Our blog tracks Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell Calendar. "As chaos and confusion rise, galactic consciousness based on the Law of Time serves as planetary medicine, lifting us into the awareness that we exist within a higher, more expanded realm of existence than the world of third-dimensional form and appearance. Daily practice will elevate consciousness and increase experiences of synchronicity." (Arguelles)
*Hippocrene: the name of a fountain (fountain of the horse)
on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses, produced by a stroke of Pegasus’ hoof;
poetic inspiration.
Sinah Estelle Kelley (April 23, 1916 – December 21, 1982) was an American chemist who worked on the mass production of penicillin.
Early life and education
Sinah Estelle Kelley was born in New York City in 1916. Her father was the managing editor (1922–1934) of the New York Amsterdam News, William Melvin Kelley Sr., and her mother was Gladys Caution Kelley, a probation officer. Her much younger brother (from her father's second marriage) is author William M. Kelley Jr.
Kelley attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School of New York City, and was a 1934 graduate of the high school. Kelley began her scientific studies at Radcliffe College, under organic chemistry professor Louis Fieser, and during summer internships at Harlem Hospital.
Career
After graduating from Radcliffe in 1938, Sinah Kelley took some graduate courses at New York University, and worked at federal laboratories in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois during World War II. She stayed in Peoria, Illinois after the war, with a team working on the mass production of penicillin for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Though Kelley did not hold an advanced degree, she was listed an author on several scientific papers from this group, with titles such as "Production of Fumaric Acid by Rhizopus arrhizus" (1959) and "Production of Itaconic Acid by Aspergillus terreus in 20-Liter Fermentors" (1952).
In 1958, she returned to New York to work on the effects of strontium 90 at an Atomic Energy Commission laboratory. She retired from that work in the 1970's.
Personal life and legacy
While she lived in Peoria, Kelley was the only African-American member of the Mayor's Interracial Committee. Sinah Estelle Kelley died in 1982, age 68. Her papers are part of the William Melvin Kelley Family Papers, at Emory University*
Ida Keeling (born May 15, 1915)is an American track and field athlete. She holds Masters records in 60 meter and 100 meter distances for women in the 95-99 and 100-plus age groups. Keeling's story was featured in a segment in the Carl Reiner-hosted documentary If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast, on aging over 90, which premiered on HBO in June 2017.
Records
In 2011, at 95 years old, Keeling set the world record in her age group for running 60 meters at 29.86 seconds at a track meet in Manhattan, and in 2012 she set the W95 American record at the USATF Eastern Regional Conference Championships at 51.85. In 2014, at the 2014 Gay Games, Keeling set the fastest known time by a 99-year-old woman for the 100-meter dash at 59.80 seconds, although the relevant USA Track & Field web page does not currently include a 100-meter record for US women older than the 90–94 age division. On April 30, 2016, Ida became the first woman in history to complete a 100-meter run at the age of 100. Her time of 1:17.33 was witnessed by a crowd of 44,469 at the 2016 Penn Relays. This time was the best ever recorded in the 100-meter dash for any female age 100 or older.
Personal life
Keeling is a longtime resident of Manhattan. Her mother died when Ida was young and her husband died of a heart attack when she was 42. She had four children, two of whom, Charles and Donald, died in drug-related killings in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Her eldest daughter, Laura, worked as the CEO of two Urban League affiliates. Her youngest daughter, Shelley, is a lawyer and real estate investor who also coached for a local high school. Shelley also coached her mother and first convinced her to run in a "mini-run" at the age of 67.*
Inez Yeargan Kaiser (April 22, 1918 – July 31, 2016) was an African-American educator, public relations expert, and entrepreneur. She was the first African-American woman to run a public relations company with national clients.
Early life and education
Kaiser was born in Kansas City, Kansas. She grew up in a time when African Americans in the South were not allowed the opportunity of a higher education. But she was determined to get an education.
Kaiser earned a bachelor's degree in education from Pittsburg State University in 1941. Later, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University. She also studied at University of Chicago, Rockhurst University, and Dartmouth College. She underwent special training in radio and TV network, retailing and merchandising in fashions.
Career
Kaiser taught home economics for more than 20 years in public schools. In 1957, she founded Inez Kaiser & Associates, which was both the first public relations firm led by an African-American woman and the first business owned by an African American to open in Kansas City. By the early 1960's, after securing 7Up and other big accounts, she had become the first African-American woman to run a public relations firm with national clients. She was the first African-American woman to join the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Public Relations Society of America, the profession's trade association.
