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SPRING 2014 | VOLUME XV | NWHM ANNUAL REPORT Beverly Willis, Huntington Hotel Renovation, San Francisco, 1971 – Photo Courtesy of the Beverly Willis Trust WOMEN’S LETTER FROM JOAN WAGES NWHM President HISTORY Dear Friends:

DESERVES Spring has FINALLY sprung here in Washington, D.C. and not a moment too soon. I imagine many of you will agree this was a long, brutal winter — one A HOME. we’re happy to leave behind. Yet, in spite of multiple snowstorms and bitter wind chills, we at NWHM continued our efforts to advance the Museum’s mission and legislation. Highlights of our recent speaking engagements, receptions and educational initiatives are included on the following pages.

Join NWHM As I write this letter, momentum behind our legislation continues to build and we’re optimistic that the bills will pass in both the House and Senate this year. In fact, the House Administration Committee voted & its National in support of our bill’s passage on April 2nd. This was the first step to getting our bill passed by the House of Representatives. The great momentum is in no small way thanks to the tireless efforts of Representatives Coalition to Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), your letters to Congress, and some terrific media deliver this coverage, including a very supportive Times editorial. This issue of A Different Point of View — Building on the Past: Women & Architecture contains fascinating important stories of the challenges faced by women architects — then and now! I am profoundly grateful to the founder of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) and this issue’s cover girl, Beverly Willis, BWAF’s Executive Director Jim Hanley, Communication Manager Nancy Nguyen and BWAF Board member and professor message to of Architectural History at SUNY Buffalo Despina Stratigakos for providing much of the historical content and images you’ll find in this issue. BWAF is a remarkable foundation which seeks to change the culture of congress! the building industry so that women’s work, whether in contemporary practices or historical narratives, is acknowledged, respected and valued. A noble mission indeed! I hope you’ll enjoy the issue. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions for future content. Happy Spring! Capitol Hill We are immensely grateful for your support! May 8, 2014

Contact Joan Moser at [email protected] NWHM Congressional or 703.461.1920 Hearing on March 25 NWHM President & CEO, Joan Wages, and Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) testified in support of HR 863 at a hearing before the House Natural Resources Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee on Tuesday, March 25. Reps. Maloney and Blackburn emphasized the importance of the bill’s bipartisan support as well as its increased support from cosponsors in the past fourth months especially. To view the hearing please visit: http://naturalresources.house.gov/live/ (Click on the second video webcast for room 1334 Longworth.)

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The discussion also touched on media coverage of women’s Joan Wages Addresses 2014 sports. According to Burton Nelson, in non-Olympic years, National Conference on Girls’ women’s sports accounts for only two to three percent of all sports coverage today.

Education Although Title IX has helped women achieve extraordinary NWHM President and CEO Joan Wages was a featured speaker achievements in the sports field, Dr. Morris noted that “society at this year’s National Conference on Girls’ Education on must continue to work to bring women of all ages into daily February 8th in Philadelphia. Her presentation, “Don’t Know conversations about sports culture that we assume is the Much About History: The Value of Teaching Women’s History domain of men.” to Girls,” highlighted the importance of women’s history as a The entire program can be viewed on NWHM’s YouTube® source of positive role models for girls. Joan Wages and Megan Murphy, Executive Director of NCGS channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nwhmwomenshistory Game Changers: NWHM Unveils Two American Women in Sports Exciting Exhibits Game Changers: American Women in Sports, the third forum NWHM kicked off Women’s History Month by unveiling two in the NWHM and The George Washington University (GWU) new exhibits. Women of Character, Courage and Commitment discussion series, was held on February 19th at GWU’s Morton highlighted trailblazing women like Dr. Dorothy Height, Alice Auditorium. New York Times Washington Bureau Editor Jill Paul, and Katharine Graham, who broke through political, Agostino moderated the discussion between Dr. Bonnie Morris social, and cultural barriers to improve society. The exhibit was (GWU and Georgetown University) and Mariah Burton Nelson displayed at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, DC, (former professional athlete) that centered on the tremendous throughout March. (L to R): Dr. Bonnie Morris, Mariah Burton Nelson, Jill Agostino and enduring impact of Title IX. Pathways to Equality: U.S. Women’s Rights Movement Emerges Title IX opened the door for girls’ full participation in school- is part of the Google Cultural Institute, an online institute that sponsored athletics and is considered a significant factor in helps to preserve and promote culture. The exhibit explores encouraging women to pursue equal opportunities in many American women’s participation in various reform movements other endeavors. The ability to participate in organized sports during the nineteenth century, as well as the unique paths they has made a difference in the lives of women and girls who took to become involved in the suffrage movement. According applied the lessons learned from sports and the right to to NWHM Program Director Liz Mauer, “We’re delighted to participate to other areas of their lives. Despite the passage partner with Google on this wonderful program and hope of Title IX, implementation was difficult. Ms. Burton Nelson the exhibit will help to shine a light on women’s significant recalled holding sit-ins with her basketball teammates at contributions to shaping our nation.” Go to: https://www.google. Stanford, in an effort to secure the same benefits as the men’s com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/pathways-to-equality/gRIl8VFM team received. to view the exhibit.

