Women's Birthdays & Milestones

May 12

Matilda Stevenson b. 1849-anthropologist

Katherine Hepburn b. 1907-actor, film star

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin b. 1910-chemist, Nobel laureate

1963: Betty Miller is 1st woman pilot to cross Pacific solo

Quote for the Day

"It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
~ Rebecca West

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR MAY

Asian Heritage Month
National Feminist Bookstore Week: May 13-20
May Day, International Workers Day: May 1
Mother's Day: 2nd Sunday
World YWCA Day: last Wednesday

9 to 5 National Association of Working Women Leadership Conference: 414-274-0926
American Psychiatric Association Committee on Women & Women's Caucus: 202-682-6000
Campfest Women's Music Festival, Franklinville, NJ: 609-694-2037
Center for Gay & Lesbian Studies Awards: CLAGS, CUNY, 33 W 42nd St., Rm. 404N, New York, NY 10036-8099
Gloria Steinem Awards, Ms. Foundation: 212-742-2300, ext. 412
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Coalition Awards: 415-255-8680
International Society of Women Airline Pilots +21: P.O. Box 38644, Denver, CO 80238
National Women's Political Caucus Exceptional Merit Media Awards: 202-785-1100
Off Center Theatre Women Playwrights Festival, Tampa, FL: 813-222-1033
Sisters of Color Annual Conference: Cynthia Thompkins, 602-263-5375
Women's Sports Foundation Summit: 800-227-3988

Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"