Albuquerque Women Celebrate! Dance! Sing!
Latest news: see this last video: Homeless Women = 25% of Albuquerque’s homeless people. Now people are finally creating a program to work with these women to re-build their lives. This is exciting news as the program is far more than just a shelter. See the video and contact the organization. If you have a way to help, contact. If you are from another town or state, contact them for ideas so you can help people in your community. Also find out what skills these women are learning and perhaps you could hire some people in your business. You can think small too: perhaps you could use a part time cleaning person, or someone to offer daycare services for your staff, or a PT clerk for filing, taking care of the mail, or be a courier. Need someone to run your errands? Be creative. Hire someone to wash cars on the car lot, or deliver lunches. You might be able to help someone in need get the help to start out. Bag grocieries, cashier? Thank you for helping.
Originally I thought to do a few short bios about great women in Albuquerque, I can come back to that theme again. Let me know what you think about these topics. Also suggest themes you’d llike to read more about.
Look who I found: MADGE HARRAH!
Career
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, graphic artist, 1958-60; writer and illustrator, 1960—; freelance artist, 1962-85; instructor and lecturer in creative writing, 1980—.
Member
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, National League of American Pen Women (former state president), SouthWest Writers Workshop.
Honors Awards
New Mexico Civil Air Patrol award, 1985-88, for outstanding service as a public-affairs officer; (with Colonel Larry Harrah) Decade of Dedication Award, 1990, for dedicated service to New Mexico Civil Air Patrol; Golden Spur Award for best juvenile fiction, Western Writers of America, 1990, for Honey Girl; Parris Award, 1993, for service to Southwest Writers Workshop; Woman of Distinction Award, New Mexico Chaparral Girl Scout Council, 1994; First Prize for Juvenile Fiction, National League of American Pen Women, 1998, ZIA Award for Best Juvenile Fiction, New Mexico Press Women, 1999, and national Grand Prize for Best Juvenile Fiction, National Association of Press Women, 2000, all for My Brother, My Enemy; Notable Trade Book citation, National Council for the Social Studies, 2004, for Blind Boone: Piano Prodigy; The Prize earned grand prize in an international play competition.
Writings
FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
The Nobody Club, Avon (New York, NY), 1989.
(And illustrator) Honey Girl, Avon (New York, NY), 1990.
No Escape, Avon (New York, NY), 1993.
(And illustrator) Comet Luck, Avon (New York, NY), 1994.
My Brother, My Enemy, Simon and Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.
Blind Boone: Piano Prodigy, Carolrhoda Books (Minneapolis, MN), 2004.
FOR ADULTS
Call of the Dove, Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 1985.
(As Monique Harrah) Mirror of Darkness, Zebra Books (New York, NY), 1986.
(As Monique Harrah) The Mists of Milwood, Zebra Books (New York, NY), 1987.
(As Monique Harrah) Shadow of the Cat, Zebra Books (New York, NY), 1988.
Author of novel Dark Current, serialized in Cappers Weekly, 1979. Contributor of stories and articles to periodicals, including Guideposts Magazine, Readers’ Digest, Catholic Digest, Church Herald, Saturday Review, Light and Life, Grit, Outlook, Upper Room, Impact, Sunday Digest, Ragtimer, Prism, Albuquerque, Albuquerque News, Mississippi Rag, and Fellowship in Prayer. Essays and stories included in anthologies, including On Children and Death, edited by Elizabeth Kublar-Ross, 1983; A Treasury of Catholic Digest: Favorite Stories of Fifty Years, 1986; Show Me Missouri Women, Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1993; The Gifts of Love, Guideposts Book Division, 1994; and Night Terrors, Simon and Schuster, 1996.
STAGE PLAYS
Teenagers of the Bible (one-acts), Baker’s Plays (Boston, MA), 1969.
(With Paula Paul) The Legend of Old Tome (musical), produced in Tome, NM, 1976.
GOOGLE her for more information, or go to Amazon.com and get a book.
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See you tomorrow! Mary MacIntyre
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