| 12-21 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The World's Best Clay-court Woman Player of All Time
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Chris Evert
Born Dec. 21, 1954, Chris
Evert, tennis champion, had 125 consecutive clay-court victories and has
been called the world's best clay-court woman player of all time.
She was ranked the world's best player 1974 to 1978
and in 1980 and 81.
She started off her career as a young, spoiled golden
girl and became a staunch feminist and independent woman.
She was the U.S. singles champion 1975-78, 80, 82;
Wimbledon champion 1974, 76, and 81, and won at least one Grand Slam singles
title for 13 consecutive years. Between 1973 and 1979 Evert won a record
125 consecutive clay-court matches, and won the French Open on clay a record
seven times.
Her French Open mastery blocked her arch-rival Martina
Navratilova - the great grass player - from a grand slam sweep. The two
women, rivals since their earliest days, became friends when both grew
into mature women, and both became staunch supporters of women's rights
after acknowledging great guidance from Billie Jean King.
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12-21 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-21-1829, Laura Dewey Bridgman, struck
deaf and blind at two, she was the first
person with her disabilities to be taught successfully. She eventually
taught others. She read through a Braille-like system and "spoke"
through tapping out an "alphabet."
B. 12-21-1860, Henrietta Szold, teacher, helped
organize Hebras Zion, probably the first Zionist organization in the
U.S., and was founder and first president of Hadassah (1912), founder and
first president of the Histadrut Nashim Ivriot, director of the agency
to rescue Jewish children from Nazi Germany.
B. 12-21-1862, Harriet Bradley Hammond McCormick
established the Elizabeth McCormick memorial fund in
the name of her dead daughter to improve the conditions of child life in
the United States.
B. 12-21-1872, Helen Farnsworth Mears, sculptor.
Her work is exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian
Institute.
B. 12-21-1874, Gertrude Battles Lane, editor
in chief of Woman's Home Companion
from 1912 to 1949. Built it into the leading woman's magazine and the
third largest general circulation magazine in the nation.
B. 12-21-1892, Dame Rebecca West, British journalist,
novelist, and critic.
B. 12-21-1902, Phoebe Omlie, a leading pioneer
in aviation, set a number of records.
B. 12-21-1921(17?), Alicia Alonso (Martinez),
Cuban-born ballerina who rose to international
fame in dance and teaching in spite of recurring eye problems that limited
her movements.
B. 12-21-1937, Jane Fonda won Academy Awards
for her work in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978) and nominated
three time mores. Was active in the anti-war movement during the Viet Nam
war, producer and star of highly successful physical fitness videos.
B. 12-21-1954, Chris Evert, tennis champion
who had 125 consecutive clay-court victories and has been considered the
world's best clay-court women player of all time.
B. 12-21-1959, Florence Griffith-Joyner, winner
of three Olympic gold medals in 1988, set world record 200 meters.
Her divorced mother raised her by working as a seamstress.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
BRADLEY, MARION ZIMMER:
"But that is why the Free Amazons* exist, in the final analysis. So
that every woman may, at least, know there is a choice for them...that
if they accept the restrictions laid upon women, they may do so from choice
and not because they cannot imagine anything else."
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Shattered Chain. (The Free Amazons
were an independent-living organization of women who refused to live under
the strict patriarchal structure of the fictional Darkover planet.)
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