The Clearwater Historical Society’s Women’s History Month Exhibition Committee announces the Ruth & JO Stone Foundation as Presenting Sponsor for the 5th Anniversary celebration and exhibition honoring an impressive list of TRAILBLAZERS 2024:
1) Karleen F. DeBlaker, deceased. Politician, advocate & community leader
2) Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, teacher and environmentalist
3) Anne McKay Garris, Publisher of Beach Views, author editor, author and advocate
4) Kellis Jean Milner Glenn, trailblazing teacher in Pinellas County Schools.
5) Jeannie Shapiro, Executive Director, Clearwater Free Clinic and community leader
6) Barbara Sorey-Love, Publisher, Long Beach Times & St. Pete Bulletin, and community advocate.
7) Margaret Word-Burnside, Publisher and writer, Tampa Bay Magazine and community leader
The exhibit will also honor TRAILBLAZERS since 2020:
2020 Mary Lou Baker, Jean Lester Bennett, Jenny Plumb, Jai Hinson, Arabella Williams Faust, Zena Lansky, Betty Wickman McGraw Perkins and Christine Wigfall Morris.
2021 Willa Carson, Ruth Eckerd, Barb Green, Cherry Harris, Blanche Littlejohn, Sallie Parks, Ruth Payne Stone, Jean Rees Homer, Peggy Word and dedicated to Suzanne Ruley.
2022 Phyllis Bayly Jones, Katherine H. Biddle, Isay M. Gulley, Mayme Weaver Hodges, Dorothy Judith Lutz, Betty J. Perry, Karen Seel, and Jessie Lee Wilder Thacker.
2023 Maria Nieves Edmonds, Julie Scales, Nicole Stott, Gertrude Josephine Warnick and dedicated to Sallie Parks (2021)
