| 11-09 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The First Female Professor at a Medical School
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Voltaraine de Cleyre and Robin Morgan.
Florence Sabin
Born Nov. 9, 1871, Florence Sabin, first woman
to teach at Johns Hopkins Medical College as the first female professor
at a medical school. She was a key figure in the movement to change medical
care from the cure of disease to the maintenance of health.
Combining research with teaching, by 1919 she had
determined the origin of red corpuscles in the body. In 1925 she was elected
to the National Academy of Sciences and became a member of the Rockefeller
Institute, both firsts for women. She was forced to retire from the institute
in 1939 because of her age, but she continued her research privately.
Her mother Rena Miner was a teacher. Sabin was the
first woman to graduate from John Hopkins University (after a huge donation
in 1897 by Mary Garrett forced Johns Hopkins to accept women). A Johns
Hopkins classmate Dorothy Mendenhall identified the cell that causes Hodgkin's
disease. When she returned to Colorado, the state of her birth, she was
appointed chair of a subcommittee on public health. Her statue is in the
Statuary Hall in Washington, DC.
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11-09 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-09-1805, Harriot Kezia Hunt, gaining
an informal medical education, emphasized hygiene, diet and common
sense. Refused entrance to Harvard Medical College because of her sex in
1847, was finally accepted in 1850 but male students objected and she was
refused again. No woman would be allowed into the college for another century.
Active in the woman suffrage movement.
B. 11-09-1831, Cornelia Adele Strong Fassatt,
painter of The Florida Case Before the Electoral Commission
hanging in the U.S. Capitol building that contains the faithful likenesses
of 260 prominent figures of the day.
B. 11-09-1833, Sally Louisa Tompkins, made
a captain in the Confederacy so she could continue operating a private
hospital which had less than a 7% fatality rate, an unbelievably low rate
for the times. She was buried with full military honors when she died in
1916.
B. 11-09-1866, Florence Prag Kahn,
U.S. Representative, California's Fourth
Congressional District, 1925-1937. Deeply committed to politics during
her husband's 25 years of public service, she won his seat in a special
election when he died. Both witty and effective, she soon became an influential
member of Congress serving on the military and appropriations committees.
Due to her lobbying, federal funds were secured for the San Francisco Bay
Bridge.
B. 11-09-1869, Marie Dressler, won 1930 Academy
Award for Min and Bill.
B. 11-09-1871, Florence Sabin, the first woman
to graduate from John Hopkins University (after a huge donation in
1897 by a woman required women be admitted to the university) Sabin discovered
the origin of red corpuscles. A classmate, Dorothy Mendenhall identified
the cell that causes Hodgkin's disease. Sabin was the first woman to teach
at Johns Hopkins Medical College, the first female professor at a medical
school. Key figure in movement to change medical care from cure of disease
to maintenance of health. Her mother, Rena Miner, was a teacher.
B. 11-09-1883, Edna May Oliver, character actress
of stage and screen.
B. 11-09-1905, Arthemise Goertz, author
was caught in Japan during World War II and was kept in house arrest for
the duration.
B. 11-09-1928, Anne Sexton, tormented American
poet who won Pulitzer Prize for her poems examining her emotional illness.
Event 11-09-1938: Crystal Night in Germany
when Hitler's men raided Jewish homes and synagogues. The name is derived
from the broken glass that covered the streets. Lest we forget... More
than four million women and children were killed by Hitler. He abolished
abortion and birth control and held contests and awarded medals for women
bearing the most children, had camps and homes where women were used for
men's pleasure and breeding - and there were no women were among the leaders
of the Nazi party. In addition to sharing ALL the horrors that the men
in concentration camps suffered at the hands of the Nazis, the women also
were raped and sexually tortured - by both inmates and Nazis.
Event 11-09-1973, Billie Jean King testified
in a U.S. Senate hearing that women's
athletic programs receive only 1% of what men's programs receive.
Event 11-09-1977, at the request of the American
bishops, the Roman Catholic Church halted, retroactively, the automatic
excommunication of divorced and remarried American-Catholics.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
De CLEYRE, VOLTARAINE:
"Let every woman ask
herself: 'Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be the
equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must
my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household,
giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from
me? Will take them away while yet unborn?' Let every woman ask."
--
Voltaraine de Cleyre (1866-1912) written in 1890.
MORGAN, ROBIN:
"I'm just a person
trapped inside a woman's body."
--
Robin Morgan
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