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(McNally/Simon)
June 25, 1989 5:45 p.m.
Draft Five (aauw2)
REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe
[GREFF].
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing and jobs --
and flexibility and parental choice in child care and education.
It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether criminal
or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
2
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light. If
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message from Main Street to Wall Street -- enlisting young and
old -- black, white and brown -- America's diversity -- to join a
movement predicated on one simple idea:
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must
include service to others."
For over a hundred years, your predecessors -- and now you
in this room -- have built successful lives through community
action. You were ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And
often your service has addressed the very issues we're talking
about today -- education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888.
It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
3
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Educational
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on some
sound and time-tested ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping
those in need, accountability -- and one that's close to the
traditions of this organization -- parental choice and
flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. First -- cash awards for merit schools. Second --
merit awards for America's best teachers. Third -- a new program
for high school science scholarships. Fourth -- $400 million to
boost magnet schools. Fifth -- new money for new teachers --
using alternative certification to expand the pool of skilled
educators. Sixth -- emergency grants to help our schools become
drug-free. And seventh -- expanded federal help to our
Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Given the number of experienced educators here in this room,
it will come as no surprise to learn that many of these
initiatives were developed from the classroom success stories of
teachers like those in your Association. Other guidance came
from people like Sarah Harder, who I met with in Washington
following my election as President. And my Administration is
grateful for the benefit of your experiences and your views.
4
And today, I'd like to talk about four of these initiatives
in particular. Two of the points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
Because teachers shape the minds that shape the future of the
country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
SO thoroughly that they cannot."
She got results. Working with students who have been
written off by the public schools, it's said that 98 percent of
her students go on to high school and then college.
And her students got results. It was reported that one of
Marva's six-year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988
Convention address from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very
gifted speaker -- and you're being too tough on those kids. Give
them my Convention speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
5
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Well, America needs results, too. So another part of my
education plan calls for a similar kind of new incentive --
science scholarships of up to $40,000 for more than 500 of our
best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also resonates in your association.
Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --what you call
"an intergenerational partnership" -- to address the
underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
If we cannot compete with other countries in the classroom, we
cannot compete with them in the boardroom.
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
character in their hearts and common sense in their heads.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
6
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets."
At the federal level, we're going to do our part by taking
violent criminals off the streets. And it is an attack on all
four fronts: New laws to punish them. New agents to arrest
them. New prosecutors to convict them. And new prisons to hold
them.
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes.
Whether it involves spouse abuse at home -- or violence in
the street -- these are evil acts that transcend racial and class
lines. This war against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
7
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room should not
overlook is running for public office. I encourage you to do SO.
It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with
many talented leaders like Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
Connor and Nancy Kassebaum. And their record of public service
-- like the work of so many in your association -- confirms the
long-ago observation of one of the patron saints of community
service -- Alexis de Tocqueville.
8
He wrote: "If I were asked to what the singular prosperity
and growing strength of [the American people] ought mainly to be
attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women."
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 26, 1989
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
The Sheraton Washington Hotel
Washington, D.C.
11:27 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Sarah, thank you very much for that
introduction, and all of you for that warm welcome. And
congratulations to you as you complete your distinguished term as
President of AAUW, and welcome to Sharon Schuster, the new President.
And may she run the meetings with the same iron hand -- (laughter and
applause) -- and put-down of dilatory proceedings such as free debate
-- (laughter) -- that Sharon did. I say all that because she told me
coming in here that there was a harmonious meeting and one that
plenty of substance was discussed that went very, very well indeed.
So, congratulations.
There's another AAUW President -- a past President --
that I'd like to say hello to. From Des Moines, Iowa, and now the
head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe. (Applause.)
Is it Grefe? I didn't want to say "grief." (Laughter.)
I pronounced it my way. (Laughter.)
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral
or practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. And this means equal opportunity in housing and jobs --
and flexibility and parental choice in child care and education.
(Applause.) And it means equal protection from hostile elements,
whether criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service
and community action, whether through public, private or non-profit
organizations.
And today I'd like to talk about two issues in
particular, education and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the quality
of life and opportunity in America. And both are the subject of
major administration proposals now pending before the United States
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar
with -- community action -- what I have called a thousand points of
light. And last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard
issuing a call to action for community service. And we carried the
message from Main Street to Wall Street, enlisting young and old,
black and white and brown -- America's diversity -- to join a
movement predicated on one simple idea -- from now on, any definition
of a successful life must include service to others. (Applause.)
For over a hundred years, your predecessors, and now you
in this room, have built successful lives through community action.
You were ahead of the curve -- way out ahead of the power curve -- by
about a century. And often your service has addressed the very
issues we're talking about today -- education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe -- (laughter) -- now
directs -- what is it about me and Iowa, where I'm always having
trouble -- (laughter) -- began handing out educational fellowships in
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- 2 -
1888. And it's a great tradition, at once combining America's values
of service and education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money
in the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important
is the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
And earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Educational
Excellence Act of 1989. And it proposes solutions based on some
sound and time-tested ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in
need, accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of
this organization -- parental choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a
seven-point plan. First, cash awards for merit schools. Second,
merit awards for America's best teachers. (Applause.) A little
dissent on that one. (Laughter.) Third, a new program for high
school science scholarships. (Applause.) Fourth, $400 million to
boost magnet schools. Fifth, new money for new teachers -- using
alternative certification to expand the pool of skilled educators.
(Applause.) Sixth, emergency grants to help our schools become
drug-free. (Applause.) And seventh, expanded federal help to our
historically black colleges and universities. (Applause.)
Given the number of experienced educators right here in
this room, it will come as no surprise to learn that many of these
initiatives were developed from the classroom success stories
of
teachers like those in your association. And
other guidance came
from people like Sarah Harder, who I met with in Washington following
my election as President. And my administration is grateful for the
benefit of your experiences and your views.
And today, I'd like to talk briefly about four of these
initiatives in particular. Two of the points call for merit awards
-- cash incentives for our most successful schools and the top
teachers in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can
attract, because teachers shape the minds that shape the future of
the country. (Applause.)
Last year, at the centennial celebration of the first
AAUW educational fellowship, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
your Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools and
merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than this
year's winner -- the founder of the Westside Preparatory School in
Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins. (Applause.)
Says Marva, "Any child can learn if they are not taught
so thoroughly that they cannot." (Laughter.) Think about that one,
now.
She got results. Working with students who have been
written off by the public shcools -- it's said that 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
And her students got results. It was reported that one
of Marva's six-year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 convention
address from memory. (Laughter.) Hmmm. (Laughter.) Now look,
Marva -- Jesse is a very gifted speaker -- and you're being too tough
on those kids. (Laughter.) Give them my convention speech and I bet
they can do it at age three. (Laughter.)
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- 3 -
But I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding
her lunch box on the desk in the middle of the class. Marva told the
girl, "No, darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunch boxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunch box on the desk." (Laughter.) Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of our Cabinet meetings. (Laughter.)
America needs results, too. So another part of my
education plan calls for a similar kind of new incentive -- science
scholarships of up to $40,000 for more than 500 of our best high
school seniors. (Applause.)
And this is an idea that also resonates in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address the
underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000,' which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants to
the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
stay
competitive in a competitive world, we must provide incentives and
opportunities for this new generation of women -- to get the
education and training they need to be second to none.
(Applause.)
And if we cannot compete with other countries in the classroom, we
cannot compete with them in the boardroom.
And the last of our education initiatives calls for
drug-free schools. And we've asked Congress to finance urban
emergency grants to help our hardest-hit school districts. And if we
want to stop our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must
first put character in their hearts and common sense in their heads.
(Applause.)
Let me just stop here a minute. Barbara and I were up in
Covenant House the other day in New York -- and Barbara's good at
this. She can handle the emotion of the young kids. Her husband is
not. But, if you'd seen it, and I expect some of you had, these kids
-- the matrix joining the meeting was narcotics use, prostitution and
hopelessness, really -- and it was tragic. And it brought home to
me, loud and clear, how much we have left to do, in terms of offering
hope, through education, to the young people afflicted by this
scourge of narcotics. We've got to succeed as a nation. (Applause.)
So, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime, as
well -- especially violent crime -- has been on my mind in recent
weeks. And last month, I was out standing before the U.S. Capitol on
a somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me in a new
partnership with America's cities and states to "take back the
streets.'
And at the federal level, we're going to do our part by
taking violent criminals off the streets. And it's an attack on all
four fronts: New laws to punish them. New agents to arrest them.
New prosecutors to convict them. And new prisons to hold them. And
incidentally, I feel just as strongly about the white collar criminal
that traffics in narcotics, as I do about the street criminal.
(Applause.)
The comprehensive initiative that I'm talking about here
is directed at violent crime -- and, in particular, the explosion of
urban gunfire that often accompanies drug trafficking. But all too
often, violent crime also means crime against women.
And I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against
American women and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. (Applause.) Whether it
involves spouse abuse at home or violence in the street, these are
evil acts that transcend racial and class lines. This war against
women must stop. And I hope we can prove to be a constructive force
for ending it.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to
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combat violence against women -- to treat victims with compassion and
respect. And they must follow our federal example of enacting
tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors, and prisons --
to put away every violent offender. (Applause.)
Fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate police
and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender a climate
where the message our children get -- from television and films, from
schools and parents -- is that violence against women is wrong.
(Applause.)
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its
citizens. And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools
and workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking to
the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late hours for
fear of getting out of some parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when
we talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my own eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to, my pride and joy, our oldest
grandson, George P., that isn't also out there for his cousin Jenna
Bush. (Applause.)
And one opportunity -- and maybe I'm preaching to the
choir here -- (laughter) -- that some women in this room should not
overlook -- is rolling up your sleeves and running for public office.
(Applause.) I encourage you to do that and it is challenging and
enormously satisfying. This day and age there seems to be more
public flak and all of that, but, believe me, I still feel strongly
that public service is an honorable calling, and we've got to
inculcate that into the life of every single child in this country,
and you can help by running for office. (Applause.)
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with
many talented leaders like Carla Hills and Elizabeth Dole and Sandra
Day O'Connor and Nancy Kassebaum, and their record of public service
-- like the work of so many in your own association -- confirms the
long-ago observation of one of the patron saints of community service
-- Alexis de Tocqueville.
He wrote: "If I were asked to what the singular
prosperity and growing strength of the American people ought mainly
to be attributed, I should reply -- to the superiority of their
women." (Applause.)
I am pleased to be the first President to address the
AAUW -- (applause) -- and very honored -- maybe I'm getting a little
out ahead of the power curve here -- to be awarded an official
membership. (Laughter and applause.) Wait a minute. So technically
that makes me the first AAUW member to be President of the United
States. (Applause.) But I know I won't be the last. (Applause.)
Thank you all and God bless all of you. Thank you very
much.
END
11:46 A.M. EDT
Bob
(McNally/Simon)
June 20, 1989, 9:00 p.m.
Draft Three (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]]
You
can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. From Des Moines, Iowa --
and now head of your Educational Foundation -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health
care. It means equal protection from hostile elements, whether
criminal or environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and
community action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association --- and to any thinking person who cares about the
2
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I know you're familiar with
-- community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light."
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must
include service to others." And members of the American
Association of University Women have built successful lives
through community action for over a hundred years. You were
ahead of the curve -- by about a century. And often your service
has addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
3
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Education
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day 0' Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
4
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]]
Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
5
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more women in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her commitment and
her counsel.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that -- I am
pleased to announce today -- the new president of AAUW will be
invited to serve on the President's Education Policy Advisory
Committee. AAUW will be heard.
6
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. Last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on a
somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets. "
This comprehensive initiative is directed at violent crime
-- and, in particular, the explosion of urban gunfire that often
accompanies drug trafficking. But all too often, violent crime
also means crime against women.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And they must follow our federal example of
7
enacting tougher laws -- backed up by more police, prosecutors,
and prisons -- to put away every violent offender.
And, fundamentally, violence against women won't subside
unless public attitudes change. We must continue to educate
police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must engender
a climate where the message our children get -- from television
and films, from schools and parents -- is that violence against
women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do SO. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
8
0' Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[ [PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
(McNally/Simon)
June 20, 1989, 6:00 p.m.
Draft Two (AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989, 11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
And congratulations also to your successor, Sharon Schuster.
Sharon, you have a big advantage over me. [[PAUSE]] You can
still blame things on your predecessor.
And there's another AAUW president -- a past president --
that I'd like to say hello to today. She's now head of your
Educational Foundation. And ten years ago, during the winter of
1979, she was a friend and supporter who helped bring us to an
early triumph in Iowa. Hello -- and thank you -- Mary Grefe.
In America today, there is no greater imperative -- moral or
practical -- than providing equal opportunity to every man, woman
and child. This means equal opportunity in housing, jobs, and
education -- flexibility and choice in child care and health care
-- equal protection from hostile elements, whether criminal or
environmental -- and equal opportunity in service and community
action, whether through public, private, or non-profit
organizations.
2
And today, I'd like to talk about two issues in particular:
Education -- and public safety. Both are important to this
association -- and to any thinking person who cares about the
quality of life and opportunity in America. And both are the
subject of major Administration proposals now pending before the
Congress.
And there's a third issue that I won't dwell on at length --
community action -- what I have called "a thousand points of
light."
Last week I traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard --
issuing a call to action for community service. We carried the
message to Wall Street. And to the youth of a suburban high
school.
But there's no need to repeat it here. Because the American
Association of University Women has been a moving force for
community action for over a hundred years. You were ahead of the
curve -- by about a century. And often your service has
addressed the very two needs we're talking about today --
education and public safety.
The AAUW foundation that Mary Grefe now directs began
handing out educational fellowships in 1888. It is a great
tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
And the scholarships you provide are more than just money in
the hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for
the future of America.
3
And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
reasons why America will succeed.
Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
Earlier this year, I sent to Congress the Educational
Excellence Act of 1989. It proposes solutions based on four
simple ideas -- rewarding excellence, helping those in need,
accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
organization -- choice and flexibility.
To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
point plan. Two of these points call for merit awards -- cash
incentives for our most successful schools and the top teachers
in every state.
I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
Last year -- at the centennial celebration of the first AAUW
educational fellowship -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received
the AAUW Achievement Award. And when we talk about merit schools
and merit teachers, there could hardly be a better example than
4
this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot."
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [[PAUSE]] Obviously,
Marva's never been to one of my Cabinet meetings.
Another part of my education plan calls for a similar kind
of new incentive -- science scholarships of up to $40,000 for
more than 500 of our best high school seniors.
And this is an idea that also finds echoes in your
association. Last year you founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund --
what you call "an intergenerational partnership" -- to address
the underrepresentation of women and girls in math and science.
5
And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000," which concludes that almost two-thirds of the new entrants
to the labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To
stay competitive in a competitive world, we must provide
incentives and opportunities for this new generation of women --
to get the education and training they need to be second to none.
You know, there are more woman in this country than there
are people in Japan. And success for America in international
competition begins with success in our schools. If we cannot
compete with other countries in the classroom, we cannot compete
with them in the boardroom.
Rewarding successful students, teachers, and schools is one
way to encourage excellence. But it also requires elements of
flexibility and choice. And that's why our package also requests
new funding for both magnet schools and historically black
colleges and universities. And it calls for alternative
certification -- to expand the pool of talented teachers and
administrators -- by opening the door to diverse and accomplished
people, such as the women here in this room.
And speaking of the women in this room -- I've come here
today to thank you for your assistance in developing these plans
-- and to tell you that my Administration values your experience
and your views. Twice since my election as President I have met
with Sarah Harder. And I've been grateful for her gracious
complements on my efforts, and on the work of Bobbie Kilberg, a
6
very able lawyer and mother who we appointed at the White House
to take the lead on many of these issues.
