| 11-13 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Virginia Kneeland Frantz, medical
educator
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Roseanne Barr.
Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz
Born Nov. 13, 1896, Virginia Kneeland Frantz,
medical educator and surgical pathologist. When a student, M. Carey Thomas
encouraged her to go into medicine. She entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University, which in 1917 allowed women for a
short period because of the drop in male enrollment during WWI. She turned
to pathology so as not to compete with her physician husband, but their
marriage still failed as her fame grew.
Her
monograph Armed Forces Atlas of Tumor Pathology (1959) remains a
standard text. She studied chronic cystic tumors in women's breasts. She
discovered exidized cellulose, which when placed directly into a wound
is absorbed by the body and reduces bleeding. From 1924-1962 she taught
surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, finally becoming full
professor in 1951. Her mother was a trustee of a major hospital.
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11-13 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-13-1860, Helen Archibald Clarke with
lifetime partner Charlotte Endymion Porter founded, edited, and published
Poet Lore which introduced Americans
to a number of European modern poets. Both were prolific writers and editors
of writings by Shakespeare, Browning, Longfellow, and others. Ms. Clarke
was also a talented musician and composer.
B. 11-13-1862, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, English
traveler who explored and collected flora and fauna in equatorial and
western Africa when convention said women of her class should be serving
high tea.
B. 11-13-1876, Alice Spencer Geddes, educator,
builder of a college, a community center, and a legend in the eastern
Kentucky hills around Troublesome Creek. A landowner there had offered
her and her mother 50 acres to teach his children. Within five years she
had opened seven other high schools in the surrounding area. In her 30
years there, she also founded what is now Alice Lloyd College, which accepted
no federal or state funds... and charged no tuition to the poverty-stricken
youth of the area.
B. 11-13-1897, Tily Edinger, paleoneurologist,
vertebrate paleontologist, German-born American of prominent family (her
mother's bust was in a Frankfurt park and a street was named after her
father) was forced to flee Germany because she was Jewish. In 1927 she
had become curator of the vertebrate collection at the Senckenberg Museum.
In 1940 she joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology where she continued
the rest of her life. Her groundbreaking work was in the study of fossil
brains, which proved that each species evolved its brain to its own needs.
B. 11-13-1924, Sarah Jeannette Jackson, American-born
Canadian sculptor represented in numerous permanent collections in
U.S. and Canada.
Event: 11-13-1931, Arkansas's Hattie Ophelia
Wyatt Caraway appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat of her
late husband. In 1932 she became the first woman to be elected to the Senate
in her own right, re-elected in 1938, introduced an Equal Rights Amendment.
B. 11-13-1938, Jean Seber, tragic American-born
international film star who was systematically defamed and hounded
into suicide for an alleged interracial relationship that never even occurred.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
BARR, ROSEANNE:
"Why is it so shocking to see a woman kiss another woman [on TV] but
not to see a woman raped, mutilated, and murdered every two seconds?"
-- Roseanne Barr, commenting on the controversial
kiss between two women on the March, 1994 Roseanne television episode.
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