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  • Home
  • First Quarter
    • Welcome Back - Rhythm, But Not Blues
    • This I Believe
    • Manage Your STRESS
    • It's All About Having a Growth Mindset
    • The Cost of Conformity
    • The Giver
    • The Reading Mindset
  • Second Quarter
    • Themes in the novel THE GIVER
    • For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
    • Fig Lang (Figurative Language)
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate
  • Third Quarter
    • Argument Reading
    • Argument Writing
    • In-text Citations
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • I heard it through the grapevine...
    • Literary Allusions
  • Fourth Quarter
    • P o E t R y
    • The Scorpio Races
    • Writing & Performing a MONOLOGUE
    • Me, Myself, and My Gender
    • Themes in Literature
    • Innovating to Solve Real-World Problems
    • The Design Thinking Process
  • Book Club & Socratic Seminar
  • One Community; Six Words
    • Check Out Our Project!
    • North Olmsted's African American History
    • North Olmsted's First Settlers from CT and VT
    • North Olmsted's Geologic & Natural History
    • North Olmsted's Native People
    • North Olmsted's Veterans
    • North Olmsted's Women
  • Conducting Research Like a Boss
  • The Three Types of Irony
  • The Cost of Conformity
  • Women's History Month
  • Black History Month

North Olmsted's Women

Adele Von Ohl Parker

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Because Ms. Von Ohl Parker was a  Buffalo Gal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, you can find historic photographs of her performing at this website.
  • ​library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/search/searchterm/adele%20von%20ohl%20parker/order/nosort

Information about Adele Parker's ranch
  • www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/learn/blogs/notes-from-the-field/2015/october-2015/parker-ranch-part-2
  • www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/56568

Adele Parker as a social justice hero
  • www.cleveland.com/ministerofculture/2017/07/finding_the_horsewoman_adele_p.html

Other Influential Women of  N.O.


Abbie Danforth, pastor First Universalist Church of Olmsted
  • library.hds.harvard.edu/exhibits/featured-images/danforth-abbie-ellsworth
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_ordination_in_the_United_States​

Hannah Peake (wife of George, mother of Joseph)
​​www.womeninhistoryohio.com/mrs-george-hannah-peake.html​

Helen Briggs
  • Pages 11 - 18 in this e-book by Dale Thomas (link below)
  • A very informative article about the work of Dr. Crile (founder of the Cleveland Clinic) and his nursing volunteers, which included Helen Briggs, and how their work caring for the sick and injured in WWI transformed medicine
    • forms.gle/FyquTWc54wVvZJMZ9
  • More about Dr. Crile and his nurses (including Helen Briggs)
    • artsci.case.edu/lakesideunit/americans-ambulance/lakeside-unit-personnel/​
    • youtu.be/rOJBf0gru1 
Cassie Salisbury
Pages 16 - 18 (link below)

​books.google.com/books?
id=UwNIDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=helen+briggs+lakeside+hospital+school&source=bl&ots=ZomiPT_LTZ&sig=ACfU3U0js5KSH07hF5WlgqtVkPmfvgUoWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWm_vm6JjiAhUCRa0KHQH4BAEQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=helen%20briggs%20lakeside%20hospital%20school&f=false


Also, check out Scene 6 from Mr. Thomas's play "Voices in the Night" which introduces readers to Helen Briggs and Cassie Salisbury.
To view the play open the file below.
voices_in_the_night_--_butternut_ridge_cemetery_play.pdf
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Denise Dufala, a more recent N.O. woman of influence. Ms. Dafala was a newscaster and is now a children's book author.
  • www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/2018/09/an-interview-with-denise-dufala-journalist-turned-author.html
  • www.news-herald.com/lifestyle/denise-dufala-s-new-career-as-child-s-advocate-and/article_b10a8bb4-1900-11e9-9db8-bb48875ab8e7.html
  • http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2019/01/08/denise-dufala-will-be-guest-at-annual-women-honoring-women