In fact, Sarah's contributions have been such that I am
pleased to announce today that her successor -- the new president
of AAUW -- has been invited to serve on the President's Education
Policy Advisory Committee. AAUW will be heard.
The last of our education initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We've asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
-- to help our hardest-hit school districts. If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must first put
good ideas in their heads and moral character in their hearts.
And, as with education, the subject of drugs and crime --
and especially violent crime -- has been much on my mind in
recent weeks. And last month, I stood before the U.S. Capitol on
a somber, rainy afternoon to call on Congress to join me -- in a
new partnership with America's cities and states -- to "take back
the streets."
And, all too often, violent crime means crime against women.
And while it's true that the federal role in fighting street
crime is limited by constitutional traditions, there's nothing in
the Constitution that's going to limit my expression of moral
outrage on this issue.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
7
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are evil
acts of violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war
against women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And fundamentally, violence against women won't
subside unless public attitudes change. We must continue to
educate police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must
engender a climate where the message our children get -- from
television and films, from schools and parents -- from fathers --
is that violence against women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late
hours, for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do so. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
8
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work
with leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory
Aquino -- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day
O'Connor and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long
overdue to elect a woman as President of the United States.
[[PAUSE]] But do me one favor -- please wait until after 1996.
I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
very honored to be awarded an official membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
#
#
#
(McNally/Simon)
June 19, 1989
9:00 p.m.
Draft One
(AAUW)
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AMERICAN ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
WASHINGTON SHERATON HOTEL
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989
11:15 A.M.
Thank you, Sarah Harder, for that gracious introduction.
And congratulations as you complete your distinguished term as
president of AAUW. You and I know it can be fun to be President.
But I hear from California that ex-President is not such a bad
job, either.
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The AAUW foundation that Mary directs began handing out
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tradition, at once combining America's values of service and
education.
The scholarships you provide are more than just money in the
hands of deserving students. They are money in the bank for the
future of America.
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And today our efforts to improve the education system
represent an endeavor where nothing less than the future of our
country is at stake. And your association represents 140,000
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Your contributions are important. And equally important is
the recent and renewed commitment to an old-fashioned American
idea -- partnership between the government and the community in
seeking educational excellence.
Government -- and especially federal government -- cannot
provide all the answers. But it has an obligation to lead.
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accountability -- and one that's close to the traditions of this
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To achieve these goals, my new initiative proposes a seven-
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I want the best teachers our educational system can attract.
We must never lose sight of the fact that teachers shape the
minds that will shape the future of the country.
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this year's winner -- the founder of Westside Preparatory School
in Chicago's inner city -- Marva Collins.
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Says Marva: "Any child can learn -- if they are not taught
too thoroughly that they cannot. "
And the results prove it. Working with students who have
been written off by the public schools, 98 percent of her
students go on to high school and then to college.
Amazing results. It was reported that one of Marva's six-
year-olds could recite Jesse Jackson's 1988 Convention address
from memory. Now Marva -- Jesse's a very gifted speaker -- and
you're being too tough on those kids. Give them my Convention
speech and I bet they can do it at age three.
I've also heard of one young girl who began pounding her
lunch box on the desk in the middle of class. Marva told the
girl: "Darling, no one is going to be handing out good jobs to
people who pound their lunchboxes on their desks. President Bush
does not pound his lunchbox on the desk." [PAUSE] Obviously,
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The third point in my education plan calls for another new
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And I know that many of you are familiar with "Workforce
2000, " which concludes that two-thirds of the new entrants to the
labor force in the next eleven years will be women. To stay
competitive in a competitive world, we must provide incentives
and opportunities for this new generation of women to receive the
kind of education and training they need to be second to none.
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talented teachers and administrators by opening the door to
diverse and accomplished people such as those here in this room.
The last of these seven initiatives calls for drug-free
schools. We ve asked Congress to finance urban emergency grants
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to help our hardest-hit school districts.
If we want to stop
our kids from putting drugs in their bodies, we must
first
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Our aim must be to get the drugs out, to get back to basics,
and let the students and teachers get down to business in an
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And -- on this point -- you no doubt know that the subject
of drugs and crime, and especially violent crime, has been much
on my mind in recent weeks. And last month, I stood before the
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join me in a new partnership with America's cities and states
-- to combat violent crime.
And, all too often, violent crime means crime against women.
And while it's true that the federal role in fighting street
crime is effectively limited by constitutional traditions,
there's nothing in the Constitution that's going to limit my
expression of moral outrage on this issue.
I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American
women -- and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all
too frequently contribute to those crimes. Whether it involves
the violation of a jogger in a park -- or the brutalization of a
6
wife and daughter in a high-rent brownstone -- these are acts of
violence that transcend racial and class lines. The war against
women must stop.
Our cities and states must step up their efforts to combat
violence against women -- and to treat victims with compassion
and respect. And fundamentally, violence against women won't
subside unless public attitudes change. We must continue to
educate police and prosecutors, judges and juries. And we must
engender a climate where the message our children get -- from
television and films, from schools and parents -- from fathers --
is that violence against women is wrong.
A kinder and gentler nation must protect all its citizens.
And no matter how equal the opportunities in our schools and the
workplace, women will never have the same opportunities as men if
a climate of fear leaves them justifiably concerned about walking
to the campus library at night -- or reluctant to work late hours
for fear of getting out of the parking lot safely.
I have a daughter -- and four daughters-in-law. And when we
talk about what kind of schools and the kind of society we are
shaping for the next century, I think about my eleven
grandchildren. Seven are girls. And it is unthinkable that any
opportunity should be available to young George P. that isn't
also out there for his cousin Jenna Bush.
One opportunity that some women in this room have probably
never thought about is running for public office. I encourage
you to do SO. It is challenging and enormously satisfying work.
7
And when you've had the opportunity, as I have had, to work with
leaders like Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Cory Aquino
-- not to mention Carla Hills, Liddy Dole, Sandra Day O'Connor
and Nancy Kassebaum -- you realize that we're long overdue to
elect a woman as President of the United States.
Many
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I am pleased to be the first President to address AAUW, and
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very honored to be awarded an honorary membership. And I guess
that, technically, that makes me the first AAUW member to be
President of the United States. But I know I won't be the last.
Thank you for your warm welcome. Good luck in your efforts
to serve the public good. And God bless you -- and God bless
America.
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OUTLOOK
CONTENTS
President
MARVA COLLINS
An inner-city teacher
Sarah Harder
proves that greatness
Executive Director
by Lynn Gutter
comes from great expectations.
Anne L. Bryant, Ed. D.
AAUW Achievement Award
10
Communications Director
Recipient Marva Collins.
Judith A. Markoe
Managing Editor
Karen A. Johnson
FROM MADISON TO
An AAUW leader's
Senior Editor
Lauren Fishbein
MOSCOW
journey toward our
common future.
Assistant Editor
by Sarah Harder
Lynn Gutter
Convention Editor
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Marlee Miller
Editorial Assistant
Robert F. Brown, Jr.
FROM GHANA TO GREECE
What could a philosopher
Graphic Artist
from Australia, a physician
Kathleen Fitzgerald
by Karen Johnson
from Israel, and an
Production Associate
educator from South Africa
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Ann 0. Bucklew
possibly have in common?
Advertising Assistant
Allison Coles
Convention Manager
Lisa Block
LETTERS TO THE
POLICY NOTES
CHOICES, CHANGES,
AAUW NEWS
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or higher degree from a regionally ac-
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and seeks a diverse membership.
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There shall be no barriers to full par-
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ticipation in this organization on the
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DEADLINE:
basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexu-
Opportunity
Facts and Stats
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Study Down Under
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women convicted of crime. Traditionally,
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women rarely have as equitable access to
college in the nation to establish an
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AAUW branch.
women often have parenting responsibil-
ities which increase their need for such
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BRIEFS
Facts and Stats
nflation has hit education in the
n January 10, women's advocates cel-
graduate study researcher.
II
workplace. Women are becoming
O
ebrated the biggest back pay award
"All the men and women in the study
more educated, but as the number
ever secured against a single employer by
were functioning well, but overall, the di-
of educated workers increases, the
the government. After 15 years of com-
vorced mothers in our study found their
value of education declines.
plaints and enforcement proceedings,
situation more psychologically stressful
Twenty-six percent of American work-
women and minority employees at Chi-
than the men did," Clarke-Stewart said.
ers have had at least four years of college
cago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank will
The study included 45 single, divorced
education, according to new data from the
receive $14 million in back pay, new
parents (25 mothers and 20 fathers) in Or-
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Twenty percent
training programs, and a new affirmative
ange County, California. Each had been
have had one to three years of college.
action plan under an agreement filed by
divorced for less than three years and had
This means, of all the workers age 25 to
Harris Bank with the Department of Labor
custody of at least one school-age child.
64 in the U.S., nearly half have had some
and Women Employed, a Chicago-based
According to Clarke-Stewart, there
college experience, up from 37 percent in
advocacy group represented by the Nation-
were several factors affecting the better
1978.
al Women's Law Center.
overall adjustment to divorce by the men
The good news is that women have
The case is one of the first in which
in the study. The men had higher incomes
achieved parity in education to compete
employment advocacy groups challenged
and more satisfaction with their jobs and
for today's jobs. According to American
employment practices in the banking in-
financial situations than the women in the
Demographics magazine, young women
dustry using governmental affirmative ac-
group. They also valued careers signifi-
(aged 25 to 29) today are just as likely to
tion requirements for federal contractors.
cantly higher than the women did; the
have four or more years of college as
At issue were widespread sex and race
women were more likely than men to val-
young men-22 percent of both groups
discrimination practices in Harris Bank's
ue being part of a couple.
have that much education. By contrast,
hiring, pay, promotion, placement, and
Another possible explanation for the
only 8 percent of women now aged 65 and
training. In studying the bank's employ-
differences in psychological stress, accord-
older have completed four or more years of
ment practices, the litigants found numer-
ing to Clarke-Stewart, may have been that
college, compared with 13 percent of the
ous instances in which women with
the men in the sample were an exception-
men in that age group.
college degrees were hired for clerical po-
al group.
sitions while white male college graduates
"Given their rarity, men who seek and
were offered training and jobs in higher
obtain or accept child custody are quite
D
0 women lead organizations differ-
paid positions with greater opportunities
likely to be unusual in their attitudes,
ently than men? To answer this and
for advancement.
confidence, and competence," Clarke-
other questions of gender and leadership,
"Employers beware: discrimination is
Stewart said.
Judy Rosener, a faculty member at the
expensive," said National Women's Law
University of California, Irvine, Graduate
Center attorney Marcia Greenberger, who
School of Management, has received a
represented Women Employed over the
course of the enforcement proceedings.
I
S there a doctor in the house? If not,
$10,000 grant from the International
the chances are there will be soon. The
Women's Forum.
"As long as Executive Order 11246 is in
number of women receiving doctoral de-
"When the first generation of women
place to prohibit discrimination by federal
grees has nearly doubled, from 6,200 in
became managers, most tended to adopt
contractors, women have a friend in court.
1972-73 to 12,100 in 1986-87, according
'male' attitudes and behaviors to be ac-
The law is on the books and women's ad-
to a 1988 National Center for Education
cepted by their male colleagues," Rosener
vocates will use it."
Statistics report. The trend will continue
said. "Today we're experiencing a second
into the 1990s, the study shows, with
generation of female managers who are
women receiving a projected 46 percent of
asking, 'Is it necessary to be male-like in
N
ot all divorced fathers with custody
all doctoral degrees by 1997-98. Women
order to lead?"
of their kids are like Dustin Hoffman's
held 18 percent of the doctoral degrees in
Rosener will examine whether this
character in Kramer vs. Kramer, but they
1972-73 and 35 percent in 1986-87. In
new attitude is becoming the norm, and,
may be better adjusted to divorce than
contrast, the number of doctoral degrees
if women do lead organizations differently
their female counterparts, according to a
awarded to men fell from 28,600 in
than men, what those differences are.
study by researchers at the University of
1972-73 to 22,100 in 1986-87, a drop of
Rosener will also examine how family re-
California, Irvine.
nearly 30 percent.
sponsibilities affect the organizational
The study, "Adjusting to Divorce: Why
leadership of both men and women.
Do Men Have it Easier?" was conducted by
Rosener's study is scheduled for com-
Dr. K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, professor of
pletion by October 1989.
social ecology, and Bonnie L. Bailey, a
MAY-JUNE
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POLICYNOTES
The Women's Agenda
for the
alvanized by
G
the momentum
101st Congress
meeting in February at-
tended by representatives
of the final days
of Council of Presidents
of the 100th
Sarah Harder addresses the first Women's Agenda Conference in January 1988.
member groups, was an-
Congress, this
nounced at a press confer-
spring major national
ence in March at the Na-
women's groups have pre-
tional Press Club. Other
sented President George
critical issues of joint con-
Bush and the leaders of
cern and action identified
the 101st Congress with a
by the council are im-
shared "Women's Agenda"
proved services and fund-
focused on family, work-
ing for women and girls in
place, and health issues.
vocational and job train-
The agenda, which
ing; support for families
addresses issues affecting
through access to afford-
women of all ages and
able housing, social secu-
backgrounds, was formu-
rity reform, and health in-
lated by the Council of
surance; extension of
Presidents, which consists
legal protections for the
of the presidents of more
disabled; promotion of
than 50 national women's
election reform; increase
organizations, including
Women's
of the minimum wage;
AAUW, the Women's Equi-
Agenda
and insurance and pen-
ty Action League, the Na-
sion reform.
Conference
tional Organization for
How were these prior-
Women, the Black Wom-
ities selected? The council
en's Agenda, the National
uses four criteria which
Women's Political Cau-
are similar to those used
cus, the Older Women's
for the biennial selection
League, the Hispanic
of the AAUW Legislative
Jonathan Kronstadt
Women's Council, the Jew-
Program priorities. Before
ish Women's Caucus, and
an issue is chosen for pri-
many others. Among its
ority action by the council
members, the council
Not only are the doors opening,
it must meet the tests of
boasts more than 8,000
but now people on the Hill
viability, critical need,
grass-roots chapters rep-
and in the White House are calling us.
strong agreement about
resenting the mainstream
priority, and potential for
of American women and
distinctive organizational
encompassing every con-
contributions. (An issue is
gressional district in the nation.
fordable, accessible, and safe child care
"viable" if political and social realities
The Women's Agenda for the 101st
nationwide;
are such that significant movement on the
Congress calls for congressional and ad-
a national long-term care policy ensur-
issue is possible in the short term from
ministrative leadership on the following:
ing availability of a range of institutional
concerted action. It meets the criterion of
and home care options for those in need,
"critical need" if it addresses a crucial,
a family and medical leave act establish-
regardless of age or income;
broad-based concern.)
ing a national policy of leave for working
safe, accessible, and affordable repro-
women and men to enable them to fulfill
ductive health care; and
their family responsibilities without sacri-
Open Doors
development of federal budget and
ficing job security;
deficit-reduction proposals that protect
Council of Presidents representatives, in-
comprehensive legislation providing af-
the needs of women and children.
cluding AAUW President Sarah Harder,
have brought the Women's Agenda to the
Lauren Fishbein, Senior Editor
The agenda, which was finalized at a
fore in several meetings with President
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AAUW OUTLOOK
Bush and colloquys with Senate Majority
dents meetings with federal policymakers
groups and reproductive rights groups, to
Leader George Mitchell (D-ME), Senate
and legislators are not large, they are
demonstrate the broad support that its
Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-KS),
richly representative. The council ensures
agenda has garnered across the country.
and prominent House leaders.
this by sending teams of spokeswomen on
"We have had very frank and straight-
"Doors are opening that we've
each issue that include representatives of
forward discussions with Senator Dole,
knocked on before, but rarely with an-
groups that have expertise on the issue
just as we did with Senator Mitchell," said
swers," said Harder. "And not only are the
Harder. "They trust us as reasonable ne-
doors opening, but now people are calling
gotiators and consensus-builders who un-
us. Another difference between these
AAUW's big advantage
derstand practical politics as well as they
meetings and those held during the 99th
in these meetings
do. And so, they understand that the situ-
and 100th Congresses is that they're not
ation makes these meetings ripe to pro-
pro forma. They are, in fact, asking our
is the credibility of its
duce results. They know we want
advice and listening intently because they
grass-roots connections.
movement and they know they have to
believe what we have to say about the
produce."
constituencies we represent. In all of
these meetings, key staff who will actu-
and representatives of groups that have
Grass-Roots that Matter
ally be responsible for moving the issues-
broad-based constituencies. This strategy
such as Bobbie Kilberg, deputy assistant
also combats perceptions of women's
As always, AAUW's big advantage in these
to the President for public liaison, with
groups as being 'single issue' obsessed.
meetings is the credibility of our grass-
whom we met today-are taking notes and
In addition, the council tries to assemble
roots connections. "Our meeting with
getting names and telephone numbers to
what some may see as unlikely coalitions
Senator [Dale] Bumpers (D-AR), for exam-
use when the time is right."
between groups of young and older wom-
ple, was very productive and lasted nearly
Although most of the Council of Presi-
en, volunteers and professionals, church
an hour," said Harder. "But what really
made the meeting was what happened as
we were leaving.
