May 12, 1995 - Episode 287 - Women of Achievement and Herstory

      WOA is sadly lacking in representation from Australia and Judy
Rudman, chaplain at Monash University, Gippland Campus, Churchill,
Australia, (the first woman chaplain at the university) is forwarding
information.  Her first submission:
      "B. May 08, 1895, Olive Crane, sketcher and illustrator
attended Presbyterian Ladies' College (probably at Pymble) and then
went on to the University of Sydney, graduating with a BA in 1917. 
During this time she had begun to sketch and draw caricatures,
using her artistic  abilities to comment on women's emancipation,
especially in academic areas, among other things.
      "She went on to study art, with financial aid from her father,
and then set out to prove that she could make a living as an artist. 
From 1917-1921 her work was hung annually in the Society of Artists'
exhibitions.  In 1920 she was hung with the "male greats" at the
Society of Artists' exhibition and one of her works "The Tired
Dancer" was bought by the National Art Gallery of New South Wales.
      "In 1922, she went to Europe and England to further her
career.  She returned to Australia in 1927 and married another artist
Kenneth Macqueen.  She moved to rural Queensland and exhibited for
the last time in 1930.  She gave birth to a daughter in 1932 and a
son in 1935, and died in 1936."
      WOA -->  Thank you, Judy Redman (Shame on me I don't know
your title and the correct way to address you ... Rev. Redman?  )
Please keep the information coming. Your post's use of 8 May 1895, in
connection with some from others has brought to my attention AGAIN
the date problem since the U.S. puts the month first while a lot of
countries put the day first. Since WOA is becoming more and more
international in its scope and readership, I have changed the dates
in my postings from 05-10 to May 10, etc. 
      The erasure of our sisters of achievement is worldwide.   

May 12 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale, founder of modern
nursing.  First AND ONLY WOMAN to receive British Empire's Order of
Merit established in 1902 to honor eminent men AND women. Pioneer
in development of military nursing and hospital care

      B. May 12, 1842, Maria Konopnicka, Polish poet.

      B. May 12, 1862, Eva Louise Phelps Kellogg, primarily regional
historian of the upper Ohio and Northwest.  First woman president of
what became the Organization of American Historians and honorary
member of the British Royal Historical Society. 

      B. May 12, 1893, Georgia Lee Lusk, U.S. Representative to
Congress, New Mexico (1947).

      B. May 12, 1900, Mildred H. McAfee (Horton), at 36 became the
seventh president of Wellesley College 1936-1949; 1942-46 director of
the WAVES 1942-46; delegate to United Nations-UNESCO 1962.  

      B. May 12, 1910, Dorothy (Mary) Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist won
1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her determination of the structure
of vitamin B-12; professor emeritus at Oxford. The only other woman
to win the Nobel in Chemistry was Marie Sklodowska Curie, who won
her second Nobel in 1911. Curie's first in 1901 was in physics.

      B. May 12, 1916, Julia E. Hamblet, Director of the Women's Corps
of the U.S. Marine Corps (1953). 

      E. May 12, 1971, The U.S. Civil Service commission announces
the elimination of "women only" and "men only" classifications in
federal employment. (Yes, post-feminists, that date is correct 1971.
"Women's rights are young and tender.")

Quotes du jour ...............................................
      "No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of
what a nurse should be than this -- `devoted and obedient.'
      "This definition would do just as well for a porter.  It might
even do for a horse.  It would not do for a policeman."
      -- Florence Nightingale, 1859.

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      We thank Hari N. Chengalath and Madonna Narvaez for their
donations toward defraying of the April online expenses for the
posting of Women of Achievement and Herstory and Catt's Claws. 

(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.