Golf - Miss Katharine Harley, former champion MUSEUM HAPPENINGS of the U.S. won at Chevy Chase, 1908. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. continues on page 5

3 4 Change: Women and the Civil Rights Movement, on March 26th at We’ll Take Manhattan GWU’s Morton Auditorium. Political analyst and NWHM hosted nearly one hundred old and new friends at a columnist Keli Goff moderated the discussion that featured Dr. reception in New York City on March 10th. The reception was Paula Giddings (Smith College) and Dr. E. Faye Williams (National held amid the fascinating exhibit Folk Couture: Folk Art and Chair of the National Congress of Black Women). Fashion. Special thanks to our friend, Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights executive director of the American Folk Art Museum, for Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, providing such a wonderful venue, to corporate sponsor Hanky religion, sex, or national origin. The act was a significant Panky for its generous financial support, and, of course, to achievement that ended state-sanctioned discrimination and Representative Carolyn Maloney, whose passionate remarks in racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. support of the Museum truly inspired our guests. Although women played an integral role in advancing the civil rights movement, few were visible to the public. Without their Congresswomen Take to the support at the grass-roots level, the movement would not have Floor to Encourage Support advanced as rapidly or comprehensively. The discussion was both fascinating and enlightening. You Rep. Maloney (D-NY) addresses more than 100 of Museum can view the entire program on NWHM’s YouTube channel at: supporters at our NY reception. (L to R): Keli Goff, Professor Paula Giddings, Dr. E. Faye Williams https://www.youtube.com/user/nwhmwomenshistory On the evening of March 13th, Representatives Marsha Blackburn (R‑TN) and Carolyn Maloney (D‑NY) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to speak about the importance Revenge of the Women’s of a national women’s history museum during what is known as special orders. A special order is an opportunity after the Studies Professor House of Representatives has been adjourned for the day Dr. Bonnie Morris (The George Washington University [GWU] for a member to speak on any topic he or she chooses. The and Georgetown University) performed her one-person play, proceeding is aired on C-SPAN, which results in the speaker(s) Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor, on Thursday, March reaching a larger audience. Reps. Maloney and Blackburn were 20th at GWU’s Funger Hall. The play presents new perspectives joined on this occasion by fellow Congresswomen Marcy Kaptur on the gender and generation gaps on campus and explores (D‑OH), Cynthia M. Lummis (R‑WY), and Debbie Wasserman the negative stereotypes that keep many university students

Audience members at the NY reception. Schultz (D‑FL), all of whom, in addition to speaking in support from taking women’s studies courses. NWHM was proud to of the legislation, spoke about some of the incredible women partner with Dr. Morris to present the play. Since 1993, Dr. from their home states who have helped to shape this nation. Morris has traveled the globe, engaging audiences from New Rep. Blackburn also took the opportunity to announce that Zealand to New York in a frank conversation about the backlash Chairman Doc Hastings and the House Natural Resources against feminism and women’s studies. Committee would hold a hearing on March 25th during which the Museum legislation would be considered. You can watch Wages and Maloney Address the entire Special Order program online at https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=81KKiTky4rM&feature=youtu.be Women Construction Owners Standing Up for Change: and Executives Joan Wages and Representative Carolyn Maloney spoke Women and the Civil Rights about women’s history and the need for a national women’s Movement history museum at the Women Construction Owners & Executives (WCOE) Women Build America 2014 Annual NWHM and The George Washington University (GWU) presented Leadership Conference on March 31st. The conference was the fourth forum in their discussion series, Standing Up for held at the Sewall-Belmont House in Washington, DC.