"Senator Bumpers said, "This was a
great meeting, but there's not a voter [in
Making Our Numbers Count
my state] among you.' I said, 'No, but I'm
going to be with Mattie Mae Rice this
weekend at our AAUW Board meeting,
T
he location of the AAUW's 35th Biennial
spokespersons. Before, between, and after ap-
and she'll hear all about this meeting, and
Convention-Washington, DC-will give
pointments, there may be time for AAUW
trust me, people in Arkansas will hear all
AAUW members a golden opportunity to make
members to attend congressional committee
about it.' Senator Bumpers lit up: 'Is Mat-
their numbers count with lawmakers on Cap-
hearings or watch floor debates.
tie Mae on your board? No kidding? Well,
itol Hill. When convention business closes the
For further information about Capitol Hill
you be sure to say hello to Mattie Mae for
morning of June 27, AAUW members will con-
Day and convention registration, see the
me.' (Rice, an Arkansas member, serves
verge on the U.S. Capitol steps for an AAUW
March/April AAUW Outlook.
as AAUW Southwest Central regional
rally, with congressional leaders attending.
director.)
The rally will focus on a top AAUW legislative
A similar incident happened to Pro-
priority slated for imminent action during the
AAUW
gram and Policy Director Ann Chipley. At
101st Congress. The media will also be invited
a recent meeting, Senator Mitchell kidded
SO that AAUW members not able to come to
Advocate
Chipley, "Aren't you going to brag about
convention will be able to see us on the eve-
the first AAUW member elected Senate
ning news.
Majority Leader?"
After the rally, AAUW members will visit
Keep AAUW's grass-roots connections
their legislators in the House and Senate office
chosen issue. Each AAUW division will have a
Button Design, Kathleen Fitzgerald
strong! Stay informed on progress on the
buildings to discuss AAUW's support for the
Women's Agenda by subscribing to Action
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F
O
C
U
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he launching of AAUW's new Is-
health care.
T
sue, Choices for Tomorrow's
The focus of Choices for Tomorrow's
Women, at the 1989 Convention
Women also reflects many of the issues
in June will move AAUW's pro-
discussed at the June 1988 AAUW Educa-
gram efforts toward a more inte-
tional Foundation Centennial Symposium,
grated focus. Through the new Issue and
"Preparing for the 21st Century: Who Will
the AAUW Educational Foundation's
Shape Society's Agenda?" For example,
Eleanor Roosevelt Fund for Women and
Symposium participants focused on the
Girls: Intergenerational Partnerships,
ways in which current social, political,
AAUW will work to expand awareness of
and economic systems are increasing the
factors that limit options, remove barriers
gulf between the "haves and have-nots,"
to equal opportunities, and empower wom-
which threatens to create a permanent
en and girls to make informed choices.
underclass of women and children. The
The Association Program Development
participants also described the extraordi-
Committee and Board of Directors se-
nary speed with which society changes
lected the new Issue based on member re-
Choices
and the need to prepare girls and women
sponses to the Emerging Issues/Legislative
for the future.
Program survey. Additional opinions were
To address these concerns and others,
gathered through Leader-on-Loan visits to
division conventions and consideration of
for
the Issue will be implemented in three ways:
potential new Issues by participants in the
AAUW divisions, branches, and individ-
June 1988 Conference of Division Presi-
ual members will
dents. Members indicated strong interest
Tomorrow's
work to expand their
in areas such as bias-free educational pro-
own sense of
grams, prevention of adolescent pregnancy,
community.
women and children in poverty, homeless-
ness, single parenting, pay equity, and
Women
AAUW will build
bridges to give
equal access to education, housing, and
broader meaning to
the word "commu-
Amy Swauger, Assistant Director, Program
nity" and forge alli-
and Policy Department
ances to be more
Photo (1.) courtesy of The American University;
all other photos courtesy of the National
Education Association.
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Marva Collins
TheCreed" was ur
first Rep
Mrs Marva n.Colli
written
b
the
Editor's note:
Chicago educator
Marva Collins will be
honored with the 1989
AAUW Achievement
Award on Foundation
Night, June 27, during
One Teacher's
AAUW's 35th Biennial
One
Convention in
Washington, DC.
by Lynn Gutter
W
hen Marva Collins was growing up in
Collins has been hailed for doing what teachers in
Alabama, she was certain of three
few school systems have been able to do-transform
things: that with her rebellious man-
children who have been written off by the public
ner she would not fit in with others,
schools into confident, well-educated, and success-
that blacks in this world were not af-
ful teens.
forded the same opportunities as whites, and that
Amidst an educational system in crisis, this is
despite these odds, it was possible to succeed.
no small achievement. Widespread illiteracy, low
Her instincts were right. As the outspoken and
reading scores, high dropout rates, and few incen-
sometimes criticized founder and supervisor of the
tives for teachers have forced President Bush to
Westside Preparatory School in Chicago's inner city,
tout education as a top priority. The problems are
even more severe in poor black communities, where
Lynn Gutter, Assistant Editor
only one high school graduate in six reaches col-
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AAUW OUTLOOK
gifted children at neighboring universities. Ninety-
eight percent of her students go on to high school
and then to college.
Her students' motivation is equally impressive.
Children fight for the chance to recite in front of
class. They do not ask for gym classes or recess to
be added to the curriculum. And the worst disci-
pline problem is getting them to leave at the end of
the day.
But though most attention has focused on the
accomplishments of Collins's students, less has been
devoted to her actual teaching methods. How has
she been able to motivate her students when others
could not? Her approach seems ordinary enough: to
interest a child in learning, you must raise their
confidence level, set high expectations, and disci-
pline them strongly, and you must teach them the
basics-reading, writing, and arithmetic. What is
not ordinary is her relentless determination. She of-
fers her children one simple promise, "I will not let
you fail."
Any child
This message is reiterated throughout an
can learn if
averge day at Westside Preparatory. When a rest-
less boy would not sit still and answer a question
they are not taught
she had just asked, Collins stayed with him at his
too thoroughly that
seat, rubbing his shoulders until several other chil-
they cannot.
dren had responded. She ignored his repeated at-
tempts to free himself from her grip. She also told
him she loved him.
"I love you, and you are going to learn," she
said. "I love you, and you are too bright to sit
there and not pay attention." In the end, he an-
swered the question and smiled proudly when she
commended him for his "sagacity." Later, when a
young girl began pounding her lunchbox on her
desk, disturbing the class, Collins remarked: "Pres-
ident Bush does not pound his lunchbox on the
desk. Darling, no one is going to be handing out
good jobs like his to people who pound their lunch-
boxes on their desks."
lege. Still, Collins maintains, the situation is not
Though these approaches may be too direct for
hopeless. "Any child can learn," she says, "if they
some educators, they come quite naturally to Col-
are not taught too thoroughly that they cannot."
lins. In her book, Marva Collins' Way, she writes:
And at Collins's school, learn they do. A three-
"My dad was always supportive, constantly telling
year-old at Westside Preparatory can read and re-
me how smart and pretty I was, even when I
cite a Shakespeare sonnet or a Robert Frost poem.
wasn't, so I felt good about myself. My mother was
A four-year-old can casually throw out four syn-
was very prim and proper, not as free with the
onyms for the word "mistake." And a six-year-old
hugs and kisses as my dad. I knew she loved me but
can recite from memory Jesse Jackson's speech
I missed hearing her tell me that she did. As an
from the 1988 Democratic convention, complete
adult I have come to understand how important it
with dramatic pauses and intonations. Many of Col-
is to be openly affectionate with a child."
lins's students are enrolled in weekend programs for
To overachieve was also a Collins family trait.
MAYJUNE
11
Her mother's father, who farmed all night and ped-
She complained that teachers came to class un-
dled meat door-to-door, became the first black man
prepared, had little respect for the children, and
in town to have a car. Her other grandfather owned
relied too heavily on simplified teaching methods.
a store and rented out several houses. And her fa-
Angry and disillusioned, she quit her job,
ther, who had only a fourth-grade education, took
cashed in her $5,000 pension, and started her
over his father's grocery store, invested the assets
school in the basement of Daniel Hale Williams
in a thousand-acre cattle ranch and town funeral
Marva Collins is one of
University. Her first class was comprised of her
parlor and became one of the richest black men in
seventy-five women
daughter and three neighborhood children. When
town.
enrollment started to increase and more room was
"I can't stand limits, I really can't," she said.
featured in I DREAM A
needed, she and her husband, Clarence, knocked
"That's why I don't limit my children. You don't
WORLD: Portraits of
down a wall between two rooms in their home to
come to my school and say you can only go from
Black Women Who
make a classroom. With salvaged textbooks and
seventh to eighth grade. You can go from seventh to
hand-written materials, she taught 28 children
tenth grade if you score high enough. The kids can
Changed America, a
aged three through twelve, with a waiting list of
read anything that they can read. I never say,
travelling exhibition of
175 applicants.
'that's beyond you.' But I don't limit kids and I
In 1978, Collins's story was picked up by the
don't like limits put on me
because I die, I suf-
large-scale black and
Chicago Sun Times and later by numerous other
fer, I can't breathe."
white photographs. A
national publications. She was featured on an epi-
Collins herself learned to read before she star-
two-year project by
sode of the CBS-TV news show "60 Minutes" and
ted school, and once her interest was peaked, there
later was played by actress Cicely Tyson in a Hall-
was no stopping her. By age nine she was intrigued
Pulitzer Prize-winning
mark Hall of Fame TV special titled "The Marva
by Shakespeare. Soon it made no difference what
photographer Brian
Collins Story." With the proceeds from the movie,
she studied; she was addicted to learning.
Lanker, the exhibition
and fees from various speaking engagements, Col-
"I took a medical secretary job when I first
lins was able to move Westside Preparatory to its
came to Chicago from Alabama," she recalls.
includes women
own permanant facility, two adjoining one-story
"They weren't even hiring blacks in the South at
prominent in every field,
brick office buildings.
that time. I had never heard a medical term in my
from arts and letters to
Despite the attention that she has garnered,
life, but when I came across a word I didn't know, I
Collins is not interested in anything else but teach-
would call the American Medical Association and
the military, and those
ing. In 1980, the Reagan administration named her
play the dictaphone over the phone and ask them
whose unsung
a top prospect for the post of secretary of educa-
how to spell the word.
tion. Soon thereafter, she declined a seat on the
"My parents brought me up with this philoso-
contributions are equally
Chicago school board and the superintendency of
phy: do whatever you want, but do it well. Anyone
important and inspiring.
the Los Angeles County school system. In all cases,
who has ever succeeded has done that. Edison dis-
A 168-page book
she said she would prefer to continue teaching.
covered that there were 120 ways not to make the
"I don't know what makes people think I could
light bulb. 'No' is my motivator. If you tell me 'no'
accompanies this
do more if I were with the government," she said.
to something-God, that really gets me going. It
exhibition.
"They don't let you do what you want there. I have
must do for me what drugs do for an addict."
I DREAM A WORLD
the freedom to choose here. Many times people will
Collins didn't start out with an inclination to
cut you down when they think you're getting too
teach, but now it's second nature. Her speech is
will tour nationally. For
arrogant. I don't need titles, I know who I am. I
marked with quotes from great writers and philoso-
information on future
don't care if I never see see my name in the paper.
phers. Wandering around Westside Preparatory's
The secretary of education will never get to see
locations, please contact
classrooms, she is constantly straightening up the
what these children have done. Each one of these
children's postures, correcting their grammar, or
the American Federation
kids is here because of the determination I put in
complimenting them. "I don't know why I'm a
of the Arts, 212/988-7700.
them. So it's really a matter of what you want out
teacher," she said. "It's something that comes alive
of life. I feel good about the contributions I make
for me. Like Jesse Jackson said in his speech, I
and that's all that matters to me.
teach because I can't help it."
"Another reason I won't take jobs like the sec-
Before establishing Westside Preparatory in
retary of education is that those in the government
1975, Collins taught for 14 years in Chicago's public
will think I'm crazy when I tell them what they
school system and earned a reputation as a maver-
need to do. They don't understand that these [inner
ick who had little patience with apathetic teachers.
city] kids can be anything that wealthy white kids
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aggerating her students' progress. None of this
bothers her.
"I don't care what people say," she said. "It
doesn't bother me, because I'm in good company.
What president of the United States hasn't been
criticized? What leader? Jesus Christ himself was
accused of using witchcraft to heal people. Galileo,
Luther, I don't care who it was. I could say, 'poor
me, you're picking on me because I'm black.' I
don't have time for that. Because I'm going to make
it despite what you say. What I do concerns me, not
what people think."
And there is no doubt that Collins has made
her mark. Every year, she is invited to speak to
thousands of educators. In 1985, she founded the
Westside Preparatory National Teacher-Training In-
stitute, where she has since trained over 3,000
teachers. Most recently, she was featured in an ex-
hibit at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington,
DC, entitled, "I DREAM A WORLD."
"Everyone says that I'm remarkable, and I don't
see it," she said. "It's just that I have a good image
of who I am and that's unshakeable. Kids sense
right away what a strength I have.
My whole
message to them is about being what you want to
be and not letting anyone else regulate you. No one
regulates my success because what I have learned
will take me anywhere. If this school closes today, I
Lynn Gutter
have skills that can be used in many other areas.
Marva Collins leads a class of three- and four-year-olds
"I also tell my students to see their options.
at Westside Preparatory School, where failure doesn't
One of our former students called yesterday and
exist and every student is the teacher's pet.
said he wanted to leave his home. His parents are
putting him through college and he has a nice
home. I told him one of his options is that if he
goes out in the world alone, he might not be able to
pay the rent."
can be. And even wealthy white kids can be more
But what of Collins's future? There has been
than they're being right now. And that's very hard
some talk of her establishing a high school, day
for a government official to understand. They would
care center, or an adult-education facility to help
think I'm completely nuts if I told them a three-
parents acquire the same education their children
year-old could learn to read. I don't see the big
receive at Westside Preparatory. Collins, however,
mystery. We should have a national mandate of
won't commit. "I don't know what I'm going to
what all children should learn at age three, then at
do," she said. "I take each moment of each day as
four, etc. You have to give teachers better press
it comes and that's the best I can do. I'm better to-
than what they're getting, and I think we have to
day than I was Friday at what I do. Tomorrow I in-
pay them more."
tend to be better than I was today."
