Women's Birthdays & Milestones
January 19
Oveta Culp Hobby b. 1905-Dir. US Women's Army Corp, Sec. HEW
Janis Joplin b. 1943-rock & blues singer
Dolly Parton b. 1946-country singer, actor, comedian
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, The Story of an African Farm
ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR January
- Women's Global Media Monitoring Project, Media Watch: 408-423-6355, January 18
- Black Women in the Academy: 617-253-8889
- Board on Women and Minorities of American Meteorological Society: 617-227-2426, ext. 206
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women annual meeting, UN: 212-963-3160
- National Labor Leaders' Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS: 202-466-4615
- Schweppes International Women's Tennis Open, WTA: 813-895-5000
- Women in Higher Education International Conference: 915-747-5142; fax 915-747-5538
- Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities: An International Celebration, Eatonville, FL, featuring music, performers, lectures, workshops: 407-647-3307
Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"