05-03-1995 - Episode 278 - Women of Achievement and Herstory

     From: IN%"margaret@world.std.com"  "margaret l russell":
     "Ethleen Diver, an attorney who practiced law until she was 90
years old died April 10, 1995, following a brief illness.  She was 91.
     Born September, 12, 1903, in Boston MA, she graduated from
Simmons College in 1925 with a Bachelor of Science degree. While
working as a legal secretary at the law firm of Choate, Hall, &
Stewart, she attended night school at Northeastern University,
receiving her law degree in 1930.  CH&S did not allow her to practice
law until 1950, although she passed the bar in 1929.  Diver practiced
family law with CH&S until retiring to private practice in 1971, the
same year the firm accepted its first woman partner. 
     A working mother, she was a member of the MA Association of
Women Lawyers (president 1961-62), ABA, MBA, National Association of
Women Lawyers, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers. 
     She is survived by her son Colin S. Diver, dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School, and two grandsons.
     What did she do? She quietly pioneered the way for thousands
of women lawyers, networked, helped other women find jobs, and
rejoiced as other women made strides in a formerly all-male field. 
Nothing earth shattering, quiet persistence rarely is."
     WOA -->> For every prominent woman listed in WOA, there are
a million women like Ethleen Diver who toiled daily to make the world
a better place for all of us without fanfare and without fame.  Thank
you for sharing, Margaret. 

NOTICE: If you don't see representation of women YOU think should
be included in Women of Achievement and Herstory, please write me. 
What I need is the date of birth (if possible), full name,
accomplishments, and reference sources. 
     I acknowledge and regret the lack of representative women
from other countries, geographical areas, and ethnicities, but my
research is still in the "gathering" stage, i.e., researching new
entries almost daily.  
     Your help in pointing out sources of African, Asian, and South
American women as well as Pacific Rim and Near East women would be
much appreciated...and I'm far from satisfied with my European
research.

05-03 Anniversaries ...............................................

     B. 05-03-1844, Anna Etheridge, nurse, vivandiere during the
Civil War.  Rode into battle with the 2nd Michigan Volunteers at Bull
Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania, and other
battles ALONGSIDE the soldiers as they charged and she ministered
to them as they fell.  She was in as much danger as any of the
soldiers. Once a soldier was killed by a shell as she was tending him. 
She was wounded in the hand during another skirmish.

     B. 05-03-1898, Golda Meir (Goldie Mabovitch). Under her married
name of Myerson, she was a founder of the State of Israel and under
her Hebraized name, Meier, was the first minister of labor and social
security, became its foreign minister, and on Feb. 26, 1969, became
its prime minister. She was a school teacher and did library work in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, before becoming politically active in the
Zionist movement and moving to Israel in 1923.  Her mother operated
a small grocery store.

     B. 05-03-1906, Mary Astor, actor.  Won 1941 Academy Award for
her work in _The Great Lie_.  Her diary was burned at the order of
a court as being pornographic.

     Event 05-03-1970, Diane Crump becomes the first woman jockey
to ride a horse in the Kentucky Derby.
Quotes du jour ...............................................

     "In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex distinction we
have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine
attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed for men and
forbidden to women." 
          -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman in _Women and Economics_. 

(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.