Collins has often been criticized for abandoning
It is still hard to picture Collins doing anything
the public schools, where her talents could make
Wm. Franklin McMahan/People Weekly/
©1978 Time Inc. Magazine Co.,
but teaching. "At this 'I DREAM A WORLD' exhib-
such a great difference. She has publicly placed the
All rights reserved.
it," she recalls, "Wilma Rudolph had her grand-
blame for the deterioration of public education on
daughter with her. I was over in the corner reading
teacher apathy and refuses to accept federal funds
a book to that kid while everybody else was social-
for her school. She has even been criticized for ex-
izing. I'd just rather be around a kid."
MAYJUNE
13
From Madison to Moscow
by Sarah Harder
II
n 1977 two accidents of time and place
to policy roles, taking up the responsibilities of
opened roadways to the world for me. Now
'first-class citizens.'
those roads, which carried one woman from
That same year in Madison, AAUW prepared
the midwest around the world, increasingly
me for the National Women's Conference, our gov-
converge to show that the only real choices for
ernment's response to the UN Decade for Women.
tomorrow's women are born of collective actions
In November, representatives selected by 130,000
that address our common future.
participants in 56 state and territorial meetings
Before 1977 I had never attended a national
gathered in Houston. Everyone who participated
meeting. That June, AAUW's Minneapolis Conven-
in Houston saw with stunning clarity the creative
tion 80 miles across the border presented a chance
force that results when women reach out and come
I couldn't pass up. As the branch chair for Women
together across vast differences.
as Agents of Change, I went to explore what
In 1979, I was elected to the AAUW Board of
AAUW was doing to help women make a difference.
Directors. From my university office in Eau Claire,
The effect on me was overwhelming. The con-
I began working with women nationwide to build
vention was like stepping into a cinerama-an
state networks. AAUW branches and division be-
Sarah Harder, assistant to
omni-theater on the world-after a life of eight
came the builders through our Issue Empowering
the vice chancellor and co-
millimeter home movies. I remember a woman
Women: Achieving Change Through Advocacy Net-
ordinator of women's stud-
named Joan Martin-Brown addressed the conven-
works. In 1980, the UN Mid-Decade Conference
ies at the University of
tion about women as global change agents. She
brought 10,000 of us from around the world to
Wisconsin-Eau Claire,
talked about women in developing countries as pro-
Copenhagen, Denmark, to assess progress on the
was AAUW Legislative Pro-
ducers rather than consumers, whose work as sub-
World Plan of Action for equality, development, and
gram chair from
sistence farmers assures them both income and
peace. There, women like me quickly internalized
1983-1985, and has been
economic status. She reminded U.S. women about
president of AAUW since
global issues. The statistical snapshot produced by
resource depletion: "What we consume determines
the United Nations is one which most of us still can
1985. She is also president
of Women for a Meaningful
what wastes are returned to the air, water, land-
recite by rote: Women, who are one-half of the
Summit, and serves on the
all biotic systems which must somehow absorb and
world's adult population and one-third of the paid
Council of Presidents.
convert our pollution." She insisted that to become
workforce, perform two-thirds of all the world's
agents of change women must move from support
work at one-tenth of its wages and own less than
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one percent of its wealth. That stark simplicity
Commission on the Status of Women stated bluntly
places everything else in perspective, measuring
that "something dramatic" must happen if the mo-
the gulf between rich and poor. The Decade for
mentum of progress is to be revived. Admitting the
Women was a decade of global economic recession
objective of global equality by the year 2000 may
that struck hardest at those on the margin, and in
now be at risk, a new world conference has been
every country those most on the margin are women
suggested for 1995. These UN meetings provide of-
and children.
ficial opportunities to raise questions about the ab-
However, the 1980 UN Mid-Decade Conference,
sence of "government machinery" for women. The
with an uncompromising split on its Programme of
U.S. stands virtually alone among nations in having
Action, also showed what happens when women
abdicated to volunteer women's organizations the
function in support roles for policies designed by
task of monitoring and implementing the "Forward-
men. Schooled by our success in crafting our U.S.
Looking Strategies."
Plan of Action at Houston, but untutored in inter-
But women take their common sense to many
national arenas, many women felt used, and
arenas. Prime Minister Gro Bruntland of Norway,
underused.
former minister of the environment, chaired the
But, by 1985, women knew what we needed. In
United Nations World Commission on Environment
the U.S., our government had ceased any pretense
and Development. Its report, Our Common Future,
of support for women's issues, and the UN World
issues an appeal for greater "economic and social
Conference on Women in Nairobi, at the end of the
justice within and among nations" and, like the
Decade for Women, was our final global chance.
recommendations of the "Forward-Looking Strate-
The Nairobi conference's final document, the
gies," shows how nations can mobilize together to
"Forward-Looking Strategies," produced the first
address our greatest global challenges. Its vision of
intergovernmental consensus about what must hap-
sustainable development involves women as
pen if women are to participate equally in the re-
problem-solvers instead of problems. It urges soci-
wards and responsibilities of life on this planet.
eties to construct economic growth which does not
Our sense of urgency pressed women to lead past
exact long-term consequences on the ecology. As-
impasses, past outmoded protocols and separate
sessing the damaging patterns of industrial and ag-
agendas.
ricultural growth, the report maps out the
In Africa, where many women walk hours each
alternatives available to nations rich and poor.
day just to find safe water for children, everybody
Our Common Future captures astronaut and for-
understood that water is a women's issue. We real-
mer AAUW Fellow Judy Resnik's vision of a world
ized that poverty and inequality force some women
without boundaries. It shows that global crises of
to overuse the resources around them for fuel and
Sustainable
energy, environment, and debt are really one, de-
food, thus perpetuating a damaging cycle. We
development posits a
spite artificial lines drawn by nation states or sepa-
learned the term "sustainable development," with
rate national policies for trade, agriculture, and
its commitment to restore and protect this closed
simple premise: "paths
security. Spurred by this vision, compartments are
and vulnerable global system on which we all
of progress must meet
beginning to disolve before our eyes. For example,
depend.
the needs and
an upcoming Moscow conference, "Women-
We also were reminded that the world spends
Peace-Ecology," cuts across major issues toward a
$1.5 million a minute on arms; that spending at
aspirations of the
world of change. Concern for the future, as well as
that rate for just 15 days and 15 hours matches the
present generation
for present needs, is beginning to shape institu-
amount of aid invested in all developing countries
tions, technological development, and the direction
in 1983. And we saw that to combat illiteracy, 230
without compromising
of our investment. Our Common Future makes the
million more school-aged children must be educated
the ability of future
pragmatic case for a new self-interest, fueled by
in poor countries where the number of children not
generations to meet
political will and common concern.
enrolled now grows faster than those being en-
The report also echoes the groundbreaking
rolled. This sounded impossible until we learned it
their own needs."
work of Ruth Leger Sivard, AAUW's Eleanor
would cost less than one-third of what those deve-
Roosevelt Research and Development Award recip-
loping countries now spend on the arms race.
ient (see below). Sivard's annual report of World
Women returned from Nairobi outraged by such
Military and Social Expenditures compares the
assaults to common sense. We recognized that
tradeoffs made by every nation that confuses future
agents of change must be more than Cassandras,
security with weapons.
the doom-sayers, whose prophecies paralyze with
What both these documents shaped by women
fear and guilt. In 1986, AAUW joined with 60 orga-
have in common is their sense that a massive con-
nizations to orchestrate a conference to determine
version in priorities can be achieved. Both Brunt-
what was needed for "Equity by 2000" and to as-
land and Sivard challenge us to do what we must,
sure that women acting locally were thinking glob-
to build on the structures we have, to make the
ally. Meeting in Vienna this spring, the UN
changes imperative to our future.
MAYJUNE
15
The Bruntland report has been a global best-
Warsaw Pact, to argue for arms control.
seller-everywhere but the United States. My great-
As June ends, I will conclude my presidency
est concern has been U.S. silence-a profound and
with AAUW's exciting convention, 'Choices,
arrogant silence that says we don't have to deal
Changes, and Connections." I look back at the per-
with global issues in America, that others need to
sonal choices I made which led me to new connec-
come to us. Joan Martin-Brown, who spoke at the
tions and a world of change. I look back at a road
1977 Minneapolis Convention, is now senior liaison
from Madison and Minneapolis, which took me to
officer of the UN Environment Programme. She said
Houston and Washington, to Beijing, Copenhagen
recently: "The fact is, most Americans have been
and Nairobi, and this summer to Moscow, then to
very reluctant to consider themselves part of a
Helsinki and then to
who knows where?
global community of nations on a parity basis. [We
What is important to know is that the roads go
operate on the] concept of survival of the fittest,
on and that finally they all converge in our global
cushioned by dominance in both military and eco-
village. What is important is to keep reaching, to
nomic affairs. This mirrors the same tendency many
keep moving, to secure more choices for tomorrow's
Americans exhibit when it comes to considering
women. AAUW must turn more women into
the need for a partnership between the planet and
actors-not reactors-and help more women as
people for mutual preservation."
agents of change to commit together to our com-
This spring, many things have been stirring
mon future.
that tell me that women are reaching out as agents
of change, connecting the relevance of local, na-
AAUW members will vote on Resolution #7
tional, and global concerns. Women are setting new
(Sustainable Development), and Resolution #6
priorities aimed at responsible international action.
("Forward-Looking Strategies") at the 1989 Con-
Our Council of Presidents urges public officials to
vention (see March/April AAUW Outlook, page 41).
balance "adequate defense with global economic
Our Common Future is available from Oxford Uni-
and human development." Women for a Meaningful
versity Press, 212/679-7300. A 30-minute video on
Summit, which AAUW helps to lead, has eight
sustainable development and the commission's re-
times since 1986 brought women leaders together
port is available from the Global Tomorrow Coali-
with top U.S. and Soviet decision-makers, as well
tion, 202/628-4016. AAUW hopes to make these
as foreign and defense ministers in NATO and the
resources available at the Washington Convention.
Ruth Leger Sivard
tions, turned her considerable
From Women
a
talents to the preparation of
world survey
Women
a world survey.
For the first time in her ca-
he changes achieved
reer, Sivard concentrated on
T
in women's status
Every gun that is made, eve-
Ruth Leger
measuring changes in wom-
during the period
ry warship launched, every
Sivard, dis-
en's status worldwide. She
since World War II
rocket fired, signifies in the
tinguished
chose as her benchmark the
have been extremely
final sense a theft from those
analyst of
year 1945, when signators of
uneven and, on the whole,
who hunger and are not fed,
economic and
the Charter of the United Na-
modest. Whether in the econ-
those who are cold and are
social issues,
tions reaffirmed their "faith
omy, education, health, or
not clothed.
will be hon-
in fundamental human rights
government, there is no major
President Dwight D.
ored with the AAUW Educa-
and in the equal rights
field of activity and no coun-
Eisenhower
tional Foundation's Eleanor
of men and women." Her 44-
try in which women have at-
Roosevelt Research and Devel-
page survey was published in
tained equality with men.
opment Award at the 1989
January 1985 and distributed
The influx of women into
Convention (see page 20). In
to the participants in the De-
the paid labor force has not
1984, Sivard deviated from her
cade for Women Conference
significantly narrowed the gap
customary practice of re-
Forum held in Nairobi in July
between men's and women's
searching and writing her an-
of that year. Dr. Sivard be-
pay; nor has it stemmed the
nual report on World Military
lieves that "unfortunately,
rising tide of poverty among
and Social Expenditures and,
there has been little change"
women. Despite the key role
at the request of the Carnegie,
since she collected and an-
that women have in Third
Ford, and Rockefeller Founda-
alyzed her data.
World economies, they have
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AAUW OUTLOOK
1989 Connections
March: The Council of Presi-
ence of delegations from other
June: The Wisconsin Wom-
dents of 50 national women's
countries asserts how much
en's Network holds its 10th an-
organizations, which AAUW
women worldwide depend upon
nual meeting, in part to plan
helped to create, presents the
U.S. precedent for their fragile
for a "State Network Leaders
Women's Agenda for the 101st
claims on personhood.
Summit," to be held October
Congress (see page 6), solidly
May: At last the U.S. ad-
14-15 in conjunction with the
based upon principles in the
National Women's Conference
dresses the hopeful new chal-
1977 Plan of Action.
lenge of sustainable
Committee. Leadership in the
April: The UN Commission
development at the Smithso-
states is generating progress
for women in our own back-
on the Status of Women meets
nian and National Academy of
in Vienna to analyze data on
Sciences' "Forum on Global
yards, becoming an intentional
women's advancement toward
Change and Our Common Fu-
part of the national strategy to
February: AAUW, along with
equality. A 1987 resolution
ture." Prime Minister Gro
implement the Women's Agenda
one hundred organizations,
calls for a special extended
Bruntland delivers the keynote
(see p. 6).
sponsors the "Common
session of the commission in
address.
Security through Structures for
August: The International
1990 to determine if member
Peace" conference to recon-
June: As guests of the Soviet
Federation of University Wom-
countries have met the goals
en holds its 23rd Triennial
struct a unified peace move-
Women's Committee, represen-
ment. Coordinated by the
of the "Forward-Looking
tatives from women's organi-
Conference, "Women, Leader-
National Peace Institute Foun-
Strategies."
zations in Europe, the U.S.,
ship, and Development," in
dation, this collaboration in-
April: The March for Wom-
and Canada consider
Helsinki, Finland. Workshops
volves the UN Association,
en's Equality/Women's Lives
"Women-Peace-Ecology" and
follow up on the Bruntland re-
whose November 7-9 con-
gathers men, women and chil-
plan to centralize women's
port, sustainable development,
ference aims to solidify U.S.
dren from across America for
rights into the major global
and military budgets and hu-
man needs.
support for an increasingly ef-
one of the largest marches ever
policy discussions now
fective UN.
on Washington, DC. The pres-
underway.
been largely bypassed in
lion more boys than girls
seats in national legislatures.
widely recognized. When wom-
development strategies.
enrolled in primary and sec-
Yet the "silent revolution"
en are better informed and ed-
Throughout the world
ondary levels of education;
is slowly gaining in strength.
ucated, the evidence shows, the
women are still dispropor-
currently [1984] there are 80
Women are more educated,
family's health and income bene-
tionately represented among
million more boys than girls
more active economically, more
fit. When women are given
the poor, the illiterate, the
enrolled.
successful politically than they
training and skills, the nation's
unemployed and underem-
In developing countries, two-
were a few decades ago. There
productivity gains and the
ployed. They remain a very
thirds of the women over age
is an undercurrent of confi-
economy grows. What is good
small minority at the centers
25 (and about half the men)
dence and cooperation among
for women is also good for so-
of political power.
have never been to school.
them that is new to the world,
ciety at large. This is the solid
In the global community,
and has great promise.
basis for the progress that is
"Women's World"
not including China, there are
Despite the diversity of ex-
underway.
The unpaid labor of women in
130 million more adult women
perience and status, women
the household, if given economic
than men who cannot read.
have recently, and to a surpris-
"So-against the odds, the
value, would add an estimated
Nutritional anemia afflicts
ing degree, begun to come to-
women inch forward."
one-third, or $4,000,000,000,000,
half of all women of child-
gether on common ground
-Eleanor Roosevelt
to the world's annual economic
bearing age in developing
They share a sense of an in-
product.
countries (and less than 7
equality of opportunity, and
Both Women
a world sur-
Rural women account for
percent of same-aged women
the injustice of the tradition-
vey (1985 edition) and World
more than half the food pro-
in developing countries).
ally-imposed second place.