5 6 values, such as collaboration, has masterpiece. Medal. Almost sixty years after FEATURE certainly played a role. So, too, her death, Morgan became the Building on the Past: has women architects’ invisibility Julia Morgan is arguably the first female architect to receive in popular culture and histo- best-known female architect in the AIA’s highest prize, which has A History of Women in Architecture ry books, although they have the United States, thanks in part been awarded since 1907. By Despina Stratigakos practiced in the United States to having had William Randolph for more than one hundred and Hearst as a loyal patron. Al- Mary Jane Colter, raised in St. though millions of visitors have Paul, Minnesota, brought a great n May 2011, Architect have been surprised to encoun- were exposed to architectural thirty years. For young women admired Hearst Castle in San sensitivity for history and land- Barbie made her debut at ter the pink-and-white Mattel practice that week, and many seeking to enter architectural Simeon, , Morgan’s scape to the lodges and hotels the American Institute of booth in the vast exposition hall, expressed excitement at the idea practice, knowing the history of architectural legacy is found she designed in the American Architects (AIA) National which was occupied primarily by that they might grow up to be female pioneers offers an an- throughout the state, where Southwest for the Santa Fe Convention in New Orleans. The companies selling new building builders. The homes they envi- choring sense of roots. I she designed more than seven Railway and the Fred Harvey more than twelve thousand materials and technologies. The sioned testified to their aware- In 1881, Buffalo native Louise hundred buildings during her Company. From 1905 to the mid- Mattel booth featured Architect ness of their spatial needs and a AIA members in atten- Bethune became the first woman long and prolific career. Morgan 1930s, Colter designed a series Barbie and her Malibu Dream- desire to shape their own envi- dance, an overwhelmingly architect in the United States to also has the distinction of hav- of buildings at the Grand Canyon house as well as a lively work- ronments. One little girl designed male crowd (only 16 open her own firm. Buffalo was ing been the first woman to be whose bold designs, archeolog- shop area that filled each day a home with a special room for percent of AIA mem- booming, and its spirit of innova- accepted for architectural study ical references, and use of local with children who came to learn bers are women), must monsters, acknowledging their tion attracted some of the coun- at the prestigious École des materials fired tourists’ imagi- about the history of existence while getting them out try’s greatest architects, including Beaux-Arts in Paris, which she nations and remain immensely women in architec- from under her bed. H. H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, entered in 1898. Morgan’s many popular sites. She is credited ture, meet female and Frank Lloyd Wright. Bethune accomplishments were recently practitioners, As a profession, architecture Hearst Castle is a National and designed public, commercial, and acknowledged by the AIA, which FEATURE California Historical Landmark and try their does not have a history of wel- continues on page 9 mansion located on the Central industrial buildings in the city, awarded her the 2014 AIA Gold Coast of California. hand at coming women and continues among them some of the first designing a to struggle with their integra- structures in the United States to tion. Although women account floor plan use the new building technolo- for half of American architecture for their gy of a steel frame and poured graduates, they represent only own concrete slabs. Many consider 20 percent of licensed practi- dream the Hotel Lafayette, richly tioners and even fewer partners home. decorated in the French of architectural firms. The rea- Four Renaissance style, sons more women than men hun- her architec- leave architecture are poorly dred tural girls understood, but the traditionally macho culture of the profession, Louise Bethune and one of her which idealizes starchitects and architectural masterpieces, the dismisses so-called feminine Hotel Lafayette in Buffalo, NY.

William Randolph Hearst and architect Julia Morgan in 1926.

