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Your Highlights from the 2014 AJLI Fall LeadershipConference
Junior League members traveled to the Music City, Nashville, for the 2014 AJLI Fall Leadership Conference on September 11-13, 2014. The following is their POV of the conference as told on social media.
Are You Ready for the Holidays? (We Are.)
Junior Leagues have, for decades, created and run some amazing projects addressing big problems like childhood obesity, women’s health, illiteracy, alcoholism and foster care. So it’s ironic that many community…
The Junior League Remembers: Cornelia Fort, Pilot
Cornelia Fort was an unlikely candidate to be the first American woman to die on active military duty. Born into a wealthy family in Nashville, the oldest of five children. A debutante. Sarah Lawrence graduate. Member of the Junior League of Nashville. Destined for a quiet life.
But Cornelia Fort wanted to fly, and fly she did. She took her first flying lesson in 1940, shortly after her father died. She soon became first female flight instructor in Nashville.