Military and Social Expendi-
duced in the Third World; for
Although they comprise 50
[at the same time] the link
tures (1987-88 edition) are
as much as 80 percent of the
percent of the world's enfran-
between women's advancement
available for $6 plus $1 post-
food production in Africa.
chised population, women hold
and social-economic progress
age from World Priorities, Box
In 1950 there were 27 mil-
no more than 10 percent of
in general begins to be more
25140, Washington, DC 20007.
MAY-JUNE
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FELLOW PROFILE
WHAT A GREAT
COMBINATION FOR
RETIREMENT!!!
From Ghana to Greece
Grey
Gables
Karen Johnson
of
Ojai
hen AAUW Educational
more money! My husband doesn't under-
W
Foundation President Mary
stand the economic science behind this,
Balmy California weather
Grefe addressed the 30 In-
but I do. There are 140,000 members out
A lovely apartment
ternational Fellows gathered
there who are committed to your educa-
A friendly adult community
on March 11, she explained
tion and who work their heads off to make
Excellent meals
that this weekend meeting was a pilot
sure you have opportunities and educa-
24-hour a day phone service
test-that if all went well, there might be
tion, sometimes better than their own.
Housekeeping and linen
service
another one next year. "And judging by
"We invest in you," said AAUW Presi-
the loudness of the conversation, this
dent Sarah Harder, "because AAUW mem-
If you have a zest for living
gathering is a tremendous success."
bers know that education, in the best
and quality lifestyle, come and
The current International Fellows
sense, is subversive; it turns the world in-
join us at Grey Gables,
were invited to the AAUW Educational
side out. We hope you'll take the oppor-
nestled in the peaceful Ojai
Center for a two-day meeting, "Making
tunity to say to women in your countries
Valley. We are a rare mix of
Connections," to explore ways to build
that what you do and what they do makes
educators, administrators and
networks among themselves and AAUW,
a difference in our world."
other professionals, who have
as well as to foster connections to benefit
Through informal introductions, panel
discovered that Grey Gables,
women and girls.
presentations, and small group discus-
a nonprofit organization, is the
As the fellows got acquainted over din-
sions, the fellows, who hailed from 20
"best buy" in exciting
ner, Grefe introduced them to AAUW and
countries, introduced one another to their
retirement living.
the Foundation. "Let me tell you about
differences and discovered their simi-
the members who support you. They stay
larities. As one fellow said, quoting Vir-
Everything you need for a
up til all hours making cookies; they take
ginia Woolf, "As a woman, I have no
full, rich retirement is here or
them to a bake sale, sell them, and then
country; as a woman, I need no country;
nearby. You will be minutes
turn around and buy somebody else's
as a woman, the whole world is my
away from churches, excellent
cookies-that might not be as good-for
country."
medical facilities, fabulous
What country they really were from
shopping and dining, and
Karen Johnson, Managing Editor
was the focus of the "Getting Acquainted"
enriching cultural activities.
The value is great and the
lifestyle greater.
L. to r.: Jeanne Harding,
Sierra Leone; Min Li,
Complete and return to:
P.R.C.; Hela Gitay-Goren,
Grey Gables of Ojai
Israel; Zhijie Wang, P.R.C.
701 N. Montgomery St.
Ojai, CA 93023
Phone: 805-646-1446
Name
Address
City
State
Zip
Phone
(
)
Descriptive brochure
Visitation information
Founded by Ethel Percy Andrus.
Ada Cohen from Greece,
Harvard University
Grey Gables of Ojai is not sponsored
doctoral student in
by, affiliated with or in any way
History of Ancient Art,
related to the American Association of
Retired Persons or the National
and Marilyn Stokstad,
Retired Teachers Association.
former fellow and International
Panel member who selected
Cohen as a fellow.
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AAUW OUTLOOK
The benefits of
an education
include AAUW.
Share it with a friend
give
gathering on Saturday night. Pairing off
BARRIERS
the gift of AAUW membership.
with one another provided charming mo-
ments of cross-cultural understanding.
Lack
of
education
When Gudrun Marteinsdottir of Iceland
*I'd like to give an AAUW
Lack
of
introduced Ann Hemsley from Australia,
membership to:
Economic
she confessed her limited knowledge of
that country. "When I was growing up, I
learned that if we went straight down
Name
from Iceland, we would come up in Aus-
Address
tralia, but that's about all I know." Ayelet
Lindenstrauss from Israel provided a brief
biography of Kyeong-Hee Choi of Korea:
College/University
"When she was a little girl, she thought
something was wrong with her. In time,
Date graduated
she realized there was something wrong
with a great many people."
Gift given by:
Although these fellows may have all
felt, at one time or another in their lives,
Name
that there was something wrong with
them for wanting an advanced education
Address
so badly, they realized a sisterhood at this
meeting. Whether from Benin, Taiwan,
Maude Christian from Ghana, doctoral
Yugoslavia, Ghana or Greece, the fellows
candidate in entomology at the University
share one thing in common: they are ex-
of Florida, in a small group workshop.
Enclosed is my check, payable to
traordinary women seeking excellence for
AAUW, for $30 for one year of
themselves and their societies. Sheema
and interrogate the standards of
membership-at-large.
Khan, a student of chemistry/chemical
'normaley,'-standards for femaleness in a
physics and theoretical statistical physics
male norm."
Please charge $30 to my
at Harvard University, described how im-
Common problems cited by other
MasterCard
VISA
portant an education is to her: "I was
speakers include: limited access to educa-
born in India and lived on a farm in a
tion and health care for women and girls,
Account #
rural area. My father was the first person
geographic and cultural isolation, econom-
in our village-the entire village-ever to
ic oppression and exploitation, and lack of
Expiration Date
realize a university education."
cultural and political empowerment. "In
On Sunday, the fellows gathered to ex-
South Africa," said Maud Matthews, a
Signature
amine barriers and solutions to women's
Harvard student of community-based nurs-
and girls' progress in the world. Guided by
ing, "the problems are P, I, D: poverty, ig-
Sandra Featherman, chair of the Interna-
norance, disease."
I gave
branch
tional Fellowships Panel, five fellows led a
But common solutions also emerged:
membership(s).
Enclosed is a photocopy of the dues
discussion on the cultural and political sit-
uniting and mobilizing women at the
check(s) submitted to our branch
uations particular to their own countries
grass-roots level to press for equal oppor-
treasurer.
that hinder women's equality and full par-
tunity, educating women and girls, chal-
ticipation, and suggested solutions. Panel-
lenging religious and cultural patriarchal
*If you are submitting more than one
ist Vicky Kirby, a doctoral candidate in
stereotypes, and creating 'micro-net-
gift membership application, attach a
semiotics and ethnography at the Univer-
works' among themselves and within their
list of applicants' names, addresses
sity of California, used the Australian le-
own countries.
and college/university information.
gal system as an example. Victims of
At the final session, the fellows pre-
spousal abuse who defend themselves by
sented their recommendations and made
Send to:
attacking their batterer when he is asleep,
commitments to one another, to AAUW
AAUW Membership Department
or lying down, are judged in court by the
and to the Foundation. And yes, one of
2401 Virginia Avenue, N.W.
masculine notion of "face-to-face" com-
them said, "I'm going back to my branch
Washington, D.C. 20037
bat, and cannot claim self-defense. "What
and bake cookies."
we are doing in Australia is to question
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9
The Memories Are Waiting
of Washington
Conventions Past
WE DEMAI
AMENDMENT
CONSTITUTION
UNITED ST.
ENTRANCHIS
WOODEN OF THIS
Thousands march
down Pennsylvania
Avenue to the White
House for women's
suffrage, a major
issue at the
Smithsonian Institution
1917 convention.
1902
"We meet here in the
the fellowship.
This year fate seemed
few biennials ago suffrage was a subject
center of the organic life
to wish to make the members of your Fel-
entirely tabu in an A.C.A. convention. A
of the whole country, an
lowship Committee fit subjects for a rest
little later to mention it was to precipitate
association of women. Let us forget for the
cure. The weighing, sifting, discriminat-
hot debate on its admissibility, its perti-
moment that we have gone to college, but
ing process is a severe strain, and when
nence to the work of the Association be-
let us remember our natural relations in
the heart-breaking task is at last finished
ing vigorously questioned even by many of
life. We have studied a few things in a few
your Committee can always have the com-
the avowed suffragists. Yet the other day
years in a few schools, but if we have
forting thought that the average professor
in Washington our resolution endorsing
failed of an added ability and of an in-
whose star student has not been chosen,
the federal suffrage amendment, asking
creased inclination to devote ourselves to
feels morally certain that the Committee
Congress to pass it, and asking the Pres-
our own concerns in this land, we have
has made a grave mistake."
ident to use his great influence on its
attended college to no purpose. The prin-
behalf, was passed almost if not quite
cipal care of children and the proper con-
1917
"With the declaration of
unanimously.
It was clear that the
duct of the home for the family, if these
a state of war with Ger-
Association as a whole was very firmly of
things are not the concern of the woman
many only a few days old
the opinion that the question of suffrage
of the household, they are the concern of
and with the debate on the seven billion
is now wholly germane to our purposes."
no one.
dollar war loan just beginning in Con-
"Year after year, your Chairman has
gress, it was inevitable that the matter of
called your attention to the difficult task
most vital moment in the convention
1921
"This meeting marked the
passing of the A.C.A., but
involved in making [the fellowship] award.
should be the question of offering and pre-
it was a wedding, not a
Given candidates who are the foremost
paring ourselves for national service.
funeral. If one is a human feminine crea-
students in our best graduate schools, pre-
A special committee has been appointed
ture in America and one marries, one
senting most promising work in different
to make this offer effective if the call
changes one's name-provided of course,
fields, with testimonials of the highest
should come.
one is not a feminist of the extreme type.
order from scholars who are beacon lights
"Almost equally significant was the evi-
The Association, never having been vio-
in their respective departments and the
dence of the changed attitude of the Asso-
lently feminist, ran true to form. The
problem-find the woman best fitted for
ciation on the question of suffrage. Only a
Southern Association of College Women by
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arrangement held its convention at the
1924
"A national association
same time and place and before the week's
with national strength
work was finished the two Associations
and national efficiency is
AMERICAN
had joined hands and hearts, for better,
carrying out its work. The reports will
EDUCATIONAL CENTER WOMEN
for worse, for richer, for poorer, till death
prove it to you, and before I [President
do them part, and had set out on their
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt] proceed to mine,
combined career under the name of the
may I express my thanks to our members
American Association of University Wom-
far and wide, to those who from the mines
en, the only concession to feminism being
of Montana, the industrial towns of Wis-
that both parties took a new name.
consin, the oil fields of Oklahoma, have
"With a reckless disregard for the high
the vision to understand our Association's
cost of travel the delegates poured in from
educational work, participate in it, to un-
every part of the country, the final atten-
derstand the business needs of headquar-
dance running well over three hundred
ters and support those needs-to those
and fifty, with more than two hundred
who live in our capital city, and have the
voting delegates.
One of the most in-
vision to see Montana, Wisconsin, Oklaho-
teresting developments came in connection
ma, and labor wisely for the programs of
with the report of the National Club
the Branches.
!"
House Committee. The project of estab-
lishing at the national capital a club for
1927
"A comparison between this
1961 convention attendees try the new
university women.
is the first under-
program and the one for the
AAUW Educational Center on for size.
taking of its kind in the world
The
meeting held in Washing-
Association showed itself to be firmly of
ton in 1917 shows how the Association and
ciation about their work, the members lis-
the opinion that a permanent national
our general methods have changed. Ten
tening passively and with more or less
home and headquarters are a necessity
years ago, for example, the chief feature
satisfaction according to the importance
and it voted without hesitation to pur-
of the program was the number of men
of the various lions.
chase a suitable property as soon as one
and women distinguished in the official
"Now the tendency is to shift the re-
could be found."
life of Washington who spoke to the Asso-
sponsibility for the program to the shoul-
ders of the convention, to place more
F.A. Schutz, Wash., DC
emphasis on the work of committees and
1634
special projects, and to encourage general
discussion of reports and papers-in short
to make it an actively working convention
instead of a passively listening audience.
The result should be a greater feeling
of participation among delegates and a
lessening of that mental confusion and
that overpowering sense of mental, physi-
cal, and moral exhaustion engendered by
three days at the passive-listening confer-
ences of the old type."
1961
"Wednesday, June 21,
1961 will go down in
AAUW history as a never-
to-be-forgotten day! To begin with, the
usual convention 'Free Afternoon' was
spent in the Educational Center, seen for
the first time by many delegates and visi-
tors, who thronged the corridors, inter-
viewed Staff members in their individual
"Sectional" directors strike a pose for posterity at the 1924 convention.
offices, inspected lounges and meeting and
MAYJUNE
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Foundation to
Sparkle at
Convention
FP Sales, fund-raising work-
E
shops, Foundation Night, and
EFP Awards will all be waiting
for you at the 1989 Washington
While Julie Nixon Eisenhower addressed the 1973 Convention, across town John Dean
Convention, June 24-27. Join
was blowing the cover off her father's administration.
the AAUW Educational Foundation at its
spectacular convention activities.
contemplative mood which pervaded the
During special EFP Sales exhibit
conversations. From it came a kind of
hours, AAUW divisions will proudly mar-
catharsis-a new individual dedication to
ket specialties of their states as well as
the noble beliefs which have always un-
other items to help increase their annual
dergirded the specific goals of our Asso-
contributions to the Foundation. Through-
ciation: a commitment to democratic
out the convention, the Foundation will
principles, to tolerance of differences, to
have a Hospitality Suite open to delegates
'open covenants openly arrived at,' to a
interested in Foundation programs and
free and continuous flow of information
fund raising.
among members, staff and officers.
On Friday, June 23, orientation will
The Washington Post
"Can it be possible that, learning from
be held for new EFP chairs to learn as
the secretiveness, the ignoring of legal
well as share successful fund-raising tech-
limitations, and the abuses of power SO
niques. On Sunday, June 25, a workshop
evident in Watergate, we are developing
on the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund for Women
a sense of heightened individual and orga-
and Girls: Intergenerational Partnerships
conference rooms, enjoyed the light re-
nizational responsibility? That we might-
will give convention delegates in-depth in-
freshments served, and were personally
in short-lead in fostering a reaffirmation
formation on the purpose and goals of this
greeted by some of Washington's most dis-
of those principles which the Founding
new Foundation program and ways to
tinguished women.
Fathers deemed SO essential to this
make intergenerational partnerships a
"We have paid our debt to the past, the
republic?"
reality.
members of this Association in 1921, by
The Foundation's convention activities
putting ourselves today in debt to the fu-
1989
The Tradition
culminate on Tuesday, June 27. Starting
ture. May those who are AAUW members
Continues
off the evening will be a reception for
in the year 2001 feel they owe a debt to
with "Choices, Changes
Friends of the Foundation and special
us, for their past, too, will be but the be-
and Connections," AAUW's 35th Biennial
guests. The highlight of the evening will
ginning of a beginning."
Convention, June 24-27. For further infor-
be a banquet and celebration of Founda-
mation, see the March/April AAUW Out-
tion awardees and donors.
1973
"The long shadow of
look, or call 202/785-7730.
