Now, a KOCO 5 editorial here is President and General
Manager Brent Hensley.
Women's History Month started as Women's History Day in 1911.
In 1987, Congress designated the month of March to be
Women's History Month.
Women have played a significant role in our country and
here in our state.
Some examples include Mary Alice Robertson,
the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives
from Oklahoma.
Mary Fallon, the state's first and only woman governor.
Hannah Atkins, the first black woman elected to the Oklahoma
House.
Shannon Lucid, the first woman to receive the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor,
civil rights activist Clara Looper,
and Wilma Mankiller, the first woman principal chief of the
Cherokee Nation.
And so many more women who have had a profound
impact on Oklahoma.
Here at KOCO, we're proud of the women who work
in front of the camera.
Many of them you see every day,
but also the women who work behind the camera and
throughout the station,
in service to our viewers and advertisers.
These women are leaders in the station and throughout the
community.
They are mothers, grandmothers, daughters,
sisters and friends, all making a difference to the people
in their lives.
We salute them, and I thank them for their work
to make KOCO TV the best it can be.
We encourage you. To make sure the women in your
life know how much they are appreciated and loved.
Every day I'd like to hear from you.
e-mail me at editorials at KOCO Calm.
This has been a KOCO 5 editorial.