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Fall Leadership Conference Puts Emphasis on Transformation
A buzz was in the air in Baltimore last week at AJLI’s Fall Leadership Conference, which drew 300 delegates from 175 Leagues and underscored the Association’s road to Transformation. The…
Webinar Wednesdays gets into gear
Webinar Wednesdays gets into gear, Wednesday, Oct. 5, with insights from Heather McLeod Grant, co-author of Forces for Good The Webinar Wednesdays program, one of the exciting offerings in AJLI’s…
What’s all the chatter about Action Learning?
We asked Anne Dalton, AJLI’s Chief Officer for Strategic Initiatives, and Janine le Sueur, Director of Education and Programs, to give us a little primer on Action Learning as a…
Yes, We Did Do More than ‘Just Play Bridge’ Back Then
One of this year’s hottest summer movies looks to be The Help, the entertaining screen version of the best-seller of the same name. Because The Junior League—or at least a…
It’s always nice to be noticed
Most of the work we do at The Junior League is quiet work. A project might be done in a day, but it takes weeks and months of set-up and…
Are you ready for prom season?
They have fun names like Princess for a Night, Butterfly Project, Cinderella’s Closet and All Dressed Up, but the purpose of each program is serious…providing dresses, accessories and, often, hair…
So What Else Was Julia Child Known For?
Long before Food Network, there was Julia Child. When The French Chef debuted on WGBH 38 years ago this February, it was more than just one of the first cooking shows on American television. The…
So what do people think of when they hear ‘Super Bowl’?
Let’s check on Google and see.
Search Super Bowl and parties and you get 60.4 million hits.
Search Super Bowl and chili and you get 1.16 million hits.
Search Super Bowl and prostitution and you get 350,000 hits.
Steel MagNOL(i)As
Post-Katrina, the women of The Junior League of New Orleans took on corruption and injustice and advocated for coastal restoration, ultimately securing funding for the ecosystem and helping to reform…
So who was Mary Harriman’s best-known friend?
It’s a good bet that she was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. While credit for the founding of The Junior League rightly belongs to Mary Harriman, she was supported in its early…