Being the oldest of five, she felt responsible for her siblings and took care of them often during her younger years. They lived on a farm in Neilsville, Wisconsin until Satir was old enough to attend school (Suarez, 1999). Satir's taught herself to read when she was only three years old but she was still formally taught in a small one-room school with seventeen other students while living on the farm. Her mother expressed a strong desire for the family to move to the city so that Satir could attend a larger high school, South Division High School in Milwaukee, where she could take advantage of a better education. When she graduated from South Division High School 1932 she was not quite sixteen years old (Suarez, 1999).
In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A. with honors in political science on a scholarship. Joseph Medill Paterson, a member of the Medill newspaper-publishing family, married her the same year, together they raised three daughters; twins Anne and Alice, and Katie. Even with the difficult job of upbringing her children, she managed to earn a degree of M.A. in Public Law and Government from School of Advanced International Studies and a certificate from the Russian Institute, both at Columbia
Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery. For the rest of her childhood, Rosa lived on her grandparents’ farm. Rosa was homeschooled until she was eleven. She then attended public school, she went to the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. She later went back to school to get her second education but wasn’t able to finish.
Ann Romney grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she went to Kingswood Private School, the sister school to the school Mitt was attending. She has known of Mitt Romney since elementary school. Here she met Mitt Romney. After she met Mitt, she converted to The Church of Latter-day Saints. In 1966, Ann and Mitt Romney got married.
Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 16, 1901. Margaret was born to mother, Emily (Fogg) Mead and father Edward Sherwood Mead. He father was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Mead’s mother was a sociologist as well as a women’s rights supporter. Mead said in her book, Blackberry Winter, that her family moved four times a year.
Later Kate attended one year at the Academy of the Visitation (Koloski 3-4) from which she graduated June 1868 (Seyersted 23). Kate’s older brother Thomas O’Flaherty Jr. was born in 1848, soon after Kate’s birth a sister was born, but she lived only a short while. George O’Flaherty, Kate’s half-brother whom she adored wrote her a letter that she
(Ewell) During her school years Chopin attended St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, there she was encouraged to write and express herself. After she was finished in school, she was thrust into the debutant and party scene. She wrote in her diary that she did not wish to go to the parties, only to stay home and be alone. (Deter) Kate eventually met her husband, Oscar Chopin and married when she was nineteen. They had six children in their first ten years of
Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. For most of her early life she was raised in a middle class household, by her maternal grandparents. At the age of 10 she went to live with her parents, but because
In 1875, her family moved to Boston, where they were advised to enter her into a European conservatory. Her parents opted for local training. Amy was 4 when she composed her first piano pieces while spending the summer with her grandfather in West Henniker. All four pieces were composed in her head and away from the piano, a practice she continued throughout her life. At age fourteen, Amy received her only formal training in composition with Junius W. Hill, with whom she studied harmony and counterpoint for a year.
Aura L. Guir College Prep. June 16, 2010 The biography of Rosa Louise Parks Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama, she was the oldest of the two children her parents had. Rosa was brought up by her parents James and Leonna McCauely, her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. At the age of two Rosa, her younger brother Sylvester and her mother moved to her grandparent’s farm in Pine Level, Alabama. At the age of 11 she was enrolled at the Montgomery Industrial School for girls once graduated, she went on to Alabama State Teacher's College High School.