UNITE
Louisa May Alcott • Susan B. Anthony • Clara Barton • Elizabeth Blackwell • Pearl S. Buck • Cleopatra
Marie Curie • Amelia Earhart • Mary Baker Eddy • Elizabeth I • Ella Fitzgerald • Indira Gandhi • LaDonna Harris
Grace Hopper • Dolores Huerta • Shirley Jackson • Joan of Arc • Jackie Joyner-Kersee • Frida Kahlo
Helen Keller • Maya Lin • Margaret Mead • Mother Theresa • Ellen Ochoa • Sandra Day O’Connor
Rosa Parks • Esther Peterson • Sally Ride • Eleanor Roosevelt • Sacagawea • Margaret Sanger • Sappho
Muriel F. Siebert • Lillian Smith • Margaret Thatcher • Harriet Tubman • Oprah Winfrey • Victoria Woodhull
Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Ada Lovelace • Hedy Lamarr • Fe del Mundo • Madam C.J. Walker • Anna May Wong
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz • Alice Huyler Ramsey • Murasaki Shikibu • Hattie McDaniel • Annie Heloise Abel
Jane Addams • Hannah Adams • Susan Anderson • Martha Bell • Mary McLeod Bethune • Mary Bickerdyke
Amelia Bloomer • Margaret Heffernan Borland • Sara Bourdett • Eilley Orrum Bowers • Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Marie Isabella Boyd • Antoinette Louisa Brown • Margaret “Molly” Brown • S.M. Burche
“Calamity Jane” Cannary • Martha Thomas Carey • Nellie Cashman • Mary Cassatt • Carrie Chapman Catt
Natawista Culbertson • Emily Dickinson • Dorothea Dix • Mary “Mamie” Fossett • Margaret Fuller
Deborah Sampson Gannett • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Emma Goldman • Sarah Moore Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke • Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins • Julia Ward Howe • Anne Hutchinson
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones • Helen Keller • Marie LaVeau • Mary Elizabeth Lease • Bridget “Biddy” Mason
F.M. Miller • Maria Mitchell • Lucretia Mott • Carry A. Nation • Georgia O’Keeffe • Alice Paul • Frances Perkins
Pocahontas • Jeanette Rankin • Delia Haskett Rawson • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone
Harriet Beecher Stowe • Sojourner Truth • Sarah Rosetta Wakeman • Mary Edwards Walker
Margaret Bourke White • Narcissa Prentiss Whitman • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Cathay Williams • Emma Willard
Boudicca • Hildegard of Bingen • Eleanor of Aquitain • Mirabai • Catherine de Medici • Jane Austen
Florence Nightingale • Emily Pankhurst • Emily Murphy • Rosa Luxemburg • Helena Rubinstein • Coco Chanel
Simone de Beauvoir • Dorothy Hodgkin • Millicent Fawcett • Eva Peron • Betty Friedan • Anne Frank
Wangari Maathai • Betty Williams • Billie Jean King • Shirin Ebadi • Benazir Bhutto • Tegla Loroupe
Malala Yousafzai • Jane Goodall • Maya Angelou • Elizabeth Fry • Emily Davison • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Caroline Norton • Sarojini Naidu • Geraldine Ferraro • Dr. Antonia Novello • Janet Reno • Madeleine Albright
Aida Alvarez • Eileen Collins • Elaine Chao • Nancy Pelosi • Sonia Sotomayor • Mary Barra • Catherine Brewer
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2015
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4TH
Quadruple Jeopardy: A Resilience Model
Presented by Nancy Carr, Director of OCC’s Disability Services Office
11:10 am – 12:20 pm, Mawhinney Hall, Room M245
THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH
Assault City Roller Derby:
Women’s Professional Roller Derby
7 – 10 pm, SRC Arena and Events Center,
Allyn Hall Gym
MONDAY, MARCH 9TH
Appreciate a Woman of Influence
Is there a woman who has made a significant impact
on your life? Come by Gordon to write a note of
appreciation to send to a woman of influence in
your life.
11 am – 1 pm, Gordon Student Center
Film: “Ironed Jawed Angels”
Directed by Katja Von Garniery, featuring Hilary Swank. The film focuses
on the American women’s suffrage movement during the 1910’s.
Discussion led by Rachel Card and Candace Walczyk.
8 pm, Residence Hall-Building A, First Floor Lounge
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH
Presentation: “Henrietta Lack’s Legacy-Deadly,
Life-Giving Cells: Science and Society.”
Presented by Professors Dr. Gwen Wehbe and Dr. Matthew Ruddy.
6 – 8 pm, Mawhinney Hall, M245
FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH
Dance Performance:
Francis Academy of Irish Dance
11:10 am – 12:20 pm, Whitney ATC-Atrium
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH
Presentation: Revolting Bodies:
Women and Tattoos
Presented by Professor Dr. Christine Braunberger
11:10 am – 12:20 pm, Mawhinney Hall, Room M345
7 pm, Residence Hall-Building A, First Floor Lounge
FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH
Vagina Monologues
Facilitated by Professors Dr. Glenda Gross
and Denise Valdes
6 – 8 pm, Storer Auditorium
SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH
Performance:
The Rosa Lee Show
Features the performing artist, Rosa Lee, in her one-woman show live and
on stage. This variety show weaves together stories, poetry, video, music
and more into a single web of American Sign Language celebration.
7 pm, Storer Auditorium
MARCH 30TH – APRIL 30TH
Women’s History Month
Creative Writing Submission
Submit creative writing and/or essay inspired by a Women’s History Month
event you attend or by a course assignment pertaining to women. Prizes will
be awarded for winners who place in each contest (1st $250, 2nd $150, and
3rd $100). Submit your work to Professor Jamie Sindell, Chair of English/
Reading/Communication, Mawhinney Hall, Room M310. Please note that
OCC professors may also submit student papers for consideration.
Drive for Women’s Toiletries and
Personal Care Products
Throughout the month we will be collecting women’s toiletries and personal
care products to donate to Onondaga’s food pantry. If you are interested in
making a donation, feel free to bring the item(s) to one of the above events.
Events are being sponsored by the College’s College Affiliated Services, C-STEP Office, department of English/Reading/Communication, department of Social Sciences,
Disability Services Office, Diversity Council, Diversity Services, Office of Student Accounts, Office of Student Leadership and Engagement, and Residence Life
To request disability related accommodations at the above events, please telephone the Disability Services Office at 498-2245 seven days in advance.