Spring 2012 - Clarion University

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1910 Woman Suffrage Pageant with Students from Clarion Normal School, circa 1910 from collections of the Clarion County Historical Society. 1920 U.S. Women win the vote! 1991 “Anyone Can Fly” CU Women’s Conference with Faith Ringgold, wins national Continuing Education award. 1993 10 years of CU Women’s Conferences celebrating with Awiakta and talking sticks. “Awiakta’s visit touched us in a deep place. She reminded us how things start going very wrong when we begin thinking of the Earth as an ‘It’ instead of Mother. The plight we’re in from ‘believing’ money is the all-important bottom line. That children are the future, and ‘seed corn must not be ground.’” - Mary Bragg 1910 1968 Clarion League of Women Voters founded. 1992 Founding of CU WS Program. 1983 Clarion Women’s Conferences begin and last over a decade. 1976 Clarion NOW Chapter founded by “organizer, testifier, consultant and rabblerouser” Susan Brown. 1994 First students graduate with WS Minor and volunteers are honored. 1993 Minority Women Scholars Series. 1994 WS inherits Eileen Murphy Thornton Humanities Award given in memory of an activist killed by a drunk driver. Her concern for reproductive rights education resulted in the development of PSY 220:Human Sexuality, a WGS course. 25
1995 Town Meetings and Oral History “Voting was a new experience. We were reticent and our husbands did not encourage us.” Connie Gruber, Shippenville, 94 at time of Project 1995 Tell It Like A Woman Exhibit, a combination of local materials, National Suffrage photographs and artist Deborah Lawrence’s contemporary visions. “Women were always on the bottom. I don't think women ever got the recognition for anything …Deep down inside—I think a lot of the ideas the men came up with, the women gave to them.” Carol Neiswonger, New Bethlehem, Age 47 at time of Project “That was a bad time—prohibition. My mother always belonged to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. She tried real hard to keep those places closed…the men would drink and use up all the money.” Myrtle E. McCullough, Rimersburg, Age 80 at time of Project 1999 Harvey Hall Renovation - Dr. Deb lives with the Physics Department for the year. 1997 “Our Foremothers’ Legacy” Project wins State and National Historical Society Awards. 1995 Our Foremothers’ Legacy Project celebrates 75th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage. *At the start of the project, no one had ever tried to document the history of Clarion County women in the County’s 156 year history. 2000 Tri-Iota Women’s Studies Honorary established 1996 “First Take Our Daughters to Work Day” (Sons join in 2000). Local girls and boys took part in hands-on workshops to learn about career fields, the value of education, equality in the workplace, and the possibilities for a balanced work and family life. *Town meeting and interviews were conducted throughout the county to gather women’s accounts and artifacts from the period of 1848-1948. 26
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