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I SPonSor MEdIa SPonSor g Medal for valor. r Vi a I n I n, Jr., n, Jr., g NOI M natEd bY: John w. listman, Jr., virginia national a r M Vi t guard historical collection, fort Pickett, blackstone Lis of . Y w rar b Li of of John SY SY E E urt urt o o c c omen have played an integral part in virginia in carroll county, where he built a two-story log house. She first years at several black colleges, including howard university, as and even wild animal sounds. In an interview, Shatin said that served as a midwife in 1889, when no doctor or other midwife could well as in public schools. She retired she is “interested in creating perceptible rhythmic frameworks www.lva.virginia.gov 23219-8000 VA i r chmond, Street oad r b East 800 wfrom its beginnings, yet their contributions have n be found for a neighbor. Puckett soon began traveling around the in 1983 as a professor of English at and in developing musical structures that invite both physical and often been overlooked in the history books. until well region, sometimes up to twenty miles distant, to deliver babies. Middlesex county college. intellectual response.” into the twentieth century, written histories tended She never charged for her services and became known throughout the area for her compassion and a fter alice Jackson houston Stuart Shatin, a student of piano and flute, received degrees fromd ouglass to focus on the historically male-dominated fields of skill, having never lost a mother died in 2001, her son, Julian towns c ollege, the Juilliard School, and Princeton university. while at government and politics, the military, and large-scale or baby during the more than h ouston, a Massachusetts Superior Princeton she studied under the composer property ownership to the virtual exclusion of all other 1,000 deliveries she attended. c ourt justice, presented her papers, Milton babbitt, a pioneer in using computers forced to move from her home including those documenting her to write music. In 1979 Shatin joined the venues of leadership or achievement. they ignored by the construction of the courageous action in 1935, to the faculty of the university of virginia, where women’s critical roles as educators, nurses, lay leaders b lue ridge Parkway in 1939, u niversity of virginia. she is william r. kenan, Jr., Professor of she died shortly afterward. a Music, and in 1987 she established the and missionaries, farmers, artists, writers, reformers, small cabin on her property c enter for computer Music. In addition to pioneers, business leaders, laborers, civic activists, and was preserved by the national e lizabeth Peet mcintosh her tenure as president of american women woodbrIdgE community builders. Park Service and incorrectly c omposers, Inc. (1989–1993), she has interpreted as Puckett’s house. continuing her legacy of care, the IntEllIgEncE agEnt served on the boards of the International h awks Puckett Institute, in asheville, north carolina, works to a lliance for women in Music, the american t oday, we recognize and celebrate women’s b orn in washington, d.c., and raised in hawaii, elizabeth “Betty” promote and strengthen child, parent, and family development. c omposers alliance, and the league of composers/IScM. Shatin Peet (b. 1915) was working as a correspondent for the Scripps accomplishments in all walks of life, particularly in has received four fellowships from the national Endowment for h oward news service near Pearl harbor when the Japanese attacked March, which congress has designated as national NOI M natEd bY: larnette Snow, librarian of blue ridge and the arts, as well as awards from the new Jersey State council on the naval base on december 7, 1941. after the united States www.lva.virginia.gov/vawomen. at available Meadows of dan Elementary Schools, on behalf of tammy harrison’s the arts and the virginia commission for the arts. She is married w omen’s history Month. the library of virginia entered world war II, she returned are project 2013 the for forms nomination and and Mary Slate’s fifth-grade students, blue ridge Elementary to Michael kubovy, a professor of psychology at the university to washington, where she covered presents the 2012 virginia women in history project School, ararat of virginia. materials Instructional www.virginiamemory.com. at site Eleanor roosevelt and government b b e w Memory rginia i v brary’s i l to honor eight women, past and present, who have activities. fluent in Japanese, Peet the on and ) 1998– Virginia Biography Virginia rginia, rginia, i v of brary i l e h t chmond: i r s usie may ames was recruited in January 1943 to ( Dictionary of of Dictionary rginia women in the the in women rginia i v about more e arn made important contributions to virginia, the nation, m onica Beltran l acco Mack countY join the office of Strategic Services, and the world. we encourage you to learn more about PcrIn E wIllIaM countY hIStorIan the country’s wartime intelligence bronzE Star medal rEcIPIEnt these extraordinary women who saw things differently agency whose ranks included actress a native of Pungoteague, in accomack county, susie may ames from their contemporaries, developed new approaches Marlene dietrich and chef Julia child. a s a high school senior in woodbridge, monica Beltran (b. 1985) (January 10, 1888–July 30, 1969) became an influential historian. o perating in burma, china, and India, joined the virginia national guard as a way to help fund college to old problems, served their communities, advanced a fter graduating from randolph-Macon woman’s college in 1908 Peet was one of the few women tuition costs.