02-22 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The first woman jockey to win a race at a major U.S. flat
track
...from Irene Stuber's 1995 WOAH column
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Anita Hill.
Barbara Jo Rubin
Event February 22, 1969: The first woman jockey
to win a race at a major U.S. flat track was Barbara Jo Rubin, a 19-year-old
former veterinary student who had learned to ride at Miami academies. She
broke into thoroughbred racing as an exercise girl at Tropical Park, then
earned her license early in 1969.
Ready to ride, she was named to her first mount at
that same track on January 15 of that year (1969). However, male jockeys
pelted her dressing room with rocks and threatened to leave the track if
she rode, so officials pulled her from the ticket.
Six weeks later, on February 22, she rode in - and
won - her first race at Charles Town, Virginia, and within two months of
that victory had finished first in half of 22 starts. Already tall at 5
foot-5, Rubin continued to grow. The extra height and weight, plus some
serious medical complications resulting from knee injuries, forced her
retirement only a little more than a year after her dazzling career had
begun.
-- From Joan McCullough's First
of All, Significant "Firsts" by American Women, Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, New York, 1980.
An eye-opening and entertaining book. It was one of
the "first" to start uncovering women's HERstory so there are
some errors (as there are in WOA and every book ever written) as women
uncover more of the hidden past.
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-- from 1995 WOAH column
In view of some of the stuff that's coming out of the new Congress to
role back the Crime Bill and the Violence Against Women Act that is part
of it, does anyone remember a Heat In the Night TV show in which
a woman is charged with murder for killing her sexual harassing boss?
The telling part was when the husband says to her
that he would take the blame for the murder and only serve a couple of
years because he was defending his wife's honor. But if she admitted to
killing him, she would be charged with murder (for defending her own honor)
and go to jail for life. "That's the way the
system works," said the husband.
So she was charged with murder. One wonders what the
husband have been charged with? Justifiable anger? (As we understand it,
a man can protect his property but a woman can't protect herself.)
So maybe the law should be changed?
So maybe the law is on the side of the (male) harasser
and rapist?
Was she right in doing what she did? Under the circumstances,
when the law let HER down, refused to protect HER, one wonders about the
way the laws are written and administered. Who is being protected?
By the way, for those of you who do not consider yourself
feminists and won't join any feminist organizations, are you aware that
the feminist organizations are the ones who are fighting to right these
legal wrongs? The guys who are encouraging you to stay out of the political
field are, in fact, guaranteeing the legal prejudices against women.
Remember at the signing of the Declaration of Independence:
"We must all stand together, or surely we shall
all hang separately?"
They've got women separated - and we're hanging,
being beaten, murdered, etc. Don't YOU think it's time to get involved?
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02-22 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 02-22-1822, Isabella Beecher Hooker, a lifelong
suffrage leader who died 13 years short
of the goal.
Event: 02-22-1883: American Anti-Vivisection
Society organized by Caroline Earle White.
B. 02-22-1887, Marguerite Clark, stage and
screen actor.
B. 02-22-1889, Lady Olive St. Clair Baden-Powell,
chosen chief guide of the world's girl scout movement in
1930 and continued in that post for several decades. Had headed the Girl
Guide movement in England from 1917 on. Made Dame of the British Empire
in her own right in 1931. Her husband had been the founder of the Boy Scout
movement. Her birthday is celebrated as Girl Guides Day in most British
Commonwealth countries.
B. 02-22-1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, American
poet of lyric verse and sonnets. Won the
1924 Pulitzer Prize. Her first poem Renascence gave her instant
fame. Somewhat abandoned by critics following her death and tagged as trivial
by some, she is constantly being rediscovered by women who see her rebellion
as their voice. An admitted lesbian, Millay did marry and became more and
more isolated as alcoholism claimed her.
Event 02-22-1912, Thirty-five starving women
and children were beaten and arrested
at the train station of Lawrence, Massachusetts, when they tried to go
to temporary homes in Philadelphia. Workers were striking the lowering
of wages and poor working conditions in the textile plants.
B. 02-22-1917, Jane Auer Bowles, writer of
unusual, haunting fiction.
Event: 02-22-1974, the first women's basketball
game took place in Madison Square Garden and the management, convinced
that the women couldn't draw a crowd, also scheduled a man's game afterwards.
Following the women's game, the crowd of nearly 12,000 left and the men
played before empty seats.
Event 02-22-1994, the Church of England announced
officially that it would ordain women as priests.
The first ordination of the 1,200 women in line for priesthood occurred
03-12-1994, with the first woman celebrating communion 03-13-1994, British
Mother's day. The U.S. Episcopal Church had ordained 1,031 women by the
time of the Church of England announcement. Thirty-five Anglican priests
announced they would leave the church, some saying they would join the
Roman Catholic Church and predicting as many as one-third of the men would
leave over the ordination of women. It did not occur.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
HILL, ANITA:
"I regret in many ways
that it [my testimony] was manipulated or misperceived. And I have my moments
when I just wish that I could go back to the way things were before. But
that's not realistic.
"When I think of what has happened in a larger
sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
"I am really proud to be a part in whatever way
of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first
time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have
a Senate made up of 98 men and two women."
--
law professor Anita Hill, one year after her U.S. Senate committee testimony
about the sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas who
was confirmed. There were NO women members on the committee.
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