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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 12, 1998
James W. Symington
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Suite 800
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006-3483
Dear Mr. Symington:
On behalf of the First Lady, thank you for your kind
note, and the information on the progress of the American
Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation's initiative to
honor Alexander Pushkin. Given Pushkin's influences on
Russia and the world, particularly his promotion of
democratic values, this certainly a worthwhile endeavor.
With very best wishes, Minar bero
Sincerely,
Милана
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
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ATTN: Ms. Melanne Verveer
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
I write with further reference to your kind letter of July 30, 1998 concerning the
American Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation's initiative to honor Alexander Pushkin. We
are aiming for next year, the bicentennial of his birth. Canvassing for possibile sites for an
appropriate memorial statue, we first approached both the District and Federal Park Service
authorities. Securing a public park site takes considerable time and government involvement at a
too leisurely pace for a 1999 deadline. As between church property and a university, the latter
commends itself, due to Pushkin's inspiration of youth, and students particularly. Moreover,
orthodox authorities are a bit divided on the appropriateness of siting a lay figure on church
grounds.
In any event, I am happy to report that our old friend, Steve Trachtenberg, welcomes the
idea of a Pushkin memorial statue on the GWU campus. We are in close touch with him, and our
Russian cultural contacts to that end. And I shall keep you advised of our progress.
With renewed thanks for your continued interest.
Sincerely,
James W. Symington
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 12, 1998
Rebecca Sive
3529 North Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60657
Dear Rebecca:
Thank you for your thoughtful note, the sentiments
of which I conveyed to the First Lady. She so appreciated
your efforts and those of your like-minded friends.
It was a difficult challenge, and the commitment
and hard work you and the others demonstrated was very
heartening. I hope it won't be so long until I see you again.
With very best wishes,
Milance Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
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November 23, 1998
Tim Symonds
Democracy Training College Co-ordinator
Project Parity
48 Portland Place
London W1N 3DG
United Kingdom
Dear Mr. Symonds:
On behalf of the First Lady, thank you for your
thoughtful letter and for the transcript address by Lesley
Abdela. There are few issues that will continue to receive
the First Lady's sustained attention as human rights and
women's progress.
We applaud your efforts to increase public
awareness and education on these critical issues and wish
you the best in your effort to establish the international
Democracy Training College.
Please keep us apprised of your activities.
With best wishes,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
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Tel. 171 631 1545 Fax +44 171 631 1544
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27 October 1998
Ms Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
The First Lady
The White House
Dear Ms Verveer
Just a note to enclose with a copy of our CEO's talk this month to a very
impressive audience in London arranged by Amnesty International, to
celebrate the 50 anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration on Human
Rights. The actual anniversary is December 10 this year, and I hope the
First Lady will issue a statement from The White House concerning human
rights, and possibly the absolute need for the world's women to receive
justice under that Declaration.
We have held further meetings regarding the proposed international
Democracy Training college, with Professor Shirley Williams and with the
UK's recent Minister for Overseas Development, Baroness (Lynda)
Chalker. What we are finding incredibly frustrating is the fact we could
create the college, developing it with U.S. and UK personnel and
trainers/experts, and make it a central factor in the worldwide advance
of women in public life. It is simply a question of core funding over the
first 3 or 4 years, at an annual rate of about US$2.5 million, until it begins
properly to pay for most of its costs from participants' fees. Any sources
in the mighty US of A you feel we should approach informally would be
very welcome. As I said before, an American/British combination, given
our history as old Democracies and friends, could be just the thing.
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Sponsored by DGla of the EU Commission through the PHARE Democracy Programme with
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With kindest regards.
Yours sincerely
Timfyness
Tim Symonds
Democracy Training College Co-ordinator
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 16, 1998
Robert Senser
11623 Chapel Cross Way
Reston, VA 20194-1243
Dear Mr. Senser:
Thank you very much for your article from America
magazine about worker's rights, which I read with interest.
Ensuring worker's rights in the global economy is very
important to this administration and the President has
spoken to that point. I have shared your article with a
number of my colleagues.
Very best wishes and thank you for your attention to
this vital issue.
Sincerely,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
@
Robert A. Senser
11623 Chapel Cross Way, Reston, Va. 20194-1243, USA
703/471-1271 fax: 703/471-1196
email: [email protected]
On World Wide Web:
Human Rights for Workers at http://www.senser.com
November 12, 1998
Ms. Malene Verveer
Office of the First Lady
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Ms. Verveer:
My friend, Mathew Ahmann, thought you might be interested in the enclosed article of
mine, which appeared in the October 24 issue of America magazine.
It reflects themes that I develop in the twice-monthly updates of my Web page, Human
Rights for Workers, which is accessible at http://www.senser.com.
Sincerely,
AMERICA
$2.25
OCTOBER 24, 1998
Who Makes
Your
Sneakers?
EMERGING
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
Fred Enfield
Robert A. Senser
11623 Chapel Cross Way
Robert A. Senser
Reston, VA 20194
U.S.A.
rasosenser.com
AMERICA
Vol. 179 No. 12
Whole No. 4421
OF MANY THINGS
OCTOBER 24, 1998
Published by the Jesuits
I
of the United States and Canada.
AM A NEWS JUNKIE. I could
tics since I have always considered AMER-
IN THIS ISSUE
happily spend much of my day reading
ICA a journal of opinion, not of news. We
newspapers and keeping up to date on
have never gone out of our way to cover
EDITORIAL
world events.
news. If we, or one of our authors, had an
Being a news junkie today can be a full-
opinion on an event, we would give infor-
The President and Black Americans
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time occupation. There is so much going
mation on it in the magazine. But often an
NEWS
on in the world-fighting in Kosovo,
event might simply be ignored. And some-
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weapons inspections in Iraq, negotiations
times it might take weeks before an
in the Middle East, new galaxies being
informed and insightful opinion piece
COLUMNS
discovered, budget fights in Washington,
could be prepared. Meanwhile, events
Terry Golway - Life in the 90's
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financial collapse in Russia, billion-dollar
march on..
Thomas J. McCarthy - From This Clay
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losses to hedge funds. and more. There are
Another question in the survey asked
constant developments in politics, eco-
about "changes that may appear in future
ARTICLES
nomics, science and culture that are too
issues of AMERICA." The change consid-
Robert A. Senser - High-Priced Shoes,
numerous to follow.
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Low-Cost Labor
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(69 percent) was "more information about
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issues, and the news mountain grows: a
people." Finally, the third-highest reason
Public Relations: Some Important
murdered bishop in Guatemala, a new
readers say AMERICA is not what they
Lessons
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to-date."
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on third world debt
readers for up-to-date news about the
Not only is there much happening,
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all-news channels on television, special
heavily on Catholic News Service, but we
Re-Constructed: Landscapes of the
interest magazines and newsletters,
hope eventually to develop correspondents
Heart
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and the Internet. It can be overwhelming.
around the world who can provide us with
LETTERS
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At the same time, getting a religious
news directly. If you have a news story,
perspective on the news or getting news
you can send it by E-mail to news@ameri-
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capress.org or by fax to (212) 399-3596,
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weeks, we plan to cover many issues in
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Signs of the Times, which will report
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Human Rights for Workers Bulletin
http://www.senser.com/biii-20.htm
Human Rights for Workers
Vol. III, Bulletin No. 20.
November 12, 1998
A Warning at the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in Malaysia
Resistance to Treating People as Commodities
Never before has there been such a groundswell of protest against sweatshops in the global
economy. Never before has there been greater awareness of the corresponding need to
protect the rights of workers. But how serious are these twin trends, really? A summit
meeting in Malaysia this month may offer an important clue.
Leaders from 21 nations gather in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, November 17-18 for
the sixth top-level meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
From its very origin, APEC has faced--and has rebuffed--pressures to integrate labor
standards and other human rights issues into its agenda. The pressures are stronger than
ever this year.
Purpose: To Reassert Peoples' Rights Under Globalization
In the week prior to the APEC sessions, more than 700 activists from 25 countries met in
Kuala Lumpur for their own summit-the Asia-Pacific Peoples' Assembly--with the theme
of "Confronting Globalization: Reasserting Peoples' Rights." Invitations to the meeting (see
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/8340) explained the labor dimension of that
theme:
"Globalization was supposed to bring more jobs, at least that was what was
promised. Instead, workers everywhere are losing work and settling for less as
employers, armed with labor-saving technologies and open markets, surf the
world picking the best bid from countries desperate for investment.
"In the name of profit maximization and efficiency, workers are told to
compete globally, creating a vicious downward spiral as wages and benefits fall
to the lowest common denominator. Any opposition to these deteriorating
conditions is met by smug reminders that jobs can always go elsewhere."
Malaysian Brands APEC as 'Anti-People'
"In short, it [APEC] is anti-people," Irene Fernandez, a Malaysian worker rights activist,
said at the opening session of the People's Assembly. Another participant, Tim Parritt,
representing the London-based Amnesty International, urged "APEC leaders to say that
human rights are part of the economic process, part of the APEC process, and it cannot be
excluded."
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Such pressures stem from an emerging international solidarity movement. Whether the
APEC summiteers will take heed is unlikely. After all, their governmental ranks include
the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. But, let's face it,
when it comes to the fate of ordinary working men and women under globalization, even
Western representatives in APEC are not exactly freedom-lovers, except when it comes to
the freedom of markets.
Exposing the 'Amorality' that Underpins Obsession with Markets
The implications of this market-fixated freedom are seldom spelled out very clearly by
economists. But Paul Krugman, an economist with impeccable free-market credentials, did
so recently in the September 1998 issue of Washington Monthly.
"There is a problem with markets," he wrote. "They are absolutely and
relentlessly amoral. Labor, in a market system, is just another commodity: the
wage a man or woman can command has nothing to do with how much he or
she needs to make to support a family... "
Just to make sure that his point is clear, he rephrased it: wages are a market
price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. [T]he
amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away." [My
emphasis.]
Remember, Krugman, who considers himself a "liberal" (in the sense of being progressive),
writes not as a critic but as a defender of the market economy. He's just explaining the way
it is. And, even though he writes here without having APEC in mind, his analysis reveals
the odds against APEC's adopting a focus under which people are more important than
apples or coal.
U.S. Law Does Try to Move Workers out of 'Commodity' Status
Krugman made his blunt point in reviewing a new book by Robert Pollin and Stephanie
Luce titled "Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy." He attacks their support for
increasing minimum wages by arguing that the price of human labor, like any other
commodity, is determined by the market, not legislation. But, contrary to what Krugman
claims "every Econ 101 student can tell you," the U.S. and state governments do much to
make workers less of a commodity--through various laws setting labor standards, by
prohibiting discrimination, for example, and encouraging the right to bargain collectively.
Krugman's point, however, does apply to the global labor market, where, in the absence of
enforceable labor standards, people are still treated as mere commodities. That's a grim
truth that deserves far more concern than it now gets in the media, the Congress, the White
House, and APEC.
Krugman has a Website loaded with his prolific output. Curiously, the
Washington Monthly review is missing. Still, it's worthwhile to browse through
his stuff at http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www.
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Reebok Executive on Why Worker Rights Matter
Suppose you're the manager of a garment factory in Bangladesh or Costa Rica. Why ought
you make sure that you're not running a sweatshop?
Doug Cahn, vice president of human rights programs of Reebok International, addressed
that question October 6 during a ceremony at the sweatshop exhibition of the National
Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Cahn pointed out that there is a
"relationship between good quality workplace conditions and good quality products." He
asked people to consider these issues:
"Is it possible to ensure the best quality products for our consumers if workers are
exhausted from having worked 10 to 12 hours a day, week after week, month after
month?
"Is it possible for workers to maintain the highest levels of productivity and quality
when the factory contains machines that are unsafe?
"Do you think a factory can maintain a stable workforce if exposure to harmful
chemicals or other hazards pose a health risk?
"Poor conditions are a part of bad management practices. And a poorly managed
factory does not make a reliable business partner."
Cahn conceded that "there are exceptions to the rule"--meaning, presumably, that
sometimes a factory with bad working conditions can produce good products. But, he
added, "our experience is that, generally speaking, good quality equals good workplace
conditions."
In addition, business should care because consumers care, Cahn said. "More than one
company in this day and age has learned the hard way that [ignoring] labor standards issues
can tarnish brand reputation in ways that is difficult to quickly recoup."
Diary: Pioneering Right Down Here on Earth
Oddball that I am, I wasn't glued to my TV on October 29 watching John Glenn and six
other astronauts blast off in the space shuttle Discovery. For one thing, I am not a fan of
NASA's hyped-up space program. Besides, I was glued to my computer screen trying to
write a book review.
The book is titled Global Public Policy. The author, Wolfgang H. Reinicke, an economist
and political scientist, has long been exploring how to cope with challenges of
globalization. He put down his ideas well before the 1997 Asian financial crisis exploded
and of course long before some world leaders began calling for a "new global architecture"
for financial markets. Reinicke's architectural plan covers far more than the financial
markets; it's as broad as globalization itself.
Reviewing this book wasn't easy. The astronauts had circled the earth four days before I
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finished writing, rewriting, and editing the review to my satisfaction. Producing four pages
of copy took me more time than usual because it's not that easy to explain why and how the
present "architecture" for the whole global economy, and not just a slice of it, needs
updating.
Priorities That Currently Are Other Worldly
The subject isn't part of everyday conversation and concern. People know more about how
the International Space Station will function than about how the earth's own economy
functions. No wonder. Mastering the challenges of space travel gets far more resources,
and far more publicity, than mastering the challenges of globalization.
I've written about Reinicke's ideas before, when Foreign Affairs published an article of his
(see "Globalization and Interdependence Aren't the Same Thing" at b22.htm). And it's a
subject that I'll get back to again. Naturally, because it's at the heart of the campaign to
adopt and implement international worker rights.
Global Public Policy: Governance without Governing? is published by the
Brookings Institution Press (see http://www.brook.edu).
***
Sneakers and Emerging Global Solidarity
Policymakers would be wise to take heed of the growing pressures for implementing
international labor standards. That's the theme of an article of mine published in the
October 24 issue of America, the Jesuit weekly published in New York City. The front
cover featured the article under the title "Who Makes Your Sneakers?" with "Emerging
Global Solidarity" in smaller type.
You'll find the full text at solidari.htm. Not reproduced here (sorry) are the
striking graphics that brighten the published version, both on the cover and on
article's first page.
