with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Four teachers and the first class of eighty young women lived and studied in the building when the school opened.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She says many times the school nurse is the first one to bring health problems to the attention of parents.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Mary knew the importance of what had been established -- the first independent school for the higher education of women.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

She collected the first thousand dollars for the school from women in and around the town of Ipswich.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Berea College is a small Christian school in Berea,Kentucky, that pays all first-year costs for its foreign students.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The first lady said the plan also includes increasing the number of high school students who take part in physical education classes.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

After high school, the Cleveland Cavaliers chose LeBron James with the first pick in the two thousand three National Basketball Association draft.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Tina Tan says the federal government requires international students to show on their applications how they will pay for their first year of school.

VOA: special.2009.01.22