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Rosie the Riveter calendar for 2008

Filed under Trades Related Events, Women in Trades

You can get your Rosie the Riveter calendar “Strength, Grace, Courage” for $25, online at wa.womenintrades.com. Other locations can be found on the Web site. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar go to Washington Women in Trades, a volunteer organization begun in 1978 to support women working in non-traditional jobs.

Did you know that the original Rosie was a woman named Rose Will Monroe, a Ford employee who built B-24 and B-29 bombers in Michigan? That’s one of the tidbits you’ll find in a great story profiling Rosie and interviewing some of the original Rosies here:

http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/articles/2007/12/17/news/local_news/news04.txt