This is the eight installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Before turning 10, Terry Tepper took the helm of the family’s 40-foot wooden yacht and steered into Barbados harbor, “My father handed me the tiller and said, ‘take her in’. He folded his arms, sat down on the bow and smiled. I backed the […]
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Honored Role Series (Part 7): 1st. Lt. Aubrey McCary – Shades of Gray
December 18, 2009 in Role Models
This is the seventh installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Her packing list includes body armor, a Kevlar helmet, a M-16 rifle, 3 pairs of desert tan boots, and 4 sets of camouflage uniforms; wrapping up the list are a set of pink, plaid flannel pajamas, a “Pride & Prejudice” DVD, Hello Kitty office […]
Honored Role Series (Part 6): Maj. Mindy Kimball – Shooting for Stars
December 11, 2009 in Role Models
This is the sixth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Pondering science, space, and astronomy inspires US Army Major Mindy Kimball, because she has long dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Many astronauts begin their space quests in the military, which is where Mindy hopes her quest is beginning as well. Mindy grew up in […]
Honored Role Series (Part 5): Hae-Sue Park – Getting Out of the Comfort Zone
December 4, 2009 in Role Models
This is the fifth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. When Liet. Col. Hae-Sue Park retired from the Army two years ago, the most common questions she received from friends, “I can’t believe you retired. Do you have any regrets? What are you going to do?” Although she loved the challenges of her 20-year […]
Honored Role Series (Part 4): Jen Boggs – US Soldier turned UN Peacekeeper
November 20, 2009 in Role Models
This is the fourth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. “It is amazing how more alike we are than we are different,” said Jen Boggs, Coordination Officer in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping at the United Nations. “The vast majority of people from all backgrounds want the same things: to live in […]
Honored Role Series (Part 3): Maj. Stephanie Ahern – Soldier, Scholar, and Mother
November 13, 2009 in Role Models
This is the third installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Before kindergarten Stephanie Ahern drafted her life plan; graduate high school, attend a good college, earn a masters degree and then a doctorate, like her father a metallurgical engineer, work for a year or two and than get married. That is as far as […]
Honored Role Series (Part 2): Becky Kanis – Armed Service and Social Service
October 29, 2009 in Role Models
This is the second installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. As a junior high student in Franklin, Tennessee, Becky Kanis remembers the excitement and awe of fellow parishioners when they learned a young woman from St. Philip’s Catholic Church received an appointment to a service academy. Carol Anderson, a high school senior and St. […]
Honored Role: A weekly series about role models
October 23, 2009 in Role Models
Between 1980 and 2008, 3,245 women graduated from West Point and have served selflessly in the Nation’s armed forces. Most of them, whether or not they still wear the uniform, are ordinary women with extraordinary stories of perseverance and integrity. They are soldiers and wives, mothers and daughters. They are doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergy and […]