Holiday Preview: Theater Picks Nov 22, 2009
A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS Paula Vogel ( How I Learned to Drive ) blends historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman) with composite or fictional characters (an African-American blacksmith for the Union Army, a Confederate rebel) in a story of entwined lives set on Christmas Eve 1864 in Washington, D.C. Through Dec. 13. Huntington Theatre Company. (Boston Globe)
Huntington’s ‘Civil War Christmas’ blends real-life drama with seasonal sentiments Nov 20, 2009
Set in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve, 1864, A Civil War Christmas is populated, Ragtime -style, with familiar historical characters (Abraham Lincoln, members of his Cabinet, John Wilkes Booth, Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant) and characters who are either fictional or based on real people who have largely been forgotten. Their interwoven stories, dramatized in short vignettes, flashbacks, and striking tableaux, are punctuated with... (Boston Globe)
American Red Cross Auction Nov 19, 2009
Many items predate the time in 1881 when Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in Washington. Some have been sent to the National Archives under a long-standing partnership, the most historically significant art and objects will be kept at the Washington headquarters and others will be auctioned in the largest sale in years, archivist Susan Watson said. (W-USA News, DC)
Abusing His Powers? Mayor Fenty's Response Nov 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Mayor Adrian Fenty told 9NEWS NOW on Tuesday that he didn't know that bikes are not allowed on the Clara Barton Parkway, just outside the District, in Bethesda. Fenty and his biking team were caught on tape by WTOP on the parkway with the Mayor's police security detail tagging along using sirens, slowing traffic and running a red light or two along the way. (W-USA News, DC)
Fenty's Bike Rides Snarl Traffic, Cost Taxpayers Nov 10, 2009
Segraves followed the mayor over the course of the past few months and every time he did, he saw the mayor and his team running red lights, ignoring stop signs and even riding on roads like the Clara Barton Parkway in Bethesda, where bicycles are not permitted. All of it happened under the watchful eye of a D.C. police officer. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Hospitals: 'There couldn't be a worse time' for nurse-patient limits Nov 4, 2009
The competing bills share many of the same features, establishing a Nursing Advisory Board to make policy recommendations, establishing a Clara Barton nursing corps to help mentor new nurses, establishing a scholarship and loan-repayment program and a state match for hospitals that provide funds for nursing education. Few committee members attended the hearing, co-chaired by Sanchez and Sen. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Nameberry: Heroines, worthy women and trailblazers with notable names Nov 3, 2009
CLARA Barton - the founder of the American Red Cross. CLEMENTINA Rind - Colonial printer who published the works of Thomas Jefferson. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Stafford may get museum at Chatham Manor Stafford and Park Service to seek partnership for a county museum at Chatham Oct 10, 2009
Red Cross founder Clara Barton was a nurse there. Poet Walt Whitman was a nurse's aide. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Spitz: Framingham has done its share Oct 9, 2009
Clara Barton, undoubtedly more well known for her work as a nurse during the Civil War and her role in founding the American Red Cross, ran the prison in the 1880s. She didn't have an easy go of it. (Framingham TAB, MA)
Rev. Tess Baumberger: Visiting the sick - another reason for being a church Oct 4, 2009
Two important people in our tradition worked to make the world better by caring for the sick the Universalist Clara Barton and the Unitarian Florence Nightingale. Clara Barton, born in Massachusetts in1821, founded a free school for disadvantaged children in Bordentown, New Jersey early in her life ... Of course, you do not have to be a Clara Barton or a Florence Nightingale to care for members of your congregation. (Wakefield Observer, MA)
Fall theater productions Sep 13, 2009
A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION Paula Vogel ( How I Learned to Drive ) blends historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman) with composite or fictional characters (an African-American blacksmith for the Union Army, a Confederate rebel) in a story of entwined lives set on Christmas Eve 1864, in Washington, D.C. Nov. 13-Dec. 13. (Boston Globe)
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Sept. 5 Sep 5, 2009
Helping the disaster victims became the first mission of the American Red Cross, founded only months before -- in Michigan -- by Clara Barton. Across the country, there are today just over 356 million acres of privately owned forest land, and another 147 million acres of federally owned forest. (PR Newswire)
Military Milestones from First Enterprise to Loss of the Scorpion May 20, 2009
May 21, 1881: Clara Barton, the Civil War s famous angel of the battlefield, founds the American Red Cross. May 22, 1968: The fast-attack submarine USS Scorpion (the sixth of six so-named American Navy vessels) is mysteriously lost at sea several hundred miles off the Azores. (Human Events Online)
La Crosse area students advance to national history contest May 5, 2009
Junior Group Exhibits: Briana Schwabenbauer and Nicole Pederson, Holmen Middle School, Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible, national finalists; Beth Ryan and Anna Sibenaller, Holmen Middle School, Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, first honorable mention. Senior Individual Exhibits: Samantha White, Cochrane-Fountain City Schools, Waging War for Basic Rights: Rose Schneiderman, national finalist. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Minneapolis teacher receives top honor May 4, 2009
-- A seventh- and eighth-grade English and language arts teacher at Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis has been named the 2009 Minnesota Teacher of the Year. Luke Merchlewitz, a second-grade teacher at Washington-Kosciusko Elementary, was one of 11 finalists for the award. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Clara Barton Forum helps guide at-risk local young women Apr 19, 2009
