03-27/28-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory

      My weekend double posting...

03-27 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 03-27-1868, Patty Smith Hill, kindergarten pioneer, first woman
named professor emeritus at Columbia University. Inventor of the Patty Hill
construction blocks with which children can build structures large enough
to play in.  Introduced flexible, natural methods and by teaching teachers
caused extensive permanent change in our educational system.

      B. 03-27-1880, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, a remarkable political
organizer, was US Representative, IL 1929-31. As a Republican she lost as
a result of the depression.  She was a newspaper publisher in her own
right.  Her father was the Republican mover and shaker, Mark Hanna.

      B. 03-27-1899, Gloria Swanson, actress, businesswoman

      B. 03-27-1953, Annemarie Proell, Austrian ski racer, winner of
women's World Cup ski championship five times, a record for men or
women.

      Event 03-27-1964: Thirty-seven good citizens of a middle class
neighborhood in Queens, NY, watched the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese
from the windows of their homes and apartments and did nothing about it
as she screamed for help. 

03-28 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 03-28-1515, Saint Teresa of Avila, first women doctor of the Roman
Catholic Church, mystic, writer, and originator of the Carmelite Reform.

      B. 03-28-1743, Princess Yekaterina Dashkova, helped the coup d'etat
that seated Catherine II the Great; supervised the writing of the first
Russian dictionary.

      B. 03-28-1902, Dame Flora Robson, one of the great actors of British
and American stage and screen. 

      B. 03-28-1922, Grace Hartigan, abstract expressionist using bold
images with slashing brushstrokes and vivid colors. Her mother was a real
estate agent. 

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

      "Confusion of (the male's) progeny constitutes the essence of the
crime (adultery); and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows is
much more criminal than a man who does it. A man, to be sure, is criminal
in the sight of God; but he does not do his wife a very material injury if
he does not insult her if, for instance, from mere wantonness of appetite,
he steals privately to her chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to
resent this. I would not receive home a daughter who had run away from
her husband on that account."
            -- Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1791

      "Now why is it that man can hold woman to this high code of morals,
like Caesar's wife -- not only pure but above suspicion -- and so surely
and severely punish her for every departure, while she is so helpless, so
powerless to check him in his license, or to extricate herself from his
presence and control?  His power grows out of his right over her
subsistence. Her lack of power grows out of her dependence on him for
her food, her clothes, her shelter."
      -- Susan B. Anthony, 1875.



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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.