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FLARE 2023 Election Results

The 2024 Board will include the following members (dates in parentheses indicate when the term ends):

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FLARE ... Why Haven’t We Learned This Before?

New college textbook brings America’s first ladies front and center.

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FLARE Program ... Edith Wilson:  Overnight Celebrity OR Edith Wilson:  Overnight Sensation

FLARE Program ... Edith Wilson: Overnight Celebrity OR Edith Wilson: Overnight Sensation

FLARE Program December 11, 2023

7 pm EST

Rebecca Roberts with Heath Lee

"Roberts isn’t interested in venerating Wilson as a saint; nor is she looking to magnify the First Lady’s flaws. Rather, she lets Edith be Edith, which is to say messy and complicated, as most humans are."

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First Lady Jill Biden in Cupertino to talk about mental health
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American Library Association to Receive Barbara Bush National Literacy Honors Award from the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Rosalynn Carter, former first lady, remembered in 3-day memorial services across Georgia
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FLARE Focus on When The First Lady is an Educator, A Lesson Comes Dressed in Inaugural Clothing

Nichola D. Gutgold

One of the most popular exhibits at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is the First Ladies Exhibit. With over 1,000 items in the collection, the Smithsonian documents the lives and legacies of the women who have served in this invaluable role.[i] It was an honor to attend the ceremony of the presentation of the inaugural clothing of First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, which she wore in January 2021 to President Biden’s swearing-in and other celebratory events to mark the occasion..

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7:00PM - 8:00PM EST

FLARE Program ... Edith Wilson: Overnight Celebrity OR Edith Wilson: Overnight Sensation

Heath Lee Interviews Author Rebecca Roberts

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December 18, 2023

Mary Todd Lincoln

December 13, 1818

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December 22, 2023

Clauda Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson

December 22, 1912

 

Kristin Ahlberg

Mary R. Anderson

Thomas J. Balcerski

Maurine Beasley

Allida Black

Pamela G. Bourland-Davis

 

Mary C. Brennan

Christopher Brick

Paulette Brinka

Mary Balfour Calvert

Stacy Cordery

Erika N. Cornelius Smith

 

Susan Donius

East Wing Magazine

Sharon Fawcett

Lewis L. Gould

Nichola Gutgold

Laura Gutin

 

Linda B. Hobgood

Edwina and Tom Johnson (Atlanta)

Kay Sebring-Roberts Kuhlmann

Christopher J. Leahy

Heath Hardage Lee

Anne F. Mattina

 

Lisa Hill McCubbin

Nick Natalle

Valerie Palmer-Mehta

Barbara Perry

G. Joseph Pierron

Lindsay B. Reynolds

 

Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Mary Stockwell

Larry and Louann Temple

Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada

Courtney C. Travers

Tammy R. Vigil

 

Sharon Williams Leahy

Jeanne Ryan Wolfson

Nancy Beck Young

Kay Zerwick