Featuring profiles of area business women

2009
Women’s WORLD
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Featuring
profiles of area
business women
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A supplement to THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, October 20, 2009; HUBBARD PRESS, Hubbard, Ohio, October 24, 2009; ALLIED NEWS, Grove City, Pa., October 21, 2009
Carolyn L. Mild
Jeannie Putnam
Joann M. Jofery
Mary Kay
Cosmetics
Radisson Hotel
Sharon
JOANN M. JOFERY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Senior Sales Director
Mary Kay Ash created a Company 46 years ago to enrich
other women’s lives. She began by offering quality products to enhance a woman’s image and an unparalleled
business opportunity to help women achieve financial
success and personal fulfillment.
Mary Kay is one of the largest direct sellers of skin care
and color cosmetics in the world! In 2008, Mary Kay Inc
achieved another year of record results with 4.8 billion in
sales! It is a company that is family-owned and debt free.
This Company has allowed thousands of women to own a
home-based business and to enjoy all the benefits associated with it. The Company has recently been featured on
CBS News, Nightline, and other news programs as a
bright spot in the economy. We are in a ‘need’ business—
people generally decide they they ‘need’ a certain product
or service even in times of economic stress.
As a Senior Sales Director for Mary Kay for over 30 years,
Carloyn has the experience to train, educate, and motivate
her Consultants. She was the first Sales Director in the
area. Carolyn recently won her 15th career car - a 2010
Toyota Camry!
Executive Housekeeper
Jeannie began working for the
Radisson Hotel Sharon in 2008.
She brings over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry to
the Radisson. When not at work,
Jeannie enjoys spending time with
her family. She has two children,
Chuck and Sadie, along with 3
grandchildren, Nick, Lindsay and
Nola. Her hobby is needlework.
Joann M. Jofery
Carolyn L. Mild
710 S. Buhl Farm Dr. • Hermitage, PA 16148
(724) 981-1269
www.marykay.com/cmild
Attorney
A life long resident of Mercer County, Attorney Joann
M. Jofery has long demonstrated her commitment to
her community and her profession. She has served
statewide on Supreme Court and Pennsylvania Bar
Association Committees and is currently a member of
the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates.
Locally she has been an active board member of several non-profit agencies.
Attorney Jofery’s family law practice includes representing clients in divorce, custody, support, and all the
collateral issues connected with this area of the law. In
addition, Attorney Jofery represents clients with
employment problems, criminal charges, and general
civil law issues. As a former social worker, Attorney
Jofery has extensive experience in matters that come
before the juvenile court.
Attorney Jofery welcomes you to schedule an appointment to discuss your specific situation and determine
whether or not she can assist you.
Rt. 18 at I-80
West Middlesex, PA 16159
724-528-2501
Attorney at Law
19 Jefferson Ave. Sharon, PA 16146
724-981-6682
Josie Janusko Schwarz
Diane Gardner
Karen Piccirilli
National City
Bank
National City
Bank
National City
Bank
Licensed Financial
Consultant
Consumer Banker/Licensed
Financial Consultant
Assistant Vice President
Business Banking
Josie has over 20 years of experience in the banking
industry. She has a variety of products to suit your
financial needs. She is a licensed financial consultant
offering Annuities, Mutual Funds, Life Insurance,
Wealth Transfer Products and 529 Plans.
Diane Gardner is a Consumer Banker/Licensed
Financial Consultant at the Hermitage Office of
National City. She began her banking career in
1998 and became a Financial Consultant in 2002.
Her responsibilities include assisting clients with
their financial needs through traditional bank
products as well as investment alternatives. She
holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Slippery
Rock University and a Master’s in Business
Administration from Youngstown State University.
Karen is the Assistant Vice President of Business Banking
and Business Women’s Advocate for Mercer County. She
began her banking career in 1992 as a teller and has
worked as a sales associate and in the Employee Benefits
department of the Trust Company. Prior to becoming a
Business Banking officer, she was the branch manager of
the Sharpsville office. She is a 1993 graduate of Thiel
College with a BS degree in Business Administration and
is currently working toward an MBA degree. Karen is
responsible for partnering with the branches to retain and
expand business relationships.
