Helen Palmer (runner)
Helen Palmer may refer to: *Helen Palmer (archer) (born 1974), British archer *Helen Palmer (publisher) (1917–1979), Australian publisher, educationalist, author, historian and communist * Helen Palmer (writer) (1899–1967), children's book author and wife of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) *Helen Chenoweth-Hage Helen Margaret Palmer Chenoweth-Hage (born Helen Margaret Palmer; January 27, 1938 – October 2, 2006) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. She remains the only Republican woman to ever represent Idaho in the United States C ...

Helen Palmer (archer)
Helen Palmer (born 19 September 1974) is a British recurve archer who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Prior to winning selection to the British Olympic archery team, Palmer had been a member of the British team that concluded the 2003 World Archery Championships in third place. In Athens she finished in sixty-first place in the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, which determined the seedings for the subsequent elimination rounds of the women's individual event, setting up a first round encounter with 1996 Olympic silver medalist He Ying of China. Over the sixteen-arrow match He outscored Palmer by 141 points to 130, eliminating Palmer from the event. Palmer and her teammates Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson also failed to advance beyond the first elimination stage of the team competition after losing to India by 230 points to 228. At the time of the 2004 Olympics, Palmer was a senior marketing manager with Alliance and Leicester bank, and a membe ...
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Helen Palmer (publisher)
Helen Gwynneth Palmer (9 May 1917 – 6 March 1979) was a prominent Australian socialist publisher after the Khrushchev Secret Speech of 1956 and the USSR's invasion of Hungary of the same year, which caused many leftists to leave the Communist Party of Australia. She was responsible for the financial and editorial publication of ''Outlook'', a non-dogmatic magazine of Australian socialism. Palmer's significance is her cultivation of an inclusive and tolerant left intellectual network in Sydney and Australia more broadly, which contributed strongly to the emergence of the Australian new left of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Palmer was additionally an author, educator, servicewoman, trade unionist and communist activist. Contributors to ''Outlook'' included the writer Stephen Murray-Smith and the historian Ian Turner, who wrote an article, "The Long Goodbye" for the final issue. "How to review over 13 years, 82 issues, of ''Outlook''?" his article began. "For 13 years, ''Out ...
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Helen Palmer (writer)
Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 16, 1898 – October 23, 1967), known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American children's writer, editor, and philanthropist. She was also the Founder and Vice President of Beginner Books, and was married to fellow writer Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death. Her best-known books include '' Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?'', ''I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo'', ''Why I Built the Boogle House'', and '' A Fish Out Of Water''. Life Early life and college Helen Palmer was born in New York City in 1898 and spent her childhood in Bedford–Stuyvesant, a prosperous Brooklyn neighborhood. As a child, she contracted polio, but recovered from it almost completely. Her father, George Howard Palmer, an ophthalmologist, died when she was 11. She graduated from Wellesley College with honors in 1920.Morgan (1995), p. 57 She then spent three years teaching English at Girls High Scho ...
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