11-15-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory B. 11-15-1871, Bertha Muzzy Bower, who signed her 57 published westerns B.M. Bower to get them published. Chip of the Flying U is one f her best known works. B. 11-15-1873, Sara Josephine "Jo" Baker, doctor and public-health official/worker. Founded Bureau of Child Hygiene and her revolutionary methods of teaching hygiene, providing nutrition and prenatal care reduced infant mortality by 1200 a year making New York City's infant mortality rate the lowest in the US, dropping infant deaths from 144 per 1,000 live births in 1908 to 66/1000 in 1923. First woman to serve the League of Nations in an official capacity. Suffrager and was a member of that remarkable group of women activists of the 20's called the Heterodoxy. "The way to keep people from dying from disease, it struck me suddenly, was to keep them from falling ill. Healthy people don't die. It sounds like a completely witless remark, but at that time it was a startling idea. Preventative medicine had hardly been born yet and had no promotion in public health work." Her work in the slums, as well as apprehending Typhoid Mary twice, gained her the appointment as NYC assistant health commissioner. Her all-male staff promptly resigned. She cajoled them back. Going door-to-door with a team of 30 nurses, Dr. Baker taught basic hygiene, nutrition, ventilation. She established free milk stations, devised a simple baby formula, created training for older children who had to care for younger when the mother went to work to earn food, invented the "obvious but previously unthought-of, system of making baby clothes all open down the front," (babies had been strangling in the old fashioned clothes and Metropolitan Life Insurance sent out 200,000 patterns of her new baby clothes styles to their customers), and she also invented a method of safely packaging and administering silver nitrate solution used to prevent blindness at birth from gonorrheal infection. She retired in 1923 after all 48 states had copied her methods and was probably instrumental in saving the lives of more than a million babies during her lifetime. She dressed very mannish and was accepted as a lesbian. A reluctant feminist at first, she found herself drawn in "the great struggle to get political recognition of the fact that women are as much human beings a men are." She was a member of the delegation that visited Woodrow Wilson in the White House to receive his official endorsement of the Nineteenth Amendment. Even with her huge accomplishments she was not allowed to earn a doctorate in public health because she was a woman - although she was invited as guest lecturer at the New York University Medical School. And because of the erasure of women of accomplishment, hardly anyone has ever heard of her. B. 11-15-1887, Georgia O'Keeffe, renowned artist specializing in sensual flowers and her beloved New Mexico. B. 11-15-1887, Marianne Craig Moore, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, National Book Award 1952, National Institue of Arts and Letters gold medal 1953. Her first book of poetry edited by HD (Hilda Doolittle) and Winifred Ellerman had been published in England without her permission and forced her to publish her work. Edited The Dial, noted literary magazine of the time. Her mother was an English teacher. Event 11-15-1991, after citing the question of censorship, Penn State officials removed the nude painting of the lover of Francisco de Goya from a classroom. A woman professor had complained that the painting on the wall behind her during lectures prevented her from appearing professional. When school officials finally agreed to remove the nude, a male art professor pulled down several other paintings , saying "I did not want to get in a whole debate over what should be up and what shouldn't, so we took them all down." He forgot to mention that NO frontal nudes of men have ever appeared as art on the walls of the college (C) 1994 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.