She has also taken numerous American Institute of
banking classes and Investment Training.
A life long resident of the Shenango Valley she
resides in Hermitage with her two daughters Jenna &
Natalie. Josie has served various committees & officer positions with the SV American Business
Women’s Association. Currently she is the President
of the SV American Business Women’s Association.
Stop by the Sharon or Shenango Branches to see
Josie & receive a free assessment of your financial
needs.
Diane believes in supporting the community. She
was recently appointed as a Buhl Trustee and serves
on the boards of Sharon Regional Health System
and Shenango Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Diane resides in New Wilmington and likes to travel and golf. She invites you to visit her for your
financial needs at the Hermitage Office 2470 E.
State St.
Karen is a co founding member of the Coalition of Women
in Business for the Shenango Valley and Grove City/
Mercer Area. She is also the co chair of the Athena Power
Link in Mercer and Lawrence County. She is a member of
the local Chamber of Commerce, American Business
Women’s Association and Rotary. She also volunteers
with Junior Achievement, March of Dimes, and the Relay
for Life.
Karen resides in Jamestown with her husband Steve and
her three children. Karen invites you to visit her at the
Hermitage, Sharpsville, Greenville or Grove City branches for all your business needs.
Teresa Patterson, 40, and her dog Drake are videotaped by Don Ott near Martinsburg, Pa., for the television hunting series “Wired Outdoors,” a program that debuted Sept. 29, on The Sportsman Channel and encourages viewers to follow hunting trips via photos and videos publicized on social networking sites. One of the show’s three co-hosts, Patterson has been
hunting since she was 12 -- everything from waterfowl to black bears to deer -- at a time when she said it “wasn’t cool for
girls to hunt.”
stories on the Facebook and women hunting, and the out- on TV. It was just what we did
not.”
The “Wired Outdoors” staff MySpace pages for “Wired Out- doors industry is making gear together. I remember taking
them into the woods when they
and crew shot 13 episodes in doors,” and some will be fea- specifically for women.
“I think one reason is be- were small and covering with
about a year and a half, Say tured on upcoming episodes of
cause there are more single them blankets and just sitting
said. Patterson’s father Rex the show.
There will be 13 new moms, taking the kids to hunt- there.”
Fahr, who lives in Altoona just
Still, Fahr never imagined
north of Hollidaysburg, appears episodes of the show per year, ing education classes,” PatterPatterson said, featuring differ- son said. “They’re hunting with her daughter would end up
in a few episodes.
Patterson works full time as ent hunts from throughout the their kids to carry on tradition hosting a national outdoors
and put food on the table. Or show. “We’re so proud of her,”
a director of property manage- country.
Patterson grew up in Al- maybe they never wanted any- she said. “She’s such a great
ment for a local real estate company and had no prior TV ex- toona, at a time when she said thing to do with hunting, but hunter and has a great personit “wasn’t cool for girls to hunt.” now they’re going along with ality — I just think it’s fantastic.
perience.
“I’d been writing about my She couldn’t be deterred, even their husbands, taking a cam- Her intentions were just to enjoy the outdoors, and she’s the
hunting experiences, posting as doubters would question era.”
Hunting was a way of life for type that’d rather be outdoors,
field journals and photos,” Pat- whether she really shot her
terson said. “We had been talk- own kills. It’s a sport she “has Patterson, growing up with two and she’s raised her son that
brothers. Her parents exposed way, too.”
ing about doing a TV show, but such a passion for.”
“I’m still a girl,” Patterson all of their children to the outI had no clue of the depth of
On the Net:
the show. I had no idea it said. “I still like to dress up in doors at an early age.
“We did things as a family,
skirts and dresses. That doesn’t
would be national.”
The Sportsman Channel:
“Bringing a camera crew mean I can’t be self-sufficient in and they were always interest- http://tinyurl.com/yklu4q2/
ed,” said her mother, Frances
along with you brings a whole the woods.”
