, Royal Spring Park, Salyersville National Bank, Scott County Courthouse (Scott County, Kentucky), Scott County Jail Complex (Scott County, Kentucky), Shropshire House, Stanford L&N Railroad Depot (Stanford, Kentucky)
My new articles from the List of Registered Historic Places in West Virginia
Mountaineer Hotel, Williamson Historic District
My new articles from List of Registered Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands
- A-L Annaberg Historic District, Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins, Cinnamon Bay Plantation
- M-Z Mary Point Estate, Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District
My most recent new articles
- A-G Alligator, Camp Springs, Kentucky, Charles M. Relyea, Garth School, Georgetown Cemetery (Georgetown, KY)
- H-P James B. Simmons House, John Jorgenson Quintet, Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Magoffin County Pioneer Village and Museum, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Nannie Helen Burroughs School, Paul Sawyier
- R-Z Stephens County Courthouse, Will Vawter, Yuko-En on the Elkhorn, 1733 slave insurrection on St. John
Pages I've worked on(significant re-writes or adding images)
- A-L Constitution Square State Historic Site, Cruz Bay, United States Virgin Islands, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Elkhorn Creek, Episcopal Burying Ground and Chapel (Lexington, Kentucky), Georgetown College (Kentucky), Lexington History Center, Lida, Nevada,
- M-ZMary Todd Lincoln House, Matewan Historic District, Old Fort Harrod State Park, Pioneer Playhouse
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