She galvanized other kids and started a movement to trick-or-treat at Halloween for coins for hurricane victims.
Ms. Grimbol considered Sag Harbor her first real home, and she galvanized her congregation with her enthusiasm, increasing the membership from 150 to 350.
"We had an archaic computer system and she galvanized efforts to propel us into the modern world," added Ms. Muirhead, who lives in New Haven.
Her only sustained contact with the sterner world outside the salon and the study was during the World War when she galvanized the wealthy Americans of Paris into relief projects for the refugees and orphans, and in the interest of the Allied cause visited the front-line trenches and hospitals to tell their story to American readers.
Most recently, she galvanized the sport, child protection, and civil rights communities in support of a new federal law, the SafeSport Act, signed into law in February 2018.
She galvanized them to act together, with a determination that drew on spiritual power and a determination that a better life was possible.
If she can pull it off, and if she can galvanize her party, Germany may be treated to an extraordinary sight: that of a woman entering the still-unfinished Berlin Chancellery, a vast Kohlian monument to male fantasies of power, and taking office as the first Kanzlerin in a house built for a Kanzler.
On stage, she can galvanize a crowd of 1,400 women and bring them to their feet (as she did at the 2013 Emily's List Inauguration Brunch).
Sept. 11, she said, "galvanized us".
She helped galvanize organizations of anthropologists in Africa and Europe and oversaw the awarding of fellowships and grants.