Wired Outdoors: www.wiredDespite all the teasing she’s Fahr. “All our children were outdoors.com
new aspect” to hunting, she
said. Fans are encouraged to endured, though, Patterson said brought up spotlighting deer
Pennsylvania Sportsmen Porpost their hunting photos and she’s recently seen more and watching ’Wild Kingdom’ tal: www.pasportsmenportal.com
A supplement to THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, October 20, 2009; HUBBARD PRESS, Hubbard, Ohio, October 24, 2009; ALLIED NEWS, Grove City, Pa., Wed. October 21, 2009
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) —
Teresa Patterson is now spreading her love of the outdoors to
a national audience.
Patterson, 40, who lives in
Hollidaysburg, about 90 miles
east of Pittsburgh, is a co-host
of “Wired Outdoors,” which debuted Sept. 29 on The Sportsman Channel. Patterson has
been hunting since she was 12
— everything from waterfowl
to black bears to deer.
“To me, it’s as close to God
as you can get,” Patterson said.
“Sitting in the woods in the
pitch dark and watching as
everything comes to life. It’s
like, this is as real and raw as it
gets in nature, in God’s country.
It makes me feel alive.”
“Wired Outdoors” is a new
approach to a hunting show,
Patterson said, because it doesn’t limit its content to the televised episodes. Patterson and
her co-hosts Jason Say and
Kyle Schwabenbauer upload
videos and photos from the
field and then notify fans on
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The show already has more
than 1,500 fans on Facebook.
“We’re bringing it to them
live as it happens,” she said.
“Instead of going out and filming a TV show and then waiting
six months or a year before it’s
on, we’re updating the Facebook fan page as it happens.”
Patterson landed a spot as
co-host through her involvement
with
PaSportsmenPortal.com, a Web
site of online field journals and
Pennsylvania hunting stories.
Her co-host Say, a resident of
Myerstown, near Lebanon
about 30 miles northeast of
Harrisburg, owns the Web site
and wanted to add a female
field staff member.
“I just thought, ’Why not
have Teresa?”’ he said. “She
hunts, and a lot of these people
on these shows are just a cute
face and just started hunting,
but that’s not the case with
Teresa. I’m always very concerned with the experience being real, and I stress to all the
people involved that we’re not
trying to be something we’re
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Pa. woman shares her love
of hunting on TV, online
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A supplement to THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, October 20, 2009; HUBBARD PRESS, Hubbard, Ohio, October 24, 2009; ALLIED NEWS, Grove City, Pa., October 21, 2009
Roberta Sciullli,
MPM, BSN
Karen Piccirilli
Michaelene
Gula, RN, BSN
Sharon Regional
Health System
Sharon Regional
Health System
Sharon Regional
Health System
Director of the Diagnostic
& Imaging Center
and Hubbard Diagnostic
& Specialty Imaging Center
Director Women’s Services
and Community Outreach
Senior Director of
Cardiovascular Services
Roberta Sciulli, MPM, BSN, recently joined Sharon
Regional’s Heart and Vascular Institute as its new
senior director of cardiovascular services. In her
role, Sciulli will provide leadership of all cardiovascular services including strategic direction in conjunction with the various cardiac medical directors.
Ms. Sciulli is a seasoned health care executive
bringing more than 20 years of operations management expertise to Sharon Regional, most recently
from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Her cardiac
services experience includes the design and oversight of invasive and non-invasive cardiac services, implementation of a cardiac service outreach program, development of
quality monitors and instituting
operational efficiencies to build
consumer friendly cardiac services. Ms. Sciulli received her
Bachelor’s in Nursing from Penn
State and a Master’s in Public
Management from Carnegie
Mellon University.
Karen Piccirilli is the Director Sharon Regional’s
Diagnostic & Imaging Center on Garden Way in
Hermitage and the Hubbard Diagnostic & Specialty
Imaging Center (opening 1/10). She earned her
Bachelor’s Degree Magna Cum Laude from
LaRoche College in Pittsburgh and radiologic technology education from Sharon Regional’s School of
Radiography. Karen brings more than 25 years of
diverse radiology experience to the Centers, having
previously worked in diagnostic
radiology, mammography, special procedures, and the School
of Radiography. Karen is committed to insuring that all who
come to the Centers for diagnostic tests receive the highest level
of customer service. She is the
mother of two children, Chelsea
and Chad, and resides in
Sharpsville with her husband,
Paul.
