Women Heros

[reelemin]

March is Womens history month. Yes I know we are still in February, but there is just so much to share about women I thought I would start early.

Who are your women heros ?

Here's a few to get you started thinking.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Athlete

Born: 26 June 1914

Died: 27 September 1956(cancer)

Birthplace: Port Arthur, Texas

Best known as: Hall of Fame woman golfer and athletic champ

Name at birth: Mildred Didrikson

Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias was voted the outstanding woman athlete of the century in a 1950 Associated Press poll. Though she gained her greatest professional fame as a golfer, she rivalled Jim Thorpe in her remarkable ability to excel at nearly any sport. She began as a basketball All-American, then won two track and field golds at the 1932 Olympics. Next she turned professional and began touring the country, exhibiting her prowess in track, swimming, tennis, baseball, and even billiards. In 1935 Zaharias took up golf and excelled at that, too, winning 82 tournaments in a 20-year career. She died of cancer in 1956

Sacagawea

Explorer

Born: c. 1786

Died: 22 December 1812(fever)

Birthplace: Near what is now Idaho

Best known as: The Indian woman who accompanied Lewis & Clark

Sacagawea was a Shoshone Indian who travelled with the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804-1806. She was the slave wife of the expedition's French-Canadian guide, Touissaint Charbonneau; the only woman in the party, she also carried with her an infant son, Jean Baptiste. Her native knowledge and her relations with her own tribe proved invaluable to the explorers

Ann Bancroft

Explorer

February 2001 - Ann and Norwegian polar explorer Liv Arnesen become the first women in history to sail and ski across Antarcticaÿs landmass - completing a 94 -day, 1,717-mile (2,747 trek).

1993 - Ann leads the American Women's Expedition to the South Pole, a 67-day expedition of 660 miles (1,060 km) on skis by four women, earning the distinction of being the first known woman in history to cross the ice to both the North and South Poles.

1992 - Ann leads the first American women's east to west crossing of Greenland.

1986 - Ann dogsleds 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the Northwest Territories in Canada to the North Pole as the only female member of the Steger International Polar Expedition, earning the distinction of being the first known woman in history to cross the ice to the North Pole.

[glenn57]

my wife because shes put up with me for 18 years,my mom cause shes did the same for 50 years. i dont really have heros, male or female, but sure do admire the female gender that enjoys any outdoor activities. reelemin i hope this is kind of what you where looking to achieve. i most certainly did not mean to take a cheap shot on your post.

[reelemin]

exactly Glenn57 - IMO heros are people who have influenced you in a possitive way and have made a difference to you directly or to society as awhole. And I have a feeling alot of mothers ( and other women in our livesw) will fall into that catagory.

Thats glenn57 and kuddos to the women in you life!!!

[Eric Wettschreck]

I have a few gal heros.

To say my mom grew up poor is an understatement. She hooked up with my dad, and had babies, all the while being more poor than her upbringing. When I was 4 she started going to skool, while raising a family, she became an LPN. Dad worked and did what he could to take care of the family, but mom worked nights to make sure ends were met. Later on, she went back to skool, while raising a family, to become and RN. She graduated college with my older sister. She then went on to become the charge nurse in the OB ward of Chisago hospital. Then, if that wasn't enough, she became the dept head for OB home health care for Fairview. Did I mention she raised a family, and did that quite well, all the while? I find that absolutely amazing. You can say whatever you want to about me but smak talk my mommy and it's on. I should mention I prolly would have never passed high school biology without her help.

They say behind every successful sailor is a Navy wife. Well, my Mrs is just that. While I was out to sea, she was raising kids. While I was at war, she was at home watching the TV in an attempt to see if I'd been shot. While I was out seeing the world she was making school lunches and wiping snotty noses and paying the bills. Yeah, that's heroic.

A gal total stranger that I admire would be Amelia Earhardt. Without trying to sound sexist, she lived in a mans world and had a mans job and was respected by her peers. She did what they said couldn't be done. Not just by a gal, but by anybody. Her disappearance is a mystery to this day and may never be solved, but I give her props for the life she lived and the accomplishments she made, all the while living in a world where gals were supposed to be cooking dinner.