Human Rights for Workers: Bulletin No. III-20, November 12, 1998
http://www.senser.com
Robert A. Senser, editor
Copyright 1998
[email protected]. (Send e-mail)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 10, 1998
His Excellency Dr. Franklin Sonn
Embassy of South Africa
3051 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Dear Mr. Ambassador:
Enclosed are photos from Mrs. Machel's meeting
with Mrs. Clinton in September. We would be grateful if
you could forward them to the appropriate parties, with our
compliments.
I deeply regret that I was not able to attend your
farewell reception. Thank you for your enormous
contribution to our community and your vital work to
strengthen the ties between our nations.
Very best wishes to you and Mrs. Sonn.
Sincerely,
Nulana Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 16, 1998
Jeffrey Smith, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
George Washington University Medical Center
2140 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Dear Dr. Smith:
Thank you for the invitation for the First Lady to
attend the conference on emergency health care, April 7-8,
1999. Mrs. Clinton has seen the importance of emergency
medical care in the developing world first hand and we
applaud your efforts to bring attention to this vital issue.
Regrettably, Mrs. Clinton's schedule will not allow her
to attend the meeting. But she conveys her appreciation to you
and your colleagues for your important work, along with her
best wishes for a successful conference.
Sincerely,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
December 14, 1998
Jeffrey Smith, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
George Washington University Medical Center
2140 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Dear Dr. Smith:
Thank you for the invitation for the First Lady to
attend the conference on emergency health care, April 7-8,
1999. Mrs. Clinton has seen the importance of emergency
medical care in the developing world first hand and we
applaud your efforts to bring attention to this vital issue.
Regrettably, Mrs. Clinton's schedule will not allow her
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November 12. 1998
Attention: Katy Button
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
First Lady of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mrs. Clinton,
As you are well aware, the recent tragedies in Central America and East Africa highlight the
inability of developing countries' health care systems to respond to emergencies. I am writing to
request that you give the keynote address at a timely conference on international emergency
medicine. The Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University Medical
Center and Emergency International are organizing a conference that will be held in Washington,
D.C. on April 7th and 8ᵗʰ, 1999. The conference will provide you with the opportunity to encourage
a rapidly growing group of U.S. physicians who believe that the United States has a moral
imperative to share its knowledge and technologies in emergency health care with developing
countries. Recognizing that you have played a leading role in building awareness about the
responsibility that the American people have to the developing world, we believe that your
speaking will help to further galvanize U.S. physicians around sustainable development and spur
them to manifest their powerful moral voice on behalf of emergency medical needs of poor
countries.
In most developing countries, the status of emergency medical care is sub-optimal or non-existent. The
governments of many of these countries consider emergency medical services a high health priority. The
capacity of local health care professionals could be considerably leveraged with training in current
emergency medicine practices
There are over 200 US emergency physicians who are very committed to assisting with the development
of emergency medicine internationally These physicians comprise the largest sections and interest
groups in the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Academic Emergency
Physicians. Many of these physicians actively participate in international emergency medicine programs
at prestigious institutions such as Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, Loma
Linda University, University of Pittsburgh, Long Island Jewish. Penn State, UC Davis, and more.
Additionally. many of these physicians also belong to Emergency International, a grassroots organization
of committed emergency physicians who donate their time and money to assisting with emergency
medicine training and program development internationally. To date, this group or physicians has
established hospital based and pre-hospital emergency medicine training programs in Central America.
South America, Eastern Europe. the Newly Independent States, Asia, and the Middle East This group
has been instrumental in helping Israel, Turkey, and Nicaragua establish emergency medical associations
and residency training programs.
The purpose of the conference will be to bring together physicians in the field of international emergency
medicine and leaders in the area of health policy, program development, and financing in order to begin
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to define a collaborative agenda for the continued development of emergency medicine globally
Physicians working in the area of international emergency medicine are struggling to implement equitable,
efficient, sustainable programs with little support from governmental agencies, NGO's, or lending
institutions that place a significant emphasis on improving international health.
Despite the tremendous progress that donor agencies such as AID and the World Bank have made in
advancing health care in the developing world, sustainable emergency medicine programs have not been
a priority to date. No one would argue that preventative health, primary health care, infectious disease
control and reproductive health are vital components of international health programs. A simple review of
many developing countries health statistics reveals, however, that the third or fourth leading cause of
disability, loss of productive years, or death is accidental and intentional injuries. Moreover, emergency
medicine, which often must function as a social safety net for the poor who lack regular access to health
care, encompasses far more than trauma management: i.e., timely management of dehydration, pediatric,
and adult infectious diseases, prompt management of shock. early management of cardiovascular
disease, prompt resuscitation of reversible conditions (anaphylaxis, upper airway obstruction), evaluation
and management of acute abdominal pain, management of maternal peripartum hemorrhage, and more.
By and large, training existing practitioners to manage the majority of these conditions is a low cost, very
effective means to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality in the population.
Hopefully, this conference will prove to be educational for physicians working in international emergency
medicine and will also allow leaders in the area of policy, program development and financing to hear the
concerns and experience of U.S. emergency physicians very committed to international work. It is clear
that USAID has played a major role in the area of international health care. It would be an honor to have
you address this group of physicians and articulate the government's vision and commitment to
international assistance, especially as it pertains to the health and well being of the global community.
The format of the conference will be morning lectures by leaders in the fields of policy development.
program development, funding. and education followed by afternoon breakout sessions focusing on
establishing a working agenda for the next decade (in the areas of policy. etc.).
I welcome the opportunity to discuss this conference further with your staff.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Smith, MD
Director of Clinical Operations
Department of Emergency Medicine
George Washington University Medical Center
Director, International Programs
Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 5, 1998
Chuck J. Supple
President and CEO
Public Allies
1015 18th Street, NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Dear Chuck:
Thank you for the copy of Public Allies' report on
the New Leadership for a New Century project. I have
shared the report with my colleagues and know they will
consider the report's timely findings with great interest.
Thank you for all you are doing to promote active
citizenship. You know that Public Allies and its work is
close to my heart.
Very Best Wishes,
Ane Chief of Staff to
Melanne Verveer
the First Lady
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ALLIES
Ms. Melanne Verveer
Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the First Lady
The White House
Washington, DC
Dear Ms. Verveer: Melane
I wanted to share with you the results of Public Allies' New Leadership for a New Century
polling project. Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc. conducted a national poll of 18 to 30 year
olds on the leadership needs of our country and communities for the next century. We wanted to find
out if this generation has a new vision of leadership given their unique experiences in the latter part
of this century and the dramatically changing context for addressing challenges in the 21st century.
I have enclosed a copy of the final report, which suggests that a new vision of leadership is
emerging. Young adults see leadership predominantly happening locally not nationally, emanating
from small groups of knowledgeable and resourceful citizens, rather than traditional institutions,
experts and professionals. The qualities of leadership that will be most effective are collaborative
and interpersonal rather than directive or charismatic. Taking personal responsibility and action,
making a difference in the lives of people close to you, and building relations with people of different
racial and ethnic backgrounds are values and actions that this generation sees as critical.
The study challenges traditional notions of individual and institutional leadership in our
society and suggests a new approach. The results are strengthening Public Allies' efforts to prepare
young adults to practice this new style of leadership. We call it strong community leadership,
which means bringing people and organizations together and mobilizing their resources to strengthen
communities. We encourage you to consider these critical issues with us. We are certainly able and
interested in helping to create and participate in any discussion or forum that you may like to
convene in order to explore these issues further.
In addition to the project report, I have enclosed a copy of Public Allies' new publication,
PAper, that summarizes the findings and includes reflections from author Barry Z. Posner. Future
editions will explore specific issues raised in the poll in greater depth. I have also included copies of
news articles that the poll has generated from The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Washington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, and The News and Observer.
Sincerely,
Chuck J. Supple
President and CEO
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NEW LEADERSHIP FOR A NEW CENTURY:
KEY FINDINGS FROM A STUDY ON YOUTH,
LEADERSHIP, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
AUGUST 28, 1998
BY
PETER D. HART RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
CONDUCTED FOR PUBLIC ALLIES &
FUNDED BY THE SURDNA FOUNDATION
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
Between July 14 and July 19, 1998, Peter D. Hart Research Associates conducted a
national survey for Public Allies among 728 young Americans, age 18 to 30,
including 108 blacks and 148 Hispanics. The margin of error for the poll is ±3.7%
for the overall sample of young adults and is higher for specific subgroups.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
Contrary to the popular portrayal of today's young Americans as self-absorbed and socially
inert, the findings from this survey reveal a portrait of a generation not searching to distance
itself from the community, but instead actively looking for new and distinctive ways to
connect to the people and issues surrounding them. These young people have grown up in a
unique environment-they have no living memory of either the activism of the 1960s or the
leadership icons that in many ways defined their parents' generation. Instead, they have
grown up in an era of heightened cynicism toward both government and political leaders,
fervent discussion about the proper role of government and other social institutions, and an
increasingly diverse American population. Their attitudes and beliefs about American values,
leadership, and community involvement reflect their distinct experiences.
Young Americans today differentiate themselves from past
generations in rejecting many of the traditional measures of civic
responsibility, and instead, embrace new ways to effect change and
"WE CAN'T
JUST GO
approach the important notion of leadership. The characteristics of
HOME AND
CLOSE OUR
this new approach to leadership and social action are notable in at least
DOORS."
three respects.
Individuals, not institutions: In contrast to their 1960s
predecessors' focus on changing broad social institutions, young Americans' outlook is
distinctly personal, with a heavy emphasis on direct, one-on-one, individual service.
"Bottom up" not "top down": Young people embrace a model of leadership that
is best characterized as "bottom up" rather than "top down"-young adults place a premium
on the efficacy of small groups of people working together to effect change in tangible ways.
Diversity and reaching out: Young Americans distinguish themselves as a
generation extremely concerned not only with respecting individual differences, but also with
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reaching out to connect to and work with people from different backgrounds to address
problems and formulate solutions.
The findings from this survey, however, demonstrate that young people not only have
a new vision of leadership for the future, but they also are taking direct, concrete action to
practice and apply their ideals in their everyday lives. The sentiments of this generation
resonate a strong sense of the importance of community service and direct assistance to others.
This commitment is not expressed in a vague or amorphous way, but rather it is demonstrated
through tangible goals, such as consciously mentoring a young person in the community or
actively working with others on a local issue or concern. In fact, nearly seven in ten (68%)
young adults report that in the past three years they have been involved in activities to help
their community. Indeed, these findings provide encouraging evidence that the next
generation of Americans cares about its contributions to the community and increasingly
believes that solutions to the problems we face lie within communities and within the realm
of everyday Americans.
DEFINING A GENERATION:
THE GOALS, VALUES, AND VISION OF TODAY'S YOUNG AMERICANS
The attitudes of today's young adults are rooted strongly in the unique circumstances of their
era. The survey findings yield an extremely informative insight into the collective experiences
that have defined this generation of Americans and serve as the basis for their vision of the
future. When we ask them to identify
Events' Impact on Young Americans
the experience that has shaped their
(% selecting each as having had the biggest impact on their generation)
Increase in divorce and
36%
generation the most, nearly one in
single-parent families
%II
28%
three (32%) young adults cite the
Spread of drugs, including
22%
rise in "crack" cocaine
45%
"increase in divorce and single-parent
27%
19%
Revolution in technology
and the global economy
6%
families." This phenomenon is a
11%
10%
Spread of AIDS
Whites
particularly poignant experience among
19%
Blacks
17%
Hispanics
young whites-36% identify it as the
Three other events were selected by 5% or fewer young people: increased
diversity. emphasis on reducing government. collapse of communism/end of
defining experience of their generation.
Cold War.
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While black and Hispanic young adults see this phenomenon as important, they also
point to the powerful effects of other experiences. Overwhelmingly, blacks age 18 to 30
identify the spread of drugs and the rise in the use of "crack" cocaine as the most important
influence on people their age; they also are more likely than are whites to cite the spread of
AIDS as an important trend. Hispanics age 18 to 30 are divided, identifying either divorce or
drugs as defining generational influences. While the revolution in technology and the global
economy receives a great deal of news attention, the impact of this trend is more modest in
the eyes of young Americans: 18% identify it as the most important influence on their
generation.
The values and beliefs, as well as the vision for the future, that young people
demonstrate are a direct outgrowth of these defining, generational experiences. Contrary to
the stereotype of young adults being aloof and devoid of deep convictions, today's young
Americans have a strong sense of values and principles, and a well-defined direction for
contributing to their community and country. While such traditional American values as
liberty and self-reliance still are held strongly among these young people, they distinguish
themselves by placing the utmost importance on the power and value of human relationships.
Diversity, reaching out and connecting to other people, and making a difference in the lives of
others all are extremely important values to this generation. A near majority (50%) of young
people say that the value of "community and looking out for each other" is more important to
them than is the value of "individual responsibility and self-reliance": 38% of young adults
place a priority on this principle.
Young Americans say that "making a difference in the life of someone close to you" is
important to them personally, with 87% rating this value as an eight or higher on a ten-point
scale of importance. Young people respond much more enthusiastically to this more personal
and direct concept of assisting others than to the more traditional notion of "service to your
community and being involved in community affairs." While the hallmark American values
of "self-reliance and taking responsibility for yourself" and "personal liberty and the freedom
to do as you please" resonate with young Americans, another set of values focusing on
diversity and respect for people's differences emerges as equally important to this generation
of young adults.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
In many ways, the importance that young people attribute to values such as
"appreciating and respecting the racial and ethnic diversity of our country" and "developing
meaningful relationships with people different from yourself" is the defining characteristic of
this generation of Americans. Young adults of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds rate
these values as highly important to them personally; eight in ten (80%) rate "appreciating and
respecting the racial and ethnic differences in our country" as an eight or higher on a ten-point
scale, and nearly three in four (74%) give the same rating to "developing meaningful
relationships with people different from yourself." In fact, the diversity of American society
is so accepted by and normal to many young adults that it increasingly is looked upon as a fact
of life, rather than a cause for concern. When we ask them about our country's growing racial
and ethnic diversity, only 13% of young adults say that it is more of a bad thing, 40% say that
it is more of a good thing, and 42% say that it does not really make a difference one way or
the other.
LEADERSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY: A NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE
From this distinct set of values and experiences, young people have built a vision of leadership
that is both a natural reflection of their principles and a new and unique model for defining
this important concept in the future. In thinking about leadership in our country and about
their own current and future leadership roles, young Americans place a premium on a set of
traits that represents an extraordinary break from traditional models of American leadership.
Young people embrace a style of leadership that emphasizes the power of collective
responsibility, cooperation among diverse individuals, sensitivity toward others, and equal
participation by all citizens regardless of their authority or position in the community.
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Sensitivity and cooperation, not charisma: When we ask them about a series of
different leadership qualities, young people identify "being able to see a situation from
someone else's point of view" as the most important quality-94% of young Americans see
this trait as either essential or
very important in a good leader.
This focus on understanding and
Important Leadership Qualities
Essential quality
valuing the beliefs of others is
Very important quality
Able to see situations
94%
reinforced by other qualities that
from other's point of view
Get along well w/ others
90%
young people select as either
High personal integrity
85%
Empower/encourage
essential or very important in a
others to act
79%
Bring people of different
77%
backgrounds together
good leader, such as "getting
Set high standards/
hold people to them
75%
along well with other people"
Set a direction/persuade
61%
others to follow it
Popular and charismatic
27%
(90%) and "bringing people from
different backgrounds together"
(77%). In fact, such traditional "top-down" notions of leadership as "being popular and
charismatic" and "setting a direction and persuading others to follow it" are least appealing to
this group of Americans. Notably, young Americans of all races, blacks in particular, far
prefer leaders who "empower and encourage other people to act" to leaders who "set a
direction and persuade people to follow it."
Individual empowerment,
Organizations Most Important/
not institutions: In thinking
Effective in Solving Future Problems
about the types of organizations
46%
that will be important in solving
Schools,
our communities' problems in the
univer-
sities,
future, young people embrace the
colleges
27%
notion that individuals must take
Groups
20%
of
15%
Gov't
13%
people
12%
an active role in addressing social
business,
11%
working
Religious
together
nonprofit
Gov't
groups
Media
Nonprofits
conditions. In fact, nearly half
locally
political
ships
leaders
charities
(46%) of young adults point to
schools, universities and colleges-
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entities that empower, teach, and provide skills to young people so that they can contribute to
and become involved in their community-as important in solving future problems. Further,
about one in four (27%) young people anticipate that "groups of people working together
locally" will be the most important organization in addressing the problems that we will face
in the future, and one in five (20%) cite partnerships among government, private businesses,
and nonprofit organizations as important. Organizations that represent more traditional
approaches to improving social conditions, such as government and political leaders, and
nonprofit and charity groups are met with far less enthusiasm and confidence from today's
young people.
Inclusive and "bottom up," not select individuals and "top down": Young people's
strong preference for leadership that emphasizes the collective participation of many
individuals over the strong leadership of just a few is evident in an array of different measures.
When presented with a series of statements to assess their own views of leadership, young
people overwhelmingly describe a model of leadership that is built from the bottom up,
emphasizes collective responsibility, and values the participation of average citizens working
together to solve problems. Young adults of all races are clear in articulating a vision of
leadership for our country that is different from the traditional concept of American
leadership as a strong, select group of individuals with a fixed agenda. Young Americans see
leadership as a quality inherent in average people, and they measure the strength of leaders by
their ability to be inclusive and to work collectively.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
Young Americans' Model for Leadership:
Which Would You Prefer?
71%
The best model for leadership is to build from the bottom up, that is, for
many people to share responsibility for making decisions and moving
forward.
25%
The best model for leadership is to build from the top down, that is, for
strong leaders to assume responsibility for making decisions and moving
forward.
78% No one group is mostly responsible for solving social problems, and
communities and individuals are responsible for solving their problems
collectively.
17%
Big institutions, such as government and business, are best suited to take
responsibility for the well-being of citizens and for solving social problems.
65% We should look for leadership from ordinary people in the community,
regardless of their position or level of authority.
31%
We should look for leadership from people who have achieved an important
position and earned the authority and respect that comes with that
position.
79%
Average people have the resources and practical know-how to solve most of
their problems in their community.
18%
Our problems are very complex, and we need experts to solve them.
ACTIVE AND INVOLVED: YOUNG AMERICANS PUTTING THEIR
IDEALS AND THEIR VISION OF LEADERSHIP INTO PRACTICE
Consistent with their distinct values and experiences, as well as with their unique vision of
leadership, young Americans also demonstrate a distinctive approach to effecting change in
their community. Young adults embrace methods of social and political change that
emphasize high standards, direct contact with others, and inclusiveness.
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A strong majority of
Participation In The Community
young Americans of all races say
that in the past three years they
Not
have been involved in activities to
sure
1%
Have been involved
Have not been
in community in
help their community, such as
involved in
past three years
community
68%
volunteering time, belonging to an
31%
organization, or helping to solve a
community problem. Given the
mobility associated with this age
group, a remarkable 54% say that
they participate in these activities at least once a month or more-nearly one in four (22%) say
once a week or more. In fact, equal proportions (64%) say that "feeling as though you give
back to the community" and "being financially successful" are extremely or very important to
them.
For young people, involvement with the community takes many forms and has many
motives. Nearly three in four (72%) young people who participate in community activities
say that they do so through an organized group or association,
for example, a school, hospital, or neighborhood center. Young
adults also indicate that they serve as tutors or mentors to a
"(COMMUNITY
SERVICE IS A)
younger person in the community (38%) and work with others
COLLECTIVE
RESPONSIBILITY
informally on a local issue or concern (30%). In volunteering
AND A GENUINE
DESIRE TO BRING
reasons for their participation in community activities, young
UP THE
STANDARDS IN
people respond with a variety of incentives, from finding it
YOUR
COMMUNITY."
personally rewarding and satisfying (9%) to having a strong
desire to help children (13%) to wanting to help those who are
disadvantaged (12%). Young blacks in particular cite helping children in their community as a
compelling reason to participate in service activities.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
In addition to this tangible commitment to and involvement with their community,
Americans in this age group also have a distinct notion of what types of activities matter most
in effecting change. When presented with seven different approaches to bringing about needed
changes in our country, young
people cite "practicing your ideals
Ways To Effect Change
in your everyday life" as the most
(% saying each is a very effective way to bring about change)
effective way for someone like
Practicing your ideals
them to contribute. Young people
68%
in everyday life
Friendship with people of
58%
also point to "building friendships
different race/ethnicity
Volunteering to help people
54%
in a direct way
and relationships with people of
Acting in a concrete way on
52%
an idea or belief you have
different racial and ethnic
Voting in elections
52%
Participating in religious
40%
backgrounds" and "volunteering to
activities
Volunteering for a political
18%
or social cause
help individuals in a direct way" as
effective ways to get involved.
Interestingly, more traditional
approaches to community service such as "volunteering for a political or social cause" resonate
less strongly with this generation.
CONCLUSIONS: THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
The findings from this survey provide encouraging news about young Americans'
commitment to redefining the concept of leadership in our country, working together to
provide direct assistance to others, and reaching out to people from different backgrounds to
collectively forge new solutions to social problems. Young people see leadership as an exercise
available to and, in fact, a responsibility of all Americans, not just to a select group of
charismatic individuals. What sets young people apart from their parents' and grandparents'
generation is an overarching emphasis on a new set of leadership traits: the ability to see a
situation from someone else's point of view, a willingness to work collectively and
cooperatively, and a desire to initiate solutions on a smaller scale, rather than to react to broad
institutional remedies.
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Importantly, young people also demonstrate a strong will to take action on their
beliefs by volunteering in their community and by reaching out to understand and unite with
people different from themselves. As these young people come of age and prepare for their
roles as adults in our country, several challenges remain in tapping into the energy and
commitment of this generation.
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While young Americans display a good deal of initiative in finding ways to serve their
community and to assist other individuals, they do not have a strong vehicle to channel
or guide this motivation. From government and political leaders to nonprofit and charity
organizations, young people do not respond to many of the traditional organizations and
institutions that our country has looked to in taking the lead in solving social problems.
Instead, young people are looking for a different type of guidance and support for their
initiatives-one that values all individuals and emphasizes the importance of people actively
working together to solve problems.
2
While young people clearly have found ways to act on the beliefs and values that are
important to them, the survey findings suggest that they feel as though most of our
country's leaders-both individual and institutional-are not speaking a language to which
they can relate or understand. The language that young people speak is inclusive, with a heavy
emphasis on seeing situations from multiple perspectives, as well as focused, with a
concentration on helping others directly and actively. In order to harness fully the talent,
commitment, and energy of young people, this language needs to become more central to the
way we address and enlist this critical group of young adults.
3
Traditional methods of leadership development are not well suited to elicit the learning
outcomes needed to practice this new leadership effectively. Content and methods of
training and development need to be examined for building competency in this new approach.
What can be learned from successful community development efforts and other areas in which
this new practice has been applied practically must be integrated into leadership development
strategies.
4
Many organizations and institutions operate out of more traditional leadership
paradigms. To ensure their relevance and effective roles in the future, they must adapt
to this new type of leadership both in organizational development and in fulfilling their
missions in the community. This reform means developing responsibility beyond the
institutional boundaries, into the community, and transferring leadership to their
constituents. Internally, this means making the way, not only for new practices, but also for
the next generation to assume positions of authority.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
Public Allies Leadership Polling Project
Advisory Committee
Tony Brown, Professor of the Practice, and Director of the Hart Center for Leadership,
Duke University
Harry Boyte, Director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Humbert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
MG (Ret.) Neil Creighton, President and CEO, Robert R. McCormick Tribune
Foundation
Paul Martin DuBois, Co-Director, Center for Living Democracy
Howard Fuller, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Director, Institute for the
Transformation of Learning, Marquette University
Ronald A. Heifetz, author of Leadership without Easy Answers, and Director of the
Leadership Education Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Jody Kretzmann, Co-Director, Assett-Based Community Development Institute,
Northwestern University
Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor of Philanthropic Studies & Public Policy, Indiana
University Center on Philanthropy
Sara E. Meléndez, President, Independent Sector
Barry Posner, author of The Leadership Challenge, and Managing Partner, Executive
Development Center, Leavey School of Business and Administration, Santa Clara
University.
Dorothy Ridings, President and CEO, Council on Foundations
Ann Mitchell Sackey, Executive Director, National Council for Nonprofit Associations
Ed Skloot, Executive Director, Surdna Foundation
Tavis Smiley, Host of Black Entertainment Television's BET Tonight, and author of
Hard Left
Lisa Sullivan, Fellowship Consultant, NEXT Generation Leadership, Rockefeller
Foundation
Angela Wheeler, Publisher, Who Cares
Harris Wofford, Executive Director, Corporation for National Service
Charles E. Young, Chancellor Emeritus, UCLA
The Washington Post
C
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1998
E.J.DionneJr.
Reform
self-refiance.
Generation?
This is not to say that individualism is dead.
On the contrary, other parts of the survey
found that the under thirties value both com-
munity and self-reliance and are juggling the
The surest indication of creeping middle age
two. After the social gyrations of the past 30
is a proclivity toward whiny speeches about
years, this may be a generation in search of
what's wrong with the new generation. Com-
balance. You might call it maturity.
mentary about the alleged flaws and shortcom-
Perhaps the most striking discovery is the
ings of "young people these days" is not
extent to which this is a generation that reveres
confined to any ideological camp. The '60s
family stability. Given a long list of forces that
crowd was as horrified at the young Reaganites
"had the biggest impact on people of your
of the '80s as the parents of the Woodstockers
generation," the single most important, accord-
and the Birkenstockers were at their brood of
ing to those surveyed, was "the increase in
young rebels. Michael J. Fox made a career of
divorce and single-parent families." Only the
such ironies.
spread of drugs and crack came close in its
The genius of the new generation under 30
effect, and was No. 1 among African Ameri-
may be this: They are different enough from the
cans.
earlier cohorts that it's hard for anyone to be
No wonder that this generation lists "having
cranky about them. You can see the attitudes of
a strong family" as its most important goal, far
today's under thirties as a synthesis of the
ahead of career, money and community service.
dominant ideas of the '60s and the '80s-which
The mystery for this generation is whether
means, of course, that they represent some-
its communitarian leanings will be expressed
thing new.
primarily in neighborhood work and family life,
This is what's emerging from a mound of
or whether that work will begin to spill over
research now underway on the ideas and
into politics. For now, says Michael Sanchez,
aspirations of the young. Much of it is spon-
president of "doingsomething," another group
sored by the burgeoning "service movement,"
that promotes service and youth leadership, the
one of the great untouted developments of the
generation is "much more civic-minded than
1990s. It involves many volunteer and commu-
politically minded. While there's an idealism,
nity organizations that try to solve social
it's less about changing the world than chang-
problems a neighborhood and a person at a
ing our neighborhood."
time.
"The idea of service is framed in terms of
For example, a soon-to-be-released survey
altruism, and the young people we've talked to
conducted this summer for Public Allies, a
understand community service in terms of
national organization that sponsors leadership
helping the 'other,'' said Juliette Zener,
training and community service programs for
"doingsomething"s" research coordinator. "In
the young, concludes that "in contrast to their
contrast, they talk about politics entirely in
1960s predecessors' focus on changing broad
terms of selfishness. There's a middle ground
social institutions, young Americans' outlook is
that's missing in the popular language, and that
distinctly personal with a heavy emphasis on
middle ground is engaged citizenship."
direct, one-on-one individual service."
It's possible to hope that this generation will
The survey, conducted by Peter D. Hart
do a better job than its immediate predecessors
Associates, found considerable skepticism to-
in sorting out the conundrums of democracy.
ward government-led efforts to solve problems
Politics can involve self-interest understood
but also a strong streak of community-minded-
broadly, not narrowly, and thus be more than a
ness. "They have felt the power of the rhetoric
selfish pursuit. The call to service is inspired
on the failure of government," said Chuck
not only by altruism but also by a desire to build
Supple, president of Public Allies, "but they
a stronger community for one's self and family
have a lot of experience locally on their own.
as well as for others.
They've been seeing individuals and communi-
The great reforming generations are the
ties assume responsibility locally."
ones that marry the aspirations of service to the
The survey of 728 young adults, 18 to 30,
possibilities of politics and harness the good
asked: "Which do you think is a more important
work done in local communities to transform a
value in our country-the value of community
nation. Might this generation be one of them?
and looking out for each other, or the value of
individual responsibility and self-reliance?"
