Subject: Women--Political activity - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 3.0 linear feet
Abstract:: The Nether Providence Township Council of Republican Women, a local branch of the Pennsylvania Federation of Republican Women, was founded in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1963 and disbanded in 2005. The purposes of the organization were to promote the Republican Party and its candidates as well as to advance women in political knowledge and political activity. The bulk of the Nether Providence Council of Republican Women records, 1963-2005, is scrapbooks; also included are administrative and financial records, membership materials, event planning materials, newsletters, and framed certificates and awards.

Held at: Nether Providence Historical Society [Contact Us]

Extent:: 14.5 linear feet (21 doc boxes; 2 half doc boxes; 2 oversized boxes; 1 record carton; 1 poster)
Abstract:: Lynn Hardy Yeakel was born in 1941 in Portsmouth, Virginia to Representative Porter Hardy, Jr and his wife, Lynn. She graduated in 1963 from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She married Paul Yeakel in 1965. Lynn Yeakel has also earned a Master's of Science in Management from American College. She has launched three political campaigns: for U.S. Senate in 1992; as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the governor of Pennsylvania in 1994; and as a Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate in 2002. Yeakel is also a long-time advocate for girls' and women's rights. She co-founded Womens Way in 1976, served as Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 1994 to 2000, and has been the Director of Drexel University College of Medicine's Institute for Women's Health and Leadership since 2002. Lynn Yeakel has made four donations to the Legacy Center since 2010, one being the institutional...(see more)

Held at: Drexel University: College of Medicine Legacy Center [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 86 pages with 88 page enclosure)
Abstract:: Marjorie Bragunier "Marj" Skinker (1928-2020) had a lifelong involvement with the media and Republican Party politics, including serving as Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee during the 1968 presidential campaign. The Marj Skinker album of Republican women's Voteswagon tour contains photographs, postcards, correspondence, and ephemera relating to the Voteswagon, a bus decorated with campaign stickers and run by women members of the Republican Party, which toured the country to rally women support for the Nixon-Agnew campaign in September and October, 1968.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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