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.Card to Read. _ .Mother~DayDiary By Wendy Haskell Meyer First, rnernorjes of my mother. Everyone adored her. Always smiling. A st~ong presence., w.~all pi~ied Cynthia a~ a woman ~ithout a fut~re; . . woman, when it was not fashionable to be strong. A caring woman. But with a I kept havlng babies. Each pregnancy-was adlaphragm mistake-but welcomed lifetime' of disappointments and tragedies. Her parents divorced. She married my by my husb~nd 'as another possible son and by me as something that happened. father at 18 to escape a bizarre and unhappy family situation. Then she herself Another child to love. U~lann.ed, unqu~tioned. . , divorced when I was three. Kept ~ouse for her. physician fat~er in a big . I was rapidly finding a new role as the mother.q~ - getting on d;~PTA board, Commonwealth Avenue ~rownstone In Boston., Untl~ he began actl.~g strangely running car pools, and, before long, interrogating dates who by this time were and was eventually committed to a mental hospital wlt.h ~e4rosyphllls. One of a calling on my teenaged daughters. I was also becoming the wife of John, who series of challenges she acceptedwi.th good humor ..During them all, she taught worked long hours and was mvch~ougnt after irimedicaland social-circles and me the most enduring les~on of my hfe: laugh - at the world, at yourself, at your shared his life with me as much as he could. :rhatwas fastinating. tt tookrnero the problems. Then you survive. White House and to Eurooe several times. .. . M~mories of my. mother. ~e. have m~ved to the suburbs so I c~n g

I Boston every day and she makes It sound funny and exciting. think my five girls -could manage without me. . \qg\~,:#t~~ti%!&Mt+i'i*" "1 started my secret journal that year; Sharing my agonles wi~h it, pa~es of introspective misery and poetry. When'mY husband and. had a fl~ht, which we began to have more often,·instea~. of telling him. What. f was fee.lmg, J t.

1 s t & L s a HOUSTON BRlAKTHROllGH • MAY 1977 • PAGE 1 More than 2,000personscame to watch or testify. Somearrived ERA's Tex.s the night before and kept vigil on the capitol grounds. Hundreds rallied beforehand. history The hearing lasted ten hours. ign House employeescleared and re- filled the spectatorgalleriesevery oliti- Rights Amendment to the Texas unty hour and piped the,sound out to StateConstitution wasintroduced the By Ann Kennedy those waiting in the hall. in six sessionsof the Legislature. Lawyers and professors pro- Ad- Eachtime it wasdefeated in either ., hop pounded conflicting theories on ,rian Twenty yearsago, Dallaslawyer .the House or,the Se,':!at¢., the legality of rescission.~hat Hermine Tobolowsky appealedto In January,1971,Sen:Don Ken- -10 'the Legislaturegiveth, it also can ,kers the Texas Legislature to change nard of Fort Worth Introduced take away," a legislator visiting )wer the law so that women could before the 62nd Sessiona reso- from Tennesseedeclared. control property they had owned I~tion to place the Equal Legal ERAopponents bemoaned the before marriage. RIghtsA~endment. on the gene- spectersof ruined families, aban- In her encounter with the Legis- ral election ballot In November, doned religion, mothers in com- lature, several senators,"spokeso 1972.The Senatepassedit 3~O in en's bat, rampant abortion, homo- disparagingly of women" that February.The HousepassedIt two sexual marriage and unisex bath- bve- Tobolowsky determined to cam- months later by a vote of 199-25 ~on, rooms. paign for full legal rights for wom- after lengthy debate. ion, And Hermine Tobolowskytesti- All en. Congress passed the federal HERMINE TOBOLOWSKY fied that the ERAwas necessary, The next year, she enlisted the Equal Rights' Amendment on . .. 523- pointing out that "the Texas su port and aid of the Texas March 22,1972,leavingit to three- Amen9'!'ent w:as attached to the . Rep. BIll Hilliard o.f Fort Worth B!iness and Professional Wom- quarters, or 38, of the 50 state TexasBIll o! Rights, a part. o~th.e Introduced a res~lutlon Febru.ary Legislatureshowed no interest in en's Clubs and targeted 25 major legislatures to ratify the amend- state Constitutlon which IS InVI- 18. ~hat. the Legislature rescind repealing discriminatory lawsun- .rof . hi h T I dl ment into law The TexasLegis- olate. ratification of the federal ERA.The til the ERAwasin the stateConsti- areas In w IC exas aws ISCrl-' . . . f d h tution. And Congressshowed no !will minated against women, inclu- lature, meeting in special session, But within ~onths, the p.ress resolu.tlo~ was reo~rre to t. e the di I t d ki hustled to be one of the first to reflected rumblings from various Constitutional ReVISIonCommit- interest until it was apparent the mg emp oymen an wor mg . hai b hl federal ERAwould pass." epll- conditions, community property, ratify. Texasratification, the eighth p~rts of the state about ree~a~l- tee, c aired y Rep: RayH~t~ 1- ,ues h 't d h kl in the nation took only three rung the Amendment, recalling It, son of Dallas.Hutchison, pomting In an expected anti-climax, omesteads credI an c ec mg , d' dl . hi , h d Hutchison sent the bill to a sub- lhop accounts an'd crime·. days an even r5C1n Inlit It'.. . to IScornmrttee s eavy agen a, the , . As legislatorsgeared up for the indicated that a hearing could not committee. for Until 1972,Article 1220of the Penal Code provided 64th session in 1975, the single be scheduled for Hilliard's reso- Three dayslater, three senators, bers that it was justifiable homicide if a husband killed his issue generating the most mail lution until mid-April. including Houston Republican Walter "Mad Dog" Mengden, an- tion, and phone calls was by far the Shortly ther~a~er, Rep.Geor~e wife's paramour when taking her in adultery. It was nounced they would sponsorthe ~ or murder if the wife killed-the liusband's mistress under ERA. . . Pre~tonof PansI~tro?uced a bIll t at ··1 . Republican Rep. Larry Vick of calling for a nonbinding referen- resolution in the Senate if it slml ar circumstances. Houston led the fight for repeal. dum on whether the Legislature passedthe House. A Vietnam serviceman's wife Texas'ratification of the ERAisa He was strongly supported by should rescind its ratification. One month after the hearing, rob- could not purchase a home be- classicexample of how quickly a suchgroupsasWomen Who Want Prestoncontended that the voters the subcommittee reported to the and causeshecould not usethe family piece of legislation can move to be Women (WWWW), Fasci- who had approved the measure full committee a recommenda- for credit. Any Texas husband was through the complex and ordina- nating Womanhood, the Texas by a 4-1 margin three months tion that Texasrecall rather than rescind ratification of the federal ec- permitted by law to prevent his rily laborious process.Supporters Parent-TeacherAssociation(PTA), earlier had since had a changeof The wife from cashing checks on her of the state Equal Legal Rights the Church of Christ and Mary opinion. They were wary of ERAfor reexamination. .5. own separate account by noti- Amendment had beentouring the Kay Cosmetics. Many of these interpretations of the amendment But bythe time Rep.BenBynum the fying the bank. Texascodes pro- state for years, most intensively groups are still involved in efforts by the Congress and the courts, made a motion that the Constitu- tion vided that the husband was the during the preceding year, to in- to rescind or to halt ratification in and were concerned about a "loss tional Revisions Committee ap- the natural guardian of minor chil- form Texansabout the inequities other states. of traditional morality." His bill prove the subcommittee report, a St., dren and that the husband'sexe- it addressed. Texans had been In February,the pressreported ended up in a subcommittee of majority wasno longer.present.A The cutor could manage all com- flooded with talk shows, press that Vick had taken two out-of- the StateAffairs Committee. majority is required to get a bill ,L ro ! munitY-.I1 Qerty, im;luding the conferences. interviews,Jallies. state trip~Ao.....workagajmt_adOD~_- -Ih.e House.ConstltutlonalRevl- out- __ of ,..committee0 __ - __ ' and onto the ::sea Jt )'''*'' ' permitt;dby-i~~ to prevent his rily laborious process.Supporters-Parent-Te"acHerAssociation(PTA), earlier fiaLIZ CARPENTER AND AUDREY COLOM associa carrying pink helium balloons and the Republican National Party for tion sh sporting such mottoes as Abort the ERA. We sh fibbers, not babies! and Draft Meanwhile, those testifying in gross fibbers, not ladies! They sang God favor of Smothers' bill said ERA . other i Bless America and The Eyes of was unnecessary, it was evil, it Reprodudiye ServiCes,.Jnc. Wimbl Texas Are Upon You and an meant that women would be players original composition whose lyrics drafted and homosexuals would ting a ri ~Ant~cnrnAthi"CJ lilt-A.!.... 1!.uD aaf __2 marrv and adoot.other oeoole's I • 6?A3_B_i~~~tltl_At_~----,-_, wome on the steps 01 the Capitol. Caucus,reaffirmed-the support 0 carrying pink helium balloonsand the Republican National Partyfor tion sporting such mottoes as Abort the ERA. sh Meanwhile, those testifying in We she fibbers, not babies! and Draft gross I favor of Smothers' bill said ERA fibbers, not ladies! TheysangGod - other Bless America and The Eyes of was unnecessary, it was evil, it Reproductive Services,..]nc, Wimbl meant that women would be Texas Are Upon You and an players drafted and homosexuals would original composition whose lyrics ting a went something like: I've got a marry and adopt other people's 6243 Bissonnet Wome guy, he's a wonderful guy, please children. A minister from Pasa- togethi don', liberate me ... He buys me dena said that it would lead to a fessio~ mink and' pearls and diamond genderlesssociety by "destroying contin rings, please don', liberate me! male ruggednessand female fem- FREE 'PREGNANCY TESTS 10%. I The rally reached a peak of ininity." the nei excitement when it was an-- will sf. nounced that the Florida legis- Liz Carpenter, chair of ERAme- For Information about additional services, lature had that very day defeated rica, engaged everyone's atten- tion with her colorful testimony call the ERA. i ' The halls of the Capitol buzzed (reprinted in part on page 2). She with nothing but the ERAall day proposed that: long as people waited fo the full Often the Issue lsn't.ERAat all but (713) '771·4336 House to adjourn from its dis- a power play between power-mad cussion of school budgets and legislators on other issues. That teacher salaries. It was rumored wastrue in North Carolina, where that Anita Bryant was flying in to an arrogant lieutenant governor testify before the -committee. wanted to flex his muscles before Blustered one State employee the governor and the House of in an elevator: "You know what Representatives and, of course, it I'd like to see happen to those was women who were the victims , women out there on the steps11'd - by two votes. The issue could like to see each and everyone of have been anything - seat belts, them have her husband run over conservation, schools. by a truck tomorrow and seehow _ , _ shefeels when shecan't buy a car Smothers made a final plea to or mortgage the house." "Take it "let Texasmake up for a.bad, bad easy," someone else cautioned. mistake" and urged the commit-, "Where can I get a button?" wasa tee to let the full House vote .on question frequently heard. the bill. Rep. Eddie Bernice John- When the committee convened son (D~Fort Worth), however, at 6:30 p.rn., it heard 2O-/Tlinute made a motion to refer it to sub- blocsof testimony, alternating pro' committee which passed5-3. and con, for more than four The bill's supporters were des- ' hours. pondent, assuming that it would The usual arguments were he- die in subcommittee. They milled ard. longtime ERA campaigner about in the rotunda, discussing Hermine Tobolowsky, ,speaking strategiesfor 1979.Saidthe minis- for Texas Business and Profes- ter from Pasadenawho had testi- sional Women's £Iubs, reviewed fi~d: "Ju~t-to show you what.kind the case for the Equal .Rights of.people are for the ERA,- they Amendment. Shepointed out that were laughing at the Scriptures,I the five years which had elapsed was quoting more than at my sinceTexaspasseda stateERAhad opinionsl""That's because God not brought unisex bathrooms, just doesn't have the kind of pull legalized rape, or abolished child he usedto," replied asympathetic sup~rt. bystander. PAGE_4 • MAY 19" • HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH rather than the professor. Wed- ed out dington, it must be remembered, rlar in was the attorney who argued the to His ize, it case for legalized abortion in Roe !Isthat v. Wade before the. U.S. Supreme Abortion bill still viable Court four years ago. )Ie of rades, Committee members questi- •istent . oned the speakers at some length . proud Chase Untermeyer (R-Houston) )rking thought the bill lent itself to By Karen Barrett ~ with , loopholes, questioning the preci- reve- sion of such wording as "best medical judgment" and "grave ~in all impairment of health," which oc- aight- Since the U.S. Supreme Court curred frequently. Wilhelmina char- decision of January, 1973, Texas. Delco (D-Austin) wanted to know sence. has had no abortion statutes. The if other states had passed such each House Committee on Health, legislation and if so, had it passed as an Education and Welfare tabled two the test of constitutionality. ter by bills sponsored by Rep.Torn Uher Ernestine Glossbrenner (0- hand (R-Bay City) which included pro- Alice) took exception to the bill's drich, visions to forbid abortions In proponents who. refused to iseurn public hospitals and to require a consider impaired mental health logue woman to obtain her husband's as a consideration for permitting icorn- written permission for an ,a60r- an abortion after the 22nd week. s fun- tion. She suggested that a woman who with Committee hearings, which are >' ••• discovered she was carrying a I uni- scheduled after the full legislative ~\ ... fetus with Downes' syndrome, a iment bodies adjourn each -day, often ':l:!it genetic defect which is not detec- last long into the night. So it was rdin~ and bill's premises. Referring to the manner in which. the physicians of qualifications was his partnership defended ItS constitutionality. concept of a hard and fast rule Texas are handling the abortion in the Cullen Women's Clinic, In ~~stifying last,. the bill's based on a 22-week gestation, she s!tuation," giving her ~ote of con- where abortions are performed. opposinon had the disadvantage. said, "While I have no intention of fidence to the medical profes- In questioning the appointee, It was well a!ter midnight and being earthy on the House floor, I s.ion's ability to voluntarily estab- Walter "Mad Dog" Mengden con- several committee members ap- must point out that for anyone lish standards. fined himself almost exclusively to pea red. to be asleep '.The chair had with a normal sex life, it is very We?dington . called Ballenger such queries as "How many abor- a habit of snapping back to hard to determine the exact time on his quotation of an AMA tions do you perform a year?" and attention Justin time to summon of conception so as to compute i?urnal statement that saline abor- "Describe to us what a fetus abort- each new speaker. the ~estation." nons were extremely dangerous, ed in the 12th week looks like." JOHN COLEMAN

