04-03/04-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory My weekend double-header... 04-03 Anniversaries ............................................... B. 04-03-1817, Matilde Franziska Giesler Anneke*, German-born American translator, poet, playwright, author, editor, suffragist, and fighter for women's rights. In Germany during 1848 she published a revolutionary journal and _Deutsche Frauen Zeitung_, the first women's publication in Western Europe. Married to a revolutionary, she went into battle at his side. Losing, they fled Germany to Milwaukee, with their six children. There she re-established the _Deutsche Frauen Zeitung_, a monthly feminist journal which employed all women. It was forced to close because a German typographical union demanded that printing firms fire any women who worked as printers and compositers...or else. She moved to New Jersey where she published her woman's rights journal for almost three years. She divorced her husband and went to Switzerland with Mary Booth to whom she dedicated several poems. Returning to Milwaukee after the Civil War, she founded the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Association (1869) and helped found the Tochter Institut (no e) where she was principal and also taught. Event 04-03-1930, the polo team of the University of Southern California refuses to play the UCLA team until Barbara Rand is replaced by a man. B. 04-03-1934, Jane Goodall, British animal behaviorist known for her work with chimpanzees in the wild. She discovered tool use among the chimps. Event 04-03-1972, unwed fathers have the same rights as unwed mothers to prove their fitness as parents and custody under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Event 04-03-1984, a Federal Judge ordered the U.S. government to pay women in the U.S. Civil Service the same amount that they were paying men when they had the same duties and responsibilities. There had been as much as a 30 percent differential. 04-04 Anniversaries ............................................... B. 04-04-1802, Dorothea Lynde Dix, pioneer in the establishment and improvement of homes for the mentally ill. Through her efforts more than 123 asylums and hospitals were built. Truly one of the greatest social reformers of all time...and seldom, if ever, mentioned in HIStory books. B. 04-04-1837, Abbie Park Ferguson*, an American who along with lifetime companion Anna Elvira Bliss, opened and operated schools in South Africa. In spite of social opposition, they developed the only women's college in that nation Huguenot University College. Event 04-04-1887, Susanna Medora Salter became the first elected woman mayor in America. Her name was placed on the ballot as a joke, but she was elected overwhelmingly. B. 04-04-1889, Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga), Chilean poet and educator. Winner of 1945 Nobel Prize in literature. Held high posts in Chile's educational system. Also revamped the rural school and library systems in Mexico. B. 04-04-1915, Billie Holiday*, outstanding jazz singer, superb vocal technician. "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child" are two of her most respected renditions. B. 04-04-1950, Judith Resnik, Ph.D., electrical engineer mission specialist who was the second US woman in space. She perished in the Challenger explosion, Jan. 28, 1986. (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.