During the program, Marva Collins,
Watergate cast a pall over
the well-known Chicago educator, will be
the small gatherings and
The above excerpts from the AAUW
given the 1989 AAUW Achievement Award
intimate conversations which are always
Journal-one of AAUW Outlook's prede-
(see page 10). The Recognition Award for
one of the fringe benefits of a convention.
cessors-were compiled by Lauren Fish-
Young Scholars will be presented to Mar-
But rather than a depressing pall, it was a
bein, Senior Editor.
ianne Phinney, assistant professor of lan-
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AAUW OUTLOOK
CONVENTION
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Choices
Changes
Connections
Delegate Briefings
3. Bylaws (including the proposed Reso-
lution to revise the Bylaws): Ask your
his year, participate in a conven-
T
questions and register your comments with
tion where all delegates know
the AAUW Bylaws Committee.
the procedures, know the issues,
Friday, June 23, 8:30-10:00 pm; Saturday,
know the the reasons behind the
June 24, 7:30-8:30 am; Sunday, June 25,
proposals. Become a fully in-
12:30-1:30 pm.
formed delegate by attending the delegate
briefings at the beginning of the 1989
4. AAUW Financial Management:
Convention.
Learn about Association financial man-
Each briefing will be offered more
agement, long-term planning, and the pro-
than once so all interested will be able to
posed dues increase from the Association
attend. The following are the briefings
Finance Committee and staff.
scheduled for the 1989 Washington
Saturday, June 24, 7:30-8:30 am; Sunday,
Convention.
June 25, 12:30-1:30 pm.
1. First-Timer Orientation: Collect
5. Parliamentary Procedures: Review
EFP Sales at convention yield "fortunes" for
your first-timer ribbon and hear the col-
the basic parliamentary procedures as ad-
fellowships.
lective wisdom on AAUW conventions
dressed by Association Parliamentarian
from seasoned veterans.
Coco Siewert.
guages and linguistics at the University of
Friday, June 23, 8:30-10:00 pm; Saturday,
Sunday, June 25, 12:30-1:30 pm; Monday,
Texas at El Paso. Phinney's impressive
June 24, 7:30-8:30 am.
June 26, 7:30-8:30 am.
teaching and research activities include
developing techniques for using micro-
2. Resolutions and Legislative Pro-
computers in teaching composition skills
gram: Discuss the proposals and hear the
to English-as-a-second-language (ESL)
committees' rationales behind the pro-
students. Her project is particularly rele-
posed Association Legislative Program and
Resolution Errata
vant to El Paso's bilingual community.
public policy-focused Resolutions.
For the complete text of Resolution #4,
The new Eleanor Roosevelt Research
Friday, June 23, 8:30-10:00 pm; Saturday,
which was omitted from the March/
and Development Award will be given to
June 24, 7:30-8:30 am; Sunday, June 25,
April AAUW Outlook, see page 4.
Ruth Leger Sivard for her creative use of
12:30-1:30 pm.
data to illustrate world military and social
expenditures (see page 14). Sivard, an
economist, also wrote Women
a
world survey for the 1985 UN Decade for
A Cabaret Evening with the Capitol Steps
Women Conference in Nairobi. She has
served in executive positions with Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc., in New York, the United
If you haven't already given
missteps." Frequently heard on National
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis-
to AAUW's Legal Advocacy
Public Radio's "All Things Considered,"
Fund, there is now an easy
tration in Austria, the International Refu-
they will now perform exclusively for you,
and fun way to contribute.
gee Organization in Switzerland, and the
giving you a glimpse into Washington life
Marshall Plan in France. She was also
The Capitol Steps, a musical troupe
that you won't see on the national news.
chief of the economic division of the Arms
whose satire takes aim at all points on the
They say laughter is contagious. So join
political spectrum, will perform at a spe-
us on June 26 as we cool down-from the
Control and Disarmament Agency from
1965-1973. Sivard now operates her own
cial benefit for the LAF to be held during
summer heat and the rigor of convention.
AAUW's 35th Biennial Convention in
Dessert and coffee will also be served. To
organization, World Priorities.
Washington, DC, on June 26.
Foundation Night would not be com-
register, use the Convention
plete without recognition of the Founda-
The Baltimore Sun calls the Capitol
Registration Form, or call
tion's greatest ongoing supporters-AAUW
Steps "Washington's musical answer to
Amy Swauger at 202/
members, branches, and divisions. EFP
'Saturday Night Live'-a group of funny
785-7761. Remember, your
Awards will be presented to the branches
energetic, talented (enough) yuppies,
help is urgently needed by the
and divisions with the highest per capita
about equally divided between party lines,
LAF SO sign up soon!
giving and the highest total contributions.
who put a laugh track to today's capital
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S
Keep in Mind
Board Works
charged the Governance Task
initiated plans for a seminar
Force with conducting an in-
on tenure issues;
Both the Association and Legal
depth study of how AAUW
Advocacy Fund (LAF) boards
approved a motion to con-
governs itself; examining the
of directors focused much of
activities of boards and com-
sider restructuring the LAF
their February 1989 meetings
Board to incorporate fewer
mittees at all levels; proposing
on planning for the future. The
members designated by AAUW
a system of governing at all
1989-90 and 1989-93 goals
levels that reflects member
Board position and add at-
were reviewed by the Associa-
large members.
concerns and provides respon-
tion Board and priorities were
sible leadership; soliciting in-
set; the LAF Board adopted its
put from members, branches,
goals for 1989-93.
divisions, and Association
Study Down Under
In other action, the Asso-
leadership; presenting a pro-
ciation Board
Applications are now being ac-
posal to the June 1990 AAUW
Board of Directors and Confer-
cepted for Australian Feder-
increased membership fees
ation of University Women
for college/university members,
ence of Division Presidents;
(AFUW-QLD) Fellowships. The
effective 1989-90;
and working in concert with
Freda Bage Fellowship is
the AAUW Bylaws Committee.
adopted "Visibility: Market-
The Governance Task Force
awarded for postgraduate re-
ing Your Success" as the Asso-
search in Australia for up to
aims to make AAUW an effi-
ciation focus for the 1990
three years with an annual sti-
cient, contemporary, and
regional conferences;
pend of A$10,000. The Audrey
diverse organization able to
Jorss, Freda Freeman Fellow-
added two delegate briefings
address its long-established
ship is awarded for up to one
on Association financial man-
goals as expressed in its mis-
year with a stipend of
agement to the AAUW conven-
sion statement. The task force
A$10,000. The application
tion program;
will be chaired by Mary Grefe
deadline is September 30,
(IA).
appointed Beverly Everett
1989. For more information,
In addition to adopting its
(IA) as 1989-91 Nominating
please contact The Administra-
1989-93 goals, the LAF Board
Committee chair and Lynn
tor, AFUW-QLD Fellowship
Harris (CA) as alternate;
funded Margolis V. Williams
Committee, P.O. Box 586, Ken-
College at $2,000;
more QLD 4069, Australia.
Fellowships and Grants
DEADLINE: Opportunity
Applications Available
All dates are postmark deadlines for applications.
April 1-August 15, 1989
September 1, 1989
Research & Projects
Short-Term Project Grants
1989-90 Research & Projects
Short-Term Project
November 15, 1989
American Fellowships
Grant applications available
December 1, 1989
International Fellowships
July 1, 1989
December 15, 1989
Selected Professions Fellowships
(except M.B.A.)
1990-91 Program
Announcements
January 1, 1990
Research & Projects
available for
Project RENEW Grants
-American Fellowships
February 1, 1990
Research & Projects
-International Fellowships
Public Service and Issue Focus Grants
-Selected Professions
Fellowships
February 1, 1990
Selected Professions Fellowships
-Research & Projects Grants
(M.B.A. only)
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IFUW Conference:
What Are We to Dues?
An Agenda
for Activism
The proposed dues increase to
be voted on at the 1989 Con-
Women from all over the globe
IFUW 1989
vention is raising questions
will meet at the 23rd Triennial
SUOMI FINLAND
that should be answered. Do
International Federation of
you want to know the reasons
University Women (IFUW)
for the proposal, the financial
Conference in Helsinki, Fin-
issues, and what your dues pay
land, July 29-August 5, to
for? Please call the AAUW
build an agenda for interna-
Member HELPLINE at
tional activism on "Women,
800/821-4364, and ask for the
Leadership, and Development."
Q & A on the dues increase.
AAUW is sending a delegation
that will be joined by addition-
al AAUW members who want
Our Legal Eagles
LORYANN EIS
NEW YORK DIVISION
to participate in this important
Barbara FISCHLOWITZ
VERA NIELSEN
networking event.
The following contributors gave
KATHIE GILBERT
$100 or more to the AAUW Le-
ORLANDO-WINTER PARK (FL)
One popular attraction at
MARY GREFE
BRANCH
the conference will be the Re-
gal Advocacy Fund from Octo-
BEE MacDonald
lief Shop, which benefits the
ber to December 1988.
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA (CA)
MARYLAND DIVISION
BRANCH
IFUW Hegg-Hoffet Relief Fund.
AGNES THORNTON Bird
ALICE McKee
ELEANOR "Coco" SIEWERT
This fund assists female college
ELIZABETH BOCK
MICHIGAN DIVISION
KAPPIE SPENCER
graduates displaced by war,
political upheaval, or other
grave emergencies. AAUW
members will carry to Helsinki
Third edition
small and easily packed crafts
with regional significance for
should "Every read woman book.
WOMEN'
S ROOTS
sale in the Relief Shop. If you
by June Stephenson
will not be attending the con-
MEN WROTE HISTORY, IGNORING WOMEN
ference and would like to con-
Dr. Stephenson sets the record straight.
tribute items, contact Sharon
In WOMEN'S ROOTS, Dr. Stephenson takes
Head, AAUW Executive Office,
the dramatic story from prehistory through
202/785-7710, for information
the milleniums of oppression to today's
or registration materials.
feminist gains.
AAUW's delegation will in-
In prehistoric times women were
clude: Sharon Schuster (CA),
worshipped as supernatural beings because
Joann Paden (MN), Jean Vanek
they could create human life. And it was
(WA), Bettie Harriman (WI),
women - not men - who began agriculture,
Yvonne Condell (MN), Alice
cattle breeding and architecture, setting the
stage for civilization.
League (ND), Florence Baturin
(MA), Sandy Bernard (NY),
"I can't commend you too highly for your vision, dedication, great job
Alice Ann Leidel (NY), Sarah
of research, and creation of a valuable, important book."
Harder (WI), Mattie Mae Rice
- JULES ARCHER, Professor of Writing, University of California
(AR), Judith Turpin (WA),
Diemer, Smith Publishing Company, Inc.
Kathleen Wood (IA), plus those
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elected to the positions of
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Please send
copies of WOMEN'S ROOTS at $15.00
treasurer, Foundation presi-
STORY IN ONE
each plus $1.50 shipping. Calif. residents add 6% tax.
dent, AAUW executive vice
NAME
president, and California re-
CONCISE BOOK!
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gional director.
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HEADLINE IN THE PAPER TOMORROW SAYING "DOES BARBARA BUSH KNOW HER HUSBAND SPENT
TIME IN A ROOMFUL OF WOMEN?"
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Dear Mr. Simon:
As we discussed, attached is the press kit that has been mailed to an
extensive list of media. I have also attached the first release sent
with the convention highlights sheets (which are included in the press
kit). The 1989 award recipients are listed on page three of the highlights,
I thought you might also find the current issue of our AAUW Outlook
magazine of interest since it features our 1989 Achievement Award recipient.
For your information, Justice Sandra O'Connor received the 1988 Achievement
Award during a June gala celebrating the centennial of our fellowships
awards.
The Milestones foldout is included since it highlights our century plus
history, which may be of interest.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN ATTRACTS KEY LEADERS
AT BIENNIAL CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 24-27
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Association of University
Women (AAUW) will hold its four-day biennial convention at the
Sheraton Washington Hotel June 24-27, 1989, featuring speakers
Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Sessions will
focus on AAUW's effecting positive changes for women and young
girls in education, the family and workplace, AAUW President
Sarah Harder announced today.
With the Association's commitment to education, volunteerism
and family/workplace concerns, President Bush is expected to
address 2,000 AAUW leaders from the organization's 1,800
branches across the U.S. They will convene for a series of
workshops and forums focusing on equity issues and showcasing
successful programs around the country.
On Saturday, June 24, Harvard University Professor Rosabeth
Moss Kanter, author of Changemasters and the recently published
book, When Giants Learn to Dance, and well-known business trends
analyst, will address delegates on the changing dynamics in the
workforce and trends that will affect women.
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The convention will also feature the premiere demonstration
of "AAUWIDE," AAUW's national communications link, on Saturday,
June 24. The system will enable the Association's 1,800
nationwide branches to increase their communications capabilities
via computer, providing instantaneous information exchange and
on-line research.
"Through this new system, AAUW can dramatically increase its
effectiveness in spearheading issues and opportunities for women.
AAUW is the first national women's organization to implement this
state-of-the-art communications technology," said AAUW Executive
Director Anne Bryant.
On Monday, June 26, Eleanor Holmes Norton, law professor at
Georgetown University and former chair of the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, will address the AAUW
convention on the importance of building strong coalitions to
promote equity in education, family and the workplace.
Participants at the forum will include leaders of other national
organizations, forming the Council of Presidents, who are special
guests of AAUW.
AAUW members from across the country will rally on the
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of AAUW on Tuesday, June 27 at 1:30pm. Following remarks by
AAUW leaders and members of Congress, the AAUW delegates will
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family and work issues before Congress. Among the Congressional
members who are expected to address the delegates on the West
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(R-ME), Senate Majority Leader and AAUW member Sen. George
Mitchell (D-ME) and House Speaker Thomas Foley (D-WA).
The convention concludes Tuesday evening, June 27, with a
reception honoring major individual and corporate contributors to
the AAUW Educational Foundation. The reception will be followed
by the Foundation awards ceremony at the Sheraton Washington
Hotel at 7:30pm saluting the 1989 award recipients Marva Collins,
Dr. Marianne Phinney and Ruth Leger Sivard.
Marva Collins, renowned Chicago educator and founder of
Chicago's Westside Preparatory School, will be recognized with
the $5,000 AAUW Achievement Award for her work with Chicago's
inner-city children. Author of Marva Collins' Way, Ms. Collins
was featured in a recent traveling photographic exhibition, "I
DREAM A WORLD: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America."
The 1989 $2,500 Recognition Award for Young Scholars will be
given to Dr. Marianne Phinney, Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Department, University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Phinney is noted
for her outstanding work with Hispanic students in the community
promoting bi-lingual skills.
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Ruth Leger Sivard will receive the $3,000 Eleanor Roosevelt
Award for Research and Development. Ms. Sivard is a
distinguished analyst of economic and social issues, and in
1985, published "Women a World Survey," which examines changes
in women's status since World War II.
Founded in 1881, with a national membership now exceeding
140,000, AAUW is the oldest and largest national organization
working to promote equity for women and girls in education, the
family and the workplace. Successful adjuncts of AAUW include
its Educational Foundation and the Legal Advocacy Fund.
AAUW's Educational Foundation and its recently established
Eleanor Roosevelt Fund, provide fellowships in education and
research, project grants and special programs for women,
nationally and internationally. The Eleanor Roosevelt Fund was
created to provide women and girls the skills necessary to affect
equity as the 21st century approaches. AAUW's Legal Advocacy
Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking
judicial redress for sex discrimination in academic institutions.
"Unlike any other organization, AAUW, through its network of
volunteers, has been able to successfully create and fund major
programs which advance equity for women and girls in every aspect
of life. AAUW has been the first to champion women's rights to
educational opportunities as it advocates the need for positive
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Foundation President Mary Grefe.
The convention will also elect new officers. Sharon
Schuster of Los Angeles is the sole candidate for President to
succeed Sarah Harder in July, 1989.
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MARY A. GREFE
President, AAUW Educational Foundation
Mary Grefe has served as president of the AAUW Educational
Foundation and as a Board Member of AAUW and the Foundation
since 1985. Ms. Grefe was president of AAUW from 1979 to 1981.
