July 29, 1995 - Episode 365 - Women of Achievement and Herstory

      Event July 29, 1987:  Lucille Babcock had driven transport trucks
and ambulances through Italy and Egypt during World War II. 
      She became 100% disabled after her left leg was shattered when a
bomb struck the ambulance she was driving.  
      However, at 65, on July 29, 1987, she saved a Little Rock, AR., woman
from a would-be rapist by banging him repeatedly over the head with her
cane even after he threatened to kill her.  
      He was cowering behind a light pole begging protection from the
police when they arrived.
      Lucille Babcock was quite a woman.  She retired to Hot Springs, AR
where she died a few years back.  Quite a woman !

07-29 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. July 29, 1742, Isabella Marshall Graham, widowed early with
children, went to Scotland to open a boarding school for children, then
returned to the US and opened a very successful girls' school. She
organized a group for aiding widows and small children, one of the first
such organizations in the US. Her daughter was Joanna Graham Bethune.

      B. July 29, 1884, Eunice Tietjens, author of books for young people,
wrote poetry about Oriental life, lectured, and was associate editor of
*Poetry* Magazine. Authored *Profiles from China.*

      B. July 29, 1897, Dorothy Shaver, president of the noted retail store
Lord and Taylor (1945), the first woman to head an enterprise that large
($30 million).

      B. July 29, 1906, Mary Gindhart Roebling, banker, president of the
Trenton NJ Trust (1937) and a governor of the American Stock Exchange
(1958).  Her mother was a music teacher.

      B. July 29, 1932, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, US Senator, Kansas. 
Chair of Senate Labor and Education Committee.  A fiscal conservative she
is the daughter of Republican Presidential hopeful of 1936, Al Landon. 

      B. July 29, 1936, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of
Transportation 1983-87, Secretary of Labor, and president of the American
Red Cross. Wealthy wife of Kansas Senator and perennial Presidential
candidate Robert Dole. 

      B. July 29, 1949, Marilyn Quayle, attorney wife of Vice President Dan
Quayle. 

      B. July 29, 1950, Jenny Holzer, artist.  Her mother was a civic
booster who taught horseback riding before her marriage.

      Event July 29, 1968, Beth Brunk receives the heart of Betty O'Neal
in the first woman-to-woman heart transplant.

      E. July 29, 1974, eleven female deacons of the Episcopal church
received holy orders from four bishops without the full permission of the
church. Two of the women are later suspended by their diocese bishops. 
The following month, the House of Bishops rules the ordinations are not
valid. Two years later, in the 1976 Episcopalian convention, the then total
of 14 women priests were officially recognized and in 1977 the first woman
priest, Jacqueline Means, was ordained with the full sanction of the church. 

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

      "Language is only a vehicle to express our thoughts and when that
language is racist or sexist, it is conveying those underlying feelings. 
      "Opponents say it is too cumbersome and difficult to change the
language.  
      "Let them live for one day under the umbrella of womankind and try
to see themselves as being automatically included in that group listening
to everday language. Those who oppose changing the language are really
saying that they don't want to give up the patriarchy, or supremacy, as
the case may be." 
-            -- Rosalyn Pier writing to me on Prodigy, June, 1992.

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