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Burnham came to El Paso in the early 1970s. [1] In 1977, she became a lecturer in the English department of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). [2]Burnham, as president and founder of the El Paso chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) was part of the founding group of women who in 1977 created the first shelter for women facing abuse in El Paso.
The first location was acquired in autumn 1977, through the Diocese of El Paso loaning a vacant building. The first volunteers moved into the building on February 3, 1978. [11] Volunteers from around the country came to El Paso to help the shelter. [12] Loretto Academy, a Catholic girls' school, provided 40 student volunteers to the shelter in ...
Women's Club of El Paso interior. Members of the Woman's Club were involved in the establishment of Texas's first public school kindergarten. [3] The club, led by one of the Woman's Club presidents, Olga Kohlberg, worked to get a kindergarten established in the first school building in El Paso, Central School, in 1893. [14]
Moody was among several prominent El Paso leaders who gathered Friday, Feb. 23, at the Casa Vides Annunciation House, 325 Leon St., in Downtown El Paso for a news conference to show their support ...
Officials in El Paso, Texas, have announced plans to open a new shelter to house migrants as the city struggles to accommodate the massive surge of migrants entering its border. During a news ...
Lately their options for entry has been limited not by the federal government, but by hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers. El Paso Officials Working ...
Mimi Reisel Gladstein, El Paso educator, women's rights advocate, El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, , Director of Women's studies program at step 1981-83. described In 100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press c. 2017 ISBN-10: 0-87404-306-9, Grace and Gumption p. 220
Women break ground in 1974. June 1974 was groundbreaking for policewomen in El Paso. Fort Bliss got their first policewoman and the first five women graduated from the city's police academy.