|
|
| |
Women’s
History Month activities focus on success and achievement
The Women’s Center and Women’s Studies Program are sponsoring
activities to celebrate Women’s History Month in March.
The keynote speaker for the month will be 1970 BGSU graduate Ohio
Auditor Betty Montgomery, a 1970 BGSU graduate. Montgomery will
speak at 7:30 p.m. March 18 in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom of the
Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Her address will focus on the month’s
theme, “Celebrating Women’s Triumphs.”
Montgomery, a Republican, earned her law degree at the University
of Toledo and began her career as a criminal clerk in the Lucas
County Common Pleas Court. She represented the city of Perrysburg
and Wood County as prosecuting attorney and served as state senator
and attorney general. The first woman to be Wood County prosecutor
and state attorney general, she was elected as Ohio’s first
female state auditor in November 2002.
The weekly Women’s Center Brown Bag Lunch Series will focus
on women’s issues. On Wednesday (March 5), BGSU graduate
student Kapinga Ngandu, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, will share her international experiences. Celebrating women’s
educational triumphs is the topic on March 19, and on March 26
students can recognize their favorite professor or mentor with
lunch. All luncheons take place from noon to 1 p.m. in 107 Hanna
Hall.
Also this month, the theatre department will present the play
“Vinegar Tom,” by Caryl Churchill, from March 20-23
at the Joe E. Brown Theatre in University Hall. The play tells
the story of two 17th-century English women who are labeled as
witches, and their struggle to gain self-respect and independence.
Evening performances are at 8 p.m. March 20-22, with matinee performances
at 2 p.m. on March 22 and 23. Tickets are $5, and can be purchased
by calling the box office at 2-2719. Any remaining tickets will
be sold at the door prior to the performances.
A variety of women’s history events also will take place
at the union. Each Wednesday, excluding spring break, films that
highlight triumphant women will be screened in the union theater.
The films are “The Long Walk Home,” “Gorillas in
the Mist” and “Fried Green Tomatoes.” Each film
begins at 8 p.m.
For more information on Women’s History Month, contact the
Women’s Center at 2-7227.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
