Celebrating Women of Courage and Vision

Kathy Gant is the winner! Her name was drawn from three entrants with only 1 incorrect answer.

For the rest of you, here are the answers!

	Women "Firsts" Achievements Quiz Try your luck and see how many you can answer correctly. A prize wil be given to the person who provides the most correct answers. This contest is for employees of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) only.
	Gertrude Ederle -- First woman to swim the English Channel. She broke the men's record with her time of 14 hours, 31 minutes. Trica Torn -- A swimmer who is blind, becomes the first athlete, male or female, to win 12 gold medals in the Paraolympics competition. Wilma Rudolph -- First woman to win three track gold medals in the Olympics. Antoinette Brown -- First U.S. woman ordained as a minister in a Protestant denomination, serving two First Congregational Churches in New York. Univ. of Iowa -- First state school to admit women, In 1858, the board of managers tries, but fails to exclude women. Sophia Smith -- First woman to found and endow a women's college. The college was chartered in 1871, opened in 1875. Helen Magill -- First woman to receive a Ph.D. at a U.S. school, a doctorate in Greek from Boston University. Belva Lockwood -- Presidential candidate of the National Equal Rights Party, is the first woman to receive votes in a presidential election (approx. 4,000 in six states). Jeanette Rankin -- From Montana, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Nellie T. Ross -- From Wyoming, becomes the first woman elected governor of a state. Hattie Wyatt Caraway -- First woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She represented Arkansas for three terms. Frances Perkins -- First woman in a Presidential cabinet, serves as Secretary of Labor during the entire Roosevelt presidency. Patsy Mink -- First Asian-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress (D-HI). Shirley Chisholm -- First African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress (D-NY). Barbara Harris -- First woman bishop of the Episcopal Church. Univ. Cal. Berkeley vs. Stanford -- First women's intercollegiate basketball game. Male spectators were not allowed. Lucy Stone -- First woman on record to keep her own name after marriage. Barbara Andrews -- First woman ordained in the Lutheran Church in America and the American Lutheran Church Jerrie Mock (Geraldin Fredritz) -- First woman to fly solo around the world. Trip took 29½ days, with 21 stopovers and almost 22,860 miles in flight. Althea Gibson -- First African American of either sex to play at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills and Wimbledon. Sandra Day O'Connor -- First woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mother's Day -- First observed in 1908 in Philadelphia and Grafton, West Virginia. Became a national holiday in 1914. Amelia Earhart -- First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, the first solo flight from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland and the first nonstop flight from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey. Sally Ride -- First American woman to fly in space. Dr. Mary E. Walker -- First and only woman to receive The Medal of Honor. She was a contract surgeon during the Civil War Use the form below to submit your answers.
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This site was created by T. J. Honeycutt for the ORNL Office of Workforce Diversity in cooperation with the ORNL Women's History Month Committee 2001.