03-12-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory
March is Women's History Month.

      Don't ask me how it happened, I know I stared at the entry on my
screen and then figured it was a convolution of my memory which is
slipping... SO before the seas boil between me and Great Britain, let me
correct the dates regarding yesterday's entry:
      E. 03-11-1994 -"I just can't stop laughing, I can't stop crying," 
the reaction of Helen Cunliffe, longtime advocate of the women's priest
lobby, when the Church of England voted to ordain women as priests,
November 10, 1992.  The first women priests were ordained March 11, 1994
and performed their first priestly duties Sunday MARCH (not May) 13, 1994,
Mother's Day in England.  (May is the month for Mother's Day in the U.S.A.
Sorry.)
      I will be out of town for a couple of days - giving a talk on Women's
History in the Plano, Texas, area on Monday, so.... We're posting ahead.

03-12 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. 03-12-1862, Jane Delano, nurse and administrator, head of Army
Nurse Corps. Delano saved thousands of lives by recognizing the mosquito
as the carrier of Yellow Fever before the famed experiments by Reed. This
dedicated American nurse and teacher was the recipient (posthumously) of
the US Distinguished Service Medal.

      B. 03-12-1906, Gracie Bowers Pfost, US Representative, Idaho. 

      B. 03-12-1911, Alice-Leone Moats, foreign correspondent for _Collier's_
magazine.  Had a well publicized series of argument with the American
Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhart with the most famous statement
being: "Oh, Laurence, don't give me that! Remember I was brought up in
a household where an ambassador is something you invite when you need
a fourteenth for dinner."

      B. 03-12-1912, Kylie Tennant wrote realistically about vile Australian
slums during the depression.

      Event 03-12-1912, Girl Scouts founded by Juliette Gordon Low. 
03-13 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. 03-13-18??, Mary E. Squire, who with Dr. Jessie Drew Carpenter
founded the Allwood Lime Company in Manitowoc, Wis., that provided the
lime needed in the finishing of ball-bearings and surgical tools.  Her
company, unique in this country, enabled the US to fight Germany in World
War I. Before Squires and Carpenter formed Allwood, Germany was the sole
manufacturer of commercial lime. As a chemist fascinated with the various
uses of lime, Carpenter also developed milk of magnesia neutralizing lime.

      E.  03-13-1961, Eleanor Roosevelt delivers a three-page list of women
qualified for "top federal jobs."  President John Kennedy appoints less
than a dozen.

      Event 03-13-1986, Susan Butcher wins the Iditarod dogsled race from
Anchorage  to Nome, Alaska, in the record time of 11 days, 15 hours, almost
seven days faster than the time in 1985 when Libby Riddles was the first
woman to win the race.  Butcher again wins the race in 1987 in what is
called a new era in the dogsled competition.

Quotes du jour ........................................... 

      "Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole
sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the
highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes
needs, too, the protection of all men against this one."
      -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage.


(C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902,
irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright
notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't notable
and effective women throughout history.  They were always there, but
historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation of
women has had to reinvent themselves.