In 1912, another one of Bessie’s brother, Clarence, who was traveling with the Moses Stokes’ Traveling Show, asked the show’s managers to allow his sister to audition. She started as a singer, but as time progressed, joined the chorus, and then became a featured singer. At this show, Bessie met Ma Rainey, one of the most recognized blues singer during that time and one of the biggest influences in Bessie’s life. For the next few years, Bessie worked at various tent shows. While on tour, Bessie met Earl Love, who would soon be her husband.
Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts. In 1850, she took a break to attend the Liberal Institute of Clinton, New York, an advanced school for women educators. She resumed her teaching career in New Jersey where, in 1852, she founded one of that state’s first public schools in Bordentown. She started this school with six students, and by the close of the year there were 600 attending.
She was very much a tomboy in her younger years. To tone down her liveliness, when she was 11, her mother enrolled her in the Jones-Hayward School of Ballet. When Conchita was 15, a teacher from George Balanchine's School of American Ballet visited their studio and she was picked along with two other students to audition in New York. Education Chita got into the school, but shortly after began her career in Broadway for the audition for the national tour of Call Me Madam. She was only supposed to be supporting her friend but gained the role instead.
(1). On December 25, 1821, Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in Oxford, Massachussetts. She was the youngest of five children to Stephan and Sarah Barton. Stephan was a farmer and state law maker who served in the American Revolution from 1775-1783, while Sarah managed the household. Clara first became interested in caring for others after listening to her Great-Aunt’s stories of her experiences as a midwife.
Four years after her great fame begane to spread on October 25th 1774, she was elected into L’académie de Sainte-Luc at only Nineteen years old. She was Marie antoinettes favorite portraitist. She painted 30 portraits of the queen in a decade, she even held residence in
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863 – 1930) was raised in Buffalo New York during the early 20th century. Mary was the oldest in a large family of five, her family was close due to her father who led the family, and was also a Congregationalist minister. Mary spoke three languages fluently they include the following: English, German, and French and later when Mary and her family went on a sixteen month vacation she learned a forth language fluently which was Greek. At the age of seventeen Mary and her family relocated to Boston, shortly after Mary started attending Smith College this college was one of the very few that just started allowing women to attend (James, 2008). Mary graduated in the year 1885, after she returned from Europe she landed her first job teaching Greek at Wesley College where she worked continuously throughout her career.
Enrique Garduno Meg Gudgeirsson History 17A October 16, 2013 A Midwife’s Tale In the 18th Century a women name Martha Ballard was living with her husband, Ephraim. They both moved to Hallowell, Maine where Martha lived through chaotic decades and the American Revolution. Ballard would write on her dairy about the things she did and happen in her life everyday. During the 20th Century Laurel Thatcher Ulrich did research and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and soon filmed a movie based on Ulrich book about the 18th Century in Ballard eyes. In 1785, Martha Ballard was 50 years old; she was a mother, midwife and a healer.
Her parents were Abraham Jr. and Marcella Quintanilla. She was the youngest of three children, her older brother Abraham III, and older sister Suzette Michelle Quintanilla. Selena and her family lived in Lake Jackson, TX where she was born and they lived there until Selena was 9, they then moved to Corpus Christi, Tx. where she spent the remainder of her life until her death. When Selena was just 6 years old her father was teaching her older brother to play the guitar and Selena started to sing, her father saw her talent and they then formed a band with the three Quintanilla children and they practiced almost every day, their lives growing up were spent around music and the band.
It is thought that she learned to play the piano at the Royal School; later in life she became an accomplished pianist. During her adult life she not only served as director of Kawaiha’o Church Choir, she was also the church organist as well. “I scarcely remember the days when it would not have been possible
Fine Arts Funding In Public Schools I’ll always remember the first day I started taking lessons at my hometown’s local music store. I was so excited to learn how to play the violin, especially because I was only in the fourth grade. Being in the elementary school band was something I was not interested in at all. I wanted to be different and take on a more unique challenge. After a full year of experience and going in to the fifth grade, I was absolutely thrilled that my school was starting its first ever orchestra program.