11-20-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory

    1.) We need some place to archive these episodes that will consist

of 365 installments, one  to 1.5 pages each.  The archive (FTP, gopher)

must be accessible by anyone on InterNet, i.e., not just a private

system. Backissues are available at Women's Wire in San Francisco but

you have to be a subscriber.  All the WOA issues are available on my

local BBS, the very beautifully graphic *ImageWorld* at 501-523-3091,

the first half-hour each day is free and it's 14.4.  Any help out

there?????  I get a lot of requests for "back issues."  All I can do now

is say send $10 and I'll send you a disk with the five months I've done

so far on InterNet.  (And that, frankly, is a lot of bother.)

    2.) Am looking for a system that can listserv the forthcoming

feminist newsletter.  The Delphi.com lists all the subscribers with each

email; there is no way to eliminate the subscribers from the heading. 

Under such a system there would be pages and pages and pages of

just names everytime a feminist newsletter goes out.

    3.) Please send your comments directly or cc: to

irenestuber@delphi.com rather than to just the board you see the WOA

on.  WOA is forwarded to hundreds of locations and quoted back and

forth across all the continents (lacking one because I haven't heard

from Antarctica yet) and obviously I can't read or even know where all

the comments are being made.  Thank you for your many, many kind

words.

Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

B. 11-20-1827, Emily Howland, received an honorary doctorate by the

University of the State of New York at age 99 for her services to

educating black students which included helping establish or aiding

more than 30 institutions of learning in the youth, and schools in New

York and Virginia.

B. 11-20-1885, Olive D. Wetzel Dennis, service engineer with Baltimore

and Ohio Railroad.  She is responsible for air conditioning, reclining

seats and dressing rooms on trains.  She had an MA in mathematics and

a civil engineering degree.

E.  11-20-1961, the Supreme Court upholds the Florida law which

exempts women from jury duty, unless they volunteer.  In all, 18 states

allow the jury duty exemption while three state, Alabama, Mississippi,

and South Carolina outright barred women from jury duty.  However,

on 02-07-1966, a federal court rules that such laws should end on June

1, 1967 because such laws "deny to women the equal protection of the

laws in violation of the 14th amendment." In January of 1975 the

Supreme Court says a Louisiana law forbidding women serving on juries

is unconstitutional.  The first woman juror served in the State of New

York in 1936 ... 1936, that's no typo.

Quotes du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    "Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in

a male-dominated society.  A man shows leadership; a woman is

controlling.  If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and

respected.  If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and

demanding."

    -- Barbra Streisand, 1992   

 (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. 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.