woa 5/18
barbara trumpinski
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:57:41 CDT
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To: WOA-Herstory <ist...@cswnet.com>
Subject: 05-18-96 Women of Achievement and Herstory # 660
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May 18, 1996 - Episode 660 - Women of Achievement and Herstory
Compiled and Written by Irene Stuber
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Born May 18, 1852, Gertrude Stanton Kasebier, founding member along
with Edward Steichen of the Alfred Steiglitz's Photo-session group, and a
member of the British Linked Group. Turning from painting to photography in
1887, she became the first woman to be recognized and honored in the
fledgling profession. She held a number of exhibitions and her works appeared
in the most influential publications of the day. She remained with the
aesthetics school of photography, using soft focus platinum plates that
surpassed anything of her day. She was too successful, however, and her
artistry slipped as she became too busy (no wife or mistress to take care of
her) and Stieglitz who headed the move to hard-edge realism moved to the
fore as the outstanding photographer of the day. (WOA--> her work is
GORGEOUS! It's Impressionism Art!)
Born May 18, 1926, Jane C. Goodale, photographer, carver, and
anthropologist. B.A., M.A. at Radcliffe and Ph.D. University Pennsylvania (1959).
Was part of a five person National Geographic Expedition to Melville Island
(northern Australia) which landed on April 16, 1954 and camped on the island
for six months to make an ethnographic study of the Tiwi people. She had
been given a two-day crash course in photography prior to embarking and
yet her photographs are world famous.
Goodale then spent an extra four months on the island, living with the
superintendent of the mission station and hunting and working with the Tiwi.
She returned to Melville Island briefly in 1962 and again for fifteen months in
1980-81 and eighteen months in 1986-87. She has written extensively about the
people of Oceania. She is Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.
{Submitted by Judy Redman, Chaplain, Monash Uni-Gippsland Campus,
Australia.}
05-18 Anniversaries ...........................................
Event May 18, 1836, Cynthia Annn Parker, blue-eyed blonde, was
captured by the Comanche at age nine. When American soldiers found her four
years later in a Comanche camp where she was living under the name
*Prelock*, she refused to return. In 1851 she was seen again in the company
of her chief-husband and her two sons. In 1860 she was captured in a raid on
the Comanche and along with her infant daughter was forcibly detained and
returned to her father. The infant died soon after capture and Prelock died in
1864, according to legend, by starving herself to death longing to go back to
the Comanche way of life.
Her eldest son Quanah became chief of the Kwahadi tribe which held out
against the white man. Some called him the most ferocious Indian who ever
lived. In 1875, he suddenly brought his people in and settled near the Wichita
(Ouachita) Mountains and insisted that Comanche children go to school and be
educated.
B. May 18, 1855, Abby Leach, in 1879 was one of the first women to be
enrolled in the Harvard annex, the precursor of Radcliffe College. Became head
of the Greek Department and an awesome presence during Vassar's formative
years.
B. May 18, 1914, Catherine Dean May, US Representative, first woman
U.S. Representative from the State of Washington, 1958, served three terms in
the Washington state legislature, taught school and was a women's editor and
news broadcaster on local radio. Her mother co-operated a real estate office
with her husband and carried it on alone after she was widowed.
B. May 18, 1919, Dame Margot Fonteyn, legendary prima ballerina of
Britain's Royal Ballet.
B. May 18, 1949, Catherine Marian Stuber Scheel, political and feminist
activist. Chair of the Clinton/Gore reelection committee in Collin County,
president of the Collin County, Texas, Democratic Club, editor of its newsletter,
active in dozens of civic ventures, mother of two of my grandchildren - all
while continuing to work full time *all* of her adult life. This little acorn
didn't drop far from a very, very proud-mother-tree. Happy birthday to my
eldest child.
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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 the women of each generation have had to reinvent
themselves.
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kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu barbara trumpinski
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