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December 26

12-26 TABLE of CONTENTS: DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS QUOTES by Madonna and Mary Wollstonecraft. The complete episode for this date...       will be published here soon. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE |   | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | 12-26 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS B. 12-26-1819, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, using the signature E.D.E.N Southworth, was one of the most popular novelists of her time. B. 12-26-1852, Clara Southmayd Ludlow, scientist who specialized in the study of the mosquito in transmission of disease. B. 12-26-1892, Gordon Hamilton, social work educator on the faculty of the New York School of Social Work (1923-1957) as well as serving with a number of social groups, especially with refugees from World War II. GH was firm in her belief that casework was the method of concrete aid to the individual. She believed that income assistance should be separate from social services. Hamilton shared a home in New York with her close associate Anna Kempshall, and spent her last years in British Columbia with her friend Ruby McKay. B. 12-26-1918, Una Mae Carlisle of American Indian and Black ancestry, composed more than 200 songs, had her own radio and TV series in the 1940s. B. 12-26-1939, (Judith) Lynn Morley Martin, U.S. Representative from Illinois. The first woman to become part of the House GOP leadership. She supports a woman's right to choose. Her mother worked in a department store. Event 12-26-1975, Sherry LaGrace is the first woman coal miner to be killed when a machine overturns in Kentucky. | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE | | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE | QUOTES DU JOUR MADONNA:       "I may be dressing like a traditional bimbo, whatever, but I'm in charge... And isn't that what feminism is all about; you know, equality for men and women? And aren't I in charge of my life, doing the things I want to do?"             -- Madonna in a Boston Globe article written by Suzanne Gordon, December 26, 1990. WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY:       "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming around its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."             -- Mary Wollstonecraft | PRIOR DATE |        | HOME |       | WOA INDEX |       | NEXT DATE | | RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE |