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Title
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The Women of Englewood: A Retrospective Account
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Creator
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Colman, Penny
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Date Presented
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2014-03-12
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Description
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Penny Colman shares notes from a lecture celebrating pivotal women in national, state, and local history. She begins by reflecting on her 20-year journey of taking road trips across the United States to document historic sites and monuments dedicated to women. Through these travels, she highlights iconic national figures such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rosie the Riveter, Barbara Jordan, Sacajawea, Dorothea Dix, Helen Keller, and Mother Jones.
Shifting to a regional perspective, Colman explores the significant contributions of New Jersey women across various eras. Her overview spans Civil War nurse Arabella Barlow, influential Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, First Lady Martha Washington, and Revolutionary War wax sculptor and spy Patience Wright.
Finally, Colman focuses on local Englewood history through interactive identification and matching games. She highlights notable sites and figures like the Lillian Booth Actors' Home, the Woman's Club, Flat Rock Brook, and prominent residents such as benefactor and humanitarian Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, author Katherine Floyd Dana, Elizabeth Vermilye, Sarah Goldstein, and Dismus. A central focus is given to Judge Sylvia Pressler and her Englewood home; Colman details Pressler’s landmark 1973 ruling as Hearing Examiner for the NJ Department of Civil Rights, which forced Little League Baseball to change its charter to allow girls to compete nationally. The outline also notes Pressler's other major legal contributions, including her 1993 ruling upholding same-sex adoption rights and her 2004 moratorium on the death penalty in New Jersey.
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Slide #1 Title
Slide #2 Twenty years of women history road trips;
"When Anthony Met Stanton"
Rosie the Riveter
Biddy Mason
Madonna of the Trails
Barbara Jordan 1972 first A-A woman elected to Congress from the Deep South...
eloquent orator 1976 Demo convention
Sacajawea
Zora
Dorothea Dix
Helen Keller
Mother Jones
Slide #3 New Jersey
Arabella Barlows Grave nurse through Peninsula, Antietam & Gettysburg campaign married General Barlow 1861, nursed him back to life after grievous wounds, nursed in hospital sites in Federicksburyg [Fredericksburg] Port Royal... died of typhus in service of her country on 7/27/1864 this plaque erected 1996
Millicent Fenwick
Martha Washington
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Patience Wright wax sculptor and spy during Rev war
Slide #4 Englewood Identification Game
1. Lillian Booth Actors' Home
2. Mayors' Plaque
3. Pressler Home Sylvia Pressler On 2/16 (she died 2/16) driving to Queens-interestingly she attended Queens College-- when heard announcement of Sylvia Pressler's death in which she identified as the judge (she in fact Hearing Examiner for the NJ Dept of Civil Rights) who decided the landmark 1973 case which allowed girls to compete in Little League baseball in JN [NJ] which resulted in the organization changing its charter to allow girls to play nationally. Before being appt [appointed] to the bench in Bergen County she was in private practice and was the city attorney for Englewood. Strongly worded ruling that girls should be allowed to play "The institution of Little League is as American as the hot dog and apple pie. There is no reason why that part of Americana should be withheld from girls. Other rulings: 1993 in Adoption of Two Children by H.N.R. gave same sex couples the right to adopt the children of their partners writing "The function together as a family." 2004 issued a moratorium on the dealt [death] penalty in NJ until the state procedures could guarantee the rights of the defendant was followed three years later by legislative action banning the death penalty entirely.