7 8 with inspiring the style known as National Park problems faced by the poor, Gannon and Hands spreading modernism to new shores. Bau- Service Rustic, nicknamed Parkitecture, developed lived in tenements and experienced their de- haus-trained architect Hilde Reiss was among the DID YOU KNOW? by the National Park Service in an effort to blend ficiencies first-hand, something that few male female émigrés who served as ambassadors for Mary L. Page was the first woman visitor facilities with their natural and historic sur- colleagues were willing to do. On this basis, they the new style in the United States. In 1946, she to earn an architecture degree in the roundings. Others claim Colter’s fusion of cultural designed model tenements that were praised by was hired by the Walker Art Center in Minneap- influences set the standard for Southwestern de- housing reformers for being affordable, sanitary, olis to serve as the curator of its new Everyday United States; she graduated from sign. In Gallup, New Mexico, for example, Colter’s practical, and even beautiful. In 1895, Hands and Art Gallery, one of the first museum spaces in the University of Illinois at Urbana- 1923 railway hotel, El Navajo, daringly Gannon designed a series of residences in New the country devoted to modern design. Like Champaign in 1873. combined modernist, Spanish, and York City for self-supporting working women, a Reiss, Elsa Gidoni fled Berlin in 1933, but spent Native American architectural new social type that had become highly visible five years in Tel Aviv designing buildings in the In 1900, only thirty-nine American elements and featured in the nation’s urban centers at the end of the International Style before moving to New York in women had graduated from formal Navajo sand paintings nineteenth century. When Hands and Gannon 1938. Although, like many refugees, she initially four‑year architecture programs. Nearly in the lobby. The hotel disbanded their firm sometime after the turn of struggled to find work, she eventually became one hundred years later (1999), the was demolished in the century, they slipped into obscurity, as did the a project designer at the New York City firm of number of female licensed architects 1957, shortly before story of their unusual collaboration. Kahn and Jacobs and contributed to modernist had risen to approximately thirty the architect’s death, department stores, office buildings, and industrial thousand, or 15.5 percent of licensed to widen Route 66. A similar eclipse has befallen the women archi- tects who worked in Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio. A facilities along the East Coast. architects in the United States. A different sort of ex- Girl Is a Fellow Here, a 2009 documentary produced After the war, the enormous demand for hous- perimentation, social by the Beverly Willis Architectural Today, women represent about ing propelled experiments in new domestic and urban in nature, Foundation (BWAF), focused attention on the for- 50 percent of students enrolled in materials and technologies. In 1948, architect drove Alice Hands gotten history of the many creative female hands architecture programs, but fewer than Eleanor Raymond, working with MIT researcher and Mary Gannon, in his firm. At a time when the majority of Amer- Maria Telkes, constructed the Dover Sun House 18 percent of licensed architects (and two young and icans viewed architectural skills and the female in Dover, Massachusetts, the first occupied fewer in leadership roles). dynamic architects gender as fundamentally incompatible, Wright solar-heated home in the United States. During in New York City, to recognized women’s abilities and employed a sur- this period, and indicative of other social chang- In 1963, Ada Louise Huxtable became form the country’s prising number of them over the years. He was not es under way in the nation, Norma Merrick the first architecture critic in the United first female architec- as good, however, at giving them credit for their Sklarek, born in Harlem, New York, was studying States with . She tural partnership contributions. Marion Mahony Griffin, who gradu- architecture at . Despite later received the Pulitzer Prize of in 1894. Among ated in 1894 with an architecture degree from the facing discrimination because of her gender “distinguished criticism” in 1970. other ambitions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hands and Gannon was hired by Wright the following year as his first and race as well as a lack of role models, Sklarek sought to better employee, played a particularly important role. rose to senior positions at major architectural house the city’s During the fifteen years she worked in his studio, marginal popu- FEATURE she helped to develop Prairie School architecture continues on page 11 lations, an early and to popularize Wright’s work through her ex- example of quisite drawings of his designs. designing for

social justice. In the 1930s, many Desert View Watchtower One of Marion Griffin’s exquisite To study the designers fled Germa- designed by Mary Jane Colter. drawings—water color and ink, 1894 ny to avoid religious or political per- secution, thus also

9 10 firms, achieving many firsts for African American Long Island City, New York, and the Museum of women. Chinese in America in New York City’s Chinatown.

