Pictures from It's Good to be a Woman
| Meet the women featured in It's Good To Be a Woman. Anne White took all the current photos, except where noted. Old photos are from the Class of '62 Yearbook and from personal collections.
The pictures page will be refreshed every month or so. When you come back to visit you will meet other women from the book.
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| Mimi Armstrong |
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"I should have been a civil engineer. As a profession,
engineering had all the things I needed--changing venues,
different kinds of challenges, spurts of energetic physical work." |
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l-r Mimi's mother, Mimi, Mimi's stepfather
"We were living with the vines, right in the middle of the vineyard." |
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| Susan Johnson |
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"There were definite signs that Sue was probably a lesbian,
but who even thought about it? It amazes me now that it didn't even occur to us." |
"You discover that there are all these people
who love you, who don't want you to die,
who want to help you." |
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Bryn Mawr had a kind of old-school feminism,
"like what your mother does, telling you that you're terrific." |
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Mary Beebe |
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The monumental book, engraved with a passage
from Milton's Paradise Lost, is part of a snake path
by Los Angeles artist, Alexis Smith, part of what
she calls her paradise series, so it's the serpent
of knowledge. "It's important that the work stir up
conversation."
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Mary Beebe in quarry with Tim Hawkinson "Bear"
boulder.
"When an artist has a grand idea, I feel
you have to go with it."
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Priscilla (Perkins) Grew |
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At the University of Nebraska State Museum, the
state's natural history museum, where she is the
Director. "I really sympathize with people who
haven't finished a degree, or things like that.
There are so many points at which I could have
dropped out or given up." |
Priscilla was featured in an article in the Lincoln Journal Star, entitled It’s good to be Priscilla Grew:
"Growing up in the ’40s and ’50s, Priscilla Grew would get sick at the thought of a speech. She was that shy.
One Sunday night, at a youth group at her San Antonio church, she had to get in front of everyone and role-play with a boy about how to act on a date.
She laughs.
“But I had never had a single date in high school the whole time. It was horrible.”
Read entire article text. |
