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November 24, 1995 - Episode 483 - Women of Achievement and Herstory

                    compiled by Irene Stuber

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WOA is shortened today for the Thanksgiving Holiday

11-24 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. Nov. 24, 1848, Lili Lehmann, German operatic soprano known for lieder

singing and her Wagnerian interpretations.

      B. Nov. 24, 1849, B. 11-24-1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett, English

author, who wrote _Little Lord Fauntleroy_ (1886, film 1936), and _The Secret

Garden_ (1911) both a play and film of the 1990's. Burnett had turned to

writing to support her widowed mother.

      B. Nov. 24, 1885, Anna Louise Strong, journalist and author 

of dozens of books about Russia and China, lived in Russia and finally

resettled to China where she became a personal friend of Mao Tse-tung and

trusted observer of the Chinese government. Founded the Moscow _News_, an

English newspaper in Russia.

      B. Nov. 24, 1887, Mary Ely Lyman, Anglo-American theologian.  Received

her B.D. from Union Seminary in 1919 as the only woman in the class. Was not

allowed to attend the commencement luncheon and had to sit in the balcony

with faculty wives during the graduation ceremony even though she was the

ranking scholar of her class. She attended two years at Cambridge on a

fellowship and was refused a degree or a transcript because of her sex. She

taught religion at Barnard College from 1919-1940 and taught at Union

Seminary along with her husband. She was dean and professor of religion at

Sweet Briar College. In 1950 became the first woman to hold a faculty chair at

Union Seminary although a few years earlier she had been terminated because

her husband (15 years her senior) had retired and it was "assumed" she

would be retiring also.

      B. Nov. 24, 1888, Cathleen Nesbitt, actor who typified British "grande

dame" in her later years; appeared in some 300 roles on London and New York

stages and 36 movies. Created Commander of British Empire (1978).  

      Event Nov. 24, 1930, Ruth Nichols began the first transcontinental flight

from New York to California by a woman. It took seven days.

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

      "When you know something about the reality of the world that those

who stand in ignorance do not know, then you can't not educate."

            --Betty Power, 1987.

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