[reelemin]

Boilerguy - your mom sounds amazing. It is an understatement to say that women are strong. I've met your wife and yes, she seems to be awonderful women.

Amelia Earhardt, also one of my heros, she'll be in the next set of 3.

[glenn57]

reelemin, whats up with lisa, shes been really quite lately. she must be busy studing the knee bones connected to the toe bones. hehehe

[Lisa Almquist]

No glenn-that's in about 2 weeks if I pass this freakin' Cell Biology class! Actually I have been studying hard and have been pulling some good grades. I'll let you guys know what grade I actually get-my final exam is next Wednesday. I have had NO INTERNET since yesterday morning and am finally back in action.

I don't have any specific female heroes. I do have many strong women in my life that have handled their jobs, families, children and spouses with flair and success! They are the everyday heroes in my eyes!

[glenn57]

well its nice to hear from you again. did you start going thru withdrawals. good luck on your test. remember YOU CAN DO IT!

[Lisa Almquist]

Thanks glenn!

[Weed Shark]

The heroic people who impress me most are the non-celebrity, low-profile types, often anonymous to the rest of society, maybe a farmer.

One person with high integrity, work ethic, and too many other qualities to list is my wife. The following story is an example of her character.

An RN, she was 8 months pregnant with our twin boys (over 14 pounds of combined baby weight, only 3 weeks later), working in a coronary critical care unit. She came home and I asked, "How was your day?" She proceeds to tell me how she had the code beeper that day, and had to run (huff and puff is certainly more like it), up a flight of steps to a patient who was arresting in a different unit of the hospital. She tells me she was the first to the room and started chest compressions, alone, until the crash cart got there. She said it was hard to keep her stomach from touching anything when they yelled, "clear" before shocking the patient with the paddles. I told her, "You absolutely cannot take the code beeper anymore." She made it sound like nobody else she was working with could do it. Frequently after that, I would ask her if she had the code beeper. To my relief, she never did again.

When I mentioned this incident recently, she didn't even remember it...all in a day's work I guess.

The twins, now 10, are happy and healthy, and so is their younger eight-year-old brother.

[tacklejunkie]

My women heroes, beside my mom and wife, are all the women who are serving or have served in our nations military. When you say a prayer and thank you to our boys in the Armed forces, don't forget the women.

[glenn57]

tacklejunkie, heres lookin at ya for that post. couldnt agree more.

[Weed Shark]

A few months ago, a lady working at Medtronic donated a kidney to an office supply deliveryman she hardly knew, and saved his life.

She must be back in her cubicle, just doing her job — she impresses me.

[reelemin]

Do to family issues, I have not had the time I wanted to put into this topic. So this will be it for this topic.

Realize that women are just not great, behind the scenes or as "husband supporters". History has been changed and developed as much by women as by men. Our history books do not give credit where credit is do.

Think of this;

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but backwards and in heels !!!!

Google any or all of the foloowing and read about the incredable things women have done and accomplished. Listen to the song "Heros" - link is at the bottom.

Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt

Katherine Hepburn, Sally Ride

Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman

Annie Sullivan, Gertrude Stein,

Coretta Scott King, Amelia Earhart,

Lillian Hellman, Eartha Kitt,

Sacajewea, Ella Fitzgerald ,

Golda Meir, Dorothy Dix,

Louisa May Alcott, Billie Jean King,

Emily Dickinson, Lucy Stone,

Margaret Sanger, Clara Barton,

Billie Holiday, Juliette Low,

Elizabeth Blackwell, Rosa Parks,

Lena Horne, Beverly Sills,

Barbara Jordan, Helen Keller,

Indira Gandhi, Agnes DeMille,

Corazon Aquino, Gloria Steinem

Rachel Carson, Joan of Arc,

Babe Zaharias, Marlene Deitrich,

Anne Frank, Simone de Beauvoir...