~ When asked if he thought the abortion as he feels they should abortion objections were the real not. He was so melodramatic with issue, Coleman said he felt that his talk of Nazi executions; the the objections were sincerely other senators who had object- founded, although irrelevant to ions were gentlemen." his qualifications. He said that '''1 was convinced all along that if there were other objections to his I were judged by the same criteria appointment initially: "At first, as other nominees, I would be there were rumors of a political appointed," said Coleman. He trade-out, that in return for the was finally confirmed by a vote support of the Black Political Cau- of 25 - 4. cus for Calvin Guest asstate Dem- Asked for an opinion on HB ocratic Party chairman, Governor 1875, Coleman called it "unnec- pregnancy. Briscoe agreed to name a black to essary" but did not seem unduly either A .& M or UT's board." concerned. "It says that saline ab- ortions could be performed only AARON WOMEN'S CLINIC Coleman is the first black to be when there was no safer method appointed to the board of either available. Well, I am confident, in university. It is interesting to note my own hands at least, that there is that two years ago, on the oc- no safer method available for see- casion of his appointment to the ond trimester abortion. All the PREGNANCY TESTING board of TSU, a predominantly evidence to date shows that it is COUNSELING, • REFERRALS black school, the same committee safer by far than the prostaglandin Strict Confidentiality call questioned him only as to wheth- method, which is being tried asan er his profession afforded-him the alternative." He reiterated the fact time to devote to an additional brought out' in committee hear- , position. ings on the bill, that saline abor- About Mengden, Coleman tion tlas a lower casualty rate than 774~9706 said: "1 feel just as strongly that full-term delivery. women should have the option of - K.B. HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH. MAY 1977. PAGE5 Media women air Wi Jackie McCauley: Most positive By Janice Blue thing I ever did was not learn to type. .":~

Deborah Wrigley: My typing Television is in its mid-twenties. was so slow at the Houston-News There were few women on the air from its infancy through its Service that I got promoted to a teens. Not many, in fact, until TV turned 21. That was in December . news intern. Once an intern, I 19?7,. when the FCC decided that television (arid radio) must go found myself doing tape work for. co-ed. a male reporter who had a little At that time; Houston station managers publicly expressed fears more experience than I did. I'd that their ratings would drop if anything higher than a baritone do the interview and he'd put his delivered the news. One television executive conceded that if a voice around it. It really made me woman were pretty enough, she might get away with a feminine mad. voice on television, but on radio "never." Another asked, "How . many women are interested in this kind of work, anyway?" Vesta Brandt: After working a.sa It is apparent that a number of women availed themselves oitbe secretary for 18 years and WIth opportunities which opened up in the Seventies. It is interesting encouragement from the local in talking with Houston media women to note that when they sales. manager and two other make reierences to "in the beginning" and "back then," they are media women,. I presented my . talking about the earlySeventies.ca.se to the president of !he com- All except for Vesta Brandt and Thelma Schoettker, veteran pany: I wanted to work 10 sa.les. I In 1 broadcasters' from the days before the FCC directive. really understood the bu~mess the fir~ Brandt worked as secretary to the general manager of KNUZ/ and mark~t - the b~ttom line - onstrai KQUE for 18years before she walked in one day and said, "1want ?nd told him so. He hired me ~ack , White to go into sales." She is now the stetion's local seles manager. 10 1970. ltell w?men all the time Twe Schoettker is regarded as the dean of Houston women broad- who want to go into sales to be the 26, 1971 casters. She was on the air in the earlyS.ixties and remembers bes~ at. whatever t~ey do. If you those! being the only woman at the station. She's pretty up-front about can.t file, you can t keep good gay ad the ieets she had whenever she saw another woman interviewed. business and sales records. 1 count~ "! just didn't think the station would have two of us." ' The ~ "Todey," the KEYH broadcaster says, "when I see women Presid~ coming in and applying for a job, I want to stand up and cheer!" IMAGE Marga, Yet some media women question the "double standard" that • special; exists in hiring practices for women in broadcasting. Appearance pleasu As former Houston newswoman Jessica Savi-tch put it a few that it I years ago: "t personally feel, given a devaluation in my cosmetic into a ~ THELMA SCHOETTKER ; KEYH value, I wouldn't have gotten the chance I did, The first women much; who were given a chance were not the bright ones with Ian Carson: Back at a station in this COI journalistic ability but rather the ones who could photograph well Louisville (Ky) I was told "You've Cost, and speak well." , got. the image that the station" ficials s MO,st of the wome~ In t~e, Houston market seem t~, b~ young wants to project - tastefully • genui (under 30)anc!.attractlve, rsssmg' yet another,q,u~stlon: WIll these" dressed. well ~roomed. and a!- •..; ?uct~d same women be allowed to age on the television screens or will tractive." That plays a large role 10 -, .dent s broadcasting, ~ike modeling, be a short term career for women?" my being an anchor. . meeti '!!. additi9.!2-.~0~randt, and Schoettker, seve~al HOl:'s/on :n~di~_ The I •••••••••.•••••••"".~- -, Vil'TCI~oUTUTfrnave-go-ccen-rn-e-cnance-ra·r~rn-e,rr5cwrnn-e who were given a chance were not the bright ones with Jan Canon: Back at a station in journalistic ability but rather the ones who could photograph well Louisville (Ky) I was told "You've and speak well." got the image that the station. Mos: of the women in the Houston market seem to be young wants to project - tastefully' (under 30) and attractive, rsising yet enotberquestion: "Will these . dressed. well groomed. and at- same women be allowed to age on the television screens or will tractive." That plays a large role in broadcasting, like modeling, be a short term career for women?" my being an anchor. In additIon to Brandt and Schoettker, several Houston media women talked about their experiences in the field and their Sara Lowrey: There is a double observations on the changes of the last few years: standard. But if I were a station ~ Elma Barrera, news reporter, KTRK-TV manager, I wouldn't take the risk . Ian Carson, news anchor, KTRK-TV of putting someone on the air Sharon Blair, program director, KUHT-TV who wasn't attractive, because leslie Davis, talk-show host, KPRC-AM they're taking risk putting wom- Sondra Feldman, weekend news editor, KTRH-AM a en on anyway. Rightly or wrongly. Mildred Gaddis, news reporter, KYOK-AM It's really unfair becausethere are Sara lowery, news anchor, KPRC:TV some ugly men on the air. In Karen Lugar, camera operator, KDOG- TV anchor positions like Ian's and •... Jackie McCauley, program director, KlOl-FM mine, I don't think they would ~ Dana Millikin, news reporter and photographer, KTRK-TV have had an unattractive woman. ~ Deborah Wrigley, consumer news reporter for former station KlYX-FM Thelma Schoettlc:er: Even now, I hear friends of mine whom I re- spect say "I like Ian Carson, she's so attractive." Or "That SaraLow- ery is a doll." They are attractive, ENTRY but that's irrelevant. There def- initely is a double standard.

Elma Barrera: I answered the Mildred Caddis: I am not cos- phone for three months during metically acceptable by Anglo my training period. The other standards. I am not tall, thin or trainee was sent out on news fair-skinned, nor do I have long assignments. I told the station I'd silky hair. If I had been pretty in leave if they didn't put me on the the way America sees beauty, I air by the third month. They did. could have gone a few places.Just That wasfive yearsago and I'm still look at the black women on the here. air. They're all fair. Yes,it's racist! Dana Millikin: I flew in from Mexico City where I had been editor of a bilingual magazine and Deborah Wrisley: Good looks I went to Channel 2 for an inter- can be a drawback ... can 'be view. Someone there told me, distracting. I've sometimes been "Well, you really have to know told by older male reporters that how to type. We really don't have I'v gotten into interviews because women in news. We've had a of the way I look. Most of the ••• couple of women associate pro- women in this market are young ducers but they had to know typ- and attractive, but there are no ing." At KAUM, I.lost out on an bombshells on TV. I was told a internship To a guy who wrote for well-built woman would be of- the Rice Thresher, but Iwasasked fensive to other women and that SONDRA FELDMAN'. kTRH if I would work for nothing just to because women control the dial, get experience. Iended up doing the stations wouldn't hire such a it. woman. PAGE 6 • MAY 19" • HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH views' ·on careers. . Age Deborah Wrigley: Sometimes I Elma Barrera: So many women did have-to do real turkey jobs. A are doing hard news; Many stories JOIn·Carson: Will women be station I worked for sent me out would go unreported if news- allowed to grow old gracefully on on traffic reports, and I·kept re- women did not recommend their the television screens? This will be minding them that Iwas hired as a coverage so the very presence of the real test: ability or looks. Will it reporter. One day Iwas doing live women in the newsroom directly be the young thing? Will I be reports on President Ford's visit to affects the news. Although there allowed to anchor after I'm 4011 Houston. In the middle of, his has .been no basic change in sincerely doubt it. speech, I was called on my two- broadcast management, Phyllis way and told to file a traffic report Deter is now the assignments ed- Dana Millikin:. They don't want in 60 seconds. So, I crawled under itor at-Channel 13. That's a good to see wrinkles. .,' ' a table and reported that down- training spot for a n~ws director town streets were congested be- position someday. Sondra 'Feldman: I don't think cause of preparations for the mo- we will be x'ed out of the market. torcade. Soon after that a woman Karen Lugar: I grew up with four We will be veteran news reporters afternoon editor wrote the news brothers and played football and by then. director a letter on my behalf and did a lot of athletic things. I also they moved me out of traffic work on my'own car. On remote, I Thelma Schoettker: . Most of the' assignments to strictly news re- take apart cameras and move all youth craze is a local phenornen- porting. the film equipment. Some of the - on. At the network level, women men on the crew are stronger than reporters are all in their 30's and I am, but I help out the ones who 40's. It's still fairly new for a wom- have trouble moving those 10- Sharon Blair: While Iwas work- an to be on the air here. They're foot risers. ing as a reporter, there was a '. . not taking any chances. When I women's abortion march. I cov- Thelma Schoettker: My pres- look at some of the male anchors, ered the story. I had film, inter- ence made some of the male re- I think a woman couldn't get away views, and went on the air live. I porters able to recognize wom- with it. was attempting to do a very ser- en's issues, and to be sensitive to ious story. Later the news direct- issues, and to be sensitive to Voice or said, "That was a real cute language . Like calling wom- story." en "girls." I'm very optimistic. A Elma Barrera: Management felt new generation of men coming something was wrong with our Sondra Feldman: I was lucky. out of college will be in the media. voices for "years, but the public KTRH has a lot of women on its Ithink you can tell a man's age by accepted us as soon as they put us staff, so we were able to do stories his attitudes. on the air. I want women to be powerful...

We've got a lot of women in the media now. Toget there, you had to do it like the guys. You had to be one of the guys. You had to shoot by their standards. You had to write by their standards. You had to report by their standards. We've got the troops now, so to speak. We don't-have them in as high positions as we'd like and we :-"1.•• _ ._..,nn'.LaAt~thAr •• withnut~~clul":uinfL..ourse/,v.es2ncl~suDDOtl;n.(1,e2.l"hother. jy.T.CARTER SMITH ~.-. ••• ..;::.:~~:~::::. :.:::::.:::::::::.::::::::::=::::.:.: .•..•.. JACkiE MCCAiJLEY , kLOl We've got a lot of women in the media now. To get there, you had to do it like the guys. You had to be one of the guys. You had to shoot by their standards. You had to write by their standards. You had to report by their standards. We've got the troops now, so to speak. We don't-have them in as high positions as we'd like and we won't: get there without educetlngoursetves and supporting each other. . CARTER SMITH We women in the newsrooms have got to get it together so that we're not just sending down .-:tT household hints and news of demonstrations on the wire services - right now, pyff or protest stories are all they have about women. We in the media have got to scream and fight and yell for those serious stories that are slowly creeping in on the network scene, like those on women's health. Jan Carson and I worked on a series on breast cancer. We learned so much. It was a very important story, but we couldn't- get them to put it high in the cast. They didn't consider it as important as traffic accidents. Just wait till there's an epidemic of prostate cancer. It'It be the lead story.

