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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