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El Paso Women's Hall Of Fame
The El Paso Women's Hall of Fame honors and recognizes the accomplishments of El Paso women. It is sponsored by the El Paso Commission for Women and was established in 1985. The first inductees were honored in 1990. Inductees are women who live in El Paso and who have made a significant contribution and impact on the community. The Commission accepts nominations from the public. There are four honorary members, including Herlinda Chew, Polly Harris, Drusilla Nixon and Hedwig Schwartz. Streets in El Paso have been named after hall of fame inductees. Inductees Gallery File:Heidi V. Brown in 2009.jpg, Heidi V. Brown File:Sharon Butterworth.jpg, Sharon Butterworth File:Dorothy Sissy Byrd.jpg, Dorothy "Sissy" Byrd File:Kathleen Cardone.png, Kathleen Cardone File:Marcia Hatfield Daudistel at the Texas Institute of Letters event at Ardovino's Desert Crossing, April 23, 2022 (cropped).jpg, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel File:Mrs. A. C. DeGroff c. 1905.jpg, Alzina Orndorff DeGroff File: ...
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2019 El Paso Women's Hall Of Fame Inductees
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Blanca Enriquez
Blanca Enriquez is an American educator. She is currently the Director of Head Start in the United States. Biography Enriquez was born in Ciudad Juárez, moved to the United States when she was 6 and was raised in El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas. Enriquez attended Bowie High School, where she graduated at the top ten percent of her class. Enriquez was first a teacher's aide in 1973. Enriquez later started teaching English as a second language English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EF ... to kindergartners and first graders in El Paso, Texas. She became the head of the Region 19 Head Start program in 1986. Enriquez served as the director of the El Paso region's Head Start program for 21 years. Enriquez was named the director of the federal Head Start program in April 201 ...
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History Of El Paso, Texas
Founded as El Paso del Norte (at what is now Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) by Spanish Franciscan friars at an important mountain pass, the area became a small agricultural producer though most settlement was south of the river where modern Mexico lies. The city was considered part of New Mexico under Spanish Conquerors and was tied economically to Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Chihuahuan mining districts of San Felipe El Real and San José del Parral. The Texas Revolution when Texas revolted from Mexico, which itself had recently become independent from Spain, did not involve paseños as the region was a part of Chihuahua. However, after Texas' annexation by the United States the boundary of the state was claimed to include what would become this important trading center. As railroads were built through the area it boomed as a commercial center. The World Wars and the Texas Oil Boom helped develop the city further. As international trade has become increasingly important in the U.S ...
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Women's Halls Of Fame
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Adair Wakefield Margo
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues. It worked directly with the Administration and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, as well as other federal partners and the private sector, to address policy questions in the arts and humanities, to initiate and support public/private partnerships in those disciplines, and to recognize excellence in the field. Its core areas of focus were arts and humanities education, cultural exchange, and the creative economy. The committee was composed of both private and public members. The private members were appointed by the president and are prominent artists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and state and local public officials who demonstrated commitment to the arts and humanities. Its public ''ex officio'' members included the heads of ...
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Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (born November 14, 1934) is a Mexican American educator, artist and historian from El Paso, Texas. She was the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group. Guerrero has also been active with work in the Catholic Church, and has been called the "Dancing Missionary" in religious circles. She is also known for her multicultural dance programs which have been performed around the country and featured in a film called ''Tapestry''. She was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame and has an El Paso school named after her. Biography Guerreo was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Her parents had migrated from Mexico. Guerrero began learning to dance at five years of age. As a child, she had been punished for speaking Spanish in school. Guerrero's first school was Morehead Elementary School, where she decided she wanted to be an "educator" in third grade. She went to El Paso High School, where she graduated in 1953. She later attended the University of ...
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Mimi Reisel Gladstein
Mimi Reisel Gladstein (born 1936) is a professor of English and Theatre Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her specialties include authors such as Ayn Rand and John Steinbeck, as well as women's studies, theatre arts and 18th-century British literature. In 2011 she was named to the El Paso Historical Hall of Honor. Life and scholarship Gladstein was born in Nicaragua and moved with her family to the United States at an early age. She grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and became a US citizen at the age of 19. She obtained a PhD in Contemporary American Literature from the University of New Mexico. She is married and has three children. She was a pioneer in the field of women's studies, teaching a class on "Women and Literature" in the early 1970s. In an attempt to provide students with an example of a successful female character in literature, she began assigning Ayn Rand's '' Atlas Shrugged'' for her class. This led her to write one of the earlie ...
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Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar (born September 15, 1969) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , based in El Paso, since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as an El Paso County commissioner from 2007 to 2011 and the El Paso county judge from 2011 until 2017. Early life and education Escobar is a native of El Paso, where she was born in 1969. She grew up near her family's dairy farm with her parents and four brothers. Escobar attended Loretto Academy and Burges High School, before getting her bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and her master's degree from New York University. Early political career Escobar worked as a nonprofit executive and as Raymond Caballero's communications director when he was mayor of El Paso. When Caballero failed to get reelected, Escobar—along with Susie Byrd, attorney Steve Ortega and businessman Beto O'Rourke—considered entering public service; they started to discuss grassroots strategie ...
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Alzina Orndorff DeGroff
Alzina Caroline Allis Orndorff DeGroff (also known as "Mama De") was an American businesswoman who was involved in civic causes in El Paso, Texas and West Texas. DeGroff was born as Alzina Caroline Allis in Washington, Louisiana. She married Lee H. Orndorff in 1876 and the couple had three sons. They moved to Tucson, Arizona. Lee Orndorff died after a railroad accident in 1887. and The death of Lee Orndorff propelled her into the business world. Alzina married Charles DeGroff in 1890 and the couple became involved in building hotels. In 1899 the family moved to El Paso, Texas El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau w ... after Alzina decided to buy the Vendome hotel which she renamed Hotel Orndorff. The Hotel Orndorff was a huge success for Alzina and she went on to buy more ...
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El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of United States cities by population, 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the List of cities in Texas by population, sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations, the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth County, Texas, Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciuda ...
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Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
Marcia Hatfield Daudistel is a non-fiction writer and editor who focuses on the history and culture of El Paso, Texas. Daudistel has been inducted into the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame. Daudistel's anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ..., ''Literary El Paso'' (2009) is a large collection of essays, stories, poetry and more from 62 different literary figures from El Paso. Each writer represented in the book describes El Paso and their own personal connections to the city. Daudistel said that it was difficult to limit the number of authors for the anthology because El Paso has "an amazing literary heritage." ''Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso'', was also edited by Daudistel and released in 2011. The book describes the profiles of women who have lived in E ...
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Kathleen Cardone
Kathleen Cardone (born December 25, 1953) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Early life and education Born in Medina, New York, Cardone graduated from Binghamton University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and later from the St. Mary's University School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctor in 1979. Legal career Cardone started her legal career as a briefing attorney for Magistrate Judge Philip A. Schraub, a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She held that role from 1979 to 1980. She was in private practice in Texas from 1980 to 1990. She was a judge on the Municipal Court for the City of El Paso from 1983 to 1990. She was an Associate judge for the Family Law Court of Texas from 1990 to 1995. She was a judge on the 383rd Judicial District Court of Texas from 1995 to 1996. Cardone worked as an Attorney/mediator for Texas Arbitration Mediation Services from 1997 to 1999. She was a ...
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