The result: 50 percent opted for community
and looking out for each other, while 38
percent opted for individual responsibility and
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THE FRONT LINES
By THOMAS PETZINGER JR.
The End of Leadership
poll: "This generation doesn't look to
national leaders. They're looking in
Is One of the Myths
their own backyards."
Myth #2: A bear market will stifle
Of a Gloomy Time
innovation.
The reasoning here is that high-
priced initial public offerings will
PRESIDENT disgraced, a
come to an end. depriving venture
A
bull market tamed. a seven-
capitalists of an exit strategy and
year economic expansion
thereby depressing seed financing,
slowed and possibly on the
business start-ups and. ultimately,
verge of reversal. The news
innovation. The reality is that al-
is definitely a drag. But a lot of pun-
though innovation drives stock
dits and media types are going over-
board. spreading gloom in places
where the facts don't justify it.
Permit me to puncture two of the
most insidious myths suddenly grip-
ping discussion about our economy
and our country.
Myth #1: Leadership is dead.
"Where have all the heroes
gone?" Robert Byrd forlornly
drawled on the Senate floor the other
day. "Where are the nation's lead-
ers?"
Don't look now, senator, but the
nation has so many leaders you can't
see them. Like computing technol-
Elliott Banfield
ogy. like the Eastern Bloc, like the
prices, stock prices have nothing to
corporate world itself, leadership is
do with innovation.
breaking into ever-smaller and more
"Innovation is not driven by capi-
widely scattered pieces. distributed
tal at all." says William Cockrum of
across communities. campuses and
UCLA's Anderson School of manage-
small companies.
ment. one of the nation's leading pro-
"People aren't looking at big insti-
fessors of entrepreneurialism. "Inno-
tutions to solve problems. They're
vation is the process of seeking an
rolling up their sleeves and doing it
improvement. and that process goes
themselves," says Vanessa Kirsch.
on regardless of markets."
whose Boston venture-capital fund.
called New Profit Inc., connects high-
N DOLLAR TERMS. innovation
tech nouveau riche investors with so-
becomes less expensive all the
cially conscious entrepreneurs.
time as creativity overtakes cap-
Private citizens realize that by
ital as the main constraint on in-
solving local problems they'l build a
novation. Breakthrough tech-
better world than politicians and cor-
nologies, once the province of gov-
porate big-shots could ever begin to.
ernment labs and corporate R&D.
Take Linda Rusch, head of pa-
rely more on knowledge and imagi-
tient-care services at Hunterton
nation and less on costly equipment
Medical Center in New Jersey. A
and materials.
while ago. she organized a free blood-
A half-dozen graduate students
pressure screening at a local fair.
can innovate more readily than Mi-
That simple step inspired staff
crosoft. I know a chemist who is revo-
nurses to organize dozens of new.
lutionizing the design of printed cir-
continuing health-care initiatives -
cuit boards with heat-conducting
neonatal counseling. help for bat-
polymers she invented in a tiny lab in
tered women, more fund-raisers than
inner-city Cleveland.
anyone could count. "This is a won-
Any withering of venture capi-
derful example of how small changes
still a long way off. even in the
can lead to large effects." Ms. Rusch
worst case- would stifle marketing
says.
rather than innovation. Big. late-
stage VC funds from institutional in-
ITH NO FANFARE. bil-
vestors most often underwrite sales
W
lionaire Charles Koch of
and revenue growth. Seed money for
Wichita, Kansas, long
innovation, by contrast, comes from
known for his patronage
family. credit cards. personal sav-
of right-wing causes. qui-
ings and "angels" who invest regard-
etly bankrolls business plans for at-
less of market conditions.
risk kids. "The best ones get a little
"The typical individual angel in-
capital, and it changes their mental
vestor has a passion for start-up fi-
models," he says. Meanwhile, corpo-
nancing." says Gary Kalbach, gen-
rate partnerships with community
eral partner of Silicon Valley's El Do-
colleges explode.
rado Ventures. which represents an-
None of this may seem like true
gels and institutions alike.
"leadership" to generations inspired
Notably. El Dorado this week
by the likes of Douglas MacArthur,
launched a major new plunge into
Martin Luther King Jr. and Lee Ia-
ventures engaged in Internet com-
cocca. But charisma and power don't
merce. Meanwhile, banks are still
cut it with today's young people. A
falling all over themselves to get in
broad. new poll of 18- to 30-year-olds
on ground-floor lending opportuni-
by Peter Hart Research Associates
ties to entrepreneurs.
finds that "young people overwhelm-
Instinctive Technology Inc., a
ingly describe a model of leadership
successful software start-up in Cam-
that is built from the bottom up.
bridge. Mass., admits its rapid
In other words. small groups are
growth would have been crimped
leading change at the local level, in
without its abundant venture financ-
contrast to "the traditional concept of
ing. But co-founder Jeff Beir adds. "If
American leadership as a strong. se-
this capital were not available. we
lect group of individuals." Sixty-
would have continued to innovate
eight percent of those surveyed claim
and found other ways to bring our
involvement in community service.
ideas to market."
Says Chuck Supple, president of
/ welcome, and answer. all signed
Public Allies, a youth-leadership
e-mail. Send your comments and criti-
group that commissioned the Hart
cisms totomirpetzinger.com.
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Survey: Young Adults' Faith in Power of Charities Is Limited
Young adults are committed to
by 46 per cent of young people as
solving social problems, but they
being effective problem solvers—
Organizations Young People Believe
have little faith that their volun-
by far the most of any category in
teer work at charities will make
the survey. "Groups of people
Are Most Likely to Solve
much of a difference, according to a
working together" was cited by 27
Future Problems
new survey.
per cent of respondents, while 20
The survey, commissioned by
per cent of young people said that
Public Allies, a non-profit group
partnerships of government, busi-
based in Washington that works to
ness, and non-profit groups were
Schools, universities,
develop leadership among young
important for solving problems.
and colleges
46%
people, found that people ages 18
The survey also found that
to 30 believe that charities can
young people believe that the best
Groups of people
only be effective problem solvers if
working together locally
27%
way to bring about changes in soci-
they work in concert with busi-
ety is by "practicing your ideals in
Partnerships of
nesses and government agencies.
everyday life," with 68 per cent
government, business,
20%
More than two-thirds of respon-
saying they think that is effective.
and non-profit groups
dents said they had "been involved
Volunteering to help people was
in activities to help their commu-
regarded as an important means to
Religious groups
15%
nity" in the past three years. The
create change by 54 per cent of re-
figure includes people who did vol-
spondents.
Government
unteer work or got involved in civ-
The survey was conducted by Pe-
and political leaders
13%
ic organizations.
ter D. Hart Research Associates
But when asked which groups
and polled 728 people ages 18 to 30.
will be most effective in solving fu-
For a free copy of the report on
Media
12%
ture social problems, charities
the survey, "New Leadership for a
barely rated a mention. Only 11
New Century," contact Meri Lou
per cent of those surveyed said that
Gonzales, Public Allies, 1015 15th
Non-profit groups
and charities
11%
charities would play an important
Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washing-
role in solving future problems.
ton 20036; e-mail panational(s) aol.
Educational groups were named
com.
-PAUL DEMKO
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1998 by The Chronicle of Philanthropy
LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Sizing Up the Civic Universe Created by Young Adults
INCE PRESIDENT CLINTON has made
have begun to establish their own civic
a downside as well to this neo-Tocque-
S
national service for young Ameri-
universe built around small, "bottom
villean notion of voluntary civic action
cans a hallmark of his Administra-
up" groups that thrive on personal rela-
in America.
tion through such programs as Ameri-
tionships, such as schools and peer
The Public Allies survey indicates
Corps and the 1997 summit on volun-
groups. Rather than look up to popular,
that young Americans define their goals
teerism, the controversy over his con-
charismatic, or persuasive leaders, to-
mostly in terms of better relationships.
duct in office-and his possible remov-
day's youth say they admire those who
According to the report that accompa-
al-could conceivably dampen enthusi-
can get along well with other people,
nied the study, "diversity, reaching out
asm for it. However, non-profit leaders
have high personal integrity, and are
and connecting to other people, and
concerned with maintaining a high de-
comfortable with diverse points of view.
making a difference in the lives of others
gree of civic spirit in the rising genera-
According to the survey, less than
all are extremely important values to
tion can take heart from a recent study
one-fifth of young Americans think that
this generation."
done for the youth-service group Public
they can effectively foster change by fur-
Laudable as those aims may be, how-
Allies.
thering a "political or social cause."
ever, they lack moral content. Good re-
Fully two-thirds of the 728 Americans
Such a vision contrasts sharply with
lationships can serve bad ends, as well
between the ages of 18 and 30 who were
that of the baby-boom generation,
as virtuous ones. Ultimately, what
questioned for the survey said they tried
which, until the Vietnam War and Wa-
holds civic groups together-and makes
to put their personal ideals into practice
tergate era, looked to government and
them effective-is a shared sense of pur-
through volunteering and other forms of
the programs of the Great Society as
pose, of goals, and of vision for them-
community engagement.
ways to serve the public good and solve
selves, for their communities, and, ulti-
It seems, however, that they are going
social ills.
mately, for their country.
about it in their own way. Rather than
Now that such programs have fallen
And that, the study suggests, may be
align themselves with government or
out of favor with the majority of Ameri-
lacking-or at least not clearly devel-
with well-established national religious
cans-and the nation's political leader-
oped and articulated.
or non-profit institutions, today's young
ship is again enveloped in scandal-it is
One study, of course, is hardly conclu-
adults prefer new and different ways of
a good thing that civic spirit among
sive, but the heavy emphasis young peo-
promoting community improvement.
young people is not tied as tightly to
ple place on individual relationships
Young people today. the survey notes,
Washington as it once was. But there is
Continued on Page 56
Continued from Page 55
the generation grows older will be
For now, this notion of a civil
raises the question of whether
worth watching. So, too, will the
society that stands apart from gov-
their activities are really more per-
ways in which its civic activities fit
ernment-while accomplishing
sonal than civic-minded. One-third
into a society in which govern-
many of the tasks that allow gov-
of those surveyed felt that the
ment, as well as long-established
ernment to be limited and success-
most important experience affect-
non-profit and religious groups,
ful-is a promising one. Whether
ing their generation was "the in-
continue to play a large role.
it can remain apart from govern-
crease in divorce and single-parent
By calling for more "community
ment and still find solutions to
families." It would not be surpris-
service" and mentor programs,
many of the nation's problems re-
ing, then, if their volunteering had
some traditional political and non-
mains to be seen.
a lot more to do with finding what
profit leaders have begun to re-
On balance, however, if we are
the historian Christopher Lasch
spond to the outlook reflected in
now headed for another wrenching
once called "a haven in a heartless
the Public Allies survey. Others,
test of our confidence in the na-
world" than with trying to change
however, continue to insist that to-
tion's political leaders, we should
that world.
day's young people are too politi-
be grateful that the rising genera-
Too much concern for personal
cally apathetic and bemoan their
tion of young Americans can envi-
fulfillment is not a good basis for
reluctance to take up one or anoth-
sion a healthy civic life without
building effective and lasting civic
er effort to change public policy.
Washington.
groups. And it is all too easy
But unless those leaders can rede-
to confuse activities that mostly
fine the relationship between gov-
Leslie Lenkowsky is professor of
serve one's private needs with
ernment and the nation's civic life
philanthropic studies and public
those that actually benefit the pub-
to give greater emphasis to fos-
policy at the Indiana University
lic.
tering non-governmental activity,
Center on Philanthropy and a reg-
Still, how young Americans'
they will have little chance of cap-
ular contributor to these pages.
ideas about civic engagement
turing the enthusiasm of the rising
His e-mail address is llenkows(a)
evolve and take practical form as
generation.
iupui.edu.
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Business
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1998
3D
Studies call for new forms of philanthropic leadership
T
0 solve the many social problems we
the organization that commissioned the
only one-tenth of its philanthropic assets.
tion to common problems."
with a heavy emphasis on direct, one-on-
face, our communities could stand a
Hart study "It's going to be about a group
As the South's thriving economy creates
The Hart Research study, "New Leader-
one. individual service."
big change in how things get done,
of people leading, and it's not just going to
new wealth. the study says, business and
ship for a New Century," calls for new
Young people "embrace a model of lead:
starting from the bottom up. That's the
come from the nonprofit sector."
civic leaders should make the creation of
leadership models to tap the commitment
ership that is best characterized as bot.
message of two recent studies that make a
In an era of cynicism about politics and
new foundations a priority. While corpo-
of young people. Young Americans "place
tom up rather than top down." the study
case for new models of leadership.
a retreat from public pursuits, the South's
rate purchases of community hospitals
a premium on a set of traits that repre-
says, and "place a premium on the effica-
A study by MDC
"economic energy does not seem matched
are making tens of millions of dollars in
sents an extraordinary break from tradi-
cy of small groups of people working
PHILANTHROPY
Inc., a Chapel Hill
these days by equal energy in civic and
hospital assets available for conversion to
tional models of American leadership."
together to effect change in tangible
think tank. has found
public service," MDC says in its study,
community foundations, the study says,
the study says.
ways."
that philanthropic
"The State of the South 1998."
most new foundations "will come from the
The study was based on a national sur-
Young people also place a high priority
activity isn't keeping
The nonprofit group, which studies
voluntary decisions of Southerners who
vey in July of 728 Americans ages 18 to 30.
on diversity and "reaching out to connect
up with Southern
work-force and economic development,
see the nonprofit sector as a necessary
Public Allies provides nonprofit appren-
to and work with people from different
prosperity, and that
says the region needs "a massive infusion
complement to government and business
ticeships for young people and helps
backgrounds to address problems and for-
nonprofits and foun-
of creative leadership" in philanthropy
in the task of improving people's lives."
develop them as leaders.
mulate solutions."
dations must be cre-
"Philanthropy is rapidly emerging as
Philanthropic organizations also should
"Contrary to the popular portrayal of
The bottom line is that, to fix the social
ative in providing the
society's source of social venture capital,
work with government, the study says,
today's young Americans as self-absorbed
problems we face, wealthy people must
Todd Cohen
leadership the region
and nonprofit organizations as its testing
identifying long-term social trends and
and socially inert," the study says, "the
develop more of a public conscience and
needs to maintain
ground for potential solutions," says the
needs and placing them on the public
findings from this survey reveal a portrait
commitment, while nonprofits and foun-
progress on racial,
study, which is based on census data.
agenda, and sponsoring research, demon-
of a generation not searching to distance
dations must encourage collaboration that
educational and economic issues.
