""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" November 9, 1995 - Episode 468 - Women of Achievement and Herstory compiled by Irene Stuber """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Born Nov. 9, 1871, Florence Sabin, first woman to teach at Johns Hopkins Medical College as the first female professor at a medical school. Key figure in movement to change medical care from cure of disease to maintenance of health. Combining research with teaching, by 1919 she had determined the origin of red corpuscles in the body. In 1925 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and became a member of the Rockefeller Institute, both firsts for women. She was forced to retire from the institute in 1939 because of her age, but she continued her research privately. Her mother Rena Miner was a teacher. Sabin was the first woman to graduate from John Hopkins University (after a huge donation in 1897 by Mary Garrett forced Johns Hopkins to accept women). A Johns Hopkins classmate Dorothy Mendenhall identified the cell that causes Hodgkin's disease. When she returned to Colorado, the state of her birth, she was appointed chair of a subcommittee on public health. Her statue is in the Statuary Hall in Washington, DC. --- Queen Elizabeth II of England is scheduled to meet with Maori Queen Dame Te Atairangiaahu in New Zealand. Would/could someone send me some information about Dame Te Atairangiaahu for use in Women of Achievement and Herstory? 11-09 Anniversaries ........................................... B. Nov. 9, 1805, Harriot Kezia Hunt, with an informal medical education, emphasized hygiene, diet, and common sense. Refused entrance to Harvard Medical College because of her sex in 1847, she was finally accepted in 1850, but the male students objected and she was denied entrance. HKH was active in the woman suffrage movement. B. Nov. 9, 1831, Cornelia Adele Strong Fassatt, noted portrait painter of her day. _The Florida Case Before the Electoral Commission_ hanging in the US Capitol building contains the faithful likenesses of 260 prominent figures of the day. B. Nov. 9, 1833, Sally Louisa Tompkins was made a captain in the Confederacy so she could continue operating a private hospital which had under a 7% fatality rate, an unbelievably low rate for the times. She was buried with full military honors when she died in 1916. B. Nov. 9, 1866, Florence Prag Kahn, US Representative, California's Fourth Congressional District, 1925-1937. Deeply committed to politics during her husband's 25 years of public service, she won his seat in a special election when he died. Both witty and effective, she soon became an influential member of Congress serving on the military and appropriations committees. Due to her lobbying, federal funds were secured for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. B. Nov. 9, 1905, Arthemise Goertz, author was caught in Japan during World War II and was kept in house arrest for the duration. B. Nov. 9, 1928, Anne Sexton, tormented American poet who won a Pulitzer Prize for her poems regarding her emotional illness. Event Nov. 9, 1938: Crystal Night in Germany when Hitler's men raided Jewish homes and synagogues. The name is derived from the broken glass that covered the streets. Lest we forget...More than four million women and children were killed by Hitler. He abolished abortion and birth control. The Nazis held contests and awarded medals for women bearing the most children. There were no women among the leaders of the Nazi party. In addition to sharing *all* the horrors that the Jewish men suffered at the hands of the Nazis, the women were also raped and sexually tortured. Event Nov. 9, 1977: at the request of the American Bishops, the Roman Catholic Church halted, retroactively, the automatic excommunication of divorced and remarried American-Catholics. Quotes du jour ................................................ "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body." --Robin Morgan ....................... * ........................ WOA salutes volunteers Jennifer Gagliardi for posting Women of Achievement and Herstory and Catt's Claws through her listserv and Paula Levine, Ronnie Falcao, and Margaret Russell for their proofreading (when we get it to them in time.) WOA depends on its readers to point out any factual mistakes. We check and double check, but errors occur. Sometimes recognized sources are found to be incorrect. WOA publishes an errata on the last day of each month. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >>(C) 1995, All Rights Reserved, Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902, voice mail or fax, 501-624-5262 ID #300, or email irenestuber@delphi.com with comments and suggestions. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright notice for non-profit use. We are accepting *limited* donations (only what can be spared) to help offset the online costs of posting WOA.<<