I want ~omen !o be powerful. I want us to pull the sisters together and have some kind of camaraderie. That s our next hurdle. - D~n~ Millikin (see cover)

Deborah Wrigley: I've always on subjects before they turned heard things like "A woman's into hot copy, such as child abuse voice sounds more apologetic and and battered wives. I've worked doesn't carry as much credibility on fluff stories other places but as a man's." There aren't a lot of I've had good assignments here . . \ . - women DJs and it is almost a rule that they don't put a woman on " morning (6 -10 a.m.) or afternoon Mildred Gaddis: A story came (3 - 7 p.m.) drive time. up recently that Craig Washington asked to witness the first capital Mildred Gaddis: I've got a heavy punishment execution. A guy in voice. I was hired over the ph

PAGE 8 • MAY 1977 • HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH. "1 have been pleasantly surprised that we've .gott;n as a many dedicated and professional women as we have, says GOT Jack Harris, KPRC·TVgeneral manager. Below are excerpts from the transcript of the first negotiating meeting held December, 1973, betweeJl the Houston Area NOW Media WE NIKKI! Reform .Task Force and Harris. The station hired Carole 915 Kneeland as their only female hard news reporter shortly . rand- after the second such meeting in January, 1974. Another roval woman reporter, Kathryn Culvert, was hired soon after and fora in April, Sara Lowreybecame daily co-anchor and weekend 'i1d,I anchor ~rson. In June, 1974, KPRC·TVsigned an agree- Then ment with NOW to increase coverage of women's news ~ cel- and to hire women and minorities in proportion to their" Ie the representation in the local population. :r. To Harris denies acceding to NOW's demands in the hiring ailed of women:"1 don't think there was ever any block on their ~ my going in. 1just think it was a natural evolution," he says :spirit today. . hild. Hosting mily NOW: Your employment of women isinadequate in that you don't have "THE .WOMEN'S ADVOCATE" able, enough women employed, particularly in management, professional and first, technical positions. In fact, it has decreased two percent in the past year. Harris: We don't keep up with that. Frankly, we don't go on quotas for 'Every Friday 3 - 4 p.m. women or minorities. We're not required to go on quotas, dear. NOW: I know you're not required. . Harris: And we don't. NOW: But you are required to give equal opportunity and you're supposed to have some sort of affirmative action plan, aren't you? Harris: Nol ' NOW: The FCC 'requires you to actively recruit both women and, minorities. - Harris: The FCC hasn't really addressed itself to women ... we certainly have not in any way discriminated against women in employment. We're for equal opportunity, dear, but we're not going on quotas if that's what NIKKI VAN HIGHTOWER you're talking about ... What kind of program would you have us have for women? Affirmative Action Dlvilion NOW: As an-example, you had an opening in the on-the-air spot after • City of HOUlton Steve Smith left for Pittsburgh, and you hired Ron Stone in his place. Did you interview any women? e Harris: We didn't interview anybody for it, dear. Let me explain the something to you about television. I had to go through this with the the blacks. When you're talking about an on-the-air person, you're talking ~C'Ugye~RH-740 are about an anchor person. We don't care what sex they are or what color }; t but they are, The public decides the person. I've got 37 or 38 people in the all news department. Some of them are women. Some are black. SOmeare rgin Chicano. Now we didn't select any of those to be the anchor person me- becausewe didn't think they were ready for it, which made several of our leho people unhappy. We have just finished a $24,000 study of all our people ~Iess and all the people in town. Those books over there are studies by research ous organizations that have to do with personality and what the people think of on-the-air people. We are not able to force the public into who or what they're going to watch. They've got that channel to switch. ~ore lub- NOW: But they have to have a choice to reject women at least. ~me Harris: Dear, let me tell you, your voice would never go on-the-air. Whenever we're out of the office, the ~ale I·~ NOW: I'm not applying for on-the-air. de- H.urls: I know, but you have a feminine voice. The public-I've been in l. this business for so many years, I know some of these things. I put the first Breakthrough phones are answered [It~: woman.on.radiQ ~..womanJ.oohauheHews-=-aLWMSj~ashyjlle. I L.:.aur!tQou_~'.1,~a_nJ Ual'_L.J't'I.~~~nnD~ nrD organizations thatliave-to-dO-Witn personality an(fwhat the peopretnin ous of on-the-air people. We are not able to force the public into who or what they're going to watch. They've got that channel to switch. ore NOW: But they have to have a choice to reject women at least. ub- Harris: Dear, let me tell you, your voice would never go on-the-air. Whenever we're out 0/ the of/ice, the ime NOW: I'm not applying for on-the-air. iale '~~ Harris: I know, but you have a feminine voice. The public -I've been in Breakthrough phones are answered de- this businessfor so many years, I know some of these things. I put the first ~ity. woman on radio - A Woman Looks at the News - at WMS in Nashville. courteously and your messages are all Shedid afine job. Thiswasa special show aimed at awoman audience, you /ith see. We're not discriminating against women. We're gonna make our own choices, and I told this to the blacks and I'm going to tell it to you. taken efficiently 24 hours a day by our NOW: We're not saying that we want to make the choices for you. But .you have gotten into an issue right there. Do you automatically assume ,m- that women's voices ... Harris: Yes, yes, I assume from thirty something years of experience. • - NOW: You say the public chooses. If the public never had a chance ... e Harris: They have had a chance. tAJeJt, ANte. NOW: But the point still isthat if women are not given an opportunity to become anchor persons,to become visible, the audiences can't even have 'of Houston the chance to reject them. In Europe it has been very common for years and years to have anchorwomen. . Harris: Well, the audience in Europe and the audiences in this country ...We get the polls. We get surveys all the time. This is not making an arbitrary decision on the thing. We've been through this any number of a woman""ownedbusiness times. There are over a thousand television stations in this country, and not a one of them usesa woman asan anchor. I understand 11 isthinking about one. That's their prerogative if they want to. We are not going to decide who is going to be an anchor ontheir color or their sex. radlopailul NOW: But you are, by saying that it cannot be a woman. live •• awerlnl aervlee ,. Harris: I didn't say there couldn't be one. I've never seen one, and we didri~t audition to select it, you see. NOW: But you said just a minute ago that awoman's voice automatically just excludes her. . Central Office Harris: That is my opinion. T,hatis'my opinion. 4215 Graustark NOW: Well, then, doesn't your opinion matter in who is hired7 Harris: Yes.and it is controlling. 524~3985 NOW: All right, then, you are automatically excluding women on the grounds of sex. Harris: I said that is my opinion now. I didn't say never. Northwest Office Southwest Office NOW: But what we are saying is that you may not be interpreting 12345 Klnqsride 3221 Fondren correctly and there is this automatic assumption. that women's voices are objectionable. What do you base it on7 You sayyou have some polls. Do 467-2111 781-3413 you have some specific polls that show ,his7 Nonheast Office Harris: We haven't made a study on that particular thing, dear, but don't 4215 Graustatk try to put your judgment on television in this asagainst mine. I have been in this business for very many years. I have had very many occasions to 691-2088 judge on these things. NOW: At least interview women. Harris: We didn't interview anybody, dear. We go for somebody who is experienced. NOW: Then you will always be perpetuating men because women will never have the opportunity unless you take somebody from your Roberta K. Tillinghast, President reporters. . Harris: In my opinion, none of them that I know are ready for it. I have never seen a woman come in here that I think would be a good •Houston • Galveston • San Antonio • Corpus Christi .anchorperson. Now 'Yhen Isay a good on••, I mean the best we can get HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH • MAY,1977 • ,AGE , Tw no, Gabrielle Cosgriff, Editor 'for

If 1 Pie PAN. Phyllis Schlafly, 'crusty ERA oppo- All of Houston society was in a tizzy last weex when King Hussein of Jordan made his first Front page headline in the Houston Post (Sat. wome nent, was hit in the face with an apple pie April 30): Wife or Widow I (Mrs. Vernon- courts recently at a Women's National Republican visit here. Among other festivities, Joanne Harris King Herring and husband Bob gave a small, McManus waits, worries)1 Can you imagine Club luncheon. Aron Kay, formerly of Pie Kill them printing a headline "Husband or Wi- Kless Unlimited, said he threw the 'pie, but de- select party for him. According to Shelby nomh Hodge of the Houston Post, Joanne invited dower?" PAN the Post headline writers parted from his usual cream pies because "it r (again). Chr was irithe tradition of motherhood and apple "as many attractive ladies" as she could, since sents pie." He said he cooked up the idea because, there were no women in the King's official with j of Schlafly's opposition to ERA. He was not party. "1 think ladies are part of the deco-: * love f ration," she said, adding that she wanted all of paid for the fruits of his labor, but said that "" Camera PAN to Frank Ambrose, a Channel 13 Ruby them to sparkle. Hussein was also scheduled several women's groups who support ERA' photographer, for his behavior at City Coun- and a fl to meet prominent Houstonians at a lunch- backed his action. • cil the day they shafted Dr. Nikki Van High- She's eon at the Junior League Tea Room, Carol tower. Outside Council chambers, after the j and yes t Maupin, Junior League manager, had P(O- ouster, reporters were crowding around her That'! mised to assemble about 50 of the League's and Ambrose was trying to move in. He kept '* "prettiest, loveliest, most genteel girls who cold, an yelling, "Down in front, radio reporters, Ruby All That Glitters doesn't. Norman Lear's1atest still know how to wait table" to serve the down!" Then to Lori Rodriguez, Houston black rr video offering, about a world where sex-roles guests. A king-sized PAN to Maupin and King are reversed, has an outstanding cast, but Chronicle, who was busy taking notes, he . Young (domestic variety). shouted "If you're just taking notes, honey, tense ul that's about it. The premise is amusing and . One II provocative at first> but one soon tires of get out of the wayl" Nikki quietly remarked, cliches and stereotypes, whether traditional "Some of them never learn, do they? Ob- or reversed, Arthur Unger (Christian Science * noxious, obnoxious." The same kind of beha- Norman Wells, owner of the My-O-My Club vior was exhibited by some of Nikki's oppo- Monitor) phrased it well when he said, "In its and the Zipper Lounge, also owns Medical own peculiar way, All That Glitters turns out nents, who were shouting and pushing to get Slenderizing Clinics and is responsible for on camera. Suzanne Thomas, PANting to be to be more sexist than the sexist society it their always-offensive ads. Remember"l want satirizes - especially since there is a strong interviewed by anyone, approached a cam- your body and I want it now"? His latest form eraman and asked to be interviewed. He said, implication that, given the opportunity, of PANdering, to poor taste is a picture of a women would be even worse than men with "Lady, I'm just the cameraman," whereupon scantily-clad young woman (what else?) with A good idea' for a special, she cornered Nancy Holland, Channel 2 re- roles reversedr» the caption, "Fat is beautiful - on your maybe, but as a series it's just a flash in the porter, and asked "fan Carson, wouldn't you husband's secretaryl If it's on you, you need PAN.' like to talk to someone from the other side?" helpl You're not the only one. For some reason, Nancy politely declined. * She's proud to be Enoki* . Kimiko Kichi, a * St. George has a new dragon. The head of the leading Japanese feminist, (who prefers to be Tempus fugit, except in Uvalde. Governor Naval Surface Force, Vice Adm. William St. known as Misako Eno,ki, the name she was D,olph Briscoe has just reappointed , Dr.; George, says he hopes women will not be born with) has borrowed over $56,000 from MaynardS. Hart of EIPaso to another three- allowed on fighting ships "in my time." He her husband to help finance 10 candidates of year term on the State', Health Advisory says the thought of men and women sharing " Committee. The governor personally makes ____ .&._L -I __ L.t. .•.L_ L_!-I __ ,'.•._,. _ the Japan Women's Party to run in the July • 0" rl I • I. .1' _II __ • _L :_. .,. +_ ;,•...•.•••_. "lIono.nrio.c:: ':l.nrl .•. "* *' She's proud to be Enoki. Kimiko· Kichi, a St. George has a new dragon. The head of the leading Japanese feminist, (who prefers to be Tempus fugit, except in Uvalde. Governor Naval Surface force, Vice Adm. William St. known as Misako Enoki, the name she was Dolph Bris~oe has just reappointed Dr. George, says he hopes women will not be born with) has borrowed over $56,000 from Maynard -S. Hart of EI Paso to another th ree- allowed on fighting ships "in my time," He her husband to help finance 10 candidates of year term on the State', Health Advisory says the thought of men and women sharing the Japan Women's Party to run in the July Committee. The governor personally makes watches and coffee on the bridge "wakes me elections, She has promised to repay the loan all such appointments to state agencies and up nights." A suit to change the Navy policy 'by July, If she fails, she has agreed to his committees. The only problem is, Dr. Hart limiting sea duty to men is pending in San . ultimatum that she will either give up her died in 1975. A timesPAN to the governor . Diego federal court. PAN the admiral for feminist activities or divorce him. Enoki is the thinking that Navy ships are fl,ot she-worthy. founder and leader of Chupiren, a feminist organization that wears pink helmets to de- monstrate for equal rights. Her husband, * Wrigley, a news reporter on Kl Natsuo Kiuchi, says he has kept quiet about Deborah YX her activities long enough and that he's Radio until its untimely demise last February, * recently hosted a documentary on porno- deadly serious about the terms he set. But Charter a PAT to Pat Lane, 15th Senatorial graphy for Channel 8 TV's Friday local. Wrig- Enoki is standing PAT on her feminist prin- District, who organized a busload of people ley interviewed a variety of people, including ciples. "He's a wonderful man," she says, "1 to go to Austin last month to lobby against an adult-theater owner, a vice-squad officer, don't want to divorce him, but Idon't want to Rep. Clay Smothen' attempt to recall Texas' a professor of cinema, an ACLU attorney and quit. the Chupiren movement, either. I'll ratification of the ERA (see story p.4). The feat Geneva Kirk Brooks (Citizens Against Porn- make the utmost effort to repay the money." of Clay was smothered by Rep. Eddie Bernice ography). Brooks, a porn-against Christian, )ewrlte ~ Johnson, whose motion to send the reso- quoted how she had explained to Mayor approval lution to a subcommittee passed 5-3. When Hofheinz, at a city council meeting, the. >'After ': * hebch .,j lane approached him after the vote to voice Jessie Sappington wrote a letter to the Post's difference between art and pornography."lf her disappointment that he, as a black, would Sound-Off recently about news coverage in you were to stand up there in the nude before ~vil~ not support other minorities, his response which she said that she had been misquoted us, that would be art. But if you started :-:-Her ai senate Ct was "Some of those women need their ass copulating and having oral sex with the city ',... -. I by reporters at the Southern Baptist Conven- >.·If the kicked in." Smothers grosses a PAN. tion in 1973. "1 blanched when I read that I council and charging admission, that is porn- Rub! believe the Scriptures prohibit women from ographic."Wrigley presented a good balance :~"'0Tbere'i being leaders in the church. While Iwas able of opinions, which made for a very interesting ,to five ~here's I KXYZ Radio seems to be* starting a PATtern of to correct my views to some individual show. (All shooting was done on location.) editorial support for the women's movement. reporters, . the presses· had rolled and my PAT Wrigley's gumption in her handling of t!~~ While the controversy was going on, they oersonhood was disfiaured beyond rectifi- the program. And, sticking to the subject of Itelvin,l Friday Local, a pair of PATs to the two women alone, of all the local media, published an cation." Sound-Offs reply: "The Rev. Lester rs Sandy· .Scott and Andy Schach- editorial strongly supporting Dr. Nikki Van Kinsolving ... hardly disfigured your person- .oroduce ~:a::1 tel. This is local public TV at its best. bl:wyer~ Hightower. This month they did it again, hood beyond rectification ... he said, 'Then, as if by Divine Intervention, along came Mrs. years aJ deploring the fact that some council mem- ~ege, bers have threatened to hold up the mayor's Richard Sappington. The honey-blonde wife iixties .. ~ budget because he rehired Nikki. The edit- of. the pastor of Cloverleaf Baptist Church in * : "I've ~ the yeal orial says that the mayor can hire anyone he Houston, Mrs. Sappington quite nicely im- Broadcast a PAT to KTRH-AM Radio and plements Texas'Dolph Briscoe. "I really wasn't equipped to make a living," she Earlier that day, the governor's office had called to iters recalled. "And r never had to wOrk. You see, I was confirm a release that he had appointed her to one of . Chronicle Staff Writer Zarko Prtmks pre- brought up like most girls in my time. Go to college, the new criminal court benches here. sents this special report on the, nominees get married, have children, go to the seashore and So now, Nettie Joe Kegans, red hair aflame, a with contrasti .'g lifestyles but wi h ('a'fr~mon live happily ever after." jumbo emerald ring on one finger, a matching uncut love f01' and knowledge of the law. So She enrolled at ate University of Houston, law emerald pendant around her neck, was a judge, -.;:

, school, led her class academically, ,and passed her subject to Senate confirmation. - .. _., ... ." ' ~113 Ruby Kless Sondock, even with sniffles, no, makeup state bar exam before she graduated with 1he class of As her colleagues .came by to wish their best, you um- and a red nose, has an appealing little girl look. '62. could see she was turned on. This was her day. 'She igh- She's 50, five three, 103lbs., size 6, a grandmother, :she was born here, on 21 Reisner st., in the beamed, yes radiated, not unlike a queen reviewing the and yes, the little girl look is very much there. , Washington Avenue area, one 'of three daughters of her subjects. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Kless. Her father was a master her "So we can't call you a redheaded broad, any- , That's when you see her at home; she's fighting a machinist and a _tool designer. She attended Dow :ept more," said Anthony Friloux in mock awe, but still cold, and she's semi-relaxed .. Elementary, Marshall Junior High, and Jeff Davis choosing his words with care .. ~rs, Ruby Kless Sondock, on a diS'trict court bench, in a before graduating from San Jacinto High. She attended Cottey College, in Nevada, Mo., on a This was heady stuff tor any mortal. ~on black robe, is another ball game. And Joe (named for her late fatht>t:';,a Waco he seholarship. . Young lawyers have been known to stammer and After fOUl' years on a domestic relations court printer), suddenly said she reckoned she'd had her fill ley, tense up before her.. Justifiably so. . bench, hearing endless stories of broken hearts and of.orange juice. .ed, One lawyer recalled the other day she made him broken homes, she distills the reqUisite of a good She switched to Scotch and nibbled it slowly. )b- jUdge in two words: good judgment. savoring it and the conversation' around her. ha- A highlight in her role as a lawyer, she said, was She was with people she was comfortable with. po- when a lawyer called to thank her. Friloux and Jack Stovall and Vince Rehmet, and a "His wife had come to me for a divorce," recalls, young girl named Caroline Garcia, an intern in get Sondoek, "And I talked her out of filing." Kegans' law office, 305Houston Bar Center Building. .be She fikes to -work,--slie'likes to COOk,she's knowl- The intern, a hot-eyed sorceress' apprentice, m- edgeable on good wines. made no effort to hide her delight that Keganshad ~id, You get a glimpse of the little girl in her again as got a judgeship. on she lovingly fondles a bottle of Lafitte Rothschild, "Wow, what a dynamite lady," said the intern. re- vintage 1960. Caroline Garcia should have seen Nettie Joe Kegans I "Isn't it beautiful," she addresses the ruby red ,20 years ago around the courthouse. Lordy, lordy, ou wine, ".But my favorite is really Montrachet. what a baby dumpling. ~?" "You know when we get a gift bottle of wine, we }<~reshout of the South Texas College of Law. class ed. always like to have the person who gave us the wine of '57, Even then, before she got street wise through over for dinner ,to enjoy it." representing purse snatchers, rapists, killers and Therein lies a glimpse into the two· lives of Ruby 1lhieves,her voice was sort of raspy and gravelly. Sondock. In her private life, the suspicion lingers, her three- grandchildren, her two daughters' tots, enjoy That's before other lawyers began, referring to her, high priority. out of respect for, her toughness in the courtroom. as or Ma Barker or Black Maria. -- They are Josh, 3, son of Micha~land Marcia Cohen pro of Boston; and Jason, 3, and DaVId,1, sons of Howard A number of her colleagues in the criminal field, lee- and Sandy Marcus, of Houston, tne bread and butter regulars like Jimmy James, Ralph Chambers, Charles Melder, B~ Hunt, agree on ~ry one point: she's one helluva .lawyer. kes Which, strangely enough, fits Joe Kegans' opinion of imd .TnDo..a..U"Ot'l'~.".o. "T.!.~ ~ .....1~1__~••.•• _~·._..-lJ....T _1.-~1 __ 1 ., , U,~-,~,-~,,-":",.'.' •••••"•'•;.--~-~ ••~-~-;--~_gJ MleveS, her vOice was sort of raspy aM graveIl SOOdock. In her private hfe, the suspicion lingers, her , _ . y. three grandchildren, her two daughters' tots, enjoy That s before othei lawyers began refemng to her, hi igh priori' ity. Mout Bof respectk Blfor herk toughness. In the courtroom , as ---j nor Thare Josh 3 son of Michael and Marcia Cohen a 3[" er or . ac Mana. Dr. of .s:lton; and JasOn, 3, and David, 1, sons of Howard A number of her colleagues in the criminal field, and Sandy Marcus, of Houston, the bread and butter regulars like Jimmy James, ee- RalPh Chambers, Charles Melder, B9b Hunt, agree on ory one point: she's one helluva lawyer. kes Which, strangely enough, fits Joe Kegans' opinion of and Joe Kegans: "I'm a good lawyer and I make' the best art corn bread in town." nor. She's 49;. her' husband, Conda Perry Kegans. an engineer, died of cancer about two years ago. Their two children, son Perry Kegans Ill, 26. Houston, and daughter, Mrs. (Betty) George W. Ricks of Neder- land, have been gone from home several years now. She lives alone except for an unfriendly' Dobermann lYX named J. Frank Dobie in a two-story home in the ~ry, soutnwest. no- As most lawyers, she can easily recall the details of ~. her first case. Her client; Willie Lee Anderson, was rrg- charged with the ice pick killing of Anderson's para- ling mour, Judge Michael, Sr., during a lovers quarrel. cer, Kegans and another lawyer named Al Taylor were and ; appointed by Judge Ed Duggan to represent Ander- irn- son. The defense was self-defense. ian, iewrite a judgment five times before it met her I The prosecution was headed up by Frank Briscoe, iyor approval. Ithen the chief capital prosecutor, and a young man the ::'After four years on a domestic relations court I named John Hughes. V·"J( hendl, she has been appointed to a recently-created They were then, as they are today, courtroom 'ore ~viI district judgmp. heavyweights. I ·ted :-;Her appoIntment by the governor is subject to Kegans, the freshman lawyer, listened in awe as Jienate confirmation. Hughes described to the jury the meaning of malice ~1 city '/' I ~~Ifthe impression is left tha!}here are, in reality, as it was deemed applicable in the state's case: irn- "'0 Ruby Sondocks,.~e. impression is accurate. . "Malice, a heart regardless of social duty and I nee :1 There's Sondock, the- Judge, the public servant, nme fatefully bent on mischief, the existence of which is shown by acts done and words spoken." 1 ting .to five on the bencb, logical, coldly competent. j on.) "here's Sondock; the housewife, the very private Unbeknownst to Kegans, Hughes was reading t),erson, the doting grandmother, the gracious hostess, straight from the court's charge to the jury. ~ of )be summertime trout fisherman with her husband, "What a command of the language Hughes has," t of ~elvin, in a boat around the Galveston jetties. Kegans marveled. nen ~~As for Ruby Sondoek's qualifications for the .bench, "You goose," a friend told her, "Hughes was ch- perhaps the best- evaluation came from vete~an trial .simply reading the charge." lawyer Fred Parks, for whom she worked for seven As Kegans tells it today, "That's how dumb I was years after she got ber law degree from Bates .in those days." ~ege of Law, University of Houston, in the early Anyway, Willie Lee Anderson, wasn't convicted of ames. murder with malice. She -was convicted of murder .: "I've had a number of lawyers work for me over without malice and given five years In a state prison . 'It's safe to predictthere will be little pomposity III the years," said Parks, "And she was bead and Send your ideas for Pats, Pans and Dead Pans to Cabrielle and Shoulders aoove all of them." her courtroom. Propriety yes, and informality at Cosgriff, Houston Breakthrough, P.O. Box 88072, Houston 77004. propitious times, but never stuffiness. . iew •i Her mind works,. said Parks, like the. mind of a '04 good lawyer. "Sbe thinks like a man. I took a Because that's the redheaded lady's style. And brilliant woman and gave her an opportunity." whether you like it or not, that's the way she'll run an her courtroom. en's ~.Her loag sait, saifi Parks, is ber ability to reason logieallyy''n9t .io let emotioos .interfere with facts; iRH Appeared In the Houston Chronicle Sunday, March, 6, 19". Submitted selNrately by $Omemen I know can't do that." '. ."Parks; as his ~colleagues know, Jm't one to blow jessica Plowman, Elizabeth Randall, Salll Jeffrey, John Manhall Imoke Ol" puff another lawyer. . PAGE 11 • MAY 1977 • HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH Is rape a justification for murderl Can an alleged rape victim get a fair trial Ina judicial system dominated by men 1 Can minorities get a fair shake from the criminal justice The Pride of Inez system of the United Stated ' Reprinted by permission eMs. Magazine, 1975 What is the leRal definition of "self defense"l around them, and they are treated When I was born, my grand- By Maria Del Drago by it with 'the same misunder- mother expressed her disapproval standing and prejudice. My vision by going into deep mourning for a Inez Garcia has become a pub- blurs as I force myself to rernern- month: as a first-born' child, I lic figure, yet to most people, she ber what it is like to grow up Latina I should have been a macho, Then remains an enigma. Beautiful and' in an Anglo world. she arranged to have masses eel- flamboyantly' dressed, with a We look different, yes. But ebrated each week to ensure the toughness born of the barrio, she there is a greater difference than future birth of a male heir. To still behaved like an innocent; a our brown nipples, the shapes of make doubly sure, she also called child-woman who at first could our faces, and our Indian eyes in the local bruja to bless my explain her rape only in the sanc- From the moment of our birth, we mother and remove the evil spirit ., tity of the confessional. are thrust into an extraordinary that had given her a female child. An illiterate, unable even to tell patchwork quilt of contradictions. Our position within the family time when her trial began, she We combine witchcraft com- circle is learned early. At the table, nonetheless tried to control and fortably with blind obedience to the men and boys are served first,