This year marks the 19th year for the Clara Barton Forum and those associated with the organization say the forum, as well as volunteer mentors, helps shape women age 16 to 21 lives. "> Curious? Search ScoutPA. lect> Your online website and business directory. Daily American Archive Search Search for an Event Search our Classifieds ? Clara Barton Forum helps guide at-risk local young women By Daily American Staff Writer Rating: 0 Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:03 PM EDT One organization is helping... (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Bringing history to life at Daniel Webster School - PHOTO GALLERY, VIDEO Apr 7, 2009
Above are, from left, Nicole Harris as Clara Barton, Laila Plaster as Tony Hawk and Julianne Sullivan as Betsy Ross. GREG DERR. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Ventress Library introduces silent auctions Mar 26, 2009
The book was The Story of My Childhood by Clara Barton (1821-1912), known as a founder of the American Red Cross in 1881, and is a 1924 edition, published by Francis Atwater in New Haven ... It was a must-have for her family because DeOrsay s mother-in-law, Clara Barton DeOrsay, now 100 years old, of Needham, was named after the folk hero by her mother Helen Barton, a nurse who admired Clara Barton ... Bonnie DeOrsay said when her husband Ralph was in first grade, his class was studying some... (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
110-year-old Corvallis resident dies Mar 26, 2009
Pearson s life began at the end of the 18th century in Portland as Clara Francis Hurner, who was named for her mother s ancestor, Clara Barton, the founder of The American Red Cross. Clara Hurner was the daughter of a Swiss emigrant and his wife, who came to Oregon by wagon train. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Students compete with research projects during National History Day competition Mar 26, 2009
Junior Group Exhibits: Beth Ryan and Anna Siebenaller, Holmen Middle School, Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield ; Maisie Tolzmann, Ashley Amundson and Kendra Nedegaard, Holmen Middle School, Mary Kay Ash: The Beauty of Pink ; and Brianna Schwabenbauer and Nicole Pedersen, Holmen Middle School, Susan B. Anthony: Failure is Impossible. Senior Web sites: Libby Onsrud and Sarah Petri, Central High School, Amber Hagerman: Her Legacy After Death ; Justin Scheel and Derek Nelson, Cochrane-Fountain... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
On top of the world Mar 22, 2009
" Lutz grew up in Jackson, graduated from Wingfield High School in 1973 and received a nursing degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1978. She learned the value of the nursing profession while reading Civil War history and the role of Clara Barton, the nurse who helped organize the Red Cross in 1881. Her parents, Marjorie Jaap of Jackson and William Hugh Smith Jr. of Brandon, encouraged her to be self-sufficient. While in college, Lutz held five part-time jobs. "I was a waitress.... (The Clarion-Ledger)
'OUR NATIONAL TREASURE': State Museum premieres American Red Cross exhibit Mar 19, 2009
The exhibit goes on to cover the founding of the American Association of the Red Cross (now the American Red Cross) in 1881 by Clara Barton, the former Massachusetts schoolteacher and government worker who became famous for her care of wounded soldiers during the Civil War. A short multi-screen video presentation provides an introduction to the exhibit, which includes such artifacts as a Red Cross armband worn by Clara Barton in 1870-71 on the battlefield in Alsace-Lorraine during the... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Circumstances reminiscent of 1893 Mar 18, 2009
In The Red Cross, Clara Barton recorded that "Pitchfork Ben" only then wrote to see "if the Red Cross could perhaps do anything for the storm victims.". On March 15, The Augusta Chronicle reported that joblessness in Allendale, S.C., had reached 23. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Names may change but missions of mercy don't Mar 13, 2009
The American Red Cross was created in 1881 by Clara Barton after her experiences in the Civil and Franco-Prussian wars convinced her of the need of an American chapter of the international organization. Since then, it has been a driving influence for preparedness and disaster relief. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Kittredge students having a blast with interactive SmartBoards Mar 6, 2009
The class art project on famous people from Massachusetts is pulled up onto the SmartBoard screen, showing illustration choices various students selected for such luminaries as Samuel and Abigail Adams, Anne Bradstreet, Clara Barton, John Chapman, Paul Revere, Norman Rockwell and Susan B. Anthony. Next, Ohrn demonstrates the way you can take a class directly to a Web site by pulling up the site for Plymouth Plantation. (North Andover Citizen, MA)
Red Cross chapter nearly 100 years old Mar 2, 2009
When Clara Barton first started the Red Cross, services that they offered were on the battlefield only, she said. They were nursing services at that point and they would knit gloves for the servicemen and those types of things through the world wars. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
• Area students show off historical projects Feb 25, 2009
Another was the second-place project of Cambree King and Saedryn Patterson on Clara Barton, who founded the Red Cross, because of its strong project design. Colleen Parkin, co-coordinator, said the creativity of the students was outstanding this year, including one project by Delta Jones, Jaram Jones and Alex Mitton called From Saint to Santa Claus, which placed second in the senior group exhibit and was presented in the form of a gift. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Red Cross hemorrhaging Feb 11, 2009
Though the Red Cross is among the more venerable of the nation s social-service agencies Clara Barton and a circle of acquaintances founded the organization on May 21, 1881 it is only one of many such agencies coping with sagging donations and funding. In talking to other nonprofits, they are all down, she noted. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Helen Keller teaches KES students about determination Feb 8, 2009
I used to play Amelia Earhart and Clara Barton, but Helen is my favorite character to play, Faye said. The tantrums occurred before Helen s teacher, Annie Sullivan, came into the picture. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