"Heroes" by Ann Reed

http://www.kimball.k12.sd.us/Heroes%20Web%20Page/newindex.htm

[Iambjm]

My ultimate hero would be my Mom or my sister. My Mom left my dad when I was ten because of his abuse. She had 4 kids and worked as a waitress, she gave up a lot of things trying to bring us up. We were monsters and drove her nuts. We were constantly getting our selves kicked out of houses due to our behavior. She never gave up on us even through some very bad times. She could have given us up and walked away like my dad did, but she hung in there and worked 12 hour days to put food on the table. My sister went through a similar experience, 3 kids, abusive husband, worked as a waitress and secretary. She finally said enough is enough, left the husband, went back to college while working and raising her 3 kids. Got an engineering degree and a great job. I wish I had had her ambition and drive. My Mom passed away in 95 from lung cancer, but fought a brave fight.

Sure there are many women who changed history, but these two have changed my life.

[denlin1950]

My hero's are my parents. They taught me to hunt and fish when I was small. I fished Red Lake and LOW all the time. I have had 2 husbands and taught them both how to fish walleyes! If you can imagine 4 kids and 2 adults in a 12 ft. boat using cane poles! It was so wonderful and they had so much patience with us. My mom taught me how to field dress my first deer 40 years ago!

We bought a new Lund Boat with a 115 Suzuki motor and I had 90% of the input about what we bought.

I shot 3 deer this last hunting season. My husband was very excited for me.

I believe my mother is one of the most wonderful women I know. She raised 5 girls...the last one she had at 45!! She always had time to take us camping, swimming,...all sports...and how to cook & sew..

[reelemin]

Welcome denlin to FM and the womens forum.

[Lisa Almquist]

Holy Crackers girl!! You have a pretty full plate! Welcome to the Fishing Minnesota Women's forum!

[BoxMN]

There is a woman named Ann (won't say last name here) who is an RN but works as a transplant coordinator in the Transplant Center at the U of MN. To make a very long story short, my Dad got a kidney/liver transplant 4 years ago, and was on the "list" for several before that. Ann is one of the kindest, smartest, most honest, dependable and caring people I have ever met, all during some of our most hectic and depressing and happy and sad times a family can go through, all mixed together.

And the wild thing, while she was handling my Dad's case, she also had many others she was helping. How some of those little known but extremely important medical service people can keep doing that year in and year out is truly heroic. I can honestly say that Ann, along with my Mom and of course the many doctors and nurses, is a key factor in my Dad still being here to breathe and fish and hunt, and for many other pleople having a quality of life, and even a "life".

Another hero is Joe, my Dad's donor, but that is a different topic.

Here's to Ann and all the women who work so that others can live.

[reelemin]

Here Here

I would say the same of my moms hospice caregivers, these are some truly remarkable women.

[muc33]

Tami, I couldn't agree with you more on the Hospice volunteers. My father in law just died a month ago and the care and compassion given by Hospice volunteers is unmatched by anything I have ever seen.

[Lisa Almquist]

My dad's Hospice nurse was my family's hero also. She was honest, blunt, empathetic and we couldn't have gone through his death without her.

[Hammer Handle]

This is going to sound corny, but it would be my mom.

Her family was very old fashioned. Some of this was good, some not so good.

Her dad did not want her (a woman) to learn to drive a car. She learned on her own. After High School (if she felt she HAD to graduate), she was to find a husband and be a "housewife". Instead, she went on to further school and got a job in the Twin Cities. Because of her job, her and my dad (after they got married) saved up money to buy a farm and a lot of lakeshore.

My mom loved to farm. She loved to milk and drive tractor. As kids, we had chores and did work on the farm...but many times my parents did most of the work as we "had to be kids once in awhile".

She also loves to fish and hunt. A true sportsman and I will never forget her. She found her finally resting place about 4 years ago to this day. Too soon, but sometimes we don't have a choice in that matter....

[icewoman]

an Anne Reed Fan! Don't do your deep fat frying in the nude

[reelemin]

 Originally Posted By: icewoman

an Anne Reed Fan! Don't do your deep fat frying in the nude

LOVE that song !!!!!