4. Woman's Club Door
5. Sarah Goldstein
6. Dismus
7. Flat Rock Brook
8. Elisabeth Morrow
Slide #5 Englewood Matching Game
1. Elizabeth Vermilye c. Palisades & e. Watch Tower
2. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow-d. A Pint of Judgment: A Christmas Story (1873-1955) benefactor, philanthropist, humanitarian, poet, college president force in local and national affairs, founder of Community Chest in Englwood [Englewood], Woman's Club First woman on board of Union Theological Seminary, National Board of WYCA
3. Katherine Floyd Dana "Olive A. Wadsworth"-a. Over in a Meadow "Over in the meadow/in the sand in the sun/lived an old mother toadie/ and her little toadie one/"Wink," said the mother, "I wink" said the one So they winked and they blinked in the sand in the sun." (1/21/1835-4/6/1886) born and married into great wealth, not acceptable to be known as a writer so adopted pen name:; Olive A. Wadsworth, signed her manuscripts and letters O.A.W. which to her inside circle really stood for "Only A Woman" One had to wonder how many leading financial moguls of the gilded age would had [have] a stroke if they only knew she was secretly helping her husband William B. Dana write his "Commercial & Financial Chronicle," the leading paper of the day for all things that dealt with commerce and big money. She also great-granddaughter of William Floyd signed of Dec/Ind, life on Long Island Setuaket, many paintings, William Floyd Estate, Mastic Beach
4. Adaline Sterling-f. Book of Englewood, founder of Englewood Library, Hospital, first president of the woman's club
5. Mary Katherine Jones Bennett-b. First Presbyterian Church
(1864-1950) born in Englewood on Nov 28, 1864-prominent leader in Presbyterian Church, USA in women's organization and in mission work both in the US and abroad. At time when women barred from ordination, she carved powerful position as president (1909-1923) of the Woman's Board of Home Mission an organization with over a million dollar a year budget where she was a force that the men of the church had to deal with, in large part because the women raised millions of dollars for the mission of the church.
She [was] the first woman to speak as a board president before the General Assemble, the national governing body of the church. According to a reporter, "And talk she did-brightly, sprightly, and wittily, much to the point and entirely to the delight of the 900 men who made up her audience."
[A] Life long resident of Englewood, she served as first president of Englewood Civic League (1901-11), president of the Woman's Club (1902-6); in 1920 served as historian of the celebration of Englewood's 50th anniversary. Died in Englewood hospital in 1950, age 86, buried at Brookside Cemetery. [A] Prolific writer-in one publication she declared "Woman [Women] asks [ask] to be considered in light of her ability and not her sex."
6. Go Won Gog. Poster Member of Mohawk tribe of the Seneca Nation, born on reservation in Gowanda, NY, name means "Fear no one" recruited to be in traveling shows popular in 1880s & 180s [1880s]. Married Civil War captain, settled in Edgewater where own own show to Europe around US-died in 1924, buried in Edgewater,
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Slide #6 Preservation of the Palisades
Slide #7 Henrietta Lowell Sawtelle born in Norridgework, ME, May 31, 1832, to Englewood in 1865 in [the] prime of her young womanhood. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cullen[,] Sawtelle and [had] lived with them in [a] family home on Engle street north of Spring land. In 50 years in Englewood, she active in St. Paul's church, founder of the Englewood Exchange for Woman's Work at meeting 10/9/1884 at residence of Sarah Houston Homans (Mrs. Sheppard Homans), sometimes described as place gentile women of reduced means could sell their handiwork (first founded by Candace Wheeler, first impt [important] woman textile and interior designer, 1878 she founded NY Exchange for Women's Work where women could sell any product that they could manufacture at home, including baked goods and household linens), early supporter of the hospital. Woman of "artistic tastes, prominent in the intellectual circles of her day.
