04-05-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory

      The marvelous "Women in Action: Rebels and Reformers" exhibit
sponsored by the League of Women Voters and developed by curator Dr.
Rachun Priscilla Linn celebrates women's actions and accomplishments
in shaping our world from 1920 to 1980.
      This graphic portrayal of women's accomplishments is a religious
experience that will stay will you for a long time and the resultant
pride in being a woman will never leave you. 
      The exhibit's schedule for 1995: Louisville, KY, through April 24,
St. Paul, MN, 04-17/05-15, Lansing, MI, 05-01/06-02; Hartford, CN, and
Columbus, OH, 05-27/06-30; Gainesville, FL, and Nashville, TN, 08-09/09-
04; Umpqua Valley, OR, 09-15/10-31; Raleigh, NC, 10-23/11-27.
      For more information on exhibit locations, contact your local LWV
or Amy Knox, LWV headquarters, (202) 429-1965.
      How unfortunate that such an exhibit can't be shown throughout
the nation at ALL our colleges and universities. Maybe later if the
money can be found ... 
      Second best to the exhibit is the book _Women In Action: Rebels
and Reformers, 1920-1980_ by Elisabeth Isreals Perry.  $6.95 ($5.95 for
LWV members) contact LWV Publication Sales, 1730 M St. NW, Washington,
DC 20036.  Order two copies and donate one to your local library.
      Donating women's pride books to the local library is what I've
been doing with my NOW chapter and we're slowly building quite a
women's rights section.  Hint: when it's a gift from an organization,
they can't summarily get rid of the book during the annual "clearing
of the shelves ... "

04-05 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 04-05-1684, Catherine I, Empress of Russia, proclaimed empress
following the death of her husband, Peter I.  Shrewd and intelligent.

      B. 04-05-1710, Marie Camargo, directed Paris opera 1726-1735 and
1741-1751.  Critics rivaled her with male dancers for her virtuosity and
strength of dancing in the days when women "floated."

      B. 04-05-1885, Fannia Mary Cohn, organizer for the ILGWU and led
first successful strike in Chicago's thread trade.

      B. 04-05-1908, Bette Davis, won Academy Awards for best actress
for her portrayal in _Dangerous_ (1935), and _Jezebel_ (1938)  and
nominated for her work in  _Dark Victory_ 1939), _The Letter_ (1940),
_The Little Foxes_ (1941), _Now Voyager_ (1942), _Mr. Skeffington_
(1944), _All About Eve_ (1950), _The Star_ (1952) and _Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane?_ (1962). An unsurpassed film career...

      B. 04-05-1950, Agnetha Faltskog, one of the two lead female
singers with the fabulously successful ABBA vocal group of the 1970's. 
They had 18 consecutive singles in the top ten.

      Event 04-05-1984, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints with a membership of a quarter of a million votes to
permit the ordination of women priests.

      Event 04-05-1990: U.S. Roman Catholic bishops announce the
hiring of a large public relations firm to wage a nationwide, multi-
million dollar continuing campaign to persuade Catholics and
non-Catholics to oppose abortions.

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

      "(Women's) minds, their emotions, their creative impulses have
been more savagely distorted through the years than the feet of
Chinese women were distorted by custom-decreed bandages."
      -- Alice Beal Parksons, Woman's Dilemma, 1962.


(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.