| 11-16 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Simone Veil.
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11-16 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-16-1853, Mildred Aldrich wrote under
H. Quinn as well as her own name. At 61 she retired as a drama critic
and moved to a hilltop residence in France that would overlook the plain
where the Battle of the Marne would occur. Wrote several books about the
battles, soldiers' experiences, and the war in general. She was awarded
the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1922 for her war efforts.
B. 11-16-1869, Esther Pohl Lovejoy, physician,
administrator, feminist.
B. 11-16-1899, Mary Margaret McBride from 1934
to 1954 conducted a radio show of astonishing and human interest facts
and in 1940 was voted the most popular woman in radio.
[In 1971 MMM was asked
to judge a N.Y.S. high school essay contest in which students gave their
thoughts about a radio program focusing on teenage drug use and rebellion.
Each participating high school selected its best students to compete in
a school-wide competition and then submitted its winning entry from that
school to the larger competition. Your woa11-16 WiiN webitor was one of
those students selected to write, but I didn't feel moved to do an essay.
I wrote a poem instead.
My high school (and the English teachers I never got
along with), rather gleefully disqualified me. So I mailed my poem directly
to McBride. She decided it was the first place winner of the entire competition,
and read it on the air. McBride and her entourage, including a reporter
and photographer from the local newspaper, showed up at the high school
to present me with my savings bond, or whatever was the prize - I no longer
recall, because I received, and have kept with me, from that experience,
something far more important:
I've "broken the rules" throughout my career
as a lawyer whenever I've felt it to be appropriate, and I silently thank
Mary Margaret McBride every time yet another person tells me "you
can't do it that way" and I successfully proceed to "do it that
way." -- liz]
B. 11-16-1945, Martine Van Hamel, dancer of
the American Ballet, described as "a
dancer with the wind of genius blowing through her."
Event 11-16-1994, Bernette Johnson was sworn
in as the first black woman ever elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
VEIL, SIMONE:
"Sexual liberation doesn't help a woman if she hasn't got economic
liberation... [and] psychological liberation... In some ways the old traditions
protect women; it takes maturity and courage to be a woman today."
-- Simone Veil, 1978.
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