"1 believe that no man or no personhas the right to takeover a woman's body because they feel like it. I believe if a woman wants to be with a, man, she'll be with that man." Inez Garcia NOW: Stev~l you 'I'! Harrlsl affect the politics of her trial and the Catholic church, going to, get the best cuts of meat (or the sometl the kaleidoscopic realities around mass each Sunday, yet calling a only meat), the freshest fruits, the black it. A minority woman with an brui« (witch) to our house to, re- strongest coffee. Sacrifices are aboutl instinctive fear of authority, es- move the "bad eye" an enemy has made for a boy's education, but they ~ news, pecially of police and the courts, put on us. rarely for a girl's. We wear a small Chicat she ended up defying both - not We are bilingual in a world silver medal of the Blessed Virgin becau only on her own behalf, but,quite where most children imperfectly and often make do with hand-me- peopf consciously, on behalf of all wom- master one language only, yet down dresses, but a true macho and all en. Anglo cultural standards may has at least one suit of spotless organ] ~ This contradiction, this enigma judge us illiterate or backward. white and wears a bright religious of on- of passivity and defiance, may sur- Our own cultural behavior, cast- medal on a gold chain. they'r vive the possible appeal of her ing our eyes down when talking to· Girls become more and more case. It may remain the public's NOW authorities as a sign of respect, for subject to' church dictates aspub- Harris view of her - unless she is under- instance, may cause us to be judg- erty approaches;. the very time NOW stood as a Latina. I know, for I am ed shifty, dishonest. when a macho's growing male Harris. one, too. If we are women, we are taught prowess begins to replace his de- this bJ There is Rain and anger be- to be gentle, ~uiet! and shy~et J:!endence or:' r_eligious authority. woma [ en ---- n-n-S·I~O-"-':ncn---:rrdTn;:]larrO~r-I-rav-Tra.3-~':n:·--1~'ii':t·~'---n·n·t--" •I.•l-,T-T"l-r-- - -••••------r 11.'r~i:i1!'1--!' _ This contradiction, this enigma judge us illiterate or backward. white and wearsa bright re"ligio-~~ , - n:~'oaril of passivityand defiance, maysur- Our own cultural behavior, cast- medal on a gold chain. of on-I they'rt vive the possible appeal of her ing our eyesdown when talking to ' Girls become more and more case. It may remain the public's authorities asa sign of respect,for subject to' church dictatesaspub- NOW: view of her - unlessshe isunder- instance,maycauseusto bejudg- erty approaches;. the very time Harris: stood asa Latina.I know, for I am ed shifty, dishonest. when a macho's growing male NOW: one, too. If we are women, we aretaught prowess begins to replace his de- Harris: There is pain and anger be- to be gentle, quiet, and shy, yet pendence on religious authority. thisbu wornai tween these lines '- as I try to men do great violence in defense Latinasare taught to observe all She dh explain Inez for what she is, I am of our "honor" - our virginity as the sacraments, beginning with see.W also trying to explain myself. We girls, our fidelity aswives- and we confession. choice

are not exactly the same: I grew ourselvesare taught to resistsuch In the poorly lit bowels of our r J NOW: up in Brazil and now live in Cal- "dishonor" to the death. parish church, we kneel uncom- you he ifornia, where Chicanos are the '. that w main Spanish speaking group; Harris: These are vital questions posed by the explosive rape an Inez wasborn to Cuban and Puer- NOW: New Dimensions in Health Care Harris murder trial of Inez Garcia, which will be presented as a 90- to Rican parents in New York, married to a Cuban, and hasalso minute courtroom drama on Channel 8, Wednesday, May The Total Approach. NOW: spent her recent yearsamongChi- beCOIT 25, at 9 p.m. and Saturday, May 28 at 9 p.m. The program, canos in California. But the var- the ch titled The People vs. Inez Garcia, was produced by San ieties of Latin culture share far June 11 - 12 and YE Francisco's public TV station, KQED. more basicvalueswith each other Harris: than they do with the Anglo world Rice Rittenhouse Hotel ...We: Houston, Texas arbitra times'J Brecht Drama at Main Street Theater not a« about' The enormous power .of the mind to afFect decidE NOW~ physiological functioning has only begun to' Hitrrls: be explored. didn't , THE MOTHER NOW~ David Bressler, Ph.D. just e~ poor livipg conditions and her member a message.And although Harrill son's low wages,but feelsthat she Center for Integral Medicine By Kathy Clifford it is sometimesdisquieting, this is NOW; is powerlessto effect change. precisely what happens. Harrlli She is drawn into the revolu- NOW: The .ambience of the Main Presenters will include: tion, reluctantly at first, and finds Street production is not necess- groun~ As a Marxist, Bertolt Brecht re- herself rapidly politicized. Gorki arily Marxist, but definitely rev- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.: "Death and Dying" Harris! cognized women asa vital part of killed his heroine, but Brecht pre- olutionary, an allegory of the "Stress Dis+ress" NOW: Hans Selye, M.D.: Without correq any revolution, As a playwright, ferred to have PelageaVlassova struggle of the politically oppres- Stephanie Matthews-Simonton and he wrote several plays emphasiz- survive, to transcend physical ab- object! sed everywhere. O. Carl Simonton, M.D.: "Cancer and Visualization" you h1 ing women and women's roles, :use and the loss of her son, to Actors, technicians, designers Marguerite Abell Nakles, R.N.: "Techniques of Harrll one of which - The Mother - is 'carry the workers' flag. and musiciansat Main Street have try to 11 on stage at Main Street Theater This play is a prime example of actively collaborated in artistic Humanistic Nursing Care" in thisl May 5-7 and May 12-14. Brechtian epic theatre, the so- decisions, addressing both the Karl Pribram, M.D.: "'We Are What We oe- judge 1 Written in 1930,basedon Gor- NOW: called "theatre of alienation." Ti- complexity of the play and the and many more leading authorities. ki's novel of the same name, The .tles and captions, slidesand min- challenge of a provocative thea- Harrll: Mother is about one woman, Pel- imal setskeepone intenselyaware trical experience. experi~ agea'Vlessova, and the Russian that this is a play and not reality. Come participateand meet them. NOW: never revolution. ' ,Brecht did not want his audience Directed by John Houchin;' ori- For more information, call 713-79S~163 or write to P.O. ginal score by Michael Skupin; report' Asthe play opens,Vlassovasees to sit back and get caught up in a Box 61416, Houston 77018. HarrII:: herself simply as"the mother of a Main Street Theater at Autry plot, only to forget the playas never worker and the widow of a work- House, 6265 South Main, 524- soon as they left the theatre; he HOUSTON HOLISTIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, .anch er." She complains bitterly about wanted them to listen and re- 3168; $2.50general, $1.50.student. 'AGE 12 • MAY 1977 • HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH feminist supporters during the whether out of shock at her self- unlike Inez, I did not strike back. I trial. destructive behavior, or a racist lived out the female, passive part Most of all, Inez expressed the assumption that she could not of the Latin code of honor by fierce pride that is the strongest possibly be making her own de- trying to kill myself. And I never Garcia force in thelife of a Latina. She was cisions. Shana Alexander in News- spoke of what happend - not raped, dishonored by the men week and other less famous jour- until Inez freed me with her de- who, she says, continued to taunt nalists wrote about her as if she fiance, her shouted insistence on fortably at a wooden confessional experience of racism, I believe her, and to promise future hu- were a helpless victim, a Galatea her own right to self-defense. She box to pour out our every that a white woman in the same miliations. She answered with the who had beerr transformed into freed me, and untold numbers of thought, action, and desire as we situation would have been prop- violence she had been taught was an angry self-destructive heroine other women, to speak of our own remember them from the pre- erly questioned by the police and a just response; the only way to by the radical women of her own past without shame, and to finally vious week, and as they emerge examined for sexual attack by a , prevent a woman's humiliation in Defense Committee. put to rest the nightmare ghosts of under the prodding of the .face- doctor. If the men involved were a macho culture. In fact, Inez's In fact, many women have had our own memories. ~ less inquisitor on the other side of Chicanos, as in this case, a white failure to resist the rape while it to face a dilemma in the case of I believe the justic:e in that Cal- the metal grate. If we lie to him, it woman might even have been was going on, even if it had been Inez Garcia. We want her free, out ifornia courtroom was both racist is a mortal sin: few Catholics released with little or no bail; at the cost of her own life, remains of prison; yet we also want to and sexist. But if justice were a brought up like 'Inez would doubt acquitted or given a suspended shameful to her. respect her own chosen course of woman and truly fair, she might the truth of the rape she first sentence by a jury of her peers. So in the courtroom, hearing action. In the courtroom, she de- be a Latina. confessed to her priest. We Latinas are not encouraged to her humiliation treated as ir- cided to defy the twin macho And then she would under- !- And few Latinas could fail to be articulate about any part of our relevant and her own word assumptions of Latin culture that a stand what it is to be Inez Garcia. believe Inez Garcia's inability to experience, much less about ab- disbelieved or denied, this Latina woman belongs to a man; and that describe the experience of rape to use. Our teachers are nuns who pride burst forth. She could not a woman dishonored by belong- Maria Del Drago is Coordinator of the policemen who arrested her. encourage our silence as an listen passively to witnesses chal- ing to more than one man is Continuing Education Programs We are painfully shy about our exercise in self-sacrifice. lenging the honor of her word. herself at fault, assinful asEve.She for Women, University Extension, bodies and about sex. When ,she The Anglo "experts" who ad- She shouted back, She would not defied the shameful silence with California at Berkeley. She is also a later complained of pains "down ministered 1.0 tests to Inez found say she was sorryShe stormed out which women, especially Latinas, Regional Coordinator of Californ- there" to a woman prison at- her to be mentally inadequate, yet of the courtroom and no Latina are supposed to treat their own ia Women in Higher Education, a tendant, she was taken to a doctor her discussion of her own political will ever question that this was her sexual enslavement. I am grateful member of its Third World Coun- who reportedly implied that Inez situation was sophisticated e- statement of innocence: her to her. cil; a member of San Francisco's was upset, imagining things, and nough to make many Anglo pride. like Inez Garcia, I was raped. Concilio .Mujeres and of ~he Inez (' didn't examine her. journalists suppose that she had Anglo observers were stunned like Inez, I was too shamed and Garcia Defense Committee. As a Latina with a barrio been brainwashed by her white by this all-or-nothing fierceness, afraid to report it to the police. But