A native and resident of Des Moines, Iowa, Ms. Grefe is founder
and president of LEAD Associates, LTD., a firm specializing in
improving the quality of individual and organizational
leadership. She currently serves on the Advisory Council of the
Washington Center, which provides leadership opportunities for
young college women and internships for college students. She is
also on the Advisory Council of the National Women's Economic
Alliance, which works to identify ways to increase economic
opportunities and benefits for women.
A popular lecturer, Ms. Grefe has addressed or conducted
workshops in over 40 states and in five foreign countries. She
has represented the United States as a delegate to two U.N.
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Decade, first in Copenhagen in 1980 and then in Nairobi in 1985.
In March, 1988, she was on the U.S. delegation to the Vienna
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also traveled to China with other AAUW leaders in November, 1986,
as a guest of the All China Women's Federation.
Ms. Grefe also has served as Chairman of the National Advisory
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Director of Principal Financial Group and First Interstate Bank
of Des Moines, N.A.
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three additional honorary doctorates including Doctor of Humane
Letters from the State University of New York at Farmingdale in
May, 1989. A former high school and junior college teacher, Ms.
Grefe served on the Des Moines, Iowa School Board for 12 years.
In 1980 she was inducted into Iowa's Hall of Fame. She is
listed in the 1987 Who's Who of American Women and in Who's Who
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SARAH HARDER
AAUW President, July 1985 - June 1989
Sarah Harder, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has been president of the
American Association of University Women since 1985. During her
tenure as president, Ms. Harder has been instrumental in shaping
AAUW's focus on national issues relating to Choices for
Tomorrow's Women, Women's Work/Women's Worth and Promoting
Individual Liberties. In addition, she has chaired the board of
the $45.3 million AAUW Educational Foundation since 1985.
In Washington, D.C., Ms. Harder works with the national Council
of Presidents on legislative priorities and issues of concern to
women. A designer of the January 1988 Women's Agenda Conference,
she helped to link 35 organizations to a priority agenda for the
elections. For ten years she has trained grassroots groups to
use management techniques to effect public policy change.
Ms. Harder has written numerous articles and has toured the U.S.
speaking on education and equity as it impacts on women and young
girls. She is a national spokeswomen for the Family/Medical
Leave Act and child care legislation, as well as on issues of pay
equity, student aid, welfare reform, and teen pregnancy.
As a leader of the National Women's Conference Committee, she
has coordinated implementation of the 1977 Plan of Action
adopted at the National Women's Conference. This effort links
state networks and national organizations in political action for
legal, social and economic equity. In November 1987, Ms. Harder
helped lead the tenth anniversary observance of the Houston
Women's Conference which was designed to build strategies on
equity issues. During the conference, which was held in
Washington, D.C., she led education policy discussions, served as
a panelist on a Voice of America WORLDNET broadcast to Africa and
Europe, and moderated a national teleconference.
In her home state of Wisconsin, Ms. Harder convened and chaired
the Wisconsin Women's Council, a statutory policy body of
citizens and legislators established in 1983. She helped shape
model laws on child support and "Choices" preparation for girls.
Ms. Harder is a founding board member of the Wisconsin Women's
Network, which links 60 organizations advocating equitable state
laws and policy. She has also served on the University System
task forces on Women, Minority and Disadvantaged Students, and
Basic Skills, co-authoring reports to the Regents.
Sarah Harder
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A member of the Wisconsin Governor's Council on Business and
Education Partnerships, Ms. Harder also convened a Blue Ribbon
Committee of civic, business, and labor leaders working to
improve local schools. She has been President of Eau Claire,
Wisconsin's Library Board and has served on the Executive
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, "Leadership Eau Claire.' "
At the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Ms. Harder serves as
Assistant to the Vice Chancellor, establishing programs for
returning adult, minority and handicapped students. She designed
and administers a federal project to deliver academic support to
the educationally underprepared, and has presented several week-
long seminars for faculty on programming for non-traditional
students. The Coordinator for Women's Studies, she is a tenured
faculty member in the Department of English with specialties in
curriculum design.
Internationally, Sarah Harder served as a leader at the U.N.
Decade for Women meetings both in 1980 and 1985. In Copenhagen,
her participation in the satellite teleconference and Forum
Action Plenary, and her workshops on networking, all promoted
connections among women of the world. In Nairobi, she presented
daily briefings with the U.S. delegation as well as workshops on
aging and national networks for women's organizations. On behalf
of AAUW, she has participated in official visits with Chinese and
Russian women leaders and other worldwide exchanges to extend the
Decade vision of equality, development and peace.
In 1987, Ms. Harder was named president of Women for a Meaningful
Summit, a network of individuals and organizations working
nationally and internationally for disarmament, ecology and
women's rights. She also serves on the Overseas Development
Council and on the Board of the National Peace Institute
Foundation.
Ms. Harder has been recognized nationally for her leadership and
experience in expanding opportunities for women. Named one of
the 100 most important women in the U.S. by Ladies Home Journal
magazine in 1988, she also serves on the Advisory Board on
Research, Scholarship and Education for Ms. Magazine. Ms. Harder
is listed in Who's Who of American Women.
In July 1989, Ms. Harder will be succeeded by Sharon Schuster of
Los Angeles as AAUW president.
AA
American Association of University Women
UW
2401 Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037
(202) 785-7700
SHARON SCHUSTER
Candidate for AAUW President, June, 1989
Sharon Schuster is completing her second term as Executive Vice
President of the American Association of University Women (AAUW),
and has served as President of AAUW's Legal Advocacy Fund since
1985. She presently serves on the Association's Executive and
Finance Committees. Following election in June, 1989, Ms.
Schuster will begin her first term as President of AAUW in July.
A resident of Woodland Hills, California, Ms. Schuster joined
AAUW in 1959 and has held many leadership positions both in
AAUW's California division and at the national level. In 1972,
she was appointed to the California Division's Legislative
Program Committee, first as a member-at-large, and later, as
Chair. Ms. Schuster was elected President of AAUW's California
Division from 1982 to 1984, following a two-year term as AAUW
Legislative Program Chair at the national level.
Ms. Schuster has been involved in numerous community activities,
including the League of Women Voters, PTA, and school advisory
councils. She has served as Vice President of Haven Hills, a
shelter for battered women; past President of EDSource, a
resource center for education issues; and as a member of the
Advisory Board for Policy Analysis for California Education
(PACE). In 1984, Ms. Schuster served on the Advisory Council for
Project ARISE, a federally funded sex equity project, writing
model guidelines for implementation in California state
institutions.
Active in Los Angeles City politics since 1973, Ms. Schuster
helped establish City Hall Executive Women, a network for the
women executives in Los Angeles city government. In the late
1970's she was a Board member of the Center for New Directions,
which provided services and training to women seeking academic or
career advancement. In 1975, Ms. Schuster helped to form Salute
to Women Leaders which was one of the first political action
committees to support women candidates. She served as a
spokesperson for local media and organizations on issues such as
insurance discrimination, pay equity and child care, when she was
president of the AAUW California Division. More recently, Ms.
Schuster helped to organize Families for Choice to bring together
moderates who believe in choice but who had not taken part in the
marches. In July, she will complete twelve years as Chief Deputy
for Los Angeles Council woman Joy Picus.
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Sharon Schuster
Soroptimists International and the National Women's Political
Caucus are among the organizations who have given special
recognition to Ms. Schuster for her work on behalf of women.
AAUW California Division honored her with the establishment and
recent completion of the Sharon Schuster American Fellowship
Endowment of the Educational Foundation.
Ms. Schuster received a B.A. degree in Education from California
State University at San Jose.
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AA
American Association of University Women
UW
2401 Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037
(202) 785-7700
Contacts: Mary Boyette, AAUW
202/785-7731
Jane Ince,
Barbara Reynolds
202/775-8881
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW)
BIENNIAL CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JUNE 24-27, 1989
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
SCHEDULE OF CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS
Saturday, June 24
8:30am
AAUW Convention officially Opens
8:45:am - 9:30am
OPENING ADDRESS: ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
The Speaker : Well-known business trend analyst, Harvard
Business School professor and author of the recently
published book, When Giants Learn to Dance. Ms. Kanter's
other books include Men and Women of the Corporation and The
Change Masters.
Focus: Tracking Trends - Women's time at home and in the
workplace; the impact of changing demographics and
workforce; and the dynamics of change.
3:00pm - 4:00 pm
ADDRESS: AAUW PRESIDENT SARAH HARDER
5:25pm
Premiere of "AAUWIDE," National
Communications System Link-Up
Note: With 1,800 branches and 140,000 members across the
U.S., AAUW takes the lead as the first national women's
organization to implement state-of-the-art communications
technology, facilitating on-line research and information
exchange for its members.
Sunday, June 25
9:15am - 10:15am
Panel: Professionals on
Marketing Ideas and Issues
Panelists: William Rhatican, Senior Vice President, The
Susan Davis Companies, and former Executive Director, The Ad
Council, Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Garfien, Vice President and General
Manager, Maritz Marketing Research.
(Sunday, June 25 continued)
5:30pm - 8:00pm
AAUW Showcase of Projects in
Branches and Divisions across the U.S.
Focus: Exchange of information and ideas from AAUW's local
branches throughout the country, spotlighting the success
of AAUW's community volunteer programs.
Monday, June 26
11:15am - 11:45am
TO BE CONFIRMED: PRESIDENT BUSH
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
"Issues" Luncheon
SPEAKER: ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
The Speaker: Law professor at Georgetown University, and
former chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Ms. Norton was the first woman to chair this Commission.
Focus: Grassroot strategies and coalition building; the
importance of building strong constituencies at local, state
and federal levels; educational equity; and family and work
issues. Leaders from the Council of Presidents will attend
in support of AAUW's coalition efforts.
3:15 pm - 4:45pm
Creating a New View of Community
AAUW's Outreach to National Organizations
Issues in Congress and at Home
10 Workshops on AAUW Public Policy
Focus: Workshops provide AAUW's members the opportunity to
discuss shared concerns and make connections with other
organizations, such as Pan-Asian American Women, Women of
Color Access Project and the Mexican American Women's
National Association. In addition, 10 workshops will
focus on AAUW advocacy on public policy priorities such as:
child care; elder care; family and medical leave;
vocational education; pay equity; welfare reform;
pro-choice on abortion; retirement income; and AIDS
Information on participating organizations available upon
request.
8:30pm - 10:00pm
AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund Event
Fundraiser features performance by musical political satire
troupe of National Public Radio fame, "The Capitol Steps,"
to benefit AAUW's Legal Advocacy Fund.
Tuesday, June 27
1:30pm - 5:30pm
Capitol Hill Day
AAUW Meets with Members of Congress
Focus: 2,000 AAUW leaders and convention delegates rally,
Capitol Hill Day: Remarks on West steps of Capitol Hill by
AAUW leaders and members of Congress followed by AAUW
meetings with representatives. Among those bi-partisan
Congressional supporters of AAUW expected to speak are:
Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) ; Rep. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) ;
Senate Majority Leader and AAUW member, Sen. George Mitchell
(D-ME) and House speaker Tom Foley (D-WA) ; and AAUW leaders.
5:30pm - 7:30pm
AAUW VIP Donor Reception
Focus: Major corporate and individual contributors to AAUW
Educational Foundation are honored for their annual support.
7:30 pm
AAUW Educational Foundation Night:
Awards Dinner and Salute to AAUW Eleanor
Roosevelt Fund for Women and Girls
Focus: Recognition of women whose accomplishments have
made a difference in their fields. Salute to AAUW's
innovative program, the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund (ERF).
ERF was established in 1988 to provide major funding for
graduate education that addresses positive ways to impact
upon the lives of women and girls, primarily the removal of
education barriers and inclusion of projects affecting the
underrepresentation of women in science and research. Also
honored: AAUW's leading fundraising divisions and branches.
AAUW Award Recipients
1989 AAUW Achievement Award: Marva Collins, renowned
Chicago educator and founder/supervisor of Chicago's
Westside Preparatory School for inner-city children.
Author of Marva Collins' Way, and featured in recent
traveling photographic exhibition, "I DREAM A WORLD:
Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America."
AAUW 1989 Young Scholar: Dr. Marianne Phinney, Assistant
Professor, Linguistics Department, University of Texas at
El Paso. Dr. Phinney is noted for her outstanding work with
Hispanic students in the community and for her promotion of
bi-lingual skills.
First Recipient, Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Research and
Development: Ruth Leger Sivard, distinguished analyst of
economic and social issues. Dr. Sivard is also recognized
for her 1985 survey, "Women.. a world survey" which examined
changes in women's status since World War II.
June 15, 1989
MEMORANDUM TO ED McNALLY
FROM:
BOB SIMON
SUBJECT:
A.A.U.W.
WHEN:
Monday, June 26 at approx. 10 am
WHERE:
Sheraton Washington, 2600 Woodley Rd.
WHAT:
Conference is held every two years in different
cities. Bush has never addressed them, nor has
any president.
The President will speak during the first business
meeting of the conference. No meal.
Workshops will be held on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday. Eleanor Holmes Norton will speak at
Monday's lunch after the President.
Conference theme: "Choices, Changes, Connections"
NOTE:
Missouri abortion ruling may be released by
Supreme Court prior to this event.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN / 17
n 1950 at New York City by
dues, members receive information and services of value to older people.
imbia University, for the pur-
These include medical, life, and automobile insurance; discounts on prescrip-
abor, education, government,
tion and nonprescription drugs; special rates on travel tours; adult educa-
as an ad hoc national public-
tional programs; driver training; and assistance in finding temporary or
illed at least annually (usually
part-time work.
ated to domestic or foreign
The AARP provides counseling for the aged and those about to retire, and
or discussion sessions, were
supplies information about recreational and social activities geared to the
As such they were often far in
lifestyle of older persons. The AARP monitors federal and state legislation
IS attention upon important
relating to the aged and lobbies for laws beneficial to those who live on fixed
ing changes relative to the
pensions. Representatives of the AARP have testified before congressional
reign affairs.
committees, in cooperation with the National Association of Older
assembly forum was Interna-
Americans and the Gray Panthers,* to have Social Security benefits increase,
ed that the United States ex-
modify mandatory retirement laws, and eliminate discrimination against
ublic of China and conclude
the elderly. The influence of the AARP on Congress has been significant
Eisenhower asked the AA to
because of the political power of senior citizens at the polls.
ational Goals. The results,
The AARP operates a pharmacy, a travel service, and the Institute of
tained many proposals that
Lifetime Learning, all of which have offices in major cities throughout the
d Great Society programs.
United States. Present national headquarters is located in Washington,
Population Dilemma (1963),
D.C. Current executive director is Bernard E. Nash. The AARP is affiliated
S all over the world; United
with the National Retired Teachers Association. Official AARP publica-
ue sharing; The Courts, the
tions are the bimonthly Modern Maturity and a monthly newsletter, AARP
ing the concept of no-fault
News Bulletin.
ican Government? (1967),
For more information, see Henry J. Pratt, The Gray Lobby (1977).
States of the Scandinavian
ericans (1970), proposing
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW).
bortion laws.
Founded in 1882 at Boston by Marion Talbot of Boston University and
inion would be difficult to
Ellen H. Richards of Vassar College for the purpose of promoting higher
roposals now accepted or
education among women. Originally formed as the Association of Col-
its and contributions from
legiate Alumnae (ACA), its membership consisted of sixty-five women
irrent president is Clifford
representing eight colleges and universities. In 1921 the ACA merged with
airman. Although its per-
the Southern Association of College Women to form the AAUW. Its con-
iversity, AA meetings are
stitution was amended in 1957 to broaden AAUW's objectives to include
k and sometimes they are
developing a "program to enable college women to continue their intellec-
tual growth, to further the advancement of women, and to discharge the
special responsibilities to society of those who have enjoyed the advantages
D NATIONS. See United
of higher education."
ica.
