Generations of Women Moving History Forward

Generations of Women Moving History Forward

Joyce Noel



This event was taken place in room 4207 on March 7, 2007. We’re in a small room with 90% of women. Women that use to go to Miami Dade and came back to make a difference. When the event started Coral Ana Steel and four other lovely ladies got up to sing a song. After that Prof. Valerie De Angelis got up to honor women in history like for examples;

1. Sojourner Truth
2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3. Ida Bo Wells- Barnett
4. Mary McLead Bethune
5. Margaret Sanger
6. Margaret Mead
7. Bella Abzug
8. Coretta Scott King
9. Toni Morrison
10. Hillary Rodham Clinton
11. Oprah Winfrey
12. Dr. Ellen Ochoa
13. Nancy Patricia D’ Alesandro Pelosi

Dr. Norma Goonan was a student at Miami Dade. She was born in Cuba. She left Cuba and went to boarding school at the age of twelve years old. She finished high school at the age of fifteen. After high school she didn’t want to go to college, so instead she got married. At the age of sixteen she was married and had a daughter. At the age of eighteen she went and attended Miami Dade, left her husband, and moved to her mother’s house with her daughter.
In this event I really learned a lot but there was four quote’s she said that I will never forget.
• “You have to be gentle and strong”
• “Act like a lady
Look like a women
Work like a horse
Earn as a man”.
• “If you have a goal the sky is really your limit”.
• “When you are going forward don’t forget to keep a hand behind you and help someone else”.