www.greatwomen.org

The National Women's Hall of Fame is an exhibition and research center in Seneca Falls, N.Y., "to honor in perpetuity those women, citizens of the United States of America, whose contributions to the arts, athletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science, have been of greatest value for the development of their country."

The center was opened to the public in 1979 and is located near the site of the first Women’s Rights Convention, convened in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott.

American women, of the past and present, are elected annually to the museum by the National Honors Committee, a panel of 25 women and men, eminent authorities in various fields; their choices are made from nominations submitted by the public, national organizations, and newspaper and magazine editors.

PERSONS ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME, INC.

Faye Glenn Abdellah (Healthcare)
Bella Abzug (Civil Rights)
Abigail Smith Adams (Government)
Jane Addams (Social Welfare)
Madeleine Korbel Albright (Government: Politics)
Louisa May Alcott (Literature)
Linda G. Alvarado (Business)
Dorothy Andersen (Medicine)
Marian Anderson (Music)
Ethel Percy Andrus (Senior Citizens Welfare)
Maya Angelou (Literature)
Susan B. Anthony (Women’s Rights)
Virginia Apgar (Medicine)
Ella Baker (Civil Rights)
Lucille Ball (Entertainment)
Ann Bancroft (Exploration)
Clara Barton (Social Welfare)
Mary McLeod Bethune (Education)
Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (Religion)
Elizabeth Blackwell (Medicine)
Emily Blackwell (Medicine)
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (Journalism)
Nellie Bly (Journalism)
Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)
Lydia Moss Bradley (Education)
Myra Bradwell (Law)
Mary Breckinridge (Healthcare)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry)
Pearl S. Buck (Literature)
Charlotte Ann Bunch (Education; Human Rights)
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Religion; Social Welfare)
Mary Steichen Calderone (Medicine)
Annie Jump Cannon (Astronomy)
Rachel Louise Carson (Marine Biology; Ecology)
Rosalynn Carter (Healthcare)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Social Reform)
Mary Cassatt (Painting)
Willa Cather (Literature)
Carrie Chapman Catt (Women’s Rights)
Lydia Maria Child (Social Reform)
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (Politics)
Jacqueline Cochran (Aviation)
Bessie Coleman (Aviation)
Eileen Collins (Space Exploration)
Ruth Colvin (Education)
Joan Ganz Cooney (Broadcasting; Education)
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (Chemistry)
Jane Cunningham Croly (Social Reform)
Pauline Kellogg Wright Davis (Women’s Rights)
Dorothy Day (Social Reform)
Marian de Forest (Women’s RIghts)
Donna De Varona (Athletics)
Emma Smith DeVoe (Women’s Rights)
Emily Dickinson (Poetry)
Dorothea Dix (Social Welfare)
Elizabeth Hanford Dole (Government: Politics)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Environment)
Anne Dulles Dudley (Women’s Rights)
Mary Barret Dyer (Religion)
Amelia Earhart (Aviation)
Sylvia Earle (Marine Science)
Catherine East (Women’s Rights)
Crystal Eastman (Labor)
Mary Baker Eddy (Religion)
Marian Wright Edelman (Children’s Rights)
Gertrude Ederle (Athletics)
Gertrude Belle Elion (Chemistry)
Alice Evans (Medicine)
Geraldine Ferraro (Politics)
Ella Fitzgerald (Music)
Betty Friedan (Women’s Rights)
Margaret Fuller (Literature)
Matilda Joslyn Gage (Government: Women’s Rights)
Althea Gibson (Athletics)
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Engineering)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Social Progress)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Law)
Katharine Graham (Journalism)
Ella Grasso (Politics)
Martha Wright Griffiths (Politics)
Angelina Grimke (Social Reform)
Sarah Grimke (Social Reform)
Mary A. Hallaren (Military; Women’s Rights)
Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights)
Alice Hamilton (Medicine)
Martha Matilda Harper (Business)
Patricia Roberts Harris (Government)
Helen Hayes (Theater)
Dorothy Height (Civil Rights)
Beatrice A. Hicks (Engineering)
Oveta Culp Hobby (Government)
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (Social Progress)
