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. She retired [...]

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 [...]