March is Women's History Month

Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week." Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as "Women’s History Week." In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month." Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

Here in Broad Channel we have a "long and fine tradition of notable women" who, unfortunately, have left us.  All are all deserving of a few moments of our time to remember them and what they accomplished for our small community.

Henrietta Bowden  

Principal "Emeritus" of our (now closed) Saint Virgilus Parish School and a long time steward of the young minds of Broad Channel.

Liz Guarino 

Authored the weekly "Broad Channel Bits" column in the WAVE...Editor of the Broad Channel Civic Association's Newsletter...Author of "Images of America - Broad Channel" [Arcadia Press] 

Anne Marie Sullivan 

Worked long and tirelessly against terrible odds in an effort to convince the Brooklyn Archdiocese 

to keep our Saint Virgilius Parish School open.  Unfortunately the school was ultimately closed but Anne Marie's hard work gave us an additional year that we would have otherwise lost.

Theresa Munson 

Terry's death in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center brought the terrible reality of our war with terror

 home to Broad Channel.

Chris Galas

Always remembered by our community's children attending her namesake school, P.S. 47 on Powers Road.