Girls of Promise Conferences 2007 arkansas state university jonesboro, ar saturday, march 31, 2007 northwest arkansas community college bentonville, ar saturday, april 21, 2007 university of arkansas at little rock little rock, ar saturday, may 5, 2012 an initiative by the women’s foundation of arkansas

university of arkansas at little rock

little rock, ar

saturday, may 5, 2007

donaghey student center

8:15—9:00 am: registrant check-in donaghey student center

9:00—9:55 am: morning general session

welcome to girls of promise: kadi tierney, wfa executive director

welcome to ualr: dr. sandra robertson, ualr office of the chancelor

highlighted speaker: dr. anna l. fisher, astronaut

donaghey student center & etas building 10:10—11:05 am: breakout session 1 11:15—12:00 pm: breakout session 2

donaghey student center 12:10—1:00 pm: lunch & pictures 1:00—1:50 pm: afternoon general session

highlighted speakers:

maria haley, department of economic development director

ginger beebe, first lady of arkansas

dr. good, ualr cyber college founding dean

dr. catherine hunt, american chemical society president

donaghey student center & etas building 2:00—2:45 pm: breakout session 3

donaghey student center

2:55—3:30 pm: closing general session

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dr. anna l. fisher, m.d. astronaut

nasa johnson space center

Dr. Anna L. Fisher was born in New York City, New York, but considers San Pedro, California, to be her hometown. Anna enjoys snow and water skiing, jogging, flying, scuba diving, reading, photography, and spending time with her daughters.

Anna graduated from San Pedro High School in 1967; received a bachelor of science in Chemistry and a doctor of Medicine from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971 and 1976,

respectively. She completed a 1-year internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California, in 1977 before receiving a master of science in Chemistry “with honors” and graduating cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1987.

Dr. Fisher was awarded many honors including a NASA Space Flight Medal; Lloyd’s of London Silver Medal for Meritorious Salvage Operations; Mother of the Year Award; UCLA Medical Professional Achievement Award; NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

Anna has co-authored 3 publications relating to her studies of metallocarbonanes for the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. Before becoming an astronaut, she specialized in emergency medicine and worked in several hospitals in the Los Angeles area.

Anna was the first mother in space, and with the completion of her first flight, has logged a total of 192 hours in space. She is currently assigned to the Shuttle Branch and works technical assignments in that branch while awaiting an assignment as either a Space Shuttle crewmember on a Space Station assembly mission or as a crewmember aboard the International Space Station.

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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the

journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula Le Guin

ginger beebe

arkansas’s first lady

For more than 30 years, Ginger Beebe has

dedicated her time to volunteerism and

community service. A native of Searcy,

Ginger credits her parents—who adopted her

when she was four-years-old—with instilling in

her the values that have shaped her life,

namely empathy for others and a strong work

ethic.

“Helping others, on a small or large scale, is

what each of us should strive to do in our

lives,” she says. “There are so many who need

our help in today’s world, and in return for

our efforts, we also receive a blessing. I just

hope I can encourage others to become volunteers; it’s something that can

change lives.”

Beebe has been an active supporter and Board member of many

organizations to cover her diverse areas of interest: from helping in

elementary schools before there were teachers’ aides, to participating in

community projects such as Toys for Tots; serving as a founding member of

the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute-Searcy Auxiliary; following

her mother’s lead and volunteering as a poll worker; promoting the

preservation of Arkansas folk art; assisting needy families through the Beta

Sigma Phi Social Club; serving on the board of the White County Rape

Crisis Center; teaching Sunday School and children’s choir; and much more.

As First Lady of Arkansas, Mrs. Beebe’s focus is on improving the lives of Arkansas’s women and girls – and serving as an active Board member of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, is one of her first steps towards that goal.

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There are hearts and hands always ready to make generous

intentions become noble deeds. - Helen Keller

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those

who have helped you. - May Maloo

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dr. catherine hunt president

american chemical society

Dr. Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt graduated from Smith College with high honors in Chemistry. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis with Professor Alan Balch. As an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in MB&B (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry), Katie extended her working knowledge of NMR to biological systems.

Katie started her career at Rohm and Haas Company in 1984 at the Spring House Technical Center. In her current role as Leader for Technology Partnerships (Emerging Technologies),

she champions collaborations across industry, academia and national labs, working together with foundations and government agencies.