By 1950, women had established a significant Maya Lin holds many honors and distinctions history in American architecture. However, it including that of being the youngest architect would be several more decades before the effort and first woman to design a memorial on the to record this history began in earnest. In 1985, National Mall. She has been elected to the the International Archive of Women in Architec- American Academy of Arts and Letters and the ture was founded at Virginia Tech to help preserve National Women’s Hall of Fame, served on the the material record. The past decade has seen a wealth of new books on the topic, and online selection jury of the World Trade Center Memorial resources, such as the BWAF’s Dynamic National competition, and is a recipient of the National Archive, a public database of women designers, Medal of Arts. are helping to expose younger audiences to this national history. Unfortunately, museums Sophia Hayden Bennett (1868 – 1953) have lagged in collecting and disseminating the work of women architects. Exhibitions that make Best known for designing the Woman’s Building accessible the blueprints, drawings, and models at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1892, created by these pioneers or that point us to their Sophia Hayden Bennett was one of the first still-standing legacy beyond the museums’ walls Spotlight on BIOGRAPHIES women architects and helped pave the way for remain rare. other women to enter the profession. Bennett Maya Lin (1959 – ) was born in Santiago, Chile, to an American father Despina Stratigakos is a professor of architec- Deryl McKissack Deryl McKissack is President and Chief Executive and a Chilean mother who sent her (at the age tural history at the University at Buffalo. She has Maya Lin is an American designer and artist Officer of McKissack & McKissack, an architecture, of six) to live with her grandparents in a Boston published widely on issues of diversity in archi- best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans environmental engineering and program management suburb so that she would get an education. tecture, including the award-winning A Women’s firm. She founded the company in 1990 as an outgrowth Memorial in Washington, DC. Berlin: Building the Modern City. She is a trustee of of her family’s business—the oldest minority-owned Sophia began to show an interest in architecture the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and has architecture/engineering firm in the United States. In Born in Athens, Ohio, to Chinese parents who during high school and went on to study at the served on the advisory board of the International fact, its roots go back to the pre-Civil War era when a immigrated to the United States from China in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Archive of Women in Architecture. slave named Moses McKissack learned the building 1949, Maya’s mother wrote poetry and taught trade from his overseer. In 1905 his grandson, Moses III, literature. Her father was a ceramicist who went BIOGRAPHIES founded the first McKissack & McKissack in Nashville, continues on page 13 Tennessee. William DeBerry, the youngest son of Moses on to become dean of the Ohio University College III, took the helm as President of the firm in 1968. He of Fine Arts. Lin attended Yale University where nurtured the talents of his daughters—Andrea, Cheryl she earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1981 and and Deryl—who all excelled in the fields of architecture a master of architecture degree in 1986. and engineering. Today, through Deryl’s leadership and vision, McKissack & McKissack has grown to 160 In 1981, as a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate, employees, with offices in Washington, DC, Chicago, Miami and Baltimore. Lin won what was, at the time, the largest public design competition in US history (1,422 entries)— NWHM had the pleasure of working with Ms. McKissack the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. when she spoke at our forum Making a Business of Change: American Women in Business last November. Ms. The Memorial, a black cut-stone masonry wall McKissack’s comments that evening made it clear that her with the names of 57,661 fallen soldiers engraved success in this traditionally male field did not come easy. upon it, was completed in October 1982 and Her professional abilities were questioned at every turn. dedicated on November 1, 1982. (Above) Despina Stratigakos In fact, she stated that she wasn’t sure if it was because (Below) A woman builder making she was a minority, a new business owner or because Today, Lin owns the Maya Lin Studio in New repairs to the roof of Berlin’s she was a woman, but her gender certainly played a role. town hall, 1910. From Illustrierte York City and has designed many impressive Frauenzeitung 38, no. 2 (1910): 17. Clearly, McKissack didn’t shrink from the challenges she This images is referenced in Despina faced along the way. As a leading program management structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial Stratigakos’s book, A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City. organization, McKissack & McKissack is ranked by in Montgomery, Alabama, the Wave Field at the Engineering News-Record as one of the top 50 program University of Michigan, the Sculpture Center in management and top 100 construction management for- fee firms in the United States. 