••••• "We'll make you part "I'llhave less fear ot raping " .. of the news, as stories a woman than Idid before.. After Inez Garcia was convicted of second-degree murder in ,ge- are developing for her first trial, Nan Blitman interviewed one of the jurors, Samuel ! Rhone, a 60-year-old black factory worker: Blitman: Could a woman ever get off on the ground of self- our 6·p.m. newscast!' defense if she killed a man during the attack? Rhone: No, because the guy's not trying to kill her. He's just Dave Ward and fan Carson trying to give here a good time. To get off, the guy will have to do, - Eyewitness News at 5: A brand new package. her bodily harm and giving a girl a screw isn't doing her bodily Dave and Jan co-anchor Eyewitness News at 5, harm ... and will bring you everything from live Instant Eye Blltman: What part did rape play in your deliberations? .' Reports to live interviews in our newsroom with Rhone: Well, some brought up the rape, but then someone '-'-- I reoortet:.<: wbo Ule,re..C\n~tbp_<:cene.C\f_tbe_cl,•.v'" ___ I • threw up tbeir hands and said,~You heard what the judge said - -~------~-~-~~~~.~~. I I de~Meij~eki/~daman~u~~~;'~~~~-~----~~Q'4' .£ I.'" I Dave Ward and Jan Carson Rhone: No, because the guy's not trying to kill her. He's just trying to give here a good time. To get off, the guy will have to do. Eyewitness News at 5: A brand new package. her bodily harm and giving a girl a screw isn't doing her bodily Dave and Jan co-anchor Eyewitness News at 5, harm ... and will bring you everything from live Instant Eye Blitman: What part did rape play in your deliberations? ,'I' Reports to live interviews in our newsroom with _Rhone: Well, some brought up the rape, but then someone reporters who were on the scene of the day's threw up their hands and said, "You heard what the judge said- important stories. it's a murder trial, not a rape triall" Blitman: Was the rape discussed a lot? This innovative and exciting all-new 30 minute Rhone: No. •• news package has a different twist. It's revealing, Blitman: Did you say anything about it? interesting and informative. A totally different look at Rhone: When I was discussing, I was mostly fighting the reporting the news. And you're likely to see just about women. I asked them about the heat of passion, andthey said anything. 7 For an intriguing and different they'd have cooled off. I told the women that when I leave here, look at what you normally I'll have lessfear of raping a woman than I did before. At least' don't see during 6 and 10 p.m. know that if I get shot, she won't get away.' newscasts, join Dave Ward, Blltman: What did the women say? .. Jan Carson, Bob Allen, Rhone: They thought I was kidding. They said, "You don't mean _ that." . .•Ed. Brandon, Diana Fallis, Marvin Zindler, Dana Millikin Blltman: Did you mean it? and the entire Eyewitness News Rhone: I wasn't joking. They took it for a joke. I didn't. I was thinking of all the men out there reading it. I told them that." Team, Monday through for Eyewitness ~ Nan Blltman, 1974 at5. Reprinted by permission from Ms. Magazine.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE INEZ GARCIA CASE'

On March 19, 1974 in Soledad, California, Inez Garcia killed Miguel Jimenez, one of two men who had just raped her. She failed in' her attempt to kill the other, Luis Castillo. Inez Garcia was convicted of second degree murder (the original charge had been first degree) in September, 1974 in Monterey, California. She was sentenced to five years to life in the California Institution for Women at Frontera. During her incarceration, she fired Charles Garry and hired Susan Jordan. Garry had begun work on her appeal, but Jordan filed it. Her appeal was successful. The State Court of Appeals found the judge's ,instructions to the jury on "reasonable doubt" were incorrect. A new trial was ordered. Garcia was released on $5,000 bond in December, 1975, after serving 15 months in jail. In February, 1976, SusanJordan was dismissed from the case.Garcia hired and fired two other lawyers before her new trial began in December, 1976 in Monterey County,California. She was'assigned a public defender and the same prosecutor as before was assigned. In January, 1977, Garcia dismissed her public defender and rehired SusanJordan. The jury wasselected and presentation of evidence began on February 14, '1977. On March 4, 1977, in a landmarkdecision,lnez Garcia was found innocent of murder. Her legal defense had been changed from "impaired consciousness" to "self defense" in light of her rape and the threats on her life. HOUSTON BREAkTHROUGH. MAY 1977 • PAGE 13

..", Hazel Bracken: Time and an open mind v Hazel Br•••ken. was elected to CiB: How can,young women get the Houston School Board in 1973 the spirit of "1 can' do anything" and immediately startled many which you seem to have? ~n C people by stating that if an equally By Ciertrude Barnstone HB: I don't know. I was so allowed qualified man and woman applied downtrodden when I wasgrowing thetele •• for the samejob, she would vote up. I didn't think I could do any- the real for the man, since "women should thing. I was 25.years old and had be the be subservient to' men." Feeling never made a decision of any allowed ran strong; there wasa call for her Then there Was the matter of be- significance. I'd bring a dress sincereh resignation. '. ing passedover for the presidency home and Mother would say, "1 Time - and an open mind - when she was in lin.e for it. don't like it." Daddy would say, Dana M change many things. Recently, HB: First I was assistant secre- "You can't do this or that." I had to see \'\0 Hazel Bracken wasstrong and arti- tary, then secretary, then vice pre- no identity. culate in her support pf Betty sident. I let it be known in writing I'd graduated from college, Sondra Minzenmayer, the superinten- that I wanted to be president, but I been voted most popular, beauty, we will dent's caniJidate for principal of sensed something wasamisswhen best dressed and none of it meant WewillJ Scarborough Jr. - Sr. High School. there were no consultations or anything to me. I just didn't know by then: There was only one woman ser- indications that I would become who I was. ving as principal of a senior high president; I felt every bit asquali- At the age of 25, I decided to get Thelma I school in HISD and there was fied as the president and when I away from my parents. If I didn't youth c great resistance to Minzenmayer was not chosen, I was miffed. make it, so I didn't make it. That's on.Atd - solely because she is a woman. ' It's very definitely an "old boys" when I came to Houston. reporter What has caused this change in club! Years ago I identified with the 40's. It's attitude on Bracken's part? Cer- I've learned from that lastexpe- feelings of a famous journalist an to ~ trude Barnstone, herself a mem- rience that if you sit around and who committed suicide and left a HAZEL BRACkEN not tak ber of the HISD Board from 1964 .• wait for the men to askyou, you'll note saying he was tired of trying look at 5 69, explores this question and wait until the earth lOOKSlevel. So to fill up the 24 hours. I had been I think ~ others with Hazel Bracken. I jumped out ahead of the men so satisfied with meaningless fe- with it. and have already announced that male activities, - garden club on NON-SEXIST TOYS THAT CARE I am running for reelection. They Tuesday'- what's your new reci- pe? Beauty parlor on Thursday. are on their own I ROSALIND FRANKLIN & DNA CiB: You and Barbara Jordan are Life has to be more than thisl Elma Bai the only women in elected office I was very depressed. Now I adults, $8.95. Anne Sayre's "vivid somethij HB: What changed my attitude? from this city. What would you tell realize the depression was look- view of what it is like to be a, voices f Serving on the Board with those a woman who was thinking of ing for something significant in gifted woman in an especially accept strong, strong men/It was an atti- running for political office? the scheme' of things and not male profession." Hardcover" on the tudinal thing, a putdown, They are HB: Just go like mad! It's the finding it. 221 pp. very courteous people but there I do havewhat I feel isavery real ..-- most fun thing I ever did. And I've were many times when I had to learned so much! I never would relationship with the lord and I fight to be heard - and then I had have taken sex discrimination se- believe what he says to be. He ~lIUIaL I to say, "But I'm not through!" riously - it took this experience. says, "I've come that ye might 'DIE loci", • co,,~eF

