Eight years later, Noonmark was published in Redlands. Noonmark was published in 1936. In 1941, she received an honorable mention from the Los Angeles branch of the League of American Penwomen, as well as a prize from the national contest of American Penwomen.
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She was a member of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club, the Sacramento Branch of the League of American Penwomen, and the Author's League of America.
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The book was the Catholic Book of the Month Club selection for June 1936 and was awarded third prize in the 1938 nonfiction contest of the National League of American Penwomen. Her next book was a biography of Sarah Worthington King Peter, In Winter We Flourish in 1939. She wrote Flame in the Wilderness five years later, a biography of Mother Angela Gillespie, the American founder of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. McAllister was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Association of University Women, and the Columbus Chapter of the National League of American Penwomen.
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Zitkála-Šá by Gertrude Käsebier, 1898 Zitkála-Šá was also a member of the League of American Penwomen, and their mantra was “who’s who in the nation’s capital, 1927” which informed its members role of Congress and gained access to information about Congressmen in Washington D.C. The League of American Penwomen was an organization started in 1897 by Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue. This organization would later help with connecting Zitkála-Šá 's activism later in life. In a letter from March 5, 1928, Zitkála-Šá informed the delegation about the important members of the House Committee on Indian Affairs and specifically whom to speak to. In addition to this, she also advocated for the passing of H.R. 9315.
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Durley did church work. She was active in the Friday Morning Club, the Women's City Club, the League of American Penwomen, and the Public Power League. Durley had a hand in naming and launching the cruiser, Des Moines. She organized central Iowa in the work of sending a shipload of Iowa corn to the Russian famine sufferers.
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Her works have been published in works such as The Washington Star, The Pen Women and Weirdbook. Bail's The Sea Shell won the Lucile Palmer contest for penwomen in 1943 and Palmer, who was also a poet, read the poem on the radio. Her entry in International Encyclopedia of Women Composers states that she won many awards and medals.
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She was very active in women's club work, and was well-known dramatic reader and lecturer. She was a member of: Penwomen, California, Writers Club, Woman's Forum, Tuesday Club, Daughters of the Nile, Order of the Eastern Star, L. W. Charity Club, American War Mothers. Jeanette Lawrence died on July 6, 1960, and is buried at East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento.
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In 1995, Geraty received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the College of Charleston in recognition of her efforts to preserve the Gullah language. In 1998, she received the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities. Her other honors include the Pegasus Award from the South Carolina Poetry Society and the Outstanding Accomplishment Award from the National League of American Penwomen.
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Below the portrait is the dedication: > In Honor of Sarah Tittle Bolton Indiana's > Pioneer Poet – in commemoration of > Her creative work this plaque is > Placed by the Indiana Branch – > National League – American Penwomen. The plaque is tall, wide, and approximately deep. The ground of the relief is dull and has a pebbled surface. The face and letter fronts have a polished, shiny patina.
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But both my parents were predominantly Irish – my > father totally so – and I spent half the years of my childhood here. So I > have always been much more interested in Ireland and its history and > legends. Llywelyn has received several awards for her works. She received the Novel of the Year Award from the National League of American Penwomen for her novel, The Horse Goddess, as well as the Woman of the Year Award from the Irish- American Heritage Committee for Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish.
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An example of policies and laws by Zitkála-Šá would be referring to in her activism work. In addition to fighting against discriminatory action against Native Americans, the National Council of American Indians also promoted voting rights among tribes. When concerned with the language of the H.R. 7826 bill, Zitkála-Šá said, “A man like Williamson should not be in Congress and you Indians out there should see to it that he does not get re- elected. You should all register and vote against him.” The National Council of American Indians was able to tract the bills concerning Native American rights because of Zitkála-Šá 's ties to the League of American Penwomen.
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Always interested in equal suffrage, she registered with the first women voters. Another reform mesure that long-occupied her attention was the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and she was active as a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. During World War I, she was occupied with writing, knitting, and doing other work for the men in service, as a member of the Red Cross and the Hospital Aid Association. She was also a member of the District Nurse Association, the Day Nursery Association, Parents' and Teachers' Association, Women's City Club of Boston, Quincy Woman's Club, Wollaston Woman's Club, Professional Woman's Club, the Presidents' Club, the Washington American League of Penwomen, the New York Women's Press Club, and other organizations.
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She first married Carey and later married Richard Kay Lawrence (1881-1953) and had two children: Charles Josef Carey (from the first husband) and Richard Jay Lawrence (1907-1994) (from the second husband). She was a writer and speaker; she was the organizer, and for two years president of Sacramento Branch League of American Penwomen; she was president of the P.E.O. Sisterhood; she was president of the Tuesday Club; she was State Chairman of Literature of the California Federation of Women's Clubs. She had poems published in newspapers and magazines; a poem to California's Sacred Sons decorated by artist Louise Tessin, was presented to Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and then hung in the Memorial Hall of the building. She was the author of: My Service Flag, The Unknown Soldier, American, Wings of Triumph, The American Comet, Pine Songs of the Sierras and other poems.
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