"Endowed institutions have the benefit
strations and evaluations to test solutions
itself from the community but instead
better reflects and taps the changing
And according to the findings of Peter D.
of the long-term view, with perpetual insu-
to persistent problems.
actively looking for new and distinctive
community America has become.
Hart Research Associates of Washington,
lation from the distractions of ephemeral
Finally, the study says. foundations can
ways to connect to the people and issues
For a copy of MDC's study, call 968-4531
D.C., change will be spurred not by indi-
issues and fleeting popular opinion that
play a central role in helping the South
surrounding them."
For a copy of the Hart Research study, call
vidual leaders but by small, resourceful
beset elected officials."
wrestle with race. "Foundations are effec-
Yet, unlike the Baby Boomers who came
Public Allies at 202-822-1180.
groups.
The South also needs more "home-
tive catalysts for dialogue and collabora-
of age in the 1960s and tended to focus on
"There is not going to be one leader,"
grown philanthropy," the study says. The
tion, bringing together government, busi-
political leaders and broad social institu-
Todd Cohem, editor and publisher of
said Meredith Emmett, executive director
region has roughly one third of the U.S.
ness, education, nonprofits and others in
tions, the study says, the outlook of young
the Philanthropy News Network, COR be reached
of N.C. Public Allies, the state chapter of
population and two-fifths of its poverty but
the search for common ground and solu-
Americans today is "distinctly personal,
et 899-3744 or [email protected].
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KNOW-IT-ALL:
Barry Z. Posner
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Barry Posner follows the leaders. The author of several best-selling books on leadership, he
has spent decades studying more than 60,000 leaders and their constituents in companies
and organizations worldwide. Mr. Posner serves on the faculty of Santa Clara University, where
Public Allies News and Notes
he is professor of organizational behavior and managing director of the Executive Development
In an independent survey of more than 100 organizations that
Center at the Leavey School of Business and Administration. He is the co-author, with James
have hosted the majority of our Allies over the past five years, 83
Kouzes, of The Leadership Challenge and Credibility, both of which are considered classics in
percent said Allies had a positive impact on the groups themselves
and the communities they serve.
the field. Mr. Posner recently joined the Public Allies board in Silicon Valley, and shared with us
his thoughts on the poll and related topics.
The four-month study, completed in June, found that "the skills and
qualities that Allies bring to their host organization have, in many
cases [...] increased its capacity to fulfill its mission." Though
Q
What did you learn from
tives, to find the wholeness in diversity of opinions, and to recog-
most organizations first hosted an Ally because they needed help
the poll?
nize that there is no one right answer to the complex problems
completing a project or wanted to help support the development of
facing our society. Leadership is an art, not a science, and you
a young person, they found that the experience provided them with
A: I came away with a sense of hopefulness, with optimism.
need to make choices: at local levels especially, there is no
unexpected benefits. Among those cited most frequently: expand-
This is not a survey of pessimistic Dilberts. This group wants to
ing outreach to the community, increasing the number and types
shortage of opportunities to make a difference, so where do you
make a difference, and I think they're going to provide as good
of people served, and forging resource-leveraging partnerships with
want to focus your attention?
other groups.
as - or even better - leadership than previous generations. I
took great heart in their standards, their sense of what was
Q
Has the concept of leadership
important, their belief that living one's ideals was an effective
changed much in recent years?
Other Items of Interest:
way to bring about change. They are saying: we have the
A: One key change is captured by the phrase "think globally
resources and capabilities, we don't need experts to take
act locally." There has been a trend toward decentralization,
Showing Promise: The President's Initiative on Race has
responsibility, we can do it for ourselves. We found in our own
toward distributed power, in both business and politics, with more
cited Public Allies as a "Promising Practice" for valuing diversity with-
research that leadership is not a position, a place in an organi-
responsibility going to state and local governments. When Nelson
in a context of solid community outcomes.
zation, but a sense of responsibility. The young people in the
Mandela was inaugurated he said that what should scare people
Lucky Seven! Public Allies Cincinnati opens its doors this
poll are saying that leadership is everybody's business.
is not that they are powerless, but rather how much power they
month, bringing to seven the number of PA sites around the country.
Q
So leadership is more of a group
really do have. What groups like Public Allies do is remind people
With two more sites slated to open next year, we're well on our way
effort than an individual one?
that one person can make a tremendous difference.
to meeting our goal of 12 sites by 2001.
Social Solutions.
PA is proud to be partnering with IBM,
A: It's both. Martin Luther King says "I have a dream" but then
Q
What leadership challenges do young
United Way and AmeriCorps *VISTA on Team Tech, which engages
goes on to say what "we" are going to have to do to make it a
people commonly face?
AmeriCorps Members in bringing computer technology to local non-
reality. Leadership starts within ourselves, with a personal
profits.
A: The challenge for every generation is one of perspective.
vision. But there is a limit to what we can do by ourselves, and
When I talk to Public Allies in the Silicon Valley, they always want
New Faces.
PA welcomes our newest Board members -
so the "I" needs to become the "we." That's a lot of what we do
Tavis Smiley, host of BET Tonight and commentator for the Tom
to see change happen today. This sense of urgency can be a
in Public Allies - helping public advocates understand the sys-
Joyner Morning Show and Charles E. Young, Chancellor Emeritus of
source of frustration, especially to true visionaries. If you can
UCLA; and Executive Directors - Pat Dowell of PA Chicago, formally
tem better, to see broadly across organizations and recognize
clearly see how things should be different, then why can't they be
with the Mid-South Planning & Development Commission; David
opportunities for networking, for leveraging local resources.
different now? One way to deal with this is to stay focused on
Weaver of PA Cincinnati, formally with the Children's Defense Fund;
How do you get people to think of
what I call "small wins." You can't solve the problem of home-
and Lisa Burford of PA Washington, DC, formally with the National
Q
Center for Nonprofit Boards.
themselves as "we?"
lessness in your community in ten months. But what could you do
in that timeframe, or even in the next five months, to make a dif-
Did It Again. The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and
A:
One of the key challenges of leadership is trying to find a
ference? Stay focused on your progress, and keep in mind that
Politics of Democracy has measured the citizenship of our Allies over
balance between different values, knowing what your own ideals
the past few years and once again concluded that "Public Allies
sometimes you need to be a few steps ahead of people to make
show a significant decrease in alienation from national government,
are, but also having a willingness to listen to others and be influ-
them take just one step in the right direction. And never forget
and significant increases in political tolerance, religious tolerance,
enced by them. A leader's job is to listen to multiple perspec-
that you need to get there one step at a time.
racial tolerance, issue activity, voting activity, and civic skills."
Levi's
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 21, 1998
Carole Shields
President
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Washington, DC 20036
Dear Carole:
How is the beautiful grandmother and citizen
activist?
Thank you for your kind note. I've passed along
your good wishes to the President and First Lady, and I
know they appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Best wishes and thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
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October 22, 1998
Ms. Sue Stealey
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Dear Sue:
Thank you for your the copy of the sermon by Rev.
Buchanan of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. His
reflections are inspirational and wise. Thank you for
sharing his work with the First Lady and thank you for your
support.
All the best.
Sincerely,
Me Chief of Staff to
Melanne Verveer
the First Lady
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Dear Melanne:
You are very much in my thoughts these days and I
thought the enclosed might be of interest. I am a
member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of
Chicago. Our minister, John Buchanan preached
what I think is an excellent sermon last Sunday. The
attached is a copy from the church's web page. If
you think it is appropriate and would be helpful,
please share it with Mrs. Clinton.
Sincerely,
Sue
Sue Stealey
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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He
makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads
me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He
leads me in right paths for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod
and your staff - they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence
of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the
house of the Lord my whole life long.
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Psalm 23 (NRSV)
***
Martin Marty, distinguished historian and
student of American religious history,
understands more than anyone the reality of
our nation's religious character and unique
religious experience. At the end of one of his
books, Pilgrims in Their Own Land, he
reminds us that for five hundred years we
Americans have found reasons to convince
ourselves that we are a religious people and a
nation under God. And, Marty predicts, so long
as there is are American people who are free,
our dreams (and our hopes and aspirations, our
sense of what is right and wrong, what is good
and what is evil) "will prod us on to more
restless pilgrimages." (p. 476-7)
That national spirit, or soul, was there from the
beginning. Pilgrims saw themselves as a "city
set on a hill," a new covenant community called
by God to a special destiny.
The patriots who declared independence and
the politicians who crafted a constitution
invoked sacred honor and divine providence.
Our hopes and dreams, our sense of right and
wrong and good and evil led us to fight a civil
war under a President who was so haunted by
the notion of God's presence in the midst of the
conflict and God's intent for people to
somehow live in peace and justice that Quaker
philosopher Elton Trueblood called him,
"Abraham Lincoln, Theologian of American
Anguish."
Those hopes and dreams energized a great
social revolution called Civil Rights and they
inspired young Americans to make the ultimate
sacrifice in the struggle against Fascist
totalitarianism and racial genocide, as we have
been so powerfully reminded this summer by
Stephen Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan.
And, now, those dreams and hopes, that sense
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of right and wrong, that awareness of the
presence of God in all of life and of a national
accountability and responsibility to God has
brought us to a painful moment, perhaps a
defining moment, a dangerous moment
altogether unique in American history. As I
thought all summer about this Sunday, about
the fact that we would be singing and hearing
American religious music and thinking about
the particularly American theological motifs
that music represents, at a time when the nation
was moving slowly but inexorably toward a
crisis in regard to the President and the report
of the Independent Counsel, I knew in my heart
that, much as I wanted to, I could not ignore
the moment. I did not know when I prepared
this sermon that this would be the week the
report would be delivered to Congress and
available on the internet on Friday.
I do not want to preach this sermon. My guess
is that most of you do not want me to preach it.
But, I do not know how we can stand in the
five-hundred-year stream of American religion,
particularly the Presbyterian branch, which has
always insisted that religion is public as well as
private, political as well as internal
I don't
know how we cannot have a conversation
about it, here-in church-on Sunday morning.
We are not without resources, by the way.
We have two resources, actually-a story and a
belief which we stand up and affirm in one
voice every time we are together. The belief is
in the forgiveness of sin, and the story is about
David.
As the whole matter began to unfold, I found
myself thinking a lot about David. I had seen
his amazing statue by Michelangelo in Florence
earlier this year, an astonishing expression of
physical beauty, strength, and presence that
celebrates Israel's own love for its greatest
king. So I looked him up and read his story
again, several times actually, and I commend it
to you. It's a lot better than most airport novels
or television soap operas. You can find it in the
Old Testament, in the Hebrew scriptures,
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2 Samuel 9-through the end of the book and
into the first two chapters of the next one,
1 Kings. I also ordered and read a very good
book about the story, David's Truth, by Walter
Brueggemann.
You know the story. David is the king, a
national hero, beloved, adored, protégé of
King Saul, friend of the King's son, Jonathan,
slayer of Goliath, poet and musician, who
either wrote or commissioned many of the
Psalms, military leader, smart politician.
David sees beautiful Bathsheba bathing on the
roof of her house, is stirred by her beauty,
sends for her, engages in sexual intercourse
with her, and sends her home. Not long after,
Bathsheba sends word to the king, two words
actually, "I'm pregnant."
The problem with this dilemma is that
Bathsheba is married. So is David, for that
matter, but at the time that was not as
importantly morally or legally as the fact of
Bathsheba's marriage. Uriah is her husband; a
good, loyal military officer in David's army, at
the moment carrying out his duty to king and
nation.
David, in the best tradition of politics from the
White House to the royal palace in Jerusalem,
devises a plan for damage control. It is,
essentially, to disguise the truth. Uriah is
summoned from the front and sent home to
sleep with his wife. But Uriah, dutiful servant
of the King, declines and sleeps instead at the
King's door. David needs more creative
damage control. He offers Uriah a few drinks,
hoping that alcohol will inspire him to spend
the night with Bathsheba. Again, Uriah refuses,
and now, Israel's bright and shining star does
the unthinkable: sends Uriah back to battle,
carrying in his own hand his death warrant in
the form of orders to his commanding officer to
place him at the front in the thick of the worst
fighting and then to pull back so that Uriah will
be killed.
Brueggemann asks, "Is there nothing to which
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David will not stoop for the cover up? Is there
no shame? We know as much as we can
stomach about David
about the public use
of power for personal ends
" (p. 60-61)
Enter God in the person and voice of the
prophet, Nathan, who tells David a dreadful
story about a powerful man who steals a poor
man's sheep, and in four words that match
Bathsheba's two in power, looks David in the
eye and says, "You are the man."
David is caught. The truth somehow is out.
Now David repents. David's remorse is
powerful and personally painful. It comes only
when there is no other alternative, only when
his back is against the wall. Contemporary
news analysts would probably characterize it as
cynical and insincere, because David didn't
level immediately and engaged in weeks and
months of spin control, outright lies, and even
murder. But the Bible portrays it without
cynicism. David's remorse-late as it is-is
genuine.
Read it: Psalm 51, the subtitle of which reads,
"A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan
came to him, after he had gone in to
Bathsheba."
"Have mercy on me O God,
according to your steadfast love
cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone have I
sinned."
David doesn't resign. He is not impeached. He
is held accountable for his behavior, confesses,
asks pardon-and is forgiven and restored and
renewed. Nothing will ever be the same. That is
part of his punishment. His sin, as he wrote (in
Psalm 51) "is ever before me." He will never
live another day of his life without the memory
of his sin and shame. Israel now knows more
about its king than it wants to know: his
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humanness, his stupidity, his selfishness, his sin.
This is not without repercussion. This is not
cheap grace. The child born of his liaison with
Bathsheba will die, and David will be
devastated.
But God's love for David creates a new being,
a new situation, a new being; and David,
flawed, human, sinner, will continue to lead the
nation and will continue to know the amazing
grace of God, who will not let him go; the God
who will be with him even in the valley of the
shadow of death.
That's the story, and it is close to the heart of
our religious tradition, which means close to
the heart of how we understand ourselves and
others and our life together.
