Linda Shevitz, Educational Equity Specialist at the Maryland State Department of Education, is probably the nation’s finest education department-based professional in the arena of gender equity. Her inclusive approach and technical skill set have outlasted and...
Leslie Palmer will be forty years old in September 2010. She is creative, bright, energetic, kind, spiritual, persistant, funny, and gracious. The characteristic that makes her an “Unsung Hero”, however, is her patience. For about ten years, Leslie has had...
My mother, Gloria “Kay” Hughes, came to Baltimore in the early 70s to study opera and Music Education at Peabody. While studying the translations of the Italian operas, she was disgusted at how misogynistic many operas were and how women were portrayed as subservient,...
Lillian (Lil) Shevitz has been and continues to be a remarkable Unsung Heroine to her family and friends and colleagues. She is the magnet and center that keeps her extended family strongly connected. Born in 1919, she is the proud and loving mother of three children...
Sharon Faye Beazley was the true definition of an unsung hero. A business owner and former Bethlehem Steel employee, Sharon worked tirelessly for the betterment of her community for decades. She headed an active opposition group and co-chaired a legislative task force...