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NEED HELP IN YOUR BUSINESS? ATTEND PRE-BUSINESS WORKSHOP Sponsored by Service Corps Of Retired Executives and Small Business Administration May 19 at University of Houston June 1 For fm counllllng, call 228-4945 PAi:iE 14 • MAY 1977 • The conference has changed a enced panelists in each workshop covered problems of gay women THE MADISON CONfERENCE lot.since it was started in 1969 by a White House meeting group of women in law.school at married to men, lesbian mothers' N.Y.U. who were irate over the rights and discrimination in the discrimination they had encount-: military. r Over the pastyear, women have ered both in the classroom and in The Third World women pro- w suffered legal setbacks in the areas interviewing for jobs. The goals of gram explored the compounded psitive 8 of pregnancy compensation, ERA the first national conference were discrimination faced by Asian- tarn to ::r ratification, abortion rights, equal to establish a communications American, Black, Chicana and ~ employment, sexual privacy and network among women law stu- Native American women who ~ equal education. Recent national dents and to devise strategies for have even more difficulty than ping >- and local 'conferences on women bringing more women into the other women in finding role mod- ~N~W! i!! and the law came just in time to legal field. Fewer than 100women els in the legal profession. The ~ provide encouragement and ex- attended the first conference. workshops, moderated by min- 'ern, I 8 pertise for those who are con- In later conferences, asattend- ority attorneys active in commun- erk for e cerned about the way the legal ance increased, the emphasis ity organizing, focused on wel- Ii little ~ system in this country is treating shifted to the exchange of cases, fare advocacy and discrimination id. I'd Il. women. strategies and information per- law. " Jut his GAY DELEGAnON AT WHln HOUSE Women from a" over the coun- taining to the legal rights of wom- There wasmore time this year to deme POKEY ANDERSON, far left, MIDGE COSTANZA, center try met in Madison, Wisconsin en. This year, more than 3,0Q0 discusstheoretical questions like: recently for the Eighth Annual persons registered for the eighth why are women losing ground in "This White House and this gov- Pokey Anderson of Houston at- Conference on Women and the national conference in Madison. the courts, and what part does a gasa tended an historic White House ernment belong jo all the people. law. The growth of the conference less-than-booming economy play I with Whether someone' comes here to meeting on March 26,1977. Her The conference examined a di- has in turn led to an expansion of , in these defeats? The extra day local speak does not depend on their report follows: verse range' of topics: constitu- the conference's goals to include gave everyone time to examine other issue, or whether the President tional law; sex discrimination in recognition of the problems faced substantive law issues,to hear dir- d my •• agrees with their viewpoint. What schools and universities; labor or- by women doubly oppressed by ectly from women involved in com- today has brought is an involve- ganizing; Title VII strategies; law our legal system - lesbians and litigation, to speculate on what ,ales.I In 1965, Frank Kameny was in ment of people, people who have school recruitment and admlss- Third World women. the future will hold for women siness the first group of people to dem- a right to participate in their gov- ions; domestic relations; the 'ef- The lesbian program began an and what part the newly devel- ine- I ons!rate for gay rights outside the ernme~t ... The nation thanks you entire day before the conference oping specialty known as "fem- e back fects of tax, insurance and social White House gates. . for asking for this meeting." , security laws and regulations on workshops on Saturday, but al- inist law" will play in that future. ~time Twelve years later, on March she noted that even straight women and the rights of elderly most everyone was able to arrive bethe 26,1977, Frank Kameny was inside people ~uffer fr~m .a~ti-gay dis- and poor women. early for this new section. Experi- If you those gates, along with 13 other Crimination - individuals may •• good gay activists from around the lose the friendship of gay people country; out of fear of associating with The delegation met with one of !~em; governments lose the abil- President Carter's top seven aides, It~esof gay people by refusing to Margaret Costanza, who offered a hire them. Law conferences held special welcome to Frank: "It's a The meeting received national pleasure to meet you. I'm sorry coverage; in one interview, Cos- that it has taken so long to come tanza expressed her shock at the into a house that belongs to you as ext~nt of the discrimination from much as it belongs to anyone in which gay people suffer, and said this country." "there weren't too many dry eyes Costanza aod other White of- in that room" when the mother of ficials set a tone of openness and a.les~ian spoke of the many dif- genuine concern, and even con- ficultles she had personally en- ducted a guided tour of the Pres- countered. ident's Oval Office before the The next step for the gay com- meeting began. . ~unity will be to prepare addi- The unnrecedented meetinll_~lo_n_al_~~c~~!!!!.a,_t_io;...n....;;.,...m.;,;f,;::e::_:,oI :"e;.:...,r:t_- much as it belongs to anyone in this country." "there weren't'too many dry eyes on in in that room" when the mother of 'ou've Costanza and other White of- ficials set a tone of openness and a lesbian spoke of the many dif- !tation. ficulties she had personally en- efully' • genuine concern, and even con- -' countered. d at- ducted a guided tour of the Pres- The next step for the gay com- olein ident's Oval Office before the meeting began. munity will be to prepare addi- The unprecedented meeting tional documentation for meet- 'ings with federal agencies. Cos- ouble was arranged by Jean O'Leary of the National Gay Task Force and tanza promised another meeting tation with gaysin six months, to review e risk covered three hours of well-doc- umented testimony on issues . their progress. If stubborn prob- e air lems remain that demand the Pre- ,cause ranging from less-than-honorable discharges for homosexuals to job sident's personal attention, she om- will ask him to meet with the gay ngly. and housing discrimination to ab- use of gays in prison. delegation. In discussing further ~reare Presidential appointments to var- ~ir. In Costanza promised to make the documentation available to Car- ious federal posts, she reiterated sand the Administration's commitment JUDGE JOE KECANS (L) SPEAKS TO LAW STUDENTS ter and other appropriate White ould to minority concerns. House officials, and agreed to ar- oman. The delegation included seven range meetings with heads of the appropriate federal agencies: Civ- men and seven women from a- il RightsCommission, Civil Service round the country, including Bos- TH~ HOUSTON CONFERENCE The two-day conference was Representing the private bar, ton, New York, Washington, Los Commission, .HUD, Justice De- free to any woman interested in Ella Brown, a Houston attorney, Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, In many respects, the Second learning about the field, in meet- addressed her remarks to the "joys partment, HEW, EEOC,State De- Chicago and Houston.' partmentand Defense Depart- Conference on Women and the ing other minority attorneys, law and sorrows" she hasexperienced As' Massachusetts State Repre- ment. Referring to the Defense Law held last month at Texas , students, legal workers and ad- as a minority woman engaged in sentative Elaine Noble said, it was Department, she warned women Southern University's Thurgood ministrators. It sought to attract non-governmental law. Panelists nice to seethe inside of the White in the group, MBringyour bullet- Marshall School of Law closely women from awide variety of life- Constance Fain and Thelma Gar- House under such friendly cir- proof bras." resembled.the early national con- styles, at different levels of ed- cia discussed the relationship be- cumstances: "Some of us have t cos- Costanza noted she had re- ferences; it emphasized the re- ucation - older ~omen presently tween the law school and the -.i nglo been demonstrating outside the cruitment of women into the legal enrolled in college, women with community. ceived quite a bit of mail about the gates for so long, we wondered if lin or meeting, "including some letters field. college degrees but no jobs, and In addition to the panel dis- there even was an inside." As more and more women en- ! long from people who thought that high school seniors. The turnout . cussions,workshops were held on Certainly, one meeting will not ter the profession each year, the perhaps on the way to the White was excellent. such topics asfinancial aid for law win gay rights in a day. But, asJean national conference hasshifted its 1~~~nl House I fell on my head." She students, the Law School Admis- O'Leary beamed afterward, "The focus to offer training and sub- , Mary Daffin, a law clerk for es, Just remarked that the 10 to 1S neg- sions Test,and how the law school meeting wasa happy milestone on stantive law analysis as well as Chief Judge John R. Brown of the the ative letters all quoted the same admission process functions. m the road to fun equality under the encouragement and role models Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals acistl passagefrom the Bible, one from . The conference ended on Sat- law for gay women and men." .for women considering law as a spoke about the problems exper- Romans. urday with the staging of a mock career. Minority women, how- ience~,~y minority women in get- rape trial, presided over by Joe ,ever, have special problems be- .ting jobs once they have com- Kegans, a woman who was re- looks fore, during and after they enter pleted school and gave practical cently appointed criminal court an be law school, and the number' of suggest!ons to job seekers. judge. been minority women entering law In her capacity asAdministrator s that & THE TRAVELING BROWN BAG LUNCH COMPANY school has not increased as scause dramatically as the number of of the City of Houston's FairHous- The recent conferences on wom- of the ..•' . white women going into law. With ing Division, Joan Edwards has en and the law held in Houston tup ~.J:vu,.e Coc/r-fit-J-s/ oung S~ n this in mind, the Women's Law worked to ensure that minorities and Madison have helped make ~re no Caucus at Thurgood Marshall in Houston are protected by the the motto "Women helping wom- ~old a fJ7tn-J, /1 a. rri . ;b .5?;n, &- ~Xolt(5i~t sponsored their Second Annual law, and that these laws are en- en through law" a reality. ee of- ]~',-Jo.-t.. 111I.n] I<-fmie)"jhT- Recruitment program, designed forced. She emphasized in her discussions the effect women in ~ that acquaint participants with op- e dial, 1708 SUNSET I HOUSTON. 77005 JitiI.'0 law can have on existing admini- ~ ~ortunities in the legal profes- Patrkia O'Kane ~ucha e .sion. strative institutions. j' HOUSTON BREAKTHROUCH • MAY 19" o. PACE 15 -- In 1945 Stallknecht carried out 'another mural, more secular in Alice Stalln,ec,ht murals on exhibit nature, entitled Everyman to His Trade. Of considerable size, it consists of 30 separate panels that depict the working people of By Florence Dwelc Chatham attheir respective trades, all posed against the consistent backdrop of the sea. The proud and honest faces of these working Spring has arrived in Houston, men and women are treated with and with it, two not entirely unre- an almost Whitmanesque reve- lated firsts for women: the Rev. rence. Helen M. Havens was ordained as The l50figures to be found in all the first female Episcopal priest three murals display a straight- Since in the city's history; and the reli- forward, rigid intensity of char- decision gious murals of Alice Stallknecht acter that embodies the essence, has had will be displayed at the Museum of puritan ethics. Although each House of Fine Arts (beginning May 5) in figure is meant to be seen as an Educatiol the first major showing of its kind individual, all are tied together by bills spa outside the artist's hometown of the unifying forces of church and (R-Bay Chatham, Cape Cod. community. As Lloyd Goodrich, visions The very existence of a female Director of the Whitney Museum public h priest lends a new credence in and of Art, explains in the catalogue woman respect for a woman's capacityto exhibition, "With all its uncom- written lead and guide her community. promising realis'J'l, her art is fun- tion. Her newly-gained status effective- damentally religious, filled with Com ly undercuts the cliquish arro- the conviction of faith as a uni- schedul ganceof an all-male clergy. fying force, an essential element bodies Stallknecht's true-to-life depic- in daily life, a unifying spirit." last long tion of Christ, as the recognizable Whatever our personal reli- that a portrait of a man from her own gious beliefs, we may still share began at village, restores 'a touch of hu- with Alice Stallknecht the strong hear te manism lacking in- traditionally faith she has so eloquently ex- Dohlen idealized religious painting. Sepa- HB 1875 DETAIL FROM A STALLKNECHT MURAL pressed in the cooperative efforts rated by time and space (Stall-' of hardworking men and women This painting years did not come about knecht died in 1973), each of these triptych done in 1931. Christ is church supper. The presence of' in communities like our own. the viab until her early fifties. Family re- shown in the central panel stand- women is thus concerned with Christ is again the central motif, A New England Town: A Por- weeks g sponsibilities and the hardships furthering the universality and ac- ing in a rowboat with outstretched showing him in the act of blessing trait By Alice Stallknecht (1880- tions af imposed by the mental break- cessibility of rellgleus communi- hands, flanked by the men, wo- the bread for communion, sur- , 1973) will be on display at the required down of her husband completely cation. . men and children of Chatham in , rounded by the members of the . Museum of Fine Art's Upper the mot destroyed any earlier creative op- Stallknecht spent her life in the the side panels. Each face is meant congregation. Brown Gallery May s-lune 5. From It wo portunities for her. small New, England village of Cha- to be a true portrait of an actual In both murals, the artist cou- there the exhibition will go on to abortion tham, and it is the Chatham villa- Stallknecht created two murals, Chatham resident. ples the commonplace with the Cape Cod and Washington, D.C. safer alt gers that she so faithfully incorpo- done in oil on canvas, specifical- The second mural, The Circle mystical, and the present with the The accompanying catalogue is quire a rates into her religious allegories. ly for her local Congregational Supper (1935-1943), consists of 18 past, to reflect the complete per- available in the museum book- before Although Stallknecht had studied church. The first of these, Christ separate panels of figure groups at meation of religious faith in 'store. could be art early in life, her productive Preaching to the Multitude, is a a traditional Wednesday night Chatham society. Comp bills'mo Oohlen'~ tone of simplytt legally," rates into her religious allegories. Iy for -her local Congregational supper (1935-1943), consists of 18 past, to reflect the complete per- available inr th~~us-;~~-Clb~~k: befor" Although Stallknecht had studied church. The first of these, Christ separate panels of figure groups at meation of religious faith in store. art early in life, her productive Preaching to the Multitude, isa a traditional Wednesday night Chatham society. could be Compo bills'mol Dahlen's tone of simplyth legally," In the Ballengel River Oaks Shopping Center to life. request." 1968 West Gray lowed ~ Houston, Texas 77019 Withersp 526'-2273 the Uni speed,' praised defender In tes oppositic L~~ It was ~ several c pea red t( a habit attention each nev quality, IJ

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Rosie Casalsattacked the oft- golf, -you can make a good livinR BySusan A. McManus stated "fact" that the quality of at it." __ I men's tennis is superior to that of Durr has not done badly her- Probably one of the, most im- women's: "As far asthis particular self in making a living. In additon portant controversies affecting tournament (Wn Mixed Doubles to being one of the top prize women's tennis of late has been at Woodlands), the women have money winners (and the winner, the push for 'equal pay at Wim- helped the team a lot more than with FredMcMillan, of the Wood- bledon. While all the top women the men. It is a fact that there are lands tournament), she has her players signed the petition for more men tennis playersand they own tennis equipment company greater pay, their reasonsfor do- have more depth. The men have with the logo, Ego. She laugh- always had more opportunities ingly said, "With a stroke like ing so were as varied as their ~ professional experience and na- available to them than the wo- mine, you need an ego." tional origins. men. But," shepredicted, "we are At the recent wn Mixed only about five yearsbehind. We Several of the stars were pes- Doubles Classic,sponsored by Vi- started with barely eight women simisticthat the Europeanswould talis and Clairol, April 22-24 at here in Houston seven years ago not understand such a move for the Woodlands Inli and Country and now we're carrying about 400 equal pay. Betty Stove, of the Club, international'women ten- on our tour." Netherlands,and the current pre- nis starsdiscussedthis and eSther Olga Morozova, from the So- sident of the Women's TennisAs- sociation, stated: "The push for aspectsof a professional career. viet Union, endorsed the move Billie Jean King, often cited as for equal pay. "I'm proud of the equal money can be done much the individual most responsible Women for doing it," she said. easierin America than in Europe." for the petition, stated rather sur- "We are professional tennis play- Wendy Turnbull, a pro trom prisingly: "1 didn't feel that the ers. We play tennis all year long. Australia,on the circuit since 1972, women deservedequal prize mo- It is our job. If we devote all this also questioned the readinessof ney lastyear. Everyonethinks that time to playingtennis, and we play Europe for such a move. "England I wasthe leader behind it which is well, and the public likeswomen's is still so far behind the times. I not the way it was.I feel that until tennis, why should we get J...ess think we are pushing for it too we havea 12S-drawand until wo- than the men?" men's tennis can get a little hea- early because they are not ready .~. for it. it sort of made the female ::ifI .j: vier at the bottom end and there- players look bad as far as the by increase its entertainment FrancoiseDurr, who grew up in English public goes. They still vaJue, that we should not get Algeria, agreedwith Morozova on don't think that women are very peG"";:. equal pay." But, she added, "This the fairnessof the move for equal -- :i"",::..the ten,:: good athletes. Theystill think that is only five yearsaway." pay based on the entertainment men play more interesting tennis motivation Ismuch more important than age. Iwant to prove to people King restated the case: "The value. "If women draw the same than women." . that once you're over 30, you can be a great athlete." real issue at Wimbledon and the amount of people, or if there is - Billie Jean King U.S. Open is that the women's the same amount of interest in . While Stovewassomewhat pes- associationand the men'sassocia- women's tennis as in men's, then simistic about European accept- The careerof one of the young- seriously neglected in female ath- tion should be working together. women should get equal pay. ance of moves for equal or in- er starson the-tour, Ann Kiyomura "Ietic training but one which def- We should be getting 40%of the Since Wimbledon is the main creased pay, she was quite opt- of the U.S.,reflects the impact of initely needs-to be stressed."No- gross like other athletes do in championship of the world and imistic about the future of wom- such opportunities. When asked body ever helped me. When I was . other sports and right now at draws equally large numbers of en's tennis. "Ten years ago, es-· why she decided to go pro, she 160pounds, nobody ever told me Wimbledon, we get 10%.AII the men and women spectators, I pecially in the U.S.,college wom- said: "I was lucky becausejust asI I was too fat. They just said, 'Oh, players,men and women, are get- think women should get equal en played tennis but they did not was coming out of high school, you'll run it off tomorrow. Eat ting a raw deal. Until the men and pay." have• _. __any••_professional._ ...__ ._._L goals. Pro-."""••••.. the Virginia Slimscircuit wasnear- another sandwich, dear.'" ..'.__.. 6" '•/.!lIInttnrnmmllnic;ltl!...... -llet ._ •..••I.•. .•I •.-....I __ •__••~.. ..•L...... :.... .l-..!- __ •.•. /.-.1 ••• _ - .. ... - __ • 1••.•. - ct33v •...•a"."" •• Q--- - ..,-..,..,-_.- simistic about European accept- tion should be working together. ~~~;~ ~sh~'~'id~g~t'';;q~ai''p;y: The career of one of the young- seriously neglected in female ath- ance of moves for equal or in- We should be getting 40%of the Since Wimbledon is the main er starson the tour, Ann Kiyomura "letic training but one which def- -.;:. creased pay, she was quite opt- gross like other athletes do in championship of the world and of the U.S.,reflects the impact of initely needs.to be stressed."No- imistic about the future of wom- such opportunities. When asked . other sports and right now at draws equally large numbers of body ever helped me. When I was en's tennis. "Ten years ago, es-, why she decided to go pro, she 160pounds, nobody ever told me Wimbledon, we get 10%.AII the men and women spectators, I pecially.in the U.S.,college wom- players,men and women, are get- think women should get equal said: 1'1 was lucky becausejust asI I was too fat. They just said, 'Oh, en played tennis but they did not ting a raw deal. Until the men and was coming out of high school, you'll run it off tomorrow. Eat pay." have any professional goals. Pro- women want to communicate, get the Virginia Slimscircuit wasnear- another sandwich, dear.''' fessionalismhasnow become part together asentertainers and pro- Durr, a member of the pro tour ly stablllred. I thought since I'd To ayoung woman contemplat- of the game.Girls areaiming to be fessionalathletes,Wimbledon can for 13 years, has observed dra- done well as a junior player that ing a professional athletic career, professional athletes at a much continue to keep usdown around matic changesin women's sports. I'd give pro tennis a try." Billie jean would emphasize the younger age. They start training 10%. I just hope and pray that in "It's more acceptable now to be a When askedwho were the indi- importance of setting personal much younger and,consequently the near future, men and women female professional' athlete. Plus, viduals most responsible for the goals and not becoming disceur- are much better athletes." will start working together." if you're in a sport like tennis or changes in women's tennis, the aged. "Whatever a young woman players consistently mentioned wants to do, she should dream ~ .Gladys Heldman, Billie jean King, about doing. She should not feel ~ Rosie Casalsand the entire Vir- that everyone is against her. I ~ ginia Slims circuit. South African think a lot of women, especially ~ Greer Stevens,one of the young- feminists, think the world owes » est playerson the circuit at 20,said them something. You have to be "As a young girl, I saw Billie jean realistic and work within the sys- King play and told my mother that tem. If you Wantto change it, the I wanted to play like her. I have ony way you can change it is by both Gladys Heldman and Billie being pragmatic and doing your jean to thank for my career job well. If a suv's a male chauv- today." .Inist pig, accept him for that, deal with it, understand it, don't auto- matically get turned off by that person. We are all what we are; we are still products of our en- vironment." Thanksto the Billie JeanKings, -- young women can now realist- -Ically consider a career in pro- fessional tennis. There is now a solid future where before there wasonly a faint glimmer of hope.