Betty Shindel, M.D.
Cindy Mastrian,
RN, CBPN-C
Christa Province
Sharon Regional
Health System
Sharon Regional
Health System
Juniper Village at
the Shenango Inn
Sharon Regional Health System
Breast Imaging Specialist
Board Certified Radiologist
Sharon Regional Health System
Nurse Navigator Breast Care Center
Dr. Betty Shindel is a Breast Imaging
Specialist at Sharon Regional’s Breast Care
Center, located in its Diagnostic and Imaging
Center at 2435 Garden Way in Hermitage. In
addition to her residency in diagnostic radiology, Dr. Shindel completed a Women’s
Imaging Fellowship at Magee Women’s
Hospital in Pittsburgh. Dr. Shindel specializes
in Screening and Diagnostic Digital
Mammography;
Breast
Ultrasound and Breast MRI;
Stereotactic,
Ultrasound
Guided, and MRI Guided
Breast
Biopsies;
and
Computer Aided Diagnosis.
Sharon Regional’s Breast
Care Center is Mercer
County’s most comprehensive facility for breast care.
Cindy Mastrian is the Breast Nurse
Navigator at Sharon Regional. Cindy has
been a registered nurse for the past 30
years and a breast cancer survivor for three
years.
As Nurse Navigator, she utilizes her experience to assist women through the journey
of breast cancer from the first questionable
mammogram through completion of all
testing, surgery and treatments. Cindy provides
emotional and educational
support to the patient and
her family and also presents
educational programs within the community. She is
the mother of three children
and resides in Hermitage
with her husband, Sam.
Michaelene (Mickey) Gula is the Director of
Women’s Services and Community Outreach at
Sharon Regional. Mickey earned a Bachelor’s
Degree in Nursing from Duquesne University and
has been at Sharon Regional for more than 30
years.
As director of women’s services, she is responsible
for the Women’s Center which provides inpatient
care for women and newborns at Sharon Regional.
She is also the director of Community Outreach
where she develops partnerships with community
groups and organizations to provide them with health programs
and screenings. Mickey is a
member of the United Way
Women’s Initiative and serves on
the Board of Directors of the
Minority Health Center.
She is the mother of two children and resides in Greenville
with her husband Joe.
Community Relations
Director
Christa Province is the Community Relations
Director for Juniper Village at the Shenango
Inn. Christa is a 1994 Sharpsville graduate
and a 1998 Youngstown State University graduate, it was there that she earned her degree
in Hospitality Management, focusing in Sales
and Marketing.
At Juniper Village, Christa oversees the Sales
and Marketing department, and assists families with placement for their loved ones. At
Juniper Village - assisted living community,
we strive to Nurture the Spirit of Life in each
individual we serve by providing an environment that encourages an active body, an
engaged mind and a fulfilled spirit.
Christa welcomes the community to come in
for a complimentary lunch and a personal tour
of Juniper Village. Please call Christa today to
reserve your seat at 724-347-4000 ext 130.
Mona Lisa Wallace, a board member with the National Organization of Women, holds a
glass of wine while standing with bottles received from the NOW wine club at her home in
San Francisco. From newspapers to NOW to the NRA, wine clubs have taken root in unexpected places, part of a trend to raise cash and strengthen ties with supporters.
line site, and features wine from antly surprised at the response,”
wines.
says Alice Ting, executive direcThe clubs come as wine has women winemakers.
“We thought it would be a tor of brand development for
grown in popularity in the U.S.,
said Larry Dutra, president of really fun and different way for the Times Company.
But wine clubs do face some
Sherman Oaks-based Vinesse, us to have a fundraiser for our
and
support obstacles, including restrictions
which runs about a dozen clubs, organization
including the NRA Wine Club. women winemakers,” Wallace on direct shipments in several
states. And not every wine lover
“Most people find that an odd said.
The New York Times club is is in love with the idea of this
pairing, but their customers are,
like every other American, en- part of a larger effort by the pa- unusual outsourcing.
Alder Yarrow, who writes the
joying wine in bigger numbers per to generate new revenue
streams and cultivate reader loy- wine blog Vinography, says
than ever before,” he said.