During her 3 years in the ACS presidential succession, Katie will focus on 3 central themes:

1. Education: educating legislators, the media, the public and the next generation,

2. Collaboration: building a strong, vibrant and vocal technical community, &

3. Innovation: recreating our companies, our schools and ourselves.

She serves on the executive board of the Council for Chemical Research where she is active in their Research Investment Network, drafting Science and Technology (S&T) policy statements and advocating for science on “the Hill” (Capitol Hill). Katie was an organizing member of the Vision 2020 Nanotechnology Roadmap and continues to be active in the rollout. She is a member of several associations including: ACS, AAAS, Sigma Xi and the NY Academy of Science.

Katie lives in Upper Dublin with her husband, Wes, and their son, James. She enjoys mentoring, judging science fairs and serving on the Upper Dublin Library Board.

renee brida haught & wade law firm

shannon caldwell university of arkansas cooperative extension service

dr. creshelle nash university of arakansas for medical sciences

dr. sara tariq & dr. dana gaddy university of arakansas for medical

sciences

michelle gillham arkansas department of environmental quality

dr. alesia ferguson university of arakansas for medical sciences

lori brown morgan stanley

christine le acxiom

sara jackson university of arakansas for medical sciences

melanie yelder arkansas teacher housing development foundation

melissa reed university of arakansas at little rock

marcus simms museum of discovery

dr. rebecca lochmann university of arakansas at pine bluff

dr. jessi rhodes briarwood animal hospital

rama chakrapani university of arakansas at little rock

becky butler university of arakansas for medical sciences

dr. beth miller miller consulting

dr. rhonda mattox university of arakansas for medical sciences

amy apon university of arakansas

keith r. harris math & science education partnership

find out what steps all these amazing speakers took to get to where they are today by checking our website*!

www.womensfoundationarkansas.org/gopspeakerinfo.html

*this information will be posted after the final Girls of Promise conference for 2007

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

- Elsa Maxwell

women who have made a difference:

Maya Angelou – Poet, writer, activist & Arkansas Native

Rosa Louise Parks – Civil Rights activist

Harriet Tubman – Under ground rail way leader and abolitionist

Daisy Bates – Civil rights activist, publisher, & Arkansas Native

Shirley Chisholm – First African-American woman to serve in U.S.

House of Representatives

Ann Frank – Writer & victim of the Holocaust

Robin Roberts – ESPN’s first African-American anchorwoman &

Good Morning America host

Sandra Day O’Connor – First woman to serve in the U.S. Supreme

Court

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Suffrage activist

Hillary Rodham Clinton – U.S. Senator & the only former First Lady

to serve in Congress & former first lady of Arkansas.

Mary Elizabeth Bowser - Former slave and Union Army Spy for

Ulysses Grant

Mother Teresa – Catholic nun, Nobel laureate, and activist

Felice N. Schwartz – Writer & activist for women in corporate

America

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – First Hispanic woman in Congress

Joan of Arc – Led the French Army to victory in the late 1400’s

Add your name here:

Arkansas Children’s Hospital is proud to support the 2007

Girls of Promise as they build their futures.

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team heroine: who is this woman? team leader’s name: team members: psst! get your teammates to sign your team picture at the afternoon general session!

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check out our website for more information about the speakers that you hear from today: www.womensfoundationarkansas.org/gopspeakerinfo.html

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If you seek what is honorable, what is truth, all the other things

come as a matter of course. - Oprah Winfrey

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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure

suspense. - Mignon McLaughlin

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There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for

the subtle differences that challenge and delight;

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there is space for disappointment—and surprise.