Barbara Holdridge (Literature)
Major General Jeanne Holm (Military)
Grace Murray Hopper (Computer Science)
Bertha Holt (Social Reform)
Julia Ward Howe (Women’s Rights)
Dolores Huerta (Labor)
Helen LaKelly Hunt (Women’s Rights)
Zora Neale Hurston (Anthropology; Literature)
Anne Hutchinson (Religion)
Shirley Ann Jackson (Government)
Mary Jacobi (Medicine)
Frances Wisebart Jacobs (Social Progress)
Mae Jemison (Space Exploration)
“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (Social Reform)
Barbara Jordan (Politics)
Helen Keller (Social Progress)
Bishop Leontine Kelly (Religion)
Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (Medicine, Pharmaceuticals)
Nannerl O. Keohane (Education)
Billie Jean King (Sports)
Maggie Kuhn (Senior Citizens Welfare)
Stephanie Kwolek (Science)
Susette La Flesche (Native American Rights)
Dorothea Lange (Photography)
Mildred Robbins Leet (Philanthropy)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Literature; Aviation)
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (Law)
Juliette Gordon Low (Education: Social Progress)
Shannon W. Lucid (Space Exploration)
Mary Lyon (Education)
Barbara McClintock (Medicine)
Katherine Dexter McCormick (Women’s Rights)
Louise McManus (Medicine)
Mary Mahoney (Medicine)
Wilma Mankiller (Native American Rights)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (Physics)
Margaret Mead (Anthropology)
Patsy Takemoto Mink (Government)
Maria Mitchell (Astronomy)
Constance Baker Motley (Law; Civil Rights)
Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women’s Rights)
Kate Mullany (Labor)
Antonia Novello (Government)
Annie Oakley (Marksmanship)
Sandra Day O’Connor (Law; Government)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Painting)
Rosa Parks (Social Reform)
Alice Paul (Women’s Rights)
Mary Engle Pennington (Science)
Frances Perkins (Government)
Esther Peterson (Social Progress)
Jeanette Rankin (Politics)
Janet Reno (Law, Government)
Ellen Swallow Richards (Chemistry)
Linda Richards (Healthcare)
Sally K. Ride (Space Exploration)
Rozanne L. Ridgway (Politics)
Edith Nourse Rogers (Politics)
Eleanor Roosevelt (Politics; Social Progress)
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose (Women’s Rights)
Sister Elaine Roulet (Children’s Rights)
Wilma Rudolph (Sports)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Social Reform)
Florence Sabin (Medicine)
Sacagawea (Exploration)
Margaret Sanger (Social Reform)
Katherine Siva Saubel (Native American Rights)
Betty Bone Schiess (Religion)
Patricia Schroeder (Politics)
Felice N. Schwartz (Women’s Rights)
Florence B. Seibert (Medicine)
Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton (Religion; Social Welfare;
Education)
Anna Howard Shaw (Religion, Women’s Rights)
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (Social Welfare)
Muriel Siebert (Finance)
Beverly Sills (Music)
Bessie Smith (Music)
Sophia Smith (Education)
Margaret Chase Smith (Politics)
Hannah Greenbaum Solomon (Child Welfare)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Women’s Rights)
Gloria Steinem (Social Progress)
Helen Stephens (Sports)
Nettie Stevens (Biology)
Lucy Stone (Women’s Rights)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Literature; Social Reform)
Harriet Williams Russell Strong (Agriculture)
Annie Sullivan (Education)
Maria Tallchief (Ballet)
Ida M(inerva) Tarbell (Journalism)
Helen Brooke Taussig (Medicine)
Sojourner Truth (Social Progress)
Harriet Tubman (Social Progress)
Brigadier General Wilma Vaught (Military)
Florence Wald (Medicine)
Lillian Wald (Medicine)
Madam C.J. Walker (Business)
Mary Edwards Walker (Medicine)
Emily Howell Warner (Aviation)
Mercy Otis Warren (Poetry)
Faye Wattleton (Medicine; Social Welfare)
Annie Dodge Wauneka (Native American Rights)
Ida Wells-Barnett (Social Progress)
Eudora Welty (Literature)
Edith Wharton (Literature)
Sheila Widnall (Science)
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (Social Reform)
Oprah Winfrey (Broadcasting)
Sarah Winnemucca (Native American Rights)
Victoria Woodhull (Social Reformer)
Fanny Wright (Social Progress)
Chien-Shiung Wu (Physics)
Rosalyn Yalow (Medicine)
Gloria Yerkovich (Child Welfare)
Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias (Sports) "

