""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" November 23, 1995 - Episode - Women of Achievement and Herstory compiled by Irene Stuber """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" For the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we are shortening our WOA to just the calendar portion to keep from jamming email boxes. 11-23 Anniversaries ........................................... B. Nov. 23, 1882, Helen Rogers Reid, advertising manager and vice president of New York Herald Tribune. Although her husband owned the paper, she was acknowledged to be the best man for the jobs she held. Born to a wealthy family that went broke, she worked her way through the final part of college in 1903 rather than drop out. B. Nov. 23, 1903, Ruth Etting, one of the most popular singers from the 1920's through most of the 1940's, had more than 60 big hits. Best known today for her gangster connections because of the movie about her life _Love Me or Leave Me_, (1955). E. Nov. 23, 1935, Ethel Legins conducts her opera _Gale_ at the Chicago City Opera. It is the first opera by a woman to be mounted by a major opera company. B. Nov. 23, 1939, Betty Everett, almost legendary soul singer who was never able to make it big. Event Nov. 23, 1942: Coast Guard Women's Reserve authorized and Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Constance Stratton was appointed commanding officer. Quotes du jour ................................................ "Every individual should have room or rooms for himself [sic] exclusively ... a 'closet' where each could 'pray in secret' without some person who loves him [sic] assuming the right to walk in and do as they please. And do you know how I was pleased beyond measure the other day to find that William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft taught and as far as possible practiced the same thing, just 100 years ago." -- Voltaraine de Cleyre (1866-1912) in a letter to her mother. (The awkwardness and the sexism of the English language is beautifully illustrated in this quote. Voltaraine was speaking of women and yet had to use the masculine "him." What are our WOMEN English teachers thinking? Why aren't they doing something about this sexism in our language? As long as we have no name, we are nothing.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >>(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 istuber@cswnet.com or 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 costs of posting WOA.<<