- Christine Downice

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It’s always to have one foot in confidence

and one foot in humility. - Julia Roberts

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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those

who have helped you. - May Maloo

WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS 2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers: Dorothy Hall, President

Kathy Baltz, M.D., First Vice President Margaret Bogle, Ph.D., Second Vice President

Cindy Conger, Treasurer Stephanie Streett, Secretary Diane Alderson, At-Large

Jill Brown, At-Large

Directors:

Susan Allen, Ph.D. Ginger Beebe Dolores Bruce Lisa Buehler

Andrea Cohen Paula Dempsey Vivian Flowers Brenda Gullett

Terri Hollingsworth Wanda Hoover

Marla Johnson Norris Brownie Ledbetter

Pat Lile Diane Mackey Lena Moore Debby Nye

Arlene Obrzut Amy Pierce Karen Potts

Gerry Rayford Sericia Rouse Millie Ward Dina Wood

Joyce Wroten

wfa staff

Kadi Tierney, Executive Director Amanda Potter, Director of Operations

Lisa Bilello, Administrative Assistant

Diane Alderson Ginger Beebe

Margaret Bogle Jill Brown

Dolores Bruce Brooke Bumpers Joan Campbell

Dr. Lee Lee Doyle Melinda Faubel Dr. Mary Good

Melony Goodhand Terri Hollingsworth

Lena Moore Jane S. McMullin

Susanne Mitchell Jennifer Moody Arlene Obrzut

Sandra Robertson Deborah Schwartz Peggy Sissel-Phelan

Katie Young

girls of promise steering committee

Amy Pierce, Chairwoman

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about the women’s foundation of arkansas

wfa history

The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas (WFA) was launched in 1998 when Arkansas Business Publishing Group CEO Olivia Farrell and Pat Lile, President of the Arkansas Community Foundation (ARCF) initiated the efforts of a group of prominent women leaders to create a charitable fund dedicated to investing in projects for women and girls in Arkansas.

The launching of this new venture raised an initial $100,000, $50,000 of which was used to create an endowment fund with ARCF to ensure a perpetual source of funding for programs for women and girls across Arkansas. From its beginning in 1998 until April 2002, the WFA was a fund managed by ARCF and overseen by a board of volunteers. The WFA is now a separate 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

wfa mission

The mission of the WFA is to promote philanthropy among women and to help women and girls achieve their full potential.

wfa goals

Encourage women and girls to improve skills in math, science, and technology.

Promote academic achievement of Arkansas women and girls.

Improve the economic status and financial competence of Arkansas women and girls.

Increase philanthropy by and for women.

Increase visibility and awareness of Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and the needs of women and girls across the state.

Ultimately, the WFA envisions the expansion and strengthening of women’s roles in society through the creation of opportunities designed to make significant change in the lives of women and girls of Arkansas. Our program initiatives are the vehicles we use to work toward this aim.

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presenting sponsor

silver sponsors

Rural Sourcing Inc.

Entergy

bronze sponsors

AT&T Arkansas

Arkansas Community Foundation

Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield

Arkansas State University

Nestle

New Market Builders

Northwest Arkansas Community College

SAIC

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

US Bank

other contributors

Allegra Print & Imaging

American Association of University Women

Arkansas Business Publishing Group

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City of Little Rock

General Mills

Lee Lee Doyle

Morris Foundation

Paula Dempsey

Wal~ Mart

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We help

America succeed.

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wanted women physicians

. . . But why send abroad

for them? Why not educate

them here? Is our medical

school a branch of the

state university? Then

should it not admit women

students? There is one

improvement which

should be made in our

state, and I urge the

women by all means, to

have the approaching

legislature make it.”

- Dr. Ida Jo Brooks

Entergy is a proud supporter of the 2007 Girls of Promise

conferences and encourages all of Arkansas’s promising girls to

ask “why not?”

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“It is a fallacious notion,” she

wrote, “that a newspaper should or

could be an isolated affair. Its life-

blood should flow in the veins of

the community in which it lives.”

In the 1930s, she took on corrupt

local politicians in Fayetteville and

Washington County through

participation in reform groups, in

her column, and in editorials.

- Roberta Fulbright

Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield is a proud supporter of the 2007

Girls of Promise conferences and encourages all of Arkansas’s

promising girls to fight for what’s right.

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“The prejudice against

color, of which we hear so

much, is no stronger than

that against sex. It is

produced by the same

cause, and manifested

very much in the same

way.”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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SAIC is a proud supporter of the 2007 Girls of Promise

conferences and encourages all of Arkansas’s promising girls to

lead by example.

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The mission of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas is to

promote philanthropy among women

and to help women and girls achieve their full potential.

WOMEN’S FOUNDATION of ARKANSAS 111 Center Street

Suite 1308 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

Phone: 501.244.9740 Fax 501.537.0918 www.womensfoundationarkansas.org