http://www.widmeyer.com Fiercely Independent Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/and-what-%e2%80%9cplace%e2%80%9d-would-that-be/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=and-what-%25e2%2580%259cplace%25e2%2580%259d-would-that-be http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/and-what-%e2%80%9cplace%e2%80%9d-would-that-be/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:37:49 +0000 Dunning Margaret http://www.widmeyer.com/?p=1216 My first job out of college was at the Republican National Committee.  A woman, Mary Louise Smith, was its leader.  I later worked in the Reagan Administration, where four women held Cabinet positions, a record at the time.  I’ve had no shortage of female role models in the Republican Party, including two Senators from Maine who have significant roles in today’s health care debate.  So why would the NRCC state the Speaker of the House should be put “in her place.”  Just where is this “place”? And why would such language, a throwback to a different time that we’ve fortunately moved away from, be appropriate for anyone, never mind individuals in leadership, to use?    
 
Were William Safire still alive, I would hope he’d have taken the NRCC to task in his Sunday column “On Language” with his wry edge and knowing style.  Maybe he would have instead defined “Neanderthal” since that appears to be an appropriate moniker for some in the Party.

]]> http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/and-what-%e2%80%9cplace%e2%80%9d-would-that-be/feed/ 2 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/davidson-institute-for-talent-development-scholarship-recipients-spotlighted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=davidson-institute-for-talent-development-scholarship-recipients-spotlighted http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/davidson-institute-for-talent-development-scholarship-recipients-spotlighted/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:42:56 +0000 Maffei Gina http://174.143.255.134/?p=581 Widmeyer is pleased to again work with the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to publicize this year’s Davidson Fellow Awards honorees.  Scholarships have been awarded to 19 extraordinarily gifted young people under the age of 18 in amounts ranging from $50,000 to $10,000.  2009 award categories include: Mathematics, Science, Literature, Music, Technology, Philosophy and Outside the Box. To learn more visit www.DavidsonFellows.org. Here is a sampling of the media coverage generated so far:

• Long Island TV 12
• NY WCBS Radio
• Honolulu Advertiser
• Newsday

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