That includes Michael Gar- alty in the current challenging “you can get a lot more for your
ner, New Orleans businessman, market for newspapers. Like money just by trusting your loNRA supporter and wine lover. NOW and the NRA, the Times cal wine store.”
The unofficial motto of ViIn four years of getting the also uses an outside company,
nesse, he said: “We taste a lot of
group’s wine club selections he Global Wine Company.
The wine club site features bad wines so that our members
hasn’t been disappointed yet, he
said, describing some recently articles drawn from the paper’s don’t have to.”
delivered dry red wines as “just archives, but the venture is independent of the paper’s newsFeminist Wine Club: www.botunreal.”
The Feminist Wine Club, room to avoid a conflict of inter- tlenotes.com/feminist-wine-club
New York Times Wine Club:
meanwhile, is run by Silicon est. The club launched in
Valley-based Bottlenotes, an on- August and “we’ve been pleas- www.nytwineclub.com
day at The Tavern in the
Square, 108. N. Market St.,
New Wilmington.
Restaurant owner Susan
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LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Confirming that endorsement
deals still have
cachet in a recession,
“Transformers”
star
Megan
Fox is pulling
down a sevenfigure payday
to model Armani underFox
wear and jeans.
The 23-yearold will be the new face of Emporio Armani Underwear and
Armani Jeans in 2010, the Milan-based fashion house announced Wednesday.
Most endorsement deals pay
celebrities from $500,000 to $2
million for an ad campaign that
runs a year, and Fox will make
toward the high end of the
range, a person familiar with the
deal told The Associated Press.
This person was not authorized
to comment publicly and spoke
on condition of anonymity.
The actress’ publicity team,
managers and agents approached Armani several times
over the years to build the relationship. She wore Armani outfits at red carpet events and met
designer Giorgio Armani at an
Armani Prive fashion show in
Paris this year.
With Victoria Beckham’s
contract expiring and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
ballooning past $800 million in
worldwide box office, a deal finally clicked. Fox also plays a
possessed cheerleader in “Jennifer’s Body,” which launched in
theaters last month.
Overall advertising spending
is down, but brands continue to
pay for endorsement deals with
celebrities, said Carol Goll, head
of global branded entertainment
for International Creative Management, one of Hollywood’s
largest talent agencies.
“There’s a lot of interest in
celebrity spokespeople,” Goll
said. “We haven’t seen a decline
in that.”
The agency recently also
signed major deals for clients
Beyonce, with General Mills
Inc., and Ellen DeGeneres with
Cover Girl.
A supplement to THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, October 20, 2009; HUBBARD PRESS, Hubbard, Ohio, October 24, 2009; ALLIED NEWS, Grove City, Pa., Wed. October 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Quick, what pairs well with feminism, guns and The New York
Times?
Apparently, wine. The California National Organization for
Women, the National Rifle Association and the Times are just
a few of a growing cadre of unlikely groups launching wine
clubs as a way to raise cash and
strengthen ties with supporters.
“It’s a way that you can get
out there and you can get your
thoughts out there and you can
support the causes that you
care about,” said Mona Lisa
Wallace, a member of the board
of California NOW, which recently launched its own Feminist Wine Club.
Check the Web and a host of
other groups playing sometimes
sommelier pop up, from a wine
club run by the upper-crusty
Debrett’s (British etiquette experts) to clubs for dog-lovers.
But because most wine clubs
are privately held, it’s hard to
know how many there are.
Wine clubs run by wineries
have been around for years, but
the move toward organizational
clubs — often run by another
company specializing in the
business — appears to be more
recent, said Tom Wark, executive director of the Sacramentobased Specialty Wine Retailers
Association, whose members include Internet wine retailers.
“I’ve noticed an uptick in organizations that you wouldn’t
necessarily associate with wine
off the bat becoming in one way
or another associated with
wine,” he said.
Wine clubs are a bit like a
book-of-the-month club. Members sign up for regular shipments, selecting frequency and,
in some cases, a general preference for styles of wine. The club
then selects and ships the
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Like feminism? Like wine?
