""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" November 30 , 1995 - Episode 489 - Women of Achievement and Herstory compiled by Irene Stuber - With November Errata """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Dorothy Mammen said, "While I certainly don't endorse kidnapping, and killing nine people less than a week after giving birth is quite an act of self-preservation, I feel that including this particular item seems to overlook the bigger question of what was going on between the Brits and the Indians at that time." The item in question was about Hannah Duston's act in the late 1600's. Another group took exception to a quote we used by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. May WOA point out (with apols to Omar the Tentmaker): "The moving finger having writ, moves on, and all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line of it." We MUST NOT rewrite history, we MUST NOT erase it, we MUST NOT censor it, and we MUST NOT fit it to our philosophical opinions. Such acts of historical dishonesty are what has given us a white man's historical record and eliminated women (and indigenous peoples) from our heritage. It doesn't matter whether the Brits or the Amerinds were right. And ECS's statement should not be taken out of its time and place to be judged according to today's standards. Both women were caught in the middle. Hannah Duston took charge of HER life rather than remain a pawn headed for death or slavery. And ECS struck out in ire, fighting for our rights when women were betrayed by those they had helped. There is not right or wrong. It happened. Several readers pointed out that Jodie Foster won the Academy Award for her work in "SILENCE of the Lambs" not "CRY of the Lambs." (The title rather than the meaning of the book. Dumb mistake.) WOA should have written that Dr. Sabin was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School, not Johns Hopkins University which did not accept women until 1970 !!! The only reason she was able to attend the medical school was because Mary Garrett contributed a large sum of money to it on the condition that it enroll women. One man, who for his protection shall stay nameless, called it blackmail and thought Garrett should be condemned for forcing the issue. And with a terrible blush, WOA admits to writing: "(Anne Henrietta Martin) took the leadership role in the campaign which gave Nevada women the vote." Judith Blackburn took exception: "I always remind myself that nobody gave women the vote. They fought for it and they won it." Indeed and WOA has been saying that all along - but the writing of HIStory is so replete with such falseness that sometimes we slip. Sorry! 11-30 Anniversaries ........................................... B. Nov. 30, 1854, Mary Eliza McDowell, social worker and reformer. While nursing and helping refugees from the Chicago fire, she developed a life-long interest. Friendship with Francis E. Willard led her into the Women's Temperance movement, then to the development of kindergartens, became active in Jane Addams' Hull House settlement programs. As resident director of the McDowell settlement house (renamed at her death) she forced reform of the habit of using open garbage pits, and developed sanitation in the immigrant areas. She was instrumental in the creation of the Women's Bureau of the US Department of Labor, supported the labor movement, interceded in race matters, and was active in the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the Urban league. B. Nov. 30, 1854, Claribel Cone, a pioneer physician is better known for the art collection of French Impressionists she developed with her sister Etta. At their deaths, the noted collection went to the Baltimore Museum. B. Nov. 30, 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of more than 20 books but none more famous than _Anne of Green Gables_ (1908). B. Nov. 30, 1919, Jane Cooke Wright, physician-pioneer in cancer chemotherapy research. B. Nov. 30, 1924, Shirley Chisholm, first black woman to serve in US Congress. Got legislation passed that guaranteed minimum wages for domestic workers. Angered the political powers by actively seeking the presidency, winning 154 delegates. After serving seven terms, Chisholm retired from Congress in 1982, becoming a professor at Mount Holyoke College. B. Nov. 30, 1929, Joan Gana Cooney after winning an Emmy for an anti- poverty special in 1966, raised the funds to found the Children's Television Workshop which developed and produced Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and provide home and hearth for the Muppets. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >>(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.<<