Women's Birthdays & Milestones
December 31
Edith Hall Dohan b. 1877-classical archeologist
Odetta b. 1930-folk singer
Patti Smith b. 1946-poet, singer, songwriter
1981: S. Africa bans Winnie Mandela
1911: French pilot Helene Dutrieu sets women's distance record
Quote for the Day
"We bear the world and we make it...There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
~ Lyndall in Olive Schreiner's
The Story of an African Farm
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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR DECEMBER
World AIDS Day: December 1
Asian Women's Center annual fund-raiser: 212-732-5230
Celebration of Craftswomen, juried crafts fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco: 415-361-0700
Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas Symposium: fax 219-631-8209
International Women in Leadership Conference, Perth, Australia: (09) 273-8143
Midwinter MiniFest, annual music & arts event, Chicago, IL: 709-584-1255
Raising Women's Voices, a student-run annual conference on gender issues: 609-258-5565
Women in Communications annual meeting of women journalists: 703-359-9000
Women, War & Peace Conference, women's peace movement, Israel: (2) 718-597; (2) 259-626
Women's Classical Caucus, American Philological Association: 914-698-8798
Women's Caucus, Modern Language Association annual meeting: 215-895-1820
Reprinted from
The WomanSource Catalog & Review's
, "women's perpetual calendar"
