Hurricane season has hit the Gulf Coast especially hard this year. In the aftermath of Katrina, hundreds of thousands of newly homeless people streamed into Texas, with some 13,000 finding refuge in San Antonio. It took enormous effort and good organization to...
When Alma L. Lopez was 5 years old, her maternal grandmother urged her to be la nunca vista — something that's never been seen before. With that guidance, Lopez set out on a string of uncommon achievements. When she graduated from St. Mary's Law School in the late...
The police van is parked just outside a building where two accountants are held hostage by a co-worker named Leslie. A woman with no previous criminal record, Leslie was recently indicted on 56 counts of embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion, and she is angry...
Today, many women find themselves in leadership positions in education, but they are still a minority among college presidents. According to the American Council on Education, only 21 percent of four-year colleges and universities are headed by women, and the number...
Back in 1972, when Karen Jennings first joined what was then Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, she thought she would work for a few years, then probably quit to marry and have babies. And although she did all three at some point — quit, marry and have a son — she...
Women may still be a small minority in the military, but their numbers and responsibilities are growing. They are routinely deployed overseas, including hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan. With the nation's attention riveted on the precarious situation in Iraq, we...
Review the history of firsts for women and notable ironies pop out. Before women won the right to vote, they were legally practicing medicine. The story of women in medicine today is the story of modern medicine — a fascinating, complex, rapidly changing narrative...
We can now say, without million-dollar research to support the assertion, that times have officially changed. The Web is today's village matchmaker. It has supplanted your Aunt Helen in Topeka, well-meaning clergy and hundreds of years of tradition. True love, or at...
it's a chilly November night in San Antonio, but inside Earl Abel's Restaurant the atmosphere is warm and jovial. I have joined two married couples, Paul and Phyllis Silber and their good friends John and Amelie Shaw, for dinner. Tonight's special is fried oysters,...
Caterers bring expertise as well as food to the table It’s an ordinary Thursday in September, but inside the spacious offices of UBS Financial Services there is a party in full swing. Formerly known as PaineWebber, the company is celebrating its reopening as a branch...
They’ve used talent, grit and endless determination to earn their wings. Some members of San Antonio’s fair sex give new meaning to the term "uppity women." They are the ones who, despite all odds and opposition, continue the San Antonio woman’s love affair with the...
Four San Antonians talk candidly about passion for their interests, commitment to family and community and vision for the future It’s not easy to define the contemporary San Antonio woman. Like elsewhere in the United States, women’s lives have changed profoundly in...