I believe a FCW SOCIETY Field Trip is in order!
Check out their Site!!

- fcw society hostess committee

FCW Encounter in Los Angeles!

It was on friday..bored at work I had just passed out my little New Year cards to all of the other employees..everyone was in a festive mood and in walks Erin Brochovich. She looked exactly like she did when the movie came out. I didn't recognize her at first, and then it hit me.I read her book when I was disabled and I remember her picture .I t was her. I didn't cacth on till midway in the sale.She bought some cool stuff and chatted on and on like a flight attendant.I told her of my injury due to toxic air on the plane and she said " Oh I get calls everyday about this problem...once this administration changes over..everyone will know how serious a problem it is" ..I said that I was working in the shoe store to save up for a colon therapy machine and that I was a colon therapist.Her eyes got real big " I love that" " I am a true believer of colon therapy after everything I have seen happen to people..I am working with a school in Beverly Hills now where all of the kids are getting cancer because of an old gas well that was abandoned and leaks into the area" she also mentioned that she was working on another book. After the sale I helped her carry her bags to her car,she said that she was meeting her husband for lunch.when her got to the car she said that she was also doing some work in Indonesia..I said "Oh I love Bali!!" she said "Oh did you stay at the Four Seasons? It's great" I said 'No I had a friend who's husband is a doctor so we stayed at her home,it was nice cause we had servants and a pool in the back,where you can swim naked every morning" she said " Oh that's better than where I stayed" " That sounds great"....I said goodbye and she was off.....then about an hour later she came in again but this time she was with her husband and another man. She said " I just had to bring them in the wonderful store you have the best shoes ever"..she bought some slippers and more socks and then she asked to try on this new high heeled sexy,yet comfortable boot that I adore and wanted.She was a size 8 like me so I checked on it ..and we had already sold out...so I did the unthinkable..this jazzy,sexy,,comfortable boot..only one left..on hold for me to purchase...I couldn't help it I gave her My boot and told her it was the last one....it fit her like a glove"Oh I love it ''I'll take it thanks for finding it for me" (little did she know) so I sold her the boot and some other things again and shook her hand and thanked her for doing such a great job at bringing awareness of Toxic Exposure in our world to the forefront. She was the nicest,kindest,and most realistc person I have met in Studio City. They are far and few between....believe me...Talking to her was like talking to a friend.it was nice and I feel so lucky to have met her..right there in Studio City..in the little shoe shop...and of all people to sell her shoe's .....me.


always roamin' Rebecca Rose Gonzales

Happy New Year!!

Hey Ladies!

What an awesome year 2005 was!! We hosted our first big brunch with invitees (FCWs aside from our hosting committee) and managed to have a brunch virtually every month since, we did awesome art projects, wrote our thesis', wrote and performed our songs and plays and burlesque dances, marched for our causes, loved our sisters, and spread magic, passion, and love all over the world!

I just wanted to share with you an organization that I stumbled upon this morning called CodePink. CodePink is an women's antiwar organization that I think would be an awesome thing in which FCW can get involved. Check out their site! I might be a little behind in discovering this, but hey! One more person!

So, I hope everyone's New Year has gotten off to a fucking cool start! We have our first brunch of 2006 this Sunday... post a comment if you're interested in coming out!

Peace. Court.