11 12 where, in 1890, she became the first woman to a degree in architecture from the university. receive a degree from MIT’s four-year architecture After graduating, she worked briefly for her program. cousin and two classmates from MIT who had Following graduation, Bennett faced many not graduated. Barry Byrne, an early associate challenges in finding work as an entry-level of Frank Lloyd Wright, recruited Griffin to join apprentice and eventually settled for a position Wright’s team in Chicago. Byrne later suggested as a mechanical drawing teacher at a Boston that Griffin was “the most talented member of NWHM gratefully acknowledges the high school. In 1891, she heard about a design Frank Lloyd Wright’s staff,” and doubted the studio Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s competition for women to submit architectural produced anyone superior. Dynamic National Archive as the drawings for the Woman’s Building planned Most of Griffin’s work with Wright remains primary source for this material. for the 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition in completely credited to Wright. When she Chicago. Just twenty-one years old, Bennett designed the Church of All Souls in Evanston, Photograph provided Courtesy National Visionary won the competition. She received $1,000 Leadership Project. Griffin revised her original, more radical octagonal for her design at a time when men were design to gracefully meet the client’s demand for receiving $10,000 for similar designs. Sadly, the Following graduation, Sklarek found it difficult to something Gothic with a limestone exterior and YOU DO MAKE A construction committee demanded multiple find a job as an architect, and instead accepted climbing ivy. changes that were inconsistent with her design, a civil service job in the city’s engineering DIFFERENCE Griffin’s work with her husband, Walter Burley and she was eventually fired from the project. department. The first African American woman Griffin, is well remembered and celebrated today. Although many architects sympathized with her to pass the exam in New York, she became a Thanks to all who have taken the time to After their wedding in 1911, the couple moved position and in fact defended her, critics pointed licensed architect in 1954, and one year later, contact their representatives in Congress. to Australia and oversaw the construction of to her frustration as typifying women’s unfitness Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, one of the largest You DO make a difference! firms in New York City, hired her to work with Canberra, the new national capital. Enamored for supervising construction. with the indigenous plant life, Griffin developed a engineering systems. In the end, Bennett’s building received an award for collection of sketches that became known as the “This Museum is an important part of our In 1960, she moved to California and was soon “Canberra drawings.” Her designs influenced the “Delicacy or style, artistic taste, and geniality and history and long overdue!” elegance of the interior.” Frustrated with the way she employed by Gruen Associates to work on construction of the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne had been treated, Bennett retired from architecture large-scale government buildings, including the and were reflected in the theater’s crystalline — Elizabeth, Freeport, ME ceiling of four thousand individual bulbs in ornate and never worked as an architect again. She died in American Embassy in Tokyo and the City Hall of San Bernardino, California. She eventually plaster work. Griffin oversaw the construction of Winthrop, Massachusetts, in 1953. “Support a home on the National Mall for advanced to the head of the architectural the theater, and spent much of her subsequent time managing the development of Castlecrag, the NWHM. Our daughters and sons will Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926 – 2012) department and stayed with the company for twenty years. the Sydney suburb she designed. Griffin died in thank you.” Norma Merrick Sklarek is considered the “Rosa 1961 at the age of ninety, in Chicago. Sklarek went on to become a principal at Jon — Antoinette, Murfreesboro, TN Parks of Architecture” for her pioneering work in Jerde Inc., now the Jerde Partnership, where she architecture and for opening the door for other worked on the country’s largest mall, the Mall “It’s time to honor women, the other women of color to enter the field. Sklarek was of America in Minnesota, until her retirement in half of American history, by having a born in Harlem in New York City to West Indian 1991. Sklarek died on February 6, 2012, in Pacific parents. Her mother was a seamstress, and museum on the National Mall.” Palisades, California. her father was a doctor. She attended Hunter — Diana, Hyattsville, MD High School, a selective public school for girls, where she excelled in math and design. She Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961) then attended in New York Marion Mahony Griffin is best remembered for Visit http://nwhm.org/get-involved/ as a prerequisite to matriculate at Columbia her work as a member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s promote/legislation-sponsors to find University’s School of Architecture. Graduating architecture team in Chicago. Born in Chicago, out if your representative and senators from Columbia in 1950 (one of two women), she Griffin pursued architecture as a student at the became one of the first African American women Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have sponsored our legislation. to graduate with an architecture degree. where she became the second woman to receive

