04-01 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Samuel Johnson, Carroline Bird and Dorothy L. Sayers.
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04-01 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
Died: 04-01-1204, Eleanor of Aquitane, born 1122, was the wife
of two kings, English and French, and mother of two kings. She was a patron
of literature, went on one of the Crusades, and was a staunch women's right
advocate.
B. 04-01-1866, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, welfare worker
who led the social work education movement in the United States favoring
economic equality for women and blacks.
B. 04-01-1872, Kersten Hesselgren, Swedish sociologist, first
woman factory inspector and first woman to be a member of both houses of
the Swedish Riksdag (1921).
In 1931 when she introduced the subject of the legal
status of women in the League of Nations, it "caused
no little amusement among the men."
She prevailed, however, and the committee studied
such things as women's right to vote, education, access to professions
as well as the state of a married woman's right to her earnings, a separate
name, ability to sign contracts - none of which were (and some of which
are still not) universal.
B. 04-01-1872, Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay, Soviet diplomat,
became the first woman to formally serve as a minister or ambassador to
a foreign country. She was an original Bolshevik leader. Her public affairs
with a several men caused the United States to formally refuse her passage
through this country on her way to Mexico in the 1930's!
B. 04-01-1877, Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, first woman elected moderator
(the titular head), Unitarian Association (1940), President Mills College
(1916) in Oakland, CA, the third oldest women's college in the U.S.
B. 04-01-1882, Florence Blanchfield, became the first woman commissioned
in the regular U.S. Army. FB succeeded Col. Julia Flikke June 1, 1943 as
the superintendent of the 30,000 woman U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Had joined
the Army Nurse Corps in 1917 and served tours all over the world.
B. 04-01-1884, Laurette Taylor, actor, Tony winner 1944-45 as
the mother in Glass Menagerie. Her stage career exceeded 30 years.
B. 04-01-1895, Alberta Hunter, one of the great ladies of the golden
age of jazz, singer and composer, gave up a very successful career
to become a nurse. She practiced for 20 years and then made a show business
comeback at age 82 packing them into New York nightclubs.
B. 04-01-1901, Dorothy McCullough Lee, mayor, Portland, Oregon
(1948).
B. 04-01-1902, Gladys Anderson Emerson, isolated vitamin E from wheat
germ oil, authority on vitamin E functions, pioneer explorer of relationship
between nutrition and cancer.
B. 04-01-1903, Jackie Martin, photographer-journalist, first
official photographer of the U.S. Women's Army Corps (Auxiliary), first
woman to be elected to the White House Photographers Association (1941),
first woman art and photographic editor, and first woman sports editor,
in addition to a distinguished newspaper career.
B. 04-01-1905, Clara Hale, social activist; known as Mother Hale
at Harlem's Hale House.
B. 04-01-1936, Vivian (Vickie) Adelberg, American composer, first
woman to win first prize with straight 10s in the 14th International Electoacoustic
Music Competition, Bourges, France, the largest and most important electronic
music competition in the world. Her composition was With Love, live
cello, dialogue, and prepared tape.
In 1977 her Kaddish won first prize in the
International Double Reed Society Composition contest, solo division. VA
was the first Maryland composer to have her orchestral piece (Force III)
performed in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore (1982).
Founder and artistic director/producer of Res Musica
Baltimore, Inc. (now Res Music America, Inc.) (1980-1991) promoting music
by American living composers. Produced 52 concerts and 22 Res Musica youth
concerts for the Baltimore City Public Schools.
B. 04-01-1940, Wangari Maathai, Kenyan human rights and enviornmental
activist, organized victims of violence in the Kenyan war, organized
the planting of trees in the Green Belt movement, first woman to earn a
Ph.D. and chair a department at the University of Nairoba.
Event: 04-01-1986: In Washington State 35,000 employees in female
dominated jobs began receiving $41 million in pay equity payments.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
JOHNSON, SAMUEL:
"The true test of civilzation
is a decent provision for the poor."
--
Samuel Johnson.
BIRD, CAROLINE:
"There is a simple
way to define a woman's job. Whatever the duties are - and they vary from
place to place and from time to time - a woman's job is anything that pays
less than a man will accept for comparable work."
--
Caroline Bird.
SAYERS, DOROTHY L.:
"Time and trouble will
tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable
by any earthly force."
--
Dorothy L. Sayers: Clouds of Witness
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