The Junior League of Portland, OR was established
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From Ideas to Independence: A Century of Entrepreneurial Women
This exhibit explores the legacies of entrepreneurial women, who forged through challenges and setbacks to create their own paths to economic and professional independence and open their own businesses.
A voice for philanthropy is stilled in Kansas City
For Adele Hall, a long-time member of the Junior League of Kansas City, philanthropy was a way of life. She spent decades involved in philanthropic efforts that have made her family name – the Halls of Kansas City’s Hallmark Cards – synonymous with charity and voluntarism. She was 81.
From the Junior League of Washington to White House Fellow
Air Force Major Ariel Grace Batungbacal (and Junior League of Washington member) was named to the prestigious White House Fellows program, which each year selects 15 people from thousands of applicants to spend a year working as full-time, paid Fellows to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials.
Kashi partners with The League to promote healthy living
The Junior League’s Kids in the Kitchen program was chosen by Kashi, the premier natural food and lifestyle company, to be featured as a Kashi REAL Project™ partner on 1.8 million Cinnamon Harvest boxes. Kashi also provided $80,000 of funding for the Kids in the Kitchen program at the League level.
Heading up planning for the JFK anniversary in Dallas
Chosen in part because of her fund-raising abilities, Ruth Altshuler of the Junior League of Dallas has been tapped to plan the Texas City’s 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 2013. She has held many high profile positions as a member on the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board and the U.S. National…
The League’s history becomes available to researchers at Harvard
One hundred years of Junior League magazines are now domiciled at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.