“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 9/18/13:
Elinor Otto, 93, became a “Rosie the Riveter” back in 1942 at Rohr Aircraft Corp. in Chula Vista. You’ll still find her working on the assembly line today at Long Beach’s Boeing C-17 plant. Read the wonderful story of this energetic woman, and a bit about the history of the local aerospace industry, here in an LA Times article by Samantha Schaefer. [Hat tip to EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter for this story.]
“In February, Mary Beard, a classics professor at the University of Cambridge, gave a lecture at the British Museum titled ‘Oh Do Shut Up Dear!’ With amiable indignation, she explored the many ways that men have silenced outspoken women since the days of the ancients. . . . Beard, in her unapologetic braininess, is a role model for women of all ages who want an intellectually satisfying life. . . . But in recent years, and somewhat to her surprise, Beard has found herself cast in the very public role of a feminist heroine. Through her television appearances, she has become an avatar for middle-aged and older women, who appreciate her unwillingness to fend off the visible advancement of age. Beard does not wear makeup and she doesn’t color her abundant gray hair. She dresses casually, with minor eccentricities: purple-rimmed spectacles, gold sneakers. She looks comfortable both in her skin and in her shoes—much more preoccupied with what she is saying than with how she looks as she is saying it.”
Biographer and film historian PATRICIA WARD KELLY is the widow of Gene Kelly. She has worked as a writer at a film production company, as a contributing scholar for the authoritative Northwestern/Newberry Writings of Herman Melville, and as a freelance journalist. She and Kelly met at the Smithsonian in 1985, when he was the host/narrator for a television special for which she was a writer. Soon after, he invited her to California to write his memoirs, a job for which she recorded his words nearly every day for over ten years, and they were together until his death in 1996. Currently, she serves as Trustee of The Gene Kelly Image Trust and Creative Director of 
S. DAVID FREEMAN is a senior advisor with 
“John Van Hamersveld designed the famous album jacket for the Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile on Main Street.’ Forty-two years later, he’s embedded on Main Street. Main Street in Huntington Beach, that is. The Southern California graphic artist joined the 
Glenn Close, 67 and most recently known for her role as Patty Hewes on the television show “Damages,” returns to Broadway this fall in Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.” The play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1967, starts preview performances on Oct. 20 and is one of theater’s most intense domestic dramas. Learn more 
Joan Baez: Singer, activist, peacenik, lover, legend | Music | 