Over the years the AAUW has endorsed those endeavors aimed at
broadening the role of women in American society. These have included
SONS (AARP). Founded
support for woman suffrage, equal pay for equal work, full coverage of
enior citizens for the pur-
women under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, election of
ve or are about to retire
women to political offices, appointment of women to diplomatic posts and
now totals nearly five
public offices, and ratification of the equal rights amendment to the U.S.
of age. For their annual
Constitution. It has striven to secure congressional legislation to eliminate
18 / AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
job discrimination on the basis of sex and to achieve compliance with
affirmative-action laws so as to increase the number of females on the staffs
of educational institutions.
On the international scene, the AAUW endorsed American entry into the
League of Nations, the World Court, and the United Nations. The AAUW
is an affiliate of the International Federation of University Women and
seeks to promote higher education among females throughout the world.
P
The AAUW has the following standing committees: Fellowships Pro-
gram, Legislative Program, and Standards in Higher Education. A study
P
action program is conducted by locals in all fifty states on topics of current
interest to women. In 1958 the AAUW established the Educational Founda-
tion. Each year fifty fellowships are bestowed upon women entering
graduate school, and fifty women from foreign countries are brought to the
p
United States to receive a college education. The Adult Counselor Program
was initiated to develop techniques for counseling women who are seeking
employment. The AAUW provides financial grants for public service pro-
jects and in 1969 established the Coretta Scott King Award for distinguished
a
public service by a woman.
c
At present the AAUW has a nationwide membership of over 190,000. Its
national headquarters is located at Washington, D.C. Currently Dr. Mar-
jorie Bell Chambers is president, with Alice L. Beeman serving as general
director. The organization's official journal is AAUW Journal.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON INDIAN AFFAIRS. See Association on
American Indian Affairs.
AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (AAA). Founded
in
1902
at New York City by the representatives of several eastern-seaboard motor
S
clubs for the purpose of promoting better roads and safer driving. At the
time of AAA's formation there were only 20,000 automobiles in use in the
United States and less than 150,000 miles of highway in existence.
Throughout its history the AAA has agitated and lobbied for the construc-
tion of more and better roads.
This organization was instrumental in securing enactment of the Federal
Highway Act of 1916, which initiated the construction of the first national
network of arterial highways. It also played a key role in obtaining passage
of the Interstate Highway System Act of 1956. The AAA monitors govern-
ment legislation and represents the interests of motorists before federal
agencies. To implement auto safety, the AAA promoted the use by states of
uniform traffic signs; sponsored the School Safety Patrol by distributing
thirty million pieces of equipment; and supports the school driver training
program by cooperating with six thousand auto dealers in providing free
cars for participating secondary schools. The AAA makes its judgment
1989
Chase's Annual Events
June
NTERLOCHEN ARTS FESTIVAL. June 25-Aug 20. National
Independence, born near Charleston, SC, June 26, 1742. Died,
Music Camp, Interlochen, MI. Music, dance, theatre and visual
Goose Creek, SC, Jan 1, 1787.
arts. Performances by nationally famous groups, artist faculty
members and Interlochen students. Info from: Interlochen Ctr
MONTGOLFIER, JOSEPH MICHEL: DEATH ANNIVER-
for the Arts, Interlochen, MI 49643.
SARY. June 26. French merchant and inventor, born at Vidal-
onlez-Annonay, in 1740 (exact date unknown) who, with his
KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION. June 25-29.
brother Jacques Etienne in November 1782 conducted experi-
Orlando, FL. Info from: Kiwanis Intl, Convention Dept, 3636
ments with paper and fabric bags filled with smoke and hot air,
Woodview Trace, Indianapolis, IN 46268.
which led to invention of the hot air balloon and man's first flight.
KOREAN WAR ANNIVERSARY. June 25. Invasion began June
Died at Balaruc-les-Bains, June 26, 1810. See also: "Montgolfier,
25, 1950, and US ground forces entered conflict June 30. Armi-
Jacques Etienne: Birth Anniversary" (Jan 7), "First Balloon
stice signed at Panmunjom, South Korea, on July 27, 1953.
Flight: Anniversary" (June 5) and "Aviation History Month"
MOZAMBIQUE: NATIONAL DAY. June 25. National holiday
(Nov 1).
is observed in Mozambique.
MOON PHASE: LAST QUARTER. June 26. Moon enters Last
OREGON BACH FESTIVAL. June 25-July 9. Eugene, OR.
Quarter phase at
4:09
A.M.,
EST.
Orchestra and choral concerts feature internationally acclaimed
ST. LAWRENCE
SEAWAY DEDICATION ANNIVER-
guest artists on the University of Oregon campus and Hult
SARY. June 26. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen
Center for the Performing Arts. Under the direction of Helmuth
Elizabeth II jointly dedicated the St. Lawrence Seaway in formal
Rilling from Stuttgart, Germany. Info from: Oregon Bach Fest,
ceremonies at St. Lambert, Quebec, June 26, 1959. A project
Univ of Oregon School of Music, Eugene, OR 97403.
undertaken jointly by Canada and the US, the waterway (which
ORWELL, GEORGE: BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. June 25. En-
provides access between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great
glish satirist, author of Animal Farm, 1984, and other works was
Lakes had been opened to traffic on Apr 25, 1959.
born at Motihari, Bengal, on June 25, 1903. George Orwell was
SIGNING OF THE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION ACT AN-
the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. Died at London, Jan 21,
NIVERSARY. June 26. Purpose: Commemorates signing by
1950.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the Federal Credit
SINGING ON THE MOUNTAIN. June 25. Linville, NC. Mod-
Union Act, on June 26, 1934, thus enabling the formation of
em and traditional gospel music featuring top groups and na-
credit unions anywhere in the US. Info from: Credit Union Natl
tionally known speakers. Annually the fourth Sunday in June.
Assn, Inc, Lucy Harr, VP, PR, Box 431, Madison, WI 53701.
Info from: Grandfather Mt, Harris Prevost, Box 995, Linville, NC
28646.
SUMMER SOCIAL CHILI COOKOFF AND JALAPENO
HOT PEPPER EATING CONTEST. June 25. Yreka, CA.
Purpose: Chili cookoff, craft fair, "The Chili Runs" 10K foot-
races, arm wrestling challenge and world record jalapeno hot
pepper eating contest. Info from: KSYC/KYRE Radio, Gary
Hawke, 316 Lawrence Ln, Yreka, CA 96097.
VIRGINIA RATIFICATION DAY. June 25. Tenth state to ratify
Constitution, on this day in 1788.
BIRTHDAYS TODAY
George Abbott, playwright and director, born at Forestville, NY,
UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST
June 25, 1887.
DRUG ABUSE AND ALLICIT TRAFFICKING. June 26.
June Lockhart, actress, born at New York, NY, June 25, 1925.
Following a recommendation of the 1987 International Confer-
Sidney Lumet, director, born at Philadelphia, PA, June 25, 1924.
ence on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the United Nations
George Michael, musician, born at Radlett, England, June 25,
General Assembly, on December 7, 1987, expressed its determi-
1963.
nation to strengthen action and cooperation for an international
James C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget,
society free of drug abuse. (Resolution 42/112).
born at Atlanta, GA, June 25, 1942.
Willis Reed, basketball player, coach, born at Hico, LA, June 25,
BIRTHDAYS TODAY
1942.
Claudio Abbado, conductor, born at Milan, Italy, June 26, 1933.
Carly Simon, singer, composer, born at New York, NY, June 25,
Eleanor Parker, actress, born at Cedarville, OH, June 26, 1922.
1945.
Charles Robb, politician, born at Phoenix, AZ, June 26, 1939.
Charlotte Zolotow, children's author, born at Norfolk, VA, June
JUNE 26 - Monday
26, 1915.
177th Day - Remaining, 188
BUCK, PEARL SYDENSTRICKER: BIRTH ANNIVER-
JUNE 27 - Tuesday
SARY. June 26. American author, noted authority on China.
178th Day - Remaining, 187
Nobel prize winner for The Good Earth. Born Hillsboro, WV,
June 26, 1892. Died, Mar 6, 1973.
ASH LAWN-HIGHL AND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.
June 27-28. Charlottesville, VA. Also July 4-5, 11-12, 18-19.
CANADIAN NATIONAL TOWER: ANNIVERSARY. June
Guest artists will perform early and contemporary works. Info
26. Birthday of the world's tallest free-standing, self-supporting
from: Ash Lawn-Highland, Rte 6, Box 37, Charlottesville, VA
structure, the Canadian National (CN) Tower, 1,815 feet, 5
22901.
inches high, in Toronto, Ont, Canada, opened on June 26, 1976.
Info from: CN Tower, Public Affairs Dir, 301 Front St, W, To-
CANADA: LANAUDIERE SUMMER FESTIVAL. June
ronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2T6.
27-Aug 23. Joliette, Quebec, Canada. One of the most impor-
tant and prestigious music festivals in North America, Lanau-
MADAGASCAR: INDEPENDENCE DAY. June 26. National
diere has received renowned artists from around the world. Info
holiday.
from: Mr Paul Dupont-Herbert, Gen Mgr, Festival d'ete de
MIDDLETON, ARTHUR: BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. June 26.
Lanaudiere, 1500 Base-de-Roc, Joliette, Que, Canada J6E 7T9.
American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of
DJIBOUTI: NATIONAL HOLIDAY. June 27.
153
Holidays
United Nations Charter Day
Commemorates the signing of
the Charter, 1945.
June 26
Madagascar
Independence Day
Religious Calendar
The Saints
St. John and St. Paul, martyrs. [d. C. 362] Feast
suppressed in 1969.
Birthdates
1730
Charles Messier, French astronomer;
1902
Antonia Brico, U.S. conductor, teacher;
credited with discovery of numerous com-
first woman to conduct Berlin Philharmon-
ets. His catalog of nebulae gave rise to sys-
ic, 1935; founder of Brico Symphony,
tem of identification called Messier num-
1935.
bers. [d. April 11, 1817]
1914
(Mildred Ella) Babe Didrikson Zaharias,
1819
Abner Doubleday, U.S. sportsman, soldier;
U.S. athlete; winner of two gold medals,
legendary originator of game of baseball (a
1932 Olympics. Leading woman golfer,
story now debunked). Manned the guns at
1932-55. Recognized as one of greatest
Fort Sumter when first shots of Civil War
woman athletes of all time. [d. September
were fired. [d. January 26, 1893]
27, 1956)
1824
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Brit-
ish engineer, mathematician, physicist; es-
tablished the absolute (Kelvin) scale of
Historical Events
temperature, 1848. [d. December 17, 1907]
1306
The English are victorious over Robert
1854
Robert Laird Borden, Canadian states-
Bruce Scottish king, at Methuen.
man; Prime Minister, 1917-20. [d. June 10,
1483
1937]
Richard of Gloucester assumes the Eng-
lish throne, succeeding Edward v, who
1891
Sidney (Coe) Howard, U.S. playwright;
was murdered in the Tower of London on
best known for screenplay version of Gone
June 23. Richard reigns as Richard III.
With the Wind. [d. August 23, 1939]
1794
Austrians are defeated by French at
1892
Pearl (Sydenstricker) Buck, U.S. author;
Fleurus and lose Belgium (French Revo-
educator; well-known expert on life in Chi-
lutionary period).
na, the basis for most of her writing; wrote
The Good Earth, later a film: Nobel Prize in
1830
George IV of England dies and is succeed-
literature, 1938. [d. March 6, 1973]
ed by William IV.
1894
Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian scientist; Nobel
1858
The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending
Prize in physics for his work in low-tem-
hostilities between China and Great Britain
perature physics, 1978.
and giving diplomatic and trade rights to
1898
Britain.
Willy (Wilhelm) Messerschmitt, German
aviation engineer. [d. September 15, 1978]
1900
Imperial edict declares war on all foreign-
Lewis Burwell Puller, U.S. Marine Corps
ers and orders their expulsion from China
general, World War II. [d. October 11, 1971)
(Boxer Rebellion).
1901
Stuart Symington, U.S. politician, busi-
1917
First U.S. troops arrive in France (World
nessman; President of Emerson Electric
War I).
Manufacturing Co., 1938-45; U.S. Secretary
1935
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt estab-
of the Air Force, 1947-50; U.S. Senator,
lishes National Youth Administration to
1952-77.
provide jobs for those aged 16-25.
374
St. Vigilius, Bishop of Trent, martyr. First martyr to
St. John, Bishop of the Goths. (d. C. 800]
be canonized by the Holy See. Principal patron of
St. Pelagius, boy martvr. Also called Pelayo. (d. 925]
Trentino and the Italian Tirol. (d. 405)
St. Anthelm, Bishop of Belley. First minister general
St. Maxentius, abbot. [d. C. 515)
of the Carthusian monks. [d. 1178)
St. Salvius, bishop, and St. Superius, martvrs.
Salvius also called Sauve. [d. C. 768]
1945
United Nations charter is signed in San
Francisco, to become effective October 24,
1945.
1959
St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the
Great Lakes with the Atlantic, officially
opens.
Ingemar Johansson defeats Floyd Pat-
terson for world heavyweight boxing title.
1960
Malagasy Republic (formerly Madagas-
car, a French possession) and Somaliland
(formerly British protectorate) become in-
dependent.
1968
The Bonin Islands, including Iwo Jima,
are returned to Japan by the U.S.
1975
State of emergency is declared in India in
an attempt to control critics of Prime Min-
ister Indira Gandhi.
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JUNE
Births
Today's Illness
The Pied Piper's Revenge
George Morland (artist) 1763; Abner
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According to numerology people
Today in 1284, the Pied Paper of
Doubleday (baseball inventor) 1819;
born today are prone to troubles with
Hamelin, Germany, who had
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Peter Lorre (actor) 1904.
the liver, bile, intestines, and
charmed the rats and mice out of
IX
Deaths
digestive system. They are also likely
Hamelin and into the river, and who
to suffer from any or all of the
had been refused his fee of 1,000
Julian (Roman emperor) 363;
following: headaches, blood
guilders by the town fathers, had his
Francisco Pizzaro (explorer) 1541;
poisoning, all blood diseases, and
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revenge as he lured 130 of their
George IV (English king) 1830.
rheumatism. Ideally they should
children to a similar fate.
avoid all meats and become
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The Travels of Mr Edison's Voice
American Firsts on June 26
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Colonel Gourand, in a letter to the London Times on June
1614: The Virginia Company held the first American
26, 1888, announced that a perfected phonograph had
lottery, offering a prize of 4,500 crowns. It became a
been received in England from Mr Edison, the eminent
frequently used method of raising money.
American electrician. Mr Edison's voice was heard 3,000
1721: Dr Zabdiel Boylston performed America's first
miles from the place where-and exactly ten days
vaccinations against smallpox on his six-year-old son
after-he had spoken into the instrument.
and two servants.
Transatlantic Cable Laid
1797: Charles Newbold got the patent for the first cast
iron plough in the U.S.
fir
Today in 1858, two ships-the Agamemnon and
1819: William Clarkson was granted a patent for the first
Niagara-commenced laying the Atlantic telegraph cable.
bicycle in the U.S.
By evening 146 miles of it was on the bottom.
1870: The first broadwalk in the world was completed at
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St Laurence Seaway Opens
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1919: The Illustrated Daily News was published; it was
On June 26, 1959 the St Lawrence Seaway was officially
the first illustrated daily newspaper in America.
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dedicated, with Queen Elizabeth and President
1958: The Mackinac Straits Bridge connecting upper and
Eisenhower officiating.
lower Michigan was opened.