The belief that we affirm weekly in the
Apostles' Creed is the forgiveness of sins. We
believe in forgiveness. It's not just a theory or
therapeutic technique. We believe in
forgiveness as we believe in God and Jesus
Christ and the Holy Spirit. We believe
forgiveness is morally better than non-
forgiveness. We believe Jesus Christ, God's
son, God's incarnation, came for the
forgiveness of sins. We believe that forgiveness
is of God and that we are called to forgive as
we have been forgiven. "Forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors," we pray. We
believe it, and we know, everyone of us, that it
is not easy, sometimes more difficult and
painful than other times, but when the offense
is real forgiveness is never easy. Forgiveness is
always costly. Forgiveness cost the life of
God's only son.
Our leader is flawed. He has broken his
promise. He has betrayed trust. His appalling
private behavior has been publicly exposed and
discussed arguably more than anyone else's in
all of history. All his efforts at damage control
have failed, and he has lied to cover up what he
has done. He may even have abused the power
of his office to cover up what he did. And
when he had an opportunity to confess, several
weeks ago, he chose to do so grudgingly, and
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instead lashed out at the Independent Counsel.
But now he has confessed and apologized and
asked for forgiveness, and the Congress, and
ultimately the American people, must deal with
it. He may choose to resign. Many hope he
will. Many are advising him to resign. If he
does not, we have three choices. Thomas
Friedman of the New York Times, listed them:
Impeach him, limp along with him,
watching him at every step and
never allowing anyone to forget
what he did, continuing this
exercise in national voyeurism, so
obviously delighting in the
opportunity to traffic in salacious
detail, the more the better;
OR,
we can forgive him.
It will not be a politically popular suggestion,
but it is the word, the Biblical word, the faith
word we have to offer. It is, I believe, the only
word we have to offer, even if we don't want to
offer it.
Thomas Friedman argues not from a faith
perspective, but from a pragmatically political
one, "It's time to forgive," he writes, "not for
his sake, but for ours. Not because his affairs
are unimportant, but because ours are more
important: Social Security reform, education
reform, child care reform, campaign finance
reform, tobacco legislation, not to mention the
current fiscal crisis, Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Russia."
Stephen Carter, Yale Law professor and best
selling author, in another editorial says, that
Mr. Clinton and we have an opportunity for
genuine moral rejuvenation and renewal. We
know clearly what is right and wrong. We
know what we expect from our President, and
we have a rare opportunity to do something
radical and beautiful: forgive and learn from
this and then turn away from this; repent of it,
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him and us; and be about the business of the
nation.
Frank Harrington, Pastor of Peachtree
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, told a story
recently that touched me. It's about a similar
time, when many of us grieved the inability of a
leader to say, "I'm sorry," and therefore the
nation's inability to forgive.
It's about Leon Jaworski, the special
prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. Mr.
Jaworski was a Presbyterian elder. One
Sunday, he was worshipping at New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington,
the church where Lincoln worshipped and
where the pew in which he sat during the Civil
War is reserved for presidents. On that
morning, Mr. Jaworski watched as the
President of the United States, Richard Nixon,
walked down the aisle and was seated by an
usher in the Lincoln pew. "Leon Jaworski,
sitting several pews behind the President,
thought about all he knew from listening to the
Nixon tapes. He knew that the President could
be indicted for criminal activity beyond any
shadow of doubt. There he sat in worship. He
wondered what would happen if the President
suddenly stood up and said,
'Dr. Docherty, (George Docherty
was the pastor) I would like a
moment of special privilege,' and
then turned to the congregation
and said, 'I want to say today that,
as President of the United States, I
have sinned before God and lied to
you. I have asked God's
forgiveness and now ask yours. I
have come to this church today to
make full disclosure of who and
what I am and what I have
become. I promise you from this
day forward I'm going to do
better.'
Leon Jaworski said that if Richard Nixon had
done that, we probably would have gathered
the president up and put him on our shoulders
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and carried him back to the White House."
(reprinted from "Peachtree Presbyterian
Pulpit." in Homiletics, Sept.-Oct., 1998)
Not unlike that shepherd we sang about to
begin this little festival of American hymns,
who places the lost sheep on his shoulders and
carries it home; not unlike that Amazing Grace
with which we will end, "grace that saved a
wretch like me."
We pilgrims, with our five-hundred-year
history, have been reminded over and over
again, not that God loves or blesses us more
than any other people, but that God is present
in the life of the world and in the life of our
nation, that God cares deeply and personally
about all people and each one of us.
It's the miracle of God's love-from which
nothing can separate us: nothing in life or
death, not strife or warfare, not sickness,
suffering, or aging, not even our own
shortcomings and our failures, our small moral
lapses or even our monumental sin. Nothing
can separate us from God's love
May that love bless you.
May our sense of that love as a powerful force
operating in our midst lead us to be and to act
responsibly, compassionately, justly, and to
extend to others the grace and forgiveness that
has been extended, in Jesus Christ, to us.
Amen.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 23, 1998
Ruth J. Simmons
Office of the President
College Hall 20, Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
Dear Ruth:
On behalf of the First Lady, thank you for your
invitation to launch Otelia Cromwell Day at Smith College
on November 3.
Regrettably, Mrs. Clinton's schedule will not permit
her to accept your kind invitation. But she conveys her
appreciation for your thoughtfulness, along with her best
wishes for the day's celebrations.
It was wonderful to have your participation in our
discussion prior to Mrs. Clinton's Seneca Falls speech.
Very best wishes.
Sincerely,
Member Melanne Verveer
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the First Lady
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Dear Mrs. Clinton,
Each year Smith College holds a day in celebration of diversity. The celebration
is called Otelia Cromwell Day in honor of our first known African-American to graduate
and consists of an afternoon filled with workshops and symposia designed to explore
diversity. Each year, the activities begin with a keynote address to the general college
community. I would like to invite you to deliver this year's address.
This year, Otelia Cromwell Day will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 1998.
The theme for the day is "Celebrating Children Across Cultures" and was chosen to
complement a larger effort within the college to address the needs and concerns of
children. The keynote address is scheduled to occur from 1:15 to 2:00 p.m. Afterwards,
we plan to have storytellers, dancers, and musicians on campus to entertain children from
our local school systems. In addition to these activities, we will have panels and
symposia geared towards scholarly discussions of cultural influences in the art and
literature of childhood, as well as lectures and discussion about other crucial factors
affecting our nation's youth, such as schooling, poverty, and the law.
Given your commitment to the plight of children around the world, I can think of
no better person to launch our day of activities. It would be an honor to have your
presence on our campus as we publicly acknowledge our commitment to address issues
affecting our children.
If the timing of this event is at all possible given your schedule, I would love to
explore further details of the day.
Sincerely,
bc: Bren la Allen
Carnien Santana-Melgoza
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Ruth J. Simmons
you are much in my thoughts these days.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 21, 1998
The Honorable Nancy Soderberg
Alternate United States Representative
for Special Political Affairs
799 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
Dear Nancy:
Thanks for your note. It was wonderful to see you in
Belfast, albeit all too briefly. I cannot thank you enough for
your counsel, commitment, involvement and assistance
with Vital Voices. It couldn't have happened without you.
Our work in Northern Ireland is so important and there are
so many reasons to be optimistic. And in that you have
played a key role.
Very best wishes to you, and please stay in touch.
Sincerely,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
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FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS
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Sept. 18,98
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appeciated being a part y the Vital mes conference,
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dynamic, determined and fun,
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 26, 1998
Mrs. Irena Kozminska
3101 Albemarle St., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Dear Irena:
Thank you for the update about the ABC XXI-
Children's Emotional Health Program for Poland. It is
wonderful to hear about the two new foundations and that
plans for your May conference are taking shape.
Mrs. Clinton conveys her best wishes to you and
your colleagues. Please do keep us informed about all your
important work.
With best wishes,
Me Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
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Irena Kozmińska
3101 Albemarle St. NW, Washington DC 20008
tel. (202) 362-2189 fax. (202)362-8894
September 25, 1998
Mrs. Melanne Verveer
Chief of the Staff to the First Lady
Old Executive Bld., room 100
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Melanne:
Thank you very much for your recent letter of September 14, informing me about Mrs.
Clinton's schedule and regulations regarding her ability to serve as a Chairperson.
I will be delighted to keep the First Lady informed about the progress of the ABC XXI-
Children's Emotional Health Program for Poland".
Twin foundations, both in the U.S. and Poland are currently being established to work on
these issues. In the coming May conference in Warsaw, titled "How to Love a Child -
New Insights of Contemporary Psychology", we will have top American psychologists
participate. Mary Pipher, the best-selling author of "Reviving Ophelia", Nathaniel Branden
- author of "Six Pillars of Self-Esteem", Linda and Richard Eyre, authors of "Teaching
Your Children Values, and Alice Miller from Europe, the author of many books on child
abuse, have already confirmed their participation. We expect delegations from several
post-communist countries attending the conference.
Before the conference, over a period of several months, the interviews which I am doing
with American family and child development specialists are being published in the
leading Polish weekly, "Polityka".
I would deeply appreciate your kindly giving this information to the First Lady. I will keep
Mrs. Clinton abreast of the development of the Program.
With my warmest regards,
hero Kofuanishe
Irena Koźmińska
Wife, Polish Ambassador to the U.S.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 2, 1998
His Excellency Yuri Shcherbak
Ambassador
Embassy of Ukraine
3350 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Dear Ambassador Shcherbak:
I regret deeply that I cannot be with you and Mariya for
your farewell party. I will be there in spirit.
As a member of the Administration I have valued the many
opportunities we have had to work together to further the ties
between the United States and my ancestral homeland. I have
always been impressed by your commitment to the hard work of
building a democracy, creating a market economy and promoting
the welfare of your people. You have always demonstrated great
integrity, the courage of your convictions, dedicated leadership and
impressive intellectual capacities.
On a personal level it has been very gratifying for my
husband and I to get to know you and Mariya. I hope that I will be
able to continue to work with you on our mutual aspiration to help
bring about a prosperous Ukraine. I hope too that I will have the
chance to visit you in Ukraine in the foreseeable future.
With warmest wishes,
Melane Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff
to the First Lady
OCT 29 '98 12:20PM EMBASSY OF UKRAINE
P.2/2
Dear friend:
Myself and Mariya will be departing for Kyiv at the end of
November. Sadly, time flies so quickly!
We spent four happy years in Washington and I would like to
believe that this time was spent usefully. During this time the
Ukraine-US relations were considerably consolidated having
reached the level of strategic partnership.
We were able to visit many beautiful places in this wonderful
country from California to New England, from Texas to Illinois,
from Florida to Utah.
We are going to always remember America and Americans,
their hospitality and kindness. Our stay in the US was rich in
events related to political and cultural life of the country, as well
as bilateral relations between the US and Ukraine. We have
acquired a lot of good friends here among diplomatic community,
American people and Ukrainian Americans.
We realized that my tenure as Ambassador of Ukraine in
Washington would only be for a few years and sometime would
come to an end, but it was hard to imagine that time ever coming.
Unfortunately, that time has come and we have to say good-bye.
We are taking to Kyiv our love for the United States and its
lovely people.
With best regards,
Yuri and Mariya Shcherbak
October 23,1998 1998
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 6, 1998
Dear Friends:
Welcome Friends of the Potomac. How exciting to think of you gathered along this
mighty river on the grounds of one of our oldest, most treasured historic homes. Though he
rejected any royal title, George Washington certainly knew how to pick a majestic setting for his
home. I regret I am unable to be with you, but I am pleased that so many distinguished guests,
and especially our Members of Congress, are there to celebrate the important designation of the
Potomac River as an American Heritage River.
We exist in relationship to our geography -- each influencing the other. I am pleased that
the American Heritage River program is recognizing the confluence of those two forces. We
must always remember our responsibility as steward of the earth's resources. That is why it is so
important that this program convenes the local community to celebrate and protect the river and
its history.
In the trees you are planting today, you are adding your own mark to the riverway. I
think ahead with pleasure to future Americans who will know that you took the time to be
responsible with the resources they will still enjoy. Best wishes as you continue in your
important work.
Sincerely yours,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 23, 1998
Ms. Rowanda M. Smith
302 Orleans Ave.,
Bossier City, LA 71112
Dear Ms. Smith:
Thank you for your letter and your good wishes to
the President and the First Lady, which was so beautifully
written and with such heartfelt words. I know they
appreciate your support and thoughtfulness.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
09/14/1998 13:36
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FAX: 12024566244
FROM:
B.T. @ ROWANDA SMITH
FAX: 318-741-6874
TEL: 318-747-9030
COMMENT: URGENT
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Melanne the
Chief of staff for
Rowands m. Smith
First Lady
302 Orleans Ave.
Bossier City, LA 71112
Dear Ms. Verveer,
I called the office of the First Lady and was referred
to you. Though I do not approve of President Clinton's infedility,
I applaud his efforts to keep it private even if lying was
required to do so.
The release Cunleash"is a better word of the monstrous,
urid document by the House astounds me. / am also
astounded by the fact that none of the defenders of this
Presidency has even mentioned the fact that this monster
was "released" with apparent complete absence of due
diligence or forethought of ramifications; i.e. with
unprecedented and gross. recklessness! (Wonder what Cong.
ressman Solomon would have thought had a member of starrs
staff slipped in "dope" on him, for example.) Either these
people knew what they were voting to release, else they
were extremely unearing of consequences (to this Nation's
youth and all others), or plain stupid. In any case, they
committed a reckless and potentially dangerous act, yet the
media and even defenders of the Administration have been
silent about this!!
Thursday is the 211th anniversary of the signing of the Constitu-
tian. upon exiting Independence Hall 17 Sep 1787, Benjamin Franklin
was asked, "what have you given us, Sir?" He replied, "A Rep-
ublic, Madam, if you can keep it, He would weep. / weep.
/ have called Rep. Jim MiCrery, Sens. Landrieu, Breauk,
Byrd,
Dian
Dodd, Feinstein and Torricelli; also Congressmen, waters,
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Conyers, Bonior, Jackson, Jackson-Lee, Dixon, Slaughter, Kennedy
(Patrick), Fazio, Maloney, moakley, watt, Gephart end Gingrich
and requested the legistation of a permanent Rule in both.
the House and Senate that would require "due diligence,
including knowledge of contents of documents released
by either body. The future security of this Nation, feel,
requires this. The reckless vote of the House last week
proves the need for it.
my prayer is that there will be a rapid healing of
our First Family and of this nation.