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Barnes Nancy Neal Karla Bartels “First Ladies: Hidden in Plain Sight.” CSX Corporation Judith Kaplan Colleen C. Barrett Linda E. Nee, MSW Connie L. Beasley Communications Workers of America Laura Cox Kaplan Lee N. Betterman The Reverend Christie C. Neuger Karen D. Beattie AFL/CIO Pamela Keller Ilana Boivie Johanna Neuman Ruth Benanav “I am excited and appreciative Dan Cameron Family Foundation Marilyn Kieffer-Andrews, Ph.D. Ruth L. Born Anne Newman Janet Berls Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Dr. Sonia L. King Barbara F. Borthwick Elizabeth J. Noyes Candace Bernard of all the efforts that have gone Eileen Fisher Foundation The Honorable Ann M. Korologos Dr. Mary J. Boylan Pastor Amy Nyman Michelle Bernard into making sure this bill moves Hanky Panky Nancy LeaMond Kathryn M. Braeman Molly Oberbillig Paula Bernitt-Ellis Hogan Lovells US LLP Nancy Lee Cristi Branum Rebecca Omahen Deborah T. Blankenberg forward so we can proceed Linda Jenckes and Associates Laura London Dr. Quincalee Brown Donna Jean Osborne Heidi Blau with the creation of a privately- McGraw-Hill Companies Aurora L. Loss Janet G. Buechel Dr. Zoe H. Parker Jean D. Blomfield Omega World Travel Annette R. Luckow Katharine J. Burns Vivian Podesta Barbara R. Bloomer funded museum to honor Patricia C. Brown Foundation Dr. Helyn Luechauer Christina M. Cabanillas Dee M. Price Bibiana Boerio our nation’s most influential PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC Dr. Roseann M. Mandziuk & Dr. James Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak Beverly Pringle Gloria Borland Schultz & Williams, Inc. Studer Linda Newton Clark Deborah Pryce Susan E. Bower women—something that has The Carl M. Freeman Foundation Laurie McGraw Kathryn S. Cochrane Frances A. Randall Dr. Carla Bowland long been needed.” The Namaste Foundation Deena McInnis Mary Pat Collins Dee Dee Reilly Justina Boyle Dr. Gregory B. McKenna Elizabeth L. Colton Leo Reitan Jean W. Brainerd —Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

