04-15-1995 Episode 260 of Women of Achievement and Herstory

      Many of ever increasing number of WOA readers are not aware
that WOA has been posted almost daily since June 1994 for the FREE
enjoyment of everyone and so we are starting a numbering system ...
today is the 260th installment.  We also posted almost a year of feminist
history on Prodigy when we were hooked in there, but those episodes
are not counted in the present numbering system. 
      The Women of Achievement and Herstory series is the outgrowth
of a casual hobby I started a few years back. It has grown into a 15-
ton female gorilla who is shouting: "YES, Women of Accomplishment
existed. WORLD - STOP TRYING TO HIDE US."  I am a slave to her
demands for research ... research ... research. So many women ignored,
overlooked, erased from HIStory. 
      Why am I posting the information on cyberspace? Because I have
two daughters and three granddaughters and they SHALL live under an
Equal Rights Amendment !
      I continue to search for a place to archive this series so that
cyberspace users will have free and easy access to the information in
the years to come.  HELP - Please ...

04-15 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 04-15-1829, Dr. Mary Harris Thompson founded Chicago Hospital
for Women and Children and was the first female surgeon in the US.
She studied a year with Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman
doctor, and received a great deal of the same kind of ridicule 
Blackwell did.

      B. 04-15-1865, Emily Smith Putnam, the first woman dean of
Barnard College; writer of a major historical study of women.

      B. 04-15-1888, Florence Rabe Bates, piano prodigy, first woman
lawyer in Texas, and actor who appeared in a number of movie roles
including the dowager in _Rebecca_ (1940).

      B. 04-15-1894, Bessie Smith*, singer, musician...Oh what a blues
singer she was! 

      B. 04-15-1930, Vigdis Finnbogadottir was elected president of
Iceland 06-30-1980 to become the first democratically elected female head
of state. 

      B. 04-15-1947, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV writer and
producer who created and wrote the first 35 episodes of the fabulously
successful TV series _Designing Women_.  The series only won one
Emmy: for hair styles. 

      Event 04-15-1975, a Utah law which required fathers to support
their sons to age 21 but only 18 for girls was ruled unconstitutional by
the U.S. Supreme Court.  Justice William Rehnquist cast the only
dissenting vote.

Quote du jour ...............................................

      "The great creative power is everything. If you leave out one
whole chunk of it, by making God only masculine, you have to redress
the balance."
             -- Martha Boesing

(C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR
71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with
copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there
weren't notable and effective women throughout history.  They were
always there, but historians failed to note them in our histories so that
each generation of women has had to reinvent themselves.