Writing career
Kaiser began writing a column, "Fashion Wise and Otherwise", as a hobby, but she became so interested in helping other African-American women that she devoted several years to contacting publishers across the country, as well as promoting the use of pictures of models of color, giving them employment in areas where they had never been considered before. She wrote a column in The Kansas City Star titled "As I See It".
Kaiser also wrote a cookbook entitled Soul Food Cookery, which was published in 1960.
Political views
Kaiser was a life-long Republican, and she advised the Nixon and Ford administrations on issues related to minority women and business. According to her son, she voted for Barack Obama.*
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Kin 172: Yellow Electric Human
I activate in order to influence
Bonding wisdom
I seal the process of free will
With the electric tone of service
I am guided by the power of intelligence.
One should manage all actions, words and thoughts accordingly, since one can at any moment quit life.*
*Stat Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
Marguerite P. Justice (July 1921 – 17 September 2009) was the second woman, and the first black woman to serve as a police commissioner in the United States.
Early life
Marguerite P. Justice was born Marguerite P. Lecesne in New Orleans in July 1921. She was the youngest of the three children of her parents, Albert and Louise Lecesne. She moved to Los Angeles in 1945 and found work as a seamstress. In the early 1950's she became the private secretary to actress Linda Darnell. In 1954 she was to marry Pittsburgh Courier columnist Don Brown, but instead left her job with Linda Darnell to marry William H. Justice (whom she had met at church that same year).
Police Commissioner
Marguerite was appointed to a two-year term on the 5-seat Los Angeles Police Commission in 1971 by Mayor Sam Yorty becoming the second woman, and the first black woman to be named to the Los Angeles Police Commission. Her experiences were loosely adapted for an episode of the TV series "Adam-12". She was affectionately known by the LAPD as "Mama J".
Community Service and Activities
Marguerite became a well-known community activist in Los Angeles, and once stated in a 1971 Los Angeles Times article, "I'm fortunate to be married to a fine man who has provided me with leisure time for community work". In 1969, Marguerite formed a service group known as the Southwest Sweethearts, supporting the Southwest Division of the LAPD. The group was used during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics to set up a hospitality house for police officers that ran around the clock, providing meals and showers for the officers. Marguerite was given the Police Historical Society's Jack Webb Award for "her sustained commitment to law enforcement". She helped the society with its remodeling of its historic exhibit of LAPD uniforms, which was named the Marguerite Justice Gallery upon completion. She was appointed in 1984 by Governor George Deukmejian to the Bicentennial Commission for the U.S. Constitution. Marguerite worked with various youth groups, such as the youth fellowship program at St. Mark United Methodist Church, in the Los Angeles area throughout her life. She died at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.*
Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950's. Hayden graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in chemistry, and became an expert in spectrophotometry, the measurement of how substances absorb light. She published work on infrared and other techniques for analyzing chemicals in a range of journals. Hayden was appointed Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, and may have been the first African-American scientist at the FDA. Hayden came to national attention in 1963 when she led the team that exposed the common substance in Krebiozen, a long-controversial alternative and expensive drug promoted as anti-cancer. Hayden was married to fellow research chemist Alonzo Hayden, and had two children. She died in 1967.
Education
Alma Levant was born in Greenville, South Carolina on March 30, 1927 and graduated with honors in 1947 from South Carolina State College, a historically black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Originally planning to be a nurse, she found herself so interested in chemistry that she "just didn't want to part from it". She earned a master's degree in chemistry from Howard University.
Career
Hayden joined the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases at the NIH. The above photograph was taken there in 1952, showing her working with a technique called paper chromatography, spraying reagent on liquids dropped onto paper to detect precursors to steroids.
In the mid-1950's Hayden moved to the FDA, where she may have been the first person of color to work at the Agency. There had reportedly been a reluctance to employ African-Americans there because scientific officers may have to give testimony in courts, and there was concern about how this would be received in some parts of the U.S. In 1963, Hayden became Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
In 1962 in the wake of the Thalidomide tragedy, the Kefauver Harris Amendment increased the FDA's role in ensuring drug safety. With these provisions in place, the FDA sought to identify the ingredients in Krebiozen, a controversial and expensive alternative cancer treatment. Hayden assigned students in her branch the task of seeing whether spectrometer images of Krebiozen matched any of the 20,000 alphabetically-listed images on file at the FDA. A likely match was quickly found in the "C"s: a common substance, creatine. It occurs in the body at a far higher level than contained in Krebiozen, and had been shown to have no impact on cancer in animals.
Spectrophotometry and crystallography studies were conducted independently by three teams, including scientists from MIT. The discovery was announced at a press conference. Hayden's report is detailed in the U.S. Congressional Record. Hayden testified at the lengthy criminal trial of the promoters of Krebiozen.
