Monthly Archives: July 2009

Jul29

A Loss for Kent State University School of Fashion

By Angela Elder, Sr. Director of Career Development Programs, NRF Foundation | Published: July 29, 2009
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The education and retail communities have lost a respected and admired leader. Elizabeth Rhodes, the former director of the Kent State University School of Fashion Design and Merchandising died Thursday following a 15-year battle with cancer. Her battle with the disease started in 1994, one month after she was hired to head the fashion program. [...]

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Jul08

Work Harder and Overdeliver

By Angela Elder, Sr. Director of Career Development Programs, NRF Foundation | Published: July 8, 2009
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My book club is currently reading a biography of Helen Gurley Brown, the amazing, self-assertive author and editor. Not only was Brown a trailblazer with her book “Sex and the Single Girl,” she was also an enormously successful editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. Success being measured by increased readership and advertising revenue, and she was there [...]

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