May 17, 1995 - Episode 292 - Women of Achievement and Herstory

      Volunteers are needed at your local women's abuse shelter.
Volunteers are generally needed to 
            * Answer crisis lines
            * Work with the children
            * Help with community education
            * Provide transportation
            * Work on the newsletter
            * Various general support
      In addition to the people need to help at the shelters, the
"things" need is also there. Donate (call the shelter to get
information about how or where to take the things because most
shelter locations MUST stay hidden because of men with guns and
violence coming to claim their possessions, i.e., their women:
            * Canned and fresh foods
            * Bedding
            * House and office furniture and supplies
            * Toys and games
            * Personal hygiene items, over-the-counter medicines
            * Financial donations are always needed for general
operation, legal and medical emergencies, prescriptions for women and
children, etc.
      To donate, call the Domestic Violence shelter in your area - if
there is none in your immediate area, there will be one in the largest
city near you.  Your local police department will know the phone
number of the abuse shelter (make sure it isn't one of those
religious places who require abused women to take religious lessons
that are heavy on obedience, teaching a woman to obey her man so
he doesn't have to beat her.  They exist!  We have one here in my
adopted home town!)  Or call your local prosecutor's office.  
      That unanswered cry for help in the night might be yours the
next time ... 

5-17 Anniversaries ...............................................

      B. 05-17-1874, Bertha Kalich, Austrian-born American Yiddish
actress. Forced to flee Europe because of anti-semitism this star of
the European Yiddish stage soon became the premier singer and then
dramatic actress of the Yiddish stage in New York.  Her talent soon
interested Broadway producers and after intensive English lessons,
she starred in more than 14 plays. Because of the scarcity of good
roles for older women, she returned to the Yiddish stage in 1927. 

      B. 05-17-1906, Zinka Milanov, opera singer with Metropolitan
Opera, 1937-1966.

      B. 05-17-1915, Bertha di Vito-Delvaux, Belgium composer of
eight operas, several concertos, nine ballets and many symphonic
compositions and songs, taught at the Conservatoire Royal de Liege
(1938) and won many prix including _Grand Prix de Rome_ (1943), and
several gold medals.

      B. 05-17-1918, Birgit Nilsson, Swedish dramatic soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera.

      E.  05-17-1971, The first law in the United States to ban sex
discrimination in employment is passed by the Washington State
legislature.

Quotes du jour ...............................................

      "Be ready when the hour comes, to show that women are human
and have the pride and dignity of human beings. Through such
resistance our cause will triumph.  But even if it does not, we fight
not only for success, but in order that some inward feeling may have
satisfaction. We fight that our pride, our self-respect, our dignity
may not be sacrificed in the future as they have been in the past.
      -- Christable Pankhurst, leader in the militant wing of the
	 English women's suffrage movement.        

>>>(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. <<<