Personal life
Hayden married a fellow NIH research chemist, Alonzo R. Hayden. Alonzo Hayden was from West Virginia, with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin.[4] He had also undertaken postgraduate studies at Howard University, and worked at the NIH from 1952 to 1958.
The Haydens had two children, Michael and Andrea. Alma Hayden died on August 2, 1967, and Alonzo Hayden died in 1993.*
Edith Irby Jones (born December 23, 1927) is an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine. Jones was the first woman president of the National Medical Association. She has been honored by many awards, including induction into both the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame and the inaugural group of women inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame.
Biography
Edith Mae Irby was born on December 23, 1927, near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, to Mattie (née Buice) and Robert Irby. At the age of eight, she lost her father, an older sister died at 12 years of age from typhoid fever, and Irby herself suffered from rheumatic fever as a child. These were motivating factors in her desire to help those who were under-served and impoverished, and which propelled her toward a career in medicine. Her mother relocated the family to Hot Springs, where Irby graduated from Langston Secondary School in 1944. After winning a scholarship, she studied chemistry, biology and physics at Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee. Irby was well aware of the role she was playing and obligation she had for the black community. One of her teachers had helped her attain the scholarship, members of the local African American community collected change and the black press ran a campaign in the Arkansas State-Press which they donated to help with her tuition and living expenses. During her schooling, she secretly made trips with teams of workers from the NAACP to enroll members for the organization. She graduated with her BS from Knoxville College in 1948 and then completed a graduate course at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois to prepare for Medical School.
"I hope to make a record that will reflect to the honor of my race and that will obviously show that we only want to be accorded the rights deserved by human beings and good American citizens."
—The Pittsburgh Courier, 9 October 1948
That same year, she was admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical School, as part of a racially mixed class, and made headlines across the United States from New York to Oregon to North Dakota to Texas. She became the first African American to be accepted in any school in the Southern United States and the news was carried in September 1948 in The Crisis, Life Magazine's January 31, 1949 issue, the January 1949 edition of Ebony, as well as other national publications such as Time and The Washington Post. During her second year of school, Irby and Dr. James B. Jones, a professor married; they subsequently had three children. In 1952, Jones received her Doctor of Medicine degree, as the first African-American graduate from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and was accepted to complete the first residency by an African American at a hospital in Arkansas.
Career
Upon her graduation, Jones returned to Hot Springs and practiced medicine there for six years. In 1959, when tension over the Little Rock Nine polarized Arkansas, and newspapers began to spotlight her again, Jones' family moved to Houston, Texas, where she was accepted as the first black woman intern at the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. The segregated staff at the hospital and limited patient rosters in Texas, caused her to finish her last three months of residency at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C. In 1962, she founded her private practice in Houston's "third ward", part of the inner city of Houston, to help those who could not access care elsewhere. That same year, she became the chief of cardiology at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Houston. She also became an associate chief of medicine at Riverside General Hospital. In 1963, she accepted a post as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Continuing her education, Jones completed graduate courses at the West Virginia College of Medicine in 1965 and the Cook County Graduate School of Medicine in Chicago in 1966. In 1969, she was honored by the Houston Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi professional women with the Matrix Award for Medicine.
In 1964, Jones was elected to serve as second vice president of the National Medical Association (NMA). In 1975, she became the first woman to chair the Council on Scientific Assembly for the NMA and then a decade later, she was elected as the first woman president of the organization. In 1986, Edith Irby Jones Day was proclaimed by the City of Houston and in 1988 she was named Internist of the Year by the American Society of Internal Medicine. She was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital in Houston and one of the 12 physician owners and developers of the Park Plaza Hospital. Jones also supervises residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center and is active on the board of Planned Parenthood and the Houston School Board.
Throughout her career, Jones has received many awards and honors for both her professional and volunteer work, including Honorary Doctorates from Missouri Valley College (1988), Mary Holmes College (1989), Lindenwood College (1991), and Knoxville College (1992); Southeast Memorial Hospital renamed its ambulatory center in her honor (1998); recipient of the 2001 Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Service from the American College of Physicians; inducted into the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame (2004); US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee nominated Jones as a Local Legend for the National Library of Medicine; induction into the inaugural class of women honored by the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in 2015; and received a commendation from the Texas House of Representatives for her service in 2015. Two international hospitals also are named in her honor: Dr. Edith Irby Jones Clinic in Vaudreuil, Haiti, which she helped found in 1991, and the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Emergency Clinic in Veracruz, Mexico.*
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