Sarah Houston Homans
Carrie Van Horne first woman in Bergen County Medical Society
Letitia Scott Brown
Enid Bell (Palanchian) (1904-1994) sculptor, educator, illustrator, author. Born in London, came to NY, studied at Art Students League, Supervisor of the Sculpture Unit of the NJ Arts & Crafts Project of the WPA for Federal Arts Project. Head of Sculpture Dept at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark. Won many awards & received many commissions.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh she copilot and radio operator on 40,000 mile venture1931 trip with Charles she describes in North to the Orient about survey trip [trips] across Canada, Alaska, Russia, Japan, China. She [was] award [the] Cross of Honor of the US Flag Association and National Geographic Society's Hubbard Gold Medal for achievement in exploration. Authors Hours of Lead, Hours of Gold, Gift from the Sea
Maureen Orcutt Ave champion golfer, NY times golf reporter referred tp [to] the Duchess of Golf," twice winner of USGA Woman's Senior Title, winner of over 65 major amateur event in [an] incredible career that extended over 42 years, one of longest in golf history. Also journalist for the NYT form 1937-1972
Jeanette Lake Cascone born in Florida, by time in third grade working for white families to help support family, during WWII, marries a soldier goes to DC, job as clerb [clerk], graduates magna cum laude in 1945 with BA in history from Howard University, moves to NY, 25 years teahing [teaching] history and social studies in NYC schools. For several years, kept an "African house" in Englewood providing African students a home base. [In] 1960 traveled to Africa, sent [spent a] year teaching. Taught adult ed in Englewood. Married Cascone in 1966 and moved to Roselle, NJ, taught Seton Hall, politically active
Sarah Vaughan
Slide #8 Guessing Game
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Who wrote "Dumbbells & Carrot Strips? Mary Williamson Macfadden
Swimming Champion, Editor, Author 1892-1969
She [was] 19, Bernarr 45 when he selected her as "Great Britain's perfect Woman" in a contest he sponsored. She [was] also swimming champion and had won a medal from the "Royal Life Saving Society" for making a dramatic rescue. She agreed to marry & adopted his practices of physical culture including meatless diet based on nuts and carrots. Four daughters, 3 sons. She centrally involved in conception and publication of "True Story," by 1926 had become most widely circulated 25-cent monthly in the world late 1920s buy twenty acre estate in Englewood, "staffed down to the third gardener and included a thirty-room house equipped with perhaps the most up-to-date private gymnasium of its day, even to electric reducing cabinets... also tennis courts, a tremendous swimming pool, a miniature golf course, and a shimmering lake for those who preferred to row or feed its friendly white and black swans, its Mallard ducks, or Canadian geese.:
Who is the only Englewood resident on a US Postage Stamp? What's the stamp?
Kukla, Fran and Ollie 1947-1957, 2009 44 cent stamp (show improv) Fran Allison Actor, Singer, Personality 1907-1989
Who is the architect for this house? Eleanore Pettersen Pioneeriing [Pioneering] Architect Also addition to Burt and Joan Ross's House, pergola on Liberty
Who sang this hit song? Kitty Kallen 1922-
Slide #9 Name that Tune & Artist Sylvia Robinson
Slide #10 Regina Belle
Slide #11 Categories
Philanthrophy [Philanthropy] Angelica Berrie
Business Jewel Spiegel
Popular Culture & Spots-Sarah Jessica Parker
Political Life & Government-Charlotte Bennett Schoen & Lynne Algrant Shirley Lacy, Joan Meltzer, Priscilla McKenna, Fran Faber-Walters
Community-Esther Hilliard
The Arts-Faith Ringgold
Public Safety-Detective Sergeant Claudia Cabillos
Medicine, Science, Technology-Dr. Josephine English
Education: Shirley Green, Erin Anthony Thomas
Slide #12 Passing Through: Prominent Women Who Spoke, Sang, Performed, Visited Relatives, etc. in Englewood
Susan B. Anthony
Mary McLeod Bethune
Kirsten Flagstaff legendary opera singer who performed at the St. Cecelia auditorium
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Frances Perkins
Martha Gellhorn
Sarah Jones Tony & Obie award-winning playwright, actor, activist, who has written and performed four multi character solo shows, including "Bridge & Tunnel" part of which was written by the fireplace in our living room one December. Sarah is also the first artist to sue the Federal Communications Commission for Censorship, her lawsuit resulted in reversal of the censorship ruling which had targeted her hip-hop poem recording "Your Revolution" in which she makes a powerful statement against sexual exploitation of women in hip hop music.
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Rights
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CC BY
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Date Created
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2014-03
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Contributor
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Webb, Matthew
