11-25-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory

    The State of South Carolina is expected to waste an ADDITIONAL $5

million on its appeal to the U.S. District Court regarding the woman who

wants to attend the Citadel. She is already attending day classes as a

result of court orders.

    Almost every legal expert worth his salt is predicting the Citadel

MUST allow women as full cadets if it wishes to continue to receiving

federal money.

    Look for attempts by the Republican religious right theocratics to

try to sneak through a bill that rejects Title IX, etc., and tries to

return us to the days when men were men and got the education and

women were taught to be cheer leaders and dutiful, doll-like wives.

    Write Carroll Campbell, Governor, State of South Carolina, PO

113619, Columbia, SC 29211 and express your opinion about wasting tax

dollars.

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

    Event 11-25-1715, Sybilla Masters, who divided her time between

England and the United States did not receive English Patent #401, for

machines and methods for preparing Indian corn she invented. Instead

it went to her husband Thomas because of the laws against women. The

patent documents clearly state Sybilla invented the process and her

signed drawings show the method of operation. She also invented a

method for using palmetto leaves to make hats, the patent again going

to her husband who formally acknowledged her as the inventor. On July

15, 1717, the State of Pennsylvania granted Sybilla patent rights in her

own name.  Why no female Edisons?  Because the law forbade it.

    B. 11-25-1846, Carrie Nation, the lady of the hatchet. This American

temperance leader would take a band of women into a saloon and

destroy it with her hatchet.  Some had concerns over her sanity and

there were many public comments on her emotional instability.  She was

NEVER - NEVER a leader in the women's temperance movement - always

a loose cannon. She stopped her march of destruction when a woman

saloon owner in defense of her saloon assaulted Nation and gave her a

sound thrashing.

    B. 11-25-1865, Kate Gleason, extraordinary businesswoman who as

a salesperson in the late 1800's did the unthinkable: actually traveled

by herself to sell her father's toolmaking products, even to Europe. 

When automobiles became the rage, Gleason turned her sales abilities to

Detroit and she was so successful that she became the first woman

member of several engineering groups.  Later she became the president

of a bank, turned a bankrupt toolmaking business into profit, and went

into real estate, building and restoring housing areas. She developed

several resort areas including Beaufort, SC.  

    B. 11-25-1895, Helen Hooven Santmeyer*, author of ...And Ladies of

the Club. When her book became famous, she was 92 and living in a

nursing home.  Her longtime companion, Mildred Sandoe, was also living

in the same home.  Santmeyer had written three books while young but

became a librarian in her beloved small Ohio town instead. 

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

    "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."

          --Robin Morgan



    "There is no such thing as a non-working mother."

          -- Hester Mundis

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