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Writing Women Back into History

Published on March 31, 2010

March is Women’s History Month and this year’s theme is “Writing Women Back into History.” Honored to be the guest speaker at West Point’s Women’s History month celebration, I had an unique opportunity to share my story and the genius of Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line with a diverse audience of cadets, officers, staff and faculty on the banks of the Hudson River in New York on 26 March 2010.

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A Few Good Women

Published on December 17, 2008

Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line was borne out of my experience as a high school volleyball coach in 2004.  Concerned with whom some of my athletes admired and considered role models, I began thinking about some of the women with whom I went to school and served along side in the Army.  These women are role models, and if my team learned about some of them maybe they would consider pursuing paths to which they had not previously been exposed.

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