Tag: Women of Ward 6
Donna Scheeder: 1947 to 2022
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon‘em,” wrote the Bard in Twelfth Night. Donna Wills Scheeder was one...
Mary McLeod Bethune – Educator and Activist
July’s Woman of Ward 6 is Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and an activist. Although she didn’t live or work in Ward 6, Bethune...
Women of Ward 6: Eleanor Holmes Norton
October’s Woman of Ward 6 is Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is now in her 15th term as the US Representative for the District...
Roberta Flack: Women of Ward 6
September’s Woman of Ward 6 is Roberta Flack, a famous singer-songwriter who got her start at Capitol Hill’s Mr. Henry’s Restaurant. She’s most known...
Diana McLellan (1937-2014)
June’s Woman of Ward 6 is Diana McLellan, a self-described “jolly pariah” whose Washington gossip column the Ear became a puckish, first-read chronicle of...