There’s a club for that
Megan Fox
gets top
dollar in
endorsement
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A supplement to THE HERALD, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, October 20, 2009; HUBBARD PRESS, Hubbard, Ohio, October 24, 2009; ALLIED NEWS, Grove City, Pa., October 21, 2009
Ruthanne
Beighley
Sarah Boland
Beth Veres
Attorney
at Law
The Herald
The Herald
Attorney at Law
Advertising Consultant
Advertising Consultant
Now starting my thirty-fourth year as a
Mercer County lawyer. I have limited my practice to estate planning and estate administration. Consultations are often held in clients
homes hospitals and nursing homes.
Sarah is employed by The Herald; a local
newspaper serving the Shenango Valley and
surrounding community. Her primary responsibility is classified advertising where she has
served for over two years managing automobile & real estate accounts. Sarah is also
responsible for the advertising in two highly
publicized news magazines; Life & Times and
The Business Chronicle. Sarah brings a variety
of experience to the position complimenting
her positive outgoing personality. Sarah’s previous work experience includes customer service & real estate advertising.
Beth, a Sharon native, first joined The Herald
staff in 1986 and worked for five years as a
Classified Operator. After taking time off to
raise her family, she finds herself at home at
The Herald once more as a Classified
Advertising Consultant. Though many things
have changed her responsibilities now
include inbound sales calls, outbound calls to
help promote special pages, helping customers with their advertising requests and
other advertising tasks.
I serve as corporate counsel for Joy Cone
Company. In addition, I am affiliated with
Greenville Financial Consultants as a licensed
agent.
Whenever possible, I sing or play the organ in
local churches. I also accept speaking engagements on legal topics.
Ruthanne Beighley
Attorney at law
[email protected]
3435 Lamor Road Hermitage, PA 16148
724-981-6774
Sarah resides in Reynolds with her husband Al
and their two daughters Meghan & Emma.
Sarah Boland
[email protected]
724-981-6100, ext. 225
Beth is the proud mother of three daughters,
Stephanie, Samantha and Christina. She especially enjoys spending time with her grandson,
Aundreas and two granddaughters, Keira and
Aryah. She resides in Wheatland with her
boyfriend, Rick.
salutes all
area women
who help
the valley’s
business
community
thrive!
AP
Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King, 48, queries young soldiers during an inspection at Fort Jackson, S.C. King recently became the first female to take command of the school for
drill sergeants at the Army’s largest largest training installation.
her values to young soldiers clean wax off a floor with a raand watching them grow into zor blade or run around the barsenior officers and enlisted men racks loaded down with a full
duffel bag.
and women.
“She’s got this unique way of
Lt. Col. Dave Wood, King’s
battalion commander, said she dealing with soldiers where she
was chosen for her approach to can be correcting them, but it’s
“the business of taking civilians in a manner that they’re wantiand making them into soldiers.” ng to please her and wanting to
Gone are the days of two do the right thing,” he said. “It’s
decades ago, Wood said, when not degrading to them.”
King recently took over comhis drill sergeant made him
mand of the Drill Sergeant
School at Fort Jackson, the
Army’s largest training installation. This year the school will
churn out about 2,000 of the inyour-face instructors.
The tough love approach
comes through as King conducted her barracks inspections
and daily “walkabout” to meet
with senior enlisted men and
women on a recent weekday.
A touch of bright red lipstick
and kohl-dark eyeliner doesn’t
soften her stern gaze when she
spots a sheet corner not properly tucked or a young soldier
with a uniform askew.
“What’s going on here?” she
queries, soldiers jumping to attention as she enters a room as
they relax between classes on
becoming finance clerks or legal aides. “Get back to school
and get back to doing something!”
King’s face softened once
she determined one soldier in
exercise gear wasn’t goofing off,
but just back from the dentist
and a root canal. “Get some
rest, soldier,” she advised the
woman with a swollen face and
jaw.
“You all make sure you get
your seven, seven hours of
sleep!” King said before heading
out the door.
King’s inspection companion,
1st Sgt. Teddy Johnson, said
with a relieved grin that a day
without King’s stern critiques
“wouldn’t be a normal day. ...