My request to you, Ms. Vermeer, is to please call the
recklessness and absence of due diligence of the House in
releasing Starr's "report." The recklessness of the President
pales, in my opinion, in comparison to the reckless lack of
forethought exercised in the release of that document.
I am an old woman, and l can't do much, but this kind
of reckless behavior, collectively, by the House, terrorizes me
and love this country too much to ignore it, for / predict
that the release of this document will have far greater, negati
ramifications than the embarrassment of the Administration.
/ cry when / think of the number of our children who have
seen it, including Chelsea clinton.
If you have borne with me this far, l do so appreciate
it and please tell Mrs. Clinton and the President that
they still have the esteem of Rowanda and Bennett Smith,
who have been married 43 years, love each other dearly
and know "that this, too, shall pass."
Every good wish,
P.S. Nen Lyons of Henderson, NE
Rowanda m. Smith
asked to have her name add
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 23, 1998
Prof. Kathryn Kish Sklar
Distinguished Professor of History
State University of New York at Binghamton
PO Box 6000
Binghamtom, NY 13902-6000
Dear Professor Sklar:
Thank you for your article about government
initiatives and women's volunteerism around the turn of the
century, which Katy Button passed on to me. The historical
account is most fascinating.
We regret that you could not join us in July, but
trust there will be another opportunity. Along with her very
best wishes to you, Mrs. Clinton conveys her best wishes in
your important work to study the history of women and
your vital contributions to preservation.
Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff to
the First Lady
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Distinguished Professor
Department of History
Telephone (607) 777-6202
Melanne
8.29.98
Katy Button
First Lady's Office
100 Old Executive Building
Washington DC
20502
Dear Katy Button:
Thanks again for your invitation to join Hillary Rodham Clinton for
dinner with other historians of American women prior to her speech at
Seneca Falls. I regret that prior obligations prevented me from
accepting. I was presenting a paper at the International Society for
Third Sector Research in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the chief
international group that studies voluntarism and civil society.
With or without the help of the historians she gathered at the
White House in July, Hillary Clinton's talk at Seneca Falls was
inspiring and (even more important for an historian) historically
significant in its ability to link the past and the future.
In our brief conversation last month, I promised to send you the
enclosed article, which we both thought would be of interest to the
First Lady. From an historical perspective this short essay addresses
the question: Does the expansion of state responsibilities reduce the
effectiveness of voluntary groups? The essay was written as part of my
responsibilities on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the National
Commission on Civil Renewal, a group convened by the Institute for
Philosophy and Public Policy of the University of Maryland.
On another topic -- I am nominating the First Lady for an honorary
degree at the State University of New York in May 2000. Are you the
correct person to contact about that possibility?
For your files I enclose a copy of my curriculum vitae.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Shar
Kathryn Kish Sklar
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Spring 1998
Curriculum Vitae
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Home:
Distinguished Professor
Longford Lake
Department of History
Brackney, Pennsylvania
State University of New York
18812
Binghamton, New York 13902
(717) -663-2339
FAX (717)-663-2409
(607) -777-2625
(607) 777-6202
FAX (607)-777-2896
e-mail: [email protected]
WEBSITES:
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (with Thomas Dublin)
http://womhist.binghamton.edu
Global Network on Women's Advocacy in Civil Society (with Kathleen McCarthy)
http://www.philanthropy.org -- select Global Network and Global Forum
History of American Women in the Twentieth Century
http://www.bingweb.binghamton.edu/-hist368
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1988-present Distinguished Professor, State University of New York,
Binghamton
1981-1988
Professor of History, UCLA
1974-1981
Associate Professor, UCLA
1969-1974
Lecturer and Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
EDUCATION
B.A. 1965 Radcliffe College, Harvard University, (Magna Cum Laude
in History and Literature)
M.A. 1967
University of Michigan, History
Ph.D. 1969
University of Michigan, History
HONORARY DEGREE:
Doctor of Humane Letters, Eastern Michigan University, 1987
BOOKS
FORTHCOMING--Women's Rights and the Anti-Slavery Movement: A Documentary History
(Boston: Bedford Books, St. Martin's Press, 1999)
co-editor with Anja Schüler and Susan Strasser, Social Justice Feminists in the
United States and Germany: A Dialoque in Documents, 1885-1933 (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1998)
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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: the Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-
1900, Volume I of a two-volume study (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
Winner of the 1995 Berkshire Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians;
Chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of 1995.
Co-editor with Linda Kerber and Alice Kessler-Harris, U.S. History as Women's
History: New Feminist Essays (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1995)
Editor, with Martin Bulmer of London School of Economics, and Kevin Bales of London
Polytechnic University, The Social Survey Movement in Historical Perspective
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Editor, with Thomas Dublin, Women and Power in American History: A Reader, 2
Volumes, (Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1991)
Editor, The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years (Chicago:
Charles Kerr, 1986)
Editor, Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly; The
Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (New York: Literary Classics of the United States,
1981)
Editor, Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (New York: Schocken
reprint of 1841 original, 1977)
Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1973). Reprinted in paperback by W.W. Norton & Co., 1976. Winner of 1973
Berkshire Prize; National Book Award finalist, 1974. Portions reprinted in
anthologies.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
"The Consumers' White Label of the National Consumers' League, 1898-1918," in Susan
Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthais Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: American
and European Consumption in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1998)
"Two Political Cultures in the Progressive Era: The National Consumers' League and
the American Association for Labor Legislation," in Linda Kerber, Alice Kessler-
Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist
Essays (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
"The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare
State, 1830-1930," in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World:
Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (New York: Routledge, 1993) ;
to be reprinted in Carl Guarneri, America Compared, (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
"Coming to Terms with Florence Kelley: the Tale of a Reluctant Biographer," in Sara
Alpern, Joyce Antler, Elizabeth Perry and Ingrid Scobie, eds., The Challenge of
Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women (University of
Illinois Press, 1992). Book received the Susan Koppelman Award, Popular Culture
Association, 1993. Essay translated and reprinted with commentary in Historia Y
Fuente Oral (No. 14 1995).
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"Hull House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the 1890's," in K.
K. Sklar co-editor with Martin Bulmer and Kevin Bales, The Social Survey Movement in
Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1992) ; reprinted in Helene
Silverberg, ed., Gender and American Social Science: the Formative Years,
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
"Who Funded Hull House?" in Kathleen McCarthy, ed., Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women,
Philanthropy and Power (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990)
" The Greater Part of the Petitioners are Female': The Reduction by Statute of
Women's Working Hours in the Paid Labor Force, 1840-1917," in Gary Cross, ed., The
International History of the Shortening of the Workday (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1988)
Co-author with Nancy Henley et al, "The Social Construction of Gender," Dean R.
Gerstein et al, eds., The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and
Opportunities, (New York: National Academy Press, 1988)
"Jane Addams's The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,' in David Nasaw,
ed., The Course of United States History (New York: Dorsey Press, 1987)
"Female Teachers: 'Firm Pillars' of the West," in "Schools and the Means of
Education Shall Forever Be Encouraged": A History of Education in the Old
Northwest, 1878-1880 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987)
"Why did most politically active women oppose the ERA in the 1920's?" in Rights of
Passage; The Past and Future of the ERA, Joan Hoff-Wilson, ed., (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1986)
"The Last Fifteen Years: Historians' Changing Views of American Women in Religion
and Society," in Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan
Tradition, Hilah F. Thomas and Rosemary S. Keller, eds., (Nashville: Abingdon Press,
1981)
"Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
Harriet Beecher Stowe," in The Public and the Private Lincoln, Cullom Davis, et al.,
eds. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980)
"The Founding of Mount Holyoke College" in Carol Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, eds.,
Women in America: Original Essays and Documents (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979).
Reprinted in American Vistas, Dinnerstein and Jackson, eds., (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1983).
"Catharine Beecher and American Feminism" in Earl A. French and Diana Royce,
Portraits of a Nineteenth-Century Family (Hartford: The Stowe-Day Foundation,
1975). Reprinted in Catherine Clinton and G.J. Barker-Benfield, eds., Portraits of
American Women (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).
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ARTICLES:
"Engendering Women's History: New Paradigms and Interpretations in American
History," Amerikastudien/American Studies, Vol. 41: 2 (1996)
"Jane Addams's Peace Activism, 1914-1922: A Model for Women Today?" Women's Studies
Quarterly, Special Issue on Rethinking Women's Peace Studies, (23 (Fall/Winter
1995), pp. 32-47; originally printed in "Women Peacemakers and Women's Political
Culture in World War I," Women and Peace: an International Conference, (School of
Social Work, University of Illinois, 1990)
"The Schooling of Girls and Community Values in Massachusetts Towns, 1750-1820,"
special issue on women's education in History of Education Quarterly (Spring 1994
and Fall 1994)
"Biography in the Writing of U.S. Women's History," 17th International Congress of
Historical Sciences, Madrid, Spain, August, 1990, Proceedings, 2 Vols., (Madrid:
Comité International des Sciences Historique, 1991), Vol. 2, 1179-1189.
"A Call for Comparisons," American Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Oct. 1990),
1109-1114.
"Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation:' American and British Women Compared at the
World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840," in Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van
Horne, eds., The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum
America (Cornell University Press, 1994). An earlier version by the same title was
printed in Pacific Historical Review, (November 1990); translated and reprinted in
Historia Y Fuente Oral, No. 6, pp. 19-43 (University of Barcelona, 1991).
"`Organized Womanhood': Archival Sources on Women and Progressive Reform," Journal
of American History, June, 1988.
"Hull House as a Community of Women Reformers in the 1890's," in Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society, special issue on Communities of Women (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, Vol. 10, No. 4, Summer 1985), pp. 657-77. Reprinted in
Mary Beth Norton, ed., Major Problems in American Women's History (D.C. Heath,
1989) ; Nancy Hewitt, ed., Half of History: Women, Family and Community in North
America (Scott, Foresman, 1989); Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz, eds., Unequal Sisters:
A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History (Routledge, 1990); Sklar and Dublin,
eds., Women and Power in American History (Prentice Hall, 1990) Kenneth Jackson
and Leonard Dinnerstein, American Vistas (Oxford, 1990, 1995); Nancy Cott, ed.,
History of Women in America (Meckler, 1993); Michael Perman, ed., Perspectives on
the American Past (D.C. Heath, 1996).
"A Conceptual Framework for the Teaching of U.S. Women's History, 1600-1980," The
History Teacher, Vol. XIII, No. 4, August 1980. Also in Restoring Women to History:
Materials for U.S. History II, the Organization of American Historians, 1985.
Recent United States Scholarship on the History of Women, U.S. Report to Fifteenth
International Congress of Historical Sciences, Bucharest, 1980, Session on "Women
and Society." co-author with Barbara Sicherman, William Monter, and Joan Scott.
Published as a pamphlet by the American Historical Association, 1980.
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"Culture Versus Economics: A Case of Fornication in Northampton, Massachusetts in
the 1740's," University of Michigan Papers in Women's Studies (University of
Michigan Press, May 1978)
"American Female Historians in Context: 1775-1930," Feminist Studies, Vol. 3, nos.
1 and 2 (Summer 1975). Reprinted in Nancy F. Cott, ed., History of Women in America
(Meckler, 1993)
"All Hail to Pure Cold Water: Women and the Water-Cure Movement in Antebellum
America," American Heritage 31 (1974). Reprinted in Women and Health in America:
Historical Readings, Judith Walzer Leavitt, ed., (U. of Wisconsin Press, 1984).
OTHER:
Producer, Interviewer, "A Talk with Genora Johnson Dollinger, a Founder of
Industrial Unionism," 45 minute videotape, Distributed by Media Library, UCLA
(1985)
Co-author with Gerda Lerner, Graduate Training in U.S. Women's History: A
Conference Report (1990). Available through the American Historical Association.
Encyclopedia articles include items in: Oxford Companion to American History
(forthcoming) ; Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History (forthcoming) ; Historical
Encyclopedia of Chicago Women (forthcoming) ; American National Biography
(forthcoming) ; Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists (forthcoming) ; Eleanor
Roosevelt Encyclopedia (forthcoming) ; Jewish Women in America: An Historical
Encyclopedia (1997) ; A Companion to American Thought (1995) ; Encyclopedia of New
York City (1995) ; Companion to American History (1993), Readers' Encyclopedia of
American History (1991) ; Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) ; Biographical
Dictionary of American Social Welfare Leaders (1986) ; Dictionary of Afro-American
Slavery (1986) ; Encyclopedia of Education (1970).