15 16 Patricia L. Brand Genie H. Hargrove Ruby K. Methven Sharon Swanson Clifford and Carol Harris Philanthropy The Namaste Foundation Kathleen Carlisle Brightman DonnaJoy Hawley Mireille Miller Marion T. Sweeney Fund The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Patty Brissenden Carla H. Hay K. Paulette Mitchell Mary Tambornino Communications Workers of America Association Ruth E. Bruch Nancy E. Hayes Ena E. Mocega, M.D. Melissa Tasse AFL/CIO The New Hollywood Wendee M. Brunish Barbara R. Heaster Kris Montgomery Dr. Sheila E. Taube Cordia Partners The New York Palace Hotel Cathy Busalacchi Adrienne Hefter Barbara D. Moore Sharon E. Taylor DCSSAR The Spa at Mandarin Oriental Marni Byrum & Martha McQuade Judy L. Helgager Linda C. Moore Dr. Elizabeth Lee Thomsen DJ McManus Foundation, Inc. The Washingtonian Linda A. 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LaFollette Deborah Ryan Program AIG Matching Grants Program Jane Eskind Cathy Landau-Painter Elliot Ryder McGraw-Hill Companies AT & T Foundation-Matching Gift Sandra J. Esty Virginia Lawton Susan Sanger McGregor Links Foundation Program Sophia Faskianos Sophia Lee Mary Lou Sayler Millstone Foundation Adobe Systems, Inc.-Matching Gifts Nancy Feldman Saul Leiter The Reverend Gail Nicholas Schneider Minerva Foundation-Merrill Lynch Trust “A National Women’s History Program Nancy E. Felker Sharon E. Lewis Dorothy M. Schrader Company Alexandra & Martin Symonds Museum will tell the stories of Thelma Fennoy Renee Logan Carol Schwartz Molloy College-Siena Women’s Center Foundation, Inc. Nancy Flatgard Linda Lorenz Arlene Colman Schwimmer MorganStanley SmithBarney women’s contributions to this Amanda Jordyn Designs Barbara Townsley Flockhart Yvonne Lowrie Judith Scott Northridge United Methodist Church- American Association of University Gloria M. Flynn May Lowry Keitha L. Scott UMW great country without spending Women Lynn K. Foster Mitzie Lulucki Jocelyn G. Shannon One Sip @ A Time-Organo Gold Aon Foundation-Matching Gifts a dime of taxpayer funds. We Judith J. Foxworth Barbara A. MacNayr Kate M. Sheehy Organic Spa Magazine Arena Stage Pauline Franks Gerri MacWhinnie Dr. Emma Shelton Passion Food Hospitality now have the support of both Astellas Pharma US, Inc. Deborah S. Freedman Phyllis B. Macholtz Elizabeth L. Shepard Patricia C. Brown Foundation BP the Republican and Democratic Sue M. Frueauff Muriel Mackett Sylvia Shih Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery-Beverly Alexandra Frye Ren Marasco Sarah C. Shoaf D.D.S. Program leaders, both committees –House Hills Institute Dr. Georgianna K. Galas Mr. & Mrs. Phillips H. Marshall Nina J. Shuman PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC Bloomingdales Patrick Gallagher Patricia M. Martin, M.D. Rose L. Shure Pro Bono Institute Administration and House Blue Duck Tavern-Park Hyatt DC Dr. Linda C. Giacomo Claire Martineau P. Dawn Sikkema, Esq. Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts Boeing Gift Matching Program Natural Resources–have held Kate A. Gill Sally Mayer Mary D. Siminevicz Program Bogart Associates, Inc. Paula Glanzner Dr. Marlene J. Mayo Jo Anne V. Simson SAG-Aftra One Union their hearings, and we have a CSX Corporation Ann M. Goldberg Naomi J. McAfee Paula N. Singer Sara DeSoto Chapter NSDAR California Federation of Business & commitment from the Majority Mary Jo Green Patricia A. McClurg Patricia L. Small Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Professional Women Susan Hill Gross Emily B. McCoy Maria T. Solis-Martinez Shubert Organization Leader that the legislation will Carlos Falchi Couture Laurel A. Grotzinger Elizabeth A. McDaniel Cynthia Soltes Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Chandler-Shreve Family Fund of the receive a vote on the floor this Helen O. Grubbs Gail H. McGinn Deborah M. Soon Society of the Sacred Heart Community Foundation of N Betty D. Gurney Lt. Col. Le Roy McLaughlin, USAF Ret. Cherrill M. Spencer Sonia Alden Foundation Chevron Humankind-Chevron year. I’m thrilled to see both June Hajjar Shawn McLaughlin Jacquelyn T. Stenger SpaRitual Corporation-Matching Gifts Kimberly Hallatt Marilyn S. McLennan Mickey Stern Susan B. Anthony House, Inc. Democrats and Republicans Chubb & Son, Inc.-Matching Gifts Susan M. Haney Margaret McMahon Kay E. Stevens Tesla Motors, Inc. Program uniting behind the bill.” Christine A. Hansen Marybelle P. Menzel Jacquelyn V. Strong The Carl M. Freeman Foundation Chubb Insurance Company Kathy Hansen Marney Mesch Dorothy J. Sutton The Green Garmento LLC —Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)

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