She’s always that way.”
Still, she has time for a few
other pursuits. She’s completed
one master’s degree in business
management and is working on
another in theology, saying she
enjoys studying issues of leadership in the Bible.
King’s elevation marks another barrier broken in a still maledominated service of 550,000
soldiers, of which only about 14
percent are female.
There were few women training alongside men when she
first entered the military in 1980,
just out of high school. Several
years later, she was chosen to
train as a drill sergeant.
King rose to become the first
female first sergeant named to
oversee the heart and soul of
Army warfighters: the headquarters company of the 18th
See SERGEANTS, page T-8
Beauty goes from runway to real world in no time
By Samantha Critchell
AP Fashion Writer
The top catwalks in New
York, London, Paris and Milan,
Italy, give head-to-toe style cues
for next season.
But while shoppers have to
wait months for the spring-season futuristic floral prints and
lingerie looks that debuted at
these just-wrapped Fashion
Weeks, the beauty trends can
move from runway to real world
right away.
“It’s like we’re already there,”
says Gordon Espinet, MAC
Cosmetics’ vice president of
artistry, who noted riskier
makeup looks than had been
the norm.
“Last season, I definitely
think there was a safe plan in
terms of how people showed
fashion, beauty, hair — everything seemed like a classic
look.”
The knee-jerk reaction to the
down economy was to be very
careful and commercial, Espinet
says. This season, though, there
was a more artful, edgy approach, leading to a new emphasis on dark eyes, glowing
skin and the occasional accent
of a bright color.
DailyMakeover.com is a Web
site that encourages beauty
junkies to try the ripped-fromrunway looks on their own uploaded photos. Users can do a
virtual screen test of bold brows
or orange lips and get a list of
suggested products with a few
clicks.
People seem most curious
about the bold red lip and bobstyle hair from Agent Provocateur, probably because it was
the sexiest one available, reports
beauty editor Rachel Hayes.
The next most popular look
was the fishbone braid at
Alexander Wang. “I think people want to envision what it’ll
look like first, before you go
through all the effort.”
Makeup and hair are very
closely aligned to the clothes,
says Chanel Makeup global creative director Peter Philips, who
is charged with using cosmetics
to define the overall vision of
Karl Lagerfeld.
To complement Chanel’s
chic country-fair look, Philips
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— Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa
King can dress down a burly,
battle-hardened sergeant in seconds with a sharp phrase and a
withering look, then turn
around and tell trainee soldiers
to be sure they get seven hours
of sleep.
As the first woman to take
charge of the Army’s school for
its order-barking drill sergeants,
the 28-year military veteran and
sharecropper’s daughter said
she’s used to breaking down
barriers in military roles normally reserved for men.
“It’s so easy because I love
it,” said King, a single, 48-yearold North Carolina native. “I
have a family in the Army. It is
my family.”
The stern discipline dispensed by her late father to his
12 children set her on a path of
taking responsibility for herself
and her siblings early on, King
said during a recent interview
on the Army’s training base
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She learned to “give a hard
day’s work for whatever I
earned and take no short cuts,”
said King, who enjoys passing
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of drill sergeants
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Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg,
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sergeant majors, 22 colonels
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Dear Harriette: Quite a few
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ette
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While opportunities for
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excluded from assignments
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Yet modern-day battlefields
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“I have one chance to do it,
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soldier could not survive on the
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She’s pleased that her rise
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“It means a door has been
opened. ... Who knows how far
we can go?” she asks. “I just
want people to be able to fly.”
empowered.” — use black
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ä Nude lips
The beige lip that was so
popular is an easy trend to
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does indeed need adapting, says
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usually have foundation on their
lips but she suggests beige lipstick instead.
ä Punk princess
Neutrals aside, there were
some moments of unexpected,
in-your-face color, too, including
the use of purple, blue, green
and orange lipsticks. “The theatrical trends are like the street
theater of the late ’70s and ’80s
when people were inspired by
punk — that’s what it reminds
me of,” Espinet says.
Still, it’s one bright effect on
an otherwise plain face. “You
want minimal product with maximum impact,” Espinet advises.
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women tweak it to make it
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There was a clear indication
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