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GGRWHC Board of Directors
Mary Seeger,
Jo Ellyn Clarey,
Co-Presidents
Ruth VanStee,
Secretary
Connie Ingham
Treasurer
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Susan Coombes
Kristin Du Mez
Sharon Hanks
Connie Ingham
Kyle Irwin
Mary Seeger
Ruth Stevens
Amy Dunham Strand
Julie Tabberer
Ruth Van Stee
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Wednesday, June 1
Midwestern History Conference
Charles W. Loosemore Auditorium,
401 Fulton St. W.
The
Midwestern History Association and the GVSU
Hauenstein Center have planned a one day conference for June 1 with a variety of interesting speakers and panels.
Attend all or just part of the day.
But don't miss the
GGRWHC panel, from 2:00 - 3:30 pm, which will highlight women's history in this area and the resources to illustrate how local history experts can enhance the work of professional historians and promote important exchanges in the field. They will use examples of specific resources that academic historians would have difficulty finding, even in this digital age.
Shifting Master Narratives
Through Grand Rapids Women's History
panel will include three speakers:
Mining the Mother Lode: WWI Women's Registration Cards and the Council of National Defense"
Anita Anthony-VanOrsdal, Michigan State University
Creating a Resource:
A Unique Record of Women's Elective History
Deirdre Toeller-Novak, GGRWHC
Fi
ghting Faulty Assumptions about 1890s Women's Groups,
Black and White
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Jo Ellyn Clarey, GGRWHC
For more information, see our website
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Thursday, June 2
Gert, Grace and the Berkey & Gay Girls:
Women, War & Work in 1910s Grand Rapids
7:00 pm
Ryerson Auditorium, Grand Rapids Public Library
Co-sponsored by the
Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council
and the Grand Rapids Public Library
A repeat of the Women's History Month opener for the audience that was snowed in then! We're still celebrating the working women of Grand Rapids a hundred years ago.
Using unique archival resources, GRPL local history experts
Julie Tabberer, Heather Edwards, and
Drew Damron will highlight some of the city's women employed outside their homes. The last decade of the heady Progressive Era opened doors both personal
 and professional for these 11,000 women, and the disruptions of wartime provided opportunities in a working world previously off limits. On Thursday meet the girls of Berkey & Gay, an early woman cartoonist, and one of our first elected officials--as they remain alive in an employee-produced factory newsletter, census records, city directories, newspaper articles, and 20,000 extremely rare war registration cards surveying the skills of area women.
For more information, see our website
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