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ABC:LHS #084   Women's History Month 2026

• Emily Elizabeth Holman was an accomplished architect who preferred using her initials so as not to disclose her gender.
• Matilda “Tillie May” Forney followed in the steps of her newspaper publisher father John Forney. She made newspaper work her career at a time when women were barely tolerated in the newsroom.
• Florence Cowanova was the ballet teacher all the little girls loved. Among her famed students: Zelda Fitzgerald, Imogene Coca, and Princess Grace.
• While Harris Wofford became one of JFK’s “Best and Brightest,” his wife Clare Wofford became a lynchpin in the successful formation of the Peace Corps.