OLLI101576 - The Remarkable Women of World War I and II

Course Description

THE REMARKABLE WOMEN OF WORLD WAR I AND II

Instructor: David Wesley Tonkin

Day of Week: Thursdays

Dates: July 11 & 18 (2 sessions)

Time: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Location: Online via Zoom

This two-episode seminar chronicles and is a timely tribute to the magnificent yet unheralded soaring heroic deeds of women in history’s bloodiest conflicts. In Episode One: The Remarkable Women of World War I, we will discuss the remarks of Mildred Aldrich, a journalist, editor and writer from Rhode Island who witnessed the bloody First Battle of the Marne. She wrote to Gertrude Stein, “It will be the bloodiest affair the world has ever seen; carried out with the most effective man-slaughtering machines ever used in battle.” This seminar is reverently dedicated to the many thousands of remarkable women who contributed by their altruistic actions; they believed, to the hastening of the end of this senseless and futile conflict. In Episode Two: The Remarkable Women of World War II: we will discuss sixteen women of the Allied nations who had to extend the scope of their healing and caring to save and fight for the people brutally and unspeakably targeted for genocide by the Germans and the Japanese. How they succeeded makes for a massive story of heartrending sacrifice, vision, unfathomable heroism and success! Yet so many have not ever been recognized.

Maximum: 150

Instructor Bio: David Wesley Tonkin has traversed the globe many times and has appreciatively gathered a rich tapestry of remarkable and matchless life-lessons, vivid memories, experiences and opinions. He is a retired Airborne Cavalry Officer who saw service in the South African-Cuban-Angolan Wars and as a UN peacekeeper in five African countries in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has held entrepreneurial COO level and thought leader and strategic positions at global business training enterprises. In 2008, David was honored with the “Excellence and Innovation in Corporate Learning” Award at the 9th Annual Corporate University Awards. This highly coveted and prestigious global award is co-sponsored by The Wharton School of Business and Training Magazine. David’s eclectic range of lectures all benefit from his many years of global travel and the embracing of a rich collective of experiences and research to fuel his wide range of topical coverage.

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