be a great athlete! " ".;, """" One of her new goals is that of physical fitness. "1 have made a commitment to myself that I will stayphysicallyfit for the restof my life, and will always watch my diet." She feels that sports med- icine is an area which has been

HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH. MAY 1977 • PAGE 17 The Women's Health Collective ---. will meet on May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Call 523-6994 for more infor- mation. ; Workshops Come and fearn about campaign Announcements I techniques and become politi- "Songs of Women Composers, ",a students, for the 19n-78 school r/ cally effedive. The Harris County recital by Sharon Sanford, so- year. Applicants should submit r Women's Political Caucus and the Come on out"cind bring your kids. prano and Mary Schoettle on portfolios by May 20, with thr~e Advocates for the Women's Ad- Women and Kids Picnic on Sun- piano, featuring solo songs by letters of recemmendefien, AP.- vocate invite you to a workshop day, May 22, at Memorial Park women eemposers of the 16th pli~ations and additional infor- on May 18 at First Unitarian Twe from 1 p.m. on-. Look for the red _ thru 20th centuries. Ifyou thought mation may be obtained from the Church, 5210 Fannin, from 7-10 Hermi and orange kite in the shape 9f a there weren't any, hearing is School of Art, 529-7659. p.m. The special guest speakers the Te pyramid near the soccer field. believing. At the Univ,rsity of St. will be Dr. Nikki Van Hightower the la' Bring your o.wnfood and drinks Thomas,' Jones Hall, Sui Ross at The Houston YWCA will be and Dr. Richard Murray. control and be prepared to enjoy soft- Yoakum, Wednesday, May 11, ,holding a number o,f special before ball, volleyball and fun with the 8:15 p.m. -. courses on a variety of subjects, In he: kids. including "Sexual Value Sys- Those interested in women's lature, 'Conference on Women in Ma- tems," May 19 and "Wise and health can attend a class cove- dispara Tobolo nagement at U.H. on June 16. Healthy Eating," May 10. Call ring such topics as menstruation, Women in Austin are trying to paign fd See June issue for schedule of the YWCA for information about birth control, self-examination, create a landtrust of 100 to 150 en. local and national participants. patients' rights and others. All acres in Texas, to be called course fees_and times. Employment The Wombsan Land. It will be avail- 7 day Saturday, June 4. Call 523- 6994. ' suppo~ able for the exclusive and non- I am an author with a contrad to KPFTis seeking a manager. KPFT Busines! exploitative use of wombsan of do a first-person documentary is a Pacifica Radio Station, non- en's CI book on incest. I am looking for all ages. They welcome any other commercial and FM, 'with a'n The 'Greater Houston Chapterof ar~as il'j wombsan who wish to pledge others with adual or near adual educational license (90.1 FM). Itis Federally Employed Women will rninated their knowledge/ energies/ mo- incest experience. The aim of the largely supported by listeners' host a workshop to explain the ding e~ ney to the trust. For more infor- book is to make the subjed subscriptions. The manager will preparation of federal job appli- conditiC mation, send a self-addressed accessible and to have the most not become rich but can expe- cations, resumes and techiques homest envelope to P.O. Box 6063, open forum possible on the rience a most challenging, crea- for job interviews. The workshop accoun( Austin, Texas 78762. subjed. Contad Louise Arm- tive growth period in her/his life. will be held May 14 at the strong, 19 Bethune St., New York Understanding of finances, state- Houston Oaks. Registration for Un City, 10014 or call 212-255-2865. ments, cash flow, etc., is essential, members is $10, non-members that i 160 young women from around as is experience in or around $15. For additional information, wife'~ the country will be gathering at radio. Should have the ability to . call Sally Parker at 226-5166 or murdl the Astrodome, May 12·14, for keep more- balls in the air than 862-5307 or Sarah Garrett at simila the U.S. Jr. Women's National the person on either side of you 226-5715 or 734-10~2. Gymnastics Championships. Am- A Vi« and to work with a core staff and could n ong others, 13-year-old Kelly ,- an unlimited number of velun- McCoy, the 1976 U.S. Jr. All- Explore the employment prob- I!'~ cause sh teers, who hopefully do all the lems of low-income women and ' credit. Around Champion, will be there essential jobs to keep the station suggest recommendations for , permitt to defend her title. Half-price running. Maybe you're the one. legislative or administrative ec- ,J wife fro discount coupons are available Write: Manager Search Com- at Burger King. , tion to ease the problems. The ~ own se mittee, att'n: Thelma Meltzer, Women's Bureau of the U.S. ~ fying th 419 Lovett, Houston 77006 or call FEMINISTNON-SMOKERto share SUPPLY Z+37'Lz, Dept. of Labor will hold the 1/ vided t nl-3314. roomy Montrose house: Privacy, U71iVtrSi:f,!J3LvJ.. Southwest Regional Consultation "~; natural on the subjed in Houston at the ~.•.•~. dren an fence,. carpet, AC, lots of win- dows. Available June 1. Rent ,Zl-2~fD for (J,PT'I,. The ACLU is looking for an Sheraton Hotel, rrr Polk St., t,' cutor ( £. LI:.. Saturday, May 14, 12 noon. The { munity based on percentage of income. A_A __ L citt~rney ~ilJing t~h~O civ~ righ!!, _I.&_ ..•~.• !II.-.L._! ..•...•. ._ •••L____ " •• ,tf.-' to cr.,end1lertiil.:' Half-price running. Maybe you're the one. i~gi;l~tive ~-r--~d~i~ist;;;t;~e ~~: permt discount coupons are available Write: Manager Search Com- tion to ease the problems. The wife ff( •• at Burger King. mittee, att'n: Thelma Meltzer, Women's Bureau of the U.S; Own SE ~Ib- 419 Lovett, Houston 77006 or co" Dept. of Labor will hold the fying t~ FEMINISTNON-SMOKERto share I:f!{ 771-3314. Southwest Region'al Consultation vided t roomy Montrose house: Privacy, U"iver'Sj:"! 13Lvel. on the subject in Houston at the natural fence,. carpet, AC, lots of win- dren an ,Z2-2~fD /0,.a"'t. The ACLU is looking for an Sheraton Hotel, 7n Polk St., dows. Available June 1. Rent cutor 4 cittorney willing to do civil rights Saturday, May 14, 12 noon. The based on percentage of income. consultation will bring together munity Call for appointment: 529-5308. and constitutional litigation cases Art~aJle?,kCrMts low-income women and repre- wife's h and aid in organization. Please survivin If you' dbe willing to help rape inquire and send resume imme- sentatives of community groups to assist them. For more infor- By th victims, the Houston Rape Crisis JACKSON 6 ••2691 diately to: Joan Glantz, ACLU Media mation, contact Mary A"en at the Leg Coalition is looking for you. They Office, 905 Richmond, Houston thousar will be training new volunteers 77006.524-5925. 526-3495 (0) or 666-0271 (H) or for an I for 5 Saturdays, May 7-June 4, Yolanda Navarro at 224-7808 9115RICHMOND AVE, Gemini Productions presents: ment te from 12:30 to 5:30, at St. Phillips (evenings). HOUSTON, TEXAS women-made films: May 13, The Houston Area Feminist Fede- A pre Church, corner of Loop 610 and Chris and Bernie, Sandy and 'ral Credit Union is still looking for StateCe San Felipe (4807 San Felipe). For "Math Anxiety" will be the topic Madeline's Family and Nana, an Office Manager, part-time. by the l ; 'more information, call 228-1505 of a Southwest NOW workshop Mom and Me, at the First Uni- Co" Merryl at 523-2521 or the by the , (Crisis Hotline). beginning on Wednesday, June Body Awarene •• tarian Church, 5210 Fannin, 7:15 Credit Union office at 527-9108. 1 and continuing every subse- - p.m. $2.50 donation. There will The odd-job woman found a quent Wednesday; at the Main- be a chance for discussion after Meetings partner. We do housepaintino, Good vibrations at Eve's Garden. land Savings building, 3401 iriterior and exterior, will scrape. liberating Masturbation by Betty the films. "Women as Real EstatePurcha- Allen Pkwy, at 7 p.m. Co" Anna 523-3935, Rose Ann Dodson, $4. Thisis the book that is sers;I will be the topic of a talk by 523-3987. Still no answering ser- rippling through the women's Mr. Joseph Funches of Coleman vice. movement and overllowing eve- R~alty Co. to the Greater Houston SchOiarty Research ry"where. Artist, writer and sexual Chapter of Federa"y Employed Relating to Women " Learn about organic farming. An , revolutionary, Betty Dodson once Women, Inc., at their regular and for a" d,stroys the myths organic women's farm, in central Monday night' meeting on May "Current Studies in Sex Stratifi- .. Texas hill country, needs several surrounding masturbation and 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Timmy Chan's cation," ~ 55, 4 (t~ar.,1976) interns this summer. One-,fwo-, reinstates it to its rightful place as Restaurant, 2606 Fannin. The a prim9ry source of pleasure for group meets every third Monday. "Masculine Blf nders in the Social or three-week stays. Transporta- Sciences,"~' 55, 3 (Dee., 1974) B)I a us a". Free catalogue of a" the tion costs could be subsidized if nel Cas good vibrations at Eve's Garden you are a poor student. Beginner The West University chapter of resigna Social Science Quarterly classes in organic methods of gar- is included with a" orders. If you NOW will be meeting on May 24, March would like just a catalogue,- WCH 310A dening and living, truckdriving to hear about personal safety, The University of Texas represe and music will be mixed with please send 25¢ to Eve's Garden, ·",domstic violence and careers for Austin, Texas 78712 groups P.O. Box 4028, Austin, Tx 78765. Massage whatever you can teach us. Write women in law enforcement from to pub for more information. Abigail Officer Crump of the West Uni- port of or Carla, Rt. 2, Box l00-C, Ber- Courses/Schools versity police force. They will dacy fe tram, Tx. 78605. ' The Junior School of Art, The To explore the consider "How Do We Stand on They Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, spaciousness within rifle IX?" and hear reports on side Ci The Women's Center at the Uni- textbooks and sports at their i will be presenting 12 scholar- To balance energv symbol /versityof Houston at Clear Lake ships to school children aged 10 June 28 meeting. have b City is now officially affiliated thru 12 for a special Saturday governl with the university under the class. Competition for the scho- If you are interested in the stc;Jtus The Counseling Cente? They are still larships will be Saturday, May of Title IXor a content analysis of / whitmi registering people for the Wom- 14, in the sculpture paJ1t across textbooks, attend the meeting of the Ca: en's Studies Concentration. Co" the street from the museum at 10 For appointment call: Southwest NOW on May 17 at word tt 488-9270. They will also be of- a.m. The Museum will also be Beth Kendri~k the Jungman Branch Ubrary from emerge fering a' Reentry Seminar for offering' a number of scholarships 529~5308 7-9 'p.m. Margo Bishop, an HISD appoinl 'women coming back to school in for adult and junior students, guidance counselor, will be the Spea~ late July and Augus( some specifically for minority speaker. Single issues available at $4.00, straisht to cour PAGE 18 • MAY 1977. HOUSTON BREAKTHROUGH decisior Support Women-Owned Businesses and Services --

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