May 11, 2020 07:00AM ● By Melissa Fox
After a heated debate at its 1893...
May 06, 2020 12:21PM ● By WLMagazine
100 years ago, a Grand Rapids woman had an idea that changed the history of nursing forever. Julia Bouwkamp of the Greater Grand Rapids Wom...
Apr 03, 2020 03:40PM ● By WLMagazine
by Julia Bouwkamp for the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council |Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegIn 1917 as Americans prepared ...
Mar 01, 2020 05:17PM ● By WLMagazine
by Jo Ellyn Clarey for the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council | Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegToday we recognize the parad...
Feb 01, 2020 05:44PM ● By WLMagazine
by Sophia Ward Brewer for the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council | Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegAt the end of the ninetee...
Jan 01, 2020 05:53PM ● By WLMagazine
by the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council | Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegHer photo rescued from a 21st-century garage sal...
Dec 01, 2019 06:11PM ● By WLMagazine
by Jayson Otto for the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council| Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegBorn in 1866 Grand Rapids, Emily ...
Dec 01, 2019 06:01PM ● By WLMagazine
by Pamela VanderPloeg for the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council | Illustration by Libby VanderPloegWho would have guessed that ...
Nov 01, 2019 06:20PM ● By WLMagazine
by Ruth Van Stee for the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council | Illustrations by Libby VanderPloegIn 1912 the Grand Rapids Press...
Oct 01, 2019 06:28PM ● By WLMagazine
Today, Helen May Meade would be considered City Hall’s chief of staff. For nearly 26 years, she coordinated the offices of seven mayors and 12 city managers. Upon her retirement ...