Book reviews in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, American Historical Review,
Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, and others.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS:
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1998-1999
Recipient with Thomas Dublin, NEH Teaching with Technology Grant for the development
of a World Wide Website on Women and Social Movements in the United States,
1830-1930
Recipient with Thomas Dublin, NEH Humanities Focus Grant for the
development of a World Wide Website on Women and Social
Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Co-Director with Thomas Dublin, NEH Summer Seminar for College
Teachers, "The History of American Women through Social Movements,
1820-1930," State University of New York, Binghamton, Summer 1990 and Summer,
1996
Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
1995-1996
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Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants to conduct summer seminars
for dissertation writers in U.S. women's history at the State
University of New York, Binghamton, May-July 1994 and 1995
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington,
D.C., 1992-93
American Association of University Women, Founders' Fellowship, 1990-91
Co-Director (with Gerda Lerner), NEH-sponsored conference on graduate
training in U.S. Women's history, 70 participants, Johnson
Foundation, Wingspread Conference Center, 1988
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences,
Stanford University, 1987-1988
Spencer Foundation Research Grant, 1987-1988
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-1985 (postponed to 1985-1986)
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant in Aid, 1983
NEH Fellowship, Newberry Library, 1982-1983
Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship, summer 1982
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1981-1982
Schlesinger Library Grant, Radcliffe College, fall 1982
Demonstration Grant for Curricular Development, National Endowment for
the Humanities, 1976-1978
Daniels Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, summer 1976
Fellow, National Humanities Institute, Yale University, 1975-1976
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Grant for the Study of Women in
Society, 1973-1974
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1974
Danforth Graduate Fellowship, 1967-1969
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1965-1967
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Honorary Memberships:
Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College, 1964
American Antiquarian Society, Elected to Membership, 1977
Society of American Historians, Elected to Membership, 1987
Service in Professional Organizations:
American Historical Association
Chair, Committee on Women Historians, 1980-1983
President, AHA Pacific Coast Branch, 1987-1988
Vice-President, Pacific Coast Branch, 1986-1987
Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, 1982
Editorial Board, Guide to Historical Literature (1995)
Member, Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical
Profession, 1973-present
Evaluator, AHA-NEH Stanford Institute on Women's History, 1977-79
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Organization of American Historians
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 1998
Executive Board, 1983-1986
Nominating Board, 1977-1978
Merle Curti Prize Committee, 1978-1979
Program Committee, 1979-1980
OAH Lecturer, 1982-present
Search Committee for Editor of Journal of American History, 1984
Committee on the Status of Women, 1985-88
Prize Committee Best Foreign-Language Book
on U.S. History, 1993-96
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Program Committee, Conferences in Women's History, Radcliffe
College, 1974; Bryn Mawr College, 1976; Smith College, 1984
American Studies Association, Council Member at Large, 1978-1980
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
President, 1994-95
Vice President, 1993-94
Council Member, 1989-1993
Upstate New York Women's History Organization
Program Committee Chair, 1994
Editorial Boards:
American Quarterly, 1976-1979
Journal of American History, 1978-1981
Feminist Studies, Guest Editor, Fall 1976
Ms., Scholarly Advisory Board, 1980-1984
America: History and Life, 1984-present
Journal of Women's History, 1987-present
History of Women Religious Newsletter, 1988-92
American National Biography, 1990-present
Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, (published 1995)
Feminist Press, 1990-present
Hayes Historical Journal: A Journal of the Gilded Age, 1991-94
Women's History Review, 1990-present
Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women, 1992-present
Other Professional Activities:
Bancroft Prize Juror, 1997-98
Working Group on Catholic Women, "Catholicism in Twentieth Century
America," Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism,
University of Notre Dame
Scholars Working Group, National Commission on Civic Renewal,
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy,
University of Maryland, College Park, 1996-present
Member, New York Council for the Humanities, 1992-present,
Executive Committee, 1995-1996, Chair, Awards Committee,
1995-1996
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Visiting Committee to Evaluate the Department of History, Columbia
University, April 1990
Examiner, Honors Program, Swarthmore College, June 1989
Co-coordinator (with Gerda Lerner), NEH-sponsored Conference of
Graduate Teachers in U.S. Women's History, held October, 1988,
Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin.
Founder and Coordinator, Workshop on Teaching U.S. Women's
History for college teachers of U.S. women's history in the West
and Southwest, 1978 to 1988
National Research Council, Committee on Basic Research in the
Behavioral and Social Sciences, Gender Studies Working Group, 1985
Member, California Council for the Humanities, 1981-1985
Advisory Board, Southern California Institute for Historical
Research and Services, 1981 to 1988
Pulitzer Prize Juror in History, 1976
Fellow, Newberry Library Family and Community History Seminar, 1973
Committee Service in Women's Studies:
Chair, committee to design a women's studies program,
University of Michigan, 1970-71
Chair, committee to design a women's studies program, UCLA, 1974-75
Chair, Committee to Administer Program in Women's Studies,
1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1979-80, 1980-81, and
Committee member, 1983-84, 1986-87.
Chair, Advisory Committee, Center for the Study of Women, 1984-
1985 (the Center's inaugural year)
Listed in a variety of biographical directories, including:
Who's Who in America (beginning in 1984).
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
" An Historical Model of Women's Voluntarism and the State, 1890-1920,"
International Society for Third-Sector Research, Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998
Keynote Address, "Interpreting Women's History in Local Sites," annual meeting,
Regional Council of Historical Agencies, Seneca Falls, New York, April 1998
Keynote address, "What do historians of twentieth century women miss when they
overlook the importance of religion as a category of analysis?" Protestant Women in
the Twentieth Century, a project funded by the Pew Memorial Foundation, Chicago,
April 1998
Keynote address, "The Power of a Symbol: the Consumers' White Label, 1899-1917,"
Conference on the Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture, Cornell
University, November, 1997
Keynote address, "Women Reformers and Social Welfare: Maternalism or Social
Justice?" Labor and the Welfare State, Ninth Symposium of the George Meany Memorial
Archives, Sponsored Jointly with the National Archives, November, 1996
"Historical Understanding and the Making of Public Policy," Social Science History
Association, October 1996
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"Florence Kelley and W.E.B. DuBois: A Partnership in Struggle, 1909-1930,"
Berkshire Conference in Women's History, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (June 1996).
"Social Reform Themes in Women's Political Culture: Representations and Realities,
1900-1920," various versions presented at about twenty colleges and universities,
1994-1996, most recently Northwestern University (April 1996).
"`Doing the Nation's Work': Florence Kelley and Women's Political Culture 1830-
1930," various versions presented at about seventy colleges and universities, 1980-
1995.
Commentator, session devoted to my book "Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The
Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900," at the annual meeting of the Social
Science History Association (November 1995)
"The White Label Campaign of the National Consumers' League, 1899-1909,"
Presidential address, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
annual meeting with the Organization of American Historians, Chicago, April, 1995;
and conference on Consumer Culture in the Twentieth Century, German Historical
Institute, October, 1995.
"Florence Kelley and German Political Culture in the 1880s," German Historical
Institute, September, 1995.
"Engendering Women's History: New Paradigms and Interpretations in American
History," keynote address, annual convention of the German Association for American
Studies, Hamburg, Germany, June, 1995.
"Women and Welfare in Conservative Eras," Berkshire Conference in Women's History,
June, 1993
"The World that Lillian Wald Built," keynote address, Centennial Conference, Henry
Street Settlement, March 1993
"Why did Women Factory Inspectors Wield More Power in the United States than
Elsewhere, 1890-1910?" Luncheon Address, Conference on Occupational Health and
Safety, George Meany Archives, Silver Spring, Maryland, Oct. 11, 1991.
"Biography in the Writing of U.S. Women's History," 17th International Congress of
Historical Sciences, Madrid, Spain, August, 1990
"Women Peacemakers and Women's Political Culture in World War I," keynote address,
International Conference on Women, Peace, and Social Welfare Policies, University of
Illinois, April 1989
"American Women Social Scientists in the 1890's," London School of Economics,
London, England, March 1989
"British and American Women at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840,"
Presidential Address, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San
Francisco, August, 1988
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"A Theoretical Framework for the Comparative Study of Women and Politics in the
United States and Great Britain," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
Wellesley College, June 1987. Distributed in Kathleen McCarthy, ed., "Women and
Philanthropy: Past, Present and Future," Working Papers, Center for the Study of
Philanthropy, [1988]
"Teaching Values in Public Schools: an Historical Perspective," Summer Workshop,
Chief State Education Officers of the U.S., Jackson Hole, Wyoming, July 1986.
"Sources of Change in the Schooling of Girls in Twenty-Eight Massachusetts Towns,
1750-1810," Conference on Gender, Education and Technology, the Rockefeller
Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, October 1985.
"Personal Power and Historical Causation," Vth International Conference in Oral
History, Barcelona, March 1985.
"Education and its Social Setting in the Anglo-Saxon World," Centre D'Investigacio
Historica de La Dona, University of Barcelona, Spain, November 1984; and "Education
for Women and Social Change, 1800-1920" Jose Ortega Y Gasset Foundation, Madrid,
Spain, November 1984.
"The Debate between Florence Kelley and Alice Paul over the ERA, 1921-1923," Sixth
Berkshire Conference in the History of Women, Smith College, June 1984.
"American Women's Changing Life cycles, 1800-1980," Jing Lyman Lecture, Center for
Research on Women, Stanford University, January, 1982;
Isabel MacCaffrey Lecture, Harvard University, November 1982;
Keynote Speaker, Annual National Convention, Girl Scouts of America, Long Island,
October 1982.
"A Conceptual Framework for the Teaching of U.S. Women's History," University of
Montana, November 1980; Northwestern University, January 1981; Roosevelt University,
November 1981; Seneca Falls, New York, National Park Service conference on "Women
and Communities," July 1982; American Historical Association, December 1979.
"Celebrations and Challenges in Women's History," keynote address, Chicago area
Women's History Conference, Tenth Anniversary Dinner, November 1981.
"Why Should Writers Use History?" American Writers' Congress, New York City, October
1981.
"The Conflicting Demands of Family and Work: Myths and Realities," American
Association of University Women, Wingspread Conference on Families and Work, Racine,
Wisconsin, March 1981.
"Recent Scholarship by U.S. Historians on the History of Women," XVth International
Congress of Historical Sciences, Bucharest, Rumania, August 1980.
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"Historians' Changing Views of American Women in Religion and Society during the
Last Decade, Keynote address, at the first national conference on church women's
history, "Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on The United Methodist
Tradition, Cincinnati, February 1980.
"Autonomous Female Politics, 1820-1920," Keynote address at "Women in History: A
Conference on Sources and Methods," Sacramento, CA, May 1977.
"American Female Historians in Context, 1770-1930," Keynote address at Western
Association of Women Historians, Annual Convention, Santa Cruz, April 1975.
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED
COMPLETED at UCLA
Kathleen C. Berkeley, "Like a Plague of Locusts: Immigration and Social Change in
Memphis, Tennessee 1850-1880" (1980). Associate Professor, University of North
Carolina, Wilmington. Dissertation published as "Like a Plaque of Locusts": From an
Antebellum Town to a New South City: Memphis Tennessee, 1850-1880 (New York:
Garland, 1990).
Carole Srole, "Female Clerical Workers: A Study of the Socio-Economic Background of
the Turn-of-the-Century Working Woman" (1984). Associate Professor, California
State University, Los Angeles.
Jaclyn Greenberg, "Industry in the Garden: A Social History of the Canning Industry
and Cannery Workers in the Santa Clara Valley, California, 1870-1920" (1985).
Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Salas, "Soldaderas: History and Myth of Mexican Army Women" (1987).
Dissertation published as Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990). Associate Professor, Chicano Studies
Program, University of Washington.
Jacqueline Braitman, "Katherine Philipps Edson: California's New Political Woman"
(1988). Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles.
Emma Perez, "Through Her Love and Sweetness: Work and Social Change During
Yucatan's Revolution, 1910-1924" (1988). Assistant Professor, University of Texas,
El Paso.
Margaret Rose, "Women in the United Farm Workers: A Study of Chicana and Mexicana
Participation in a Trade Union, 1950-1980" (1988). Assistant Professor, California
State University, Bakersfield.
Carolyn Luverne Williams, "Religion, Race, and Gender in Antebellum American
Radicalism: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1870" (1991).
Associate Professor, University of North Florida.
Sherry Katz, "Dual Commitments: Feminism, Socialism and Women's Political Activism
in California, 1890-1920" (1991). Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley.
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Linda Tomko, "Women's Culture, Art-Dance and Social Change in the United States,
1890-1920" (1991). Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside.
Joan Waugh, "Unsentimental Reformer: Josephine Shaw Lowell and the Rise and Fall of
the Scientific Charity Movement" (1992). Book forthcoming from Oxford University
Press; Recipient, Mary Wollstonecraft Prize, UCLA Center for Research on Women,
1992; Assistant Professor, UCLA. Dissertation to be published by Harvard University
Press, 1997.
Cynthia Orozco, "The Origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
and the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement in Texas with an Analysis of Women's
Political Participation in a Gendered Context, 1910-1929" (1992). Assistant
Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio. Author of Beyond Machismo, La Familia
and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in
Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870-1970 (University of
Arizona Press, 1995).
Nan Towle Yamane, "Women, Power, and the Press: The Case of San Francisco, 1868 to
1896" (1995). Lecturer, California State University, Northridge.
DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED, SUNY, Binghamton
Robyn Rosen, ""Federal Responsibility or Government Tyranny?: Women's Reproductive
Reform and the Growth of the Welfare State, 1917-1940" (1992). (Forthcoming as a
book from University of North Carolina Press, 1998.) Assistant Professor, Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Kathleen R. Babbitt, "Production and Consumption in the Countryside: Rural Women
and Cooperative Extension Home Economists in New York State, 1870-1940," (1995).
Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. Finalist, Lerner-
Scott Prize for the best dissertation in U.S. women's history, 1996.
Kimberly Schmidt, "Transforming Tradition: Women's Work and the Effects of Religion
and Economics in Two Rural Mennonite Communities." (1995) Recipient, American
Association of University Women Fellowship, 1993-94. Lecturer, University of
Maryland, College Park.
Amy E. Butler, "The Search for Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel Smith in the Equal
Rights Amendment Debate, 1921-1923" (1997) Staff member, National Abortion Action
Rights League, Washington, D. C.
Carol Faulkner, "The Hard Heart of the Nation': Gender, Race, and Dependence in the
Freedman's Aid Movement, 1862-1877" (1998) Fellow, National Historical Records and
Publications Commssion, Lucretia Mott Papers, Pomona College, Claremont, California
(1998-1999)
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS, SUNY, Binghamton
Thea Arnold, "Mary White Ovington and Race Relations in the Progressive Era"
Recipient, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Suronda Gonzalez, "`Immigrants in Our Midst': Grace Abbott and the New American
Citizenship, 1908-1921"
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Suzanna Holm, "The New York Female Antislavery Society, 1833-1863"
Linda Janke, "Prisoners of War: Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Incarceration
during World War I"
Michelle Kuhl, "African American Responses to Lynching, 1890-1930: Press, Pulpit
and Collective Action"
Judith Shannon Lynch, "Infant and Maternal Health in New York City, 1900-1930."
Professor, Sacred Heart University, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Brenda Myers, "The Sword of the Spirit: Piety and Identity among New York City's
Antebellum Methodists." Recipient, Lily Foundation Fellowship, Louisville
Institute, 1996-97.
Connie Shemo, "Contested Spaces: American Missionaries Hospitals for Chinese Women,
1870-1930." Recipient, Rockefeller Archives Grant, 1997.
Linda Shoemaker, "Educating `Efficient Servants of the State': Competing Visions of
Social Work in Boston, New York, and Chicago, 1898-1930." Portion of dissertation
published as "The Gendered Foundations of Social Work Education in Boston, 1904-
1930," in Susan Porter, ed., Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social
Change in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press,
1995). Recipient, Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1997.
Julie Simmonds, "Women's Political Culture and the Ohio Consumers' League, 1900-
1940"
Daniel Wright, "The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-
1848"