Hudson Valley Coalition for Life, Inc.
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Press Release
July 14, 2010
TO: Westchester and Putnam County media – radio, television, and newsprint
The media are invited to cover the event!
RE: Women’s Equality Day Reformed – Friday, August 13, 2010
2010 THEME: CALLING YOUTH TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AND LIFE
Westchester County Michaelian Building, 8th floor Conference Room
Martine Avenue & Court Street, White Plains, New York - 12 Noon-1 p.m.
Co-chairperson Judith Anderson addressed the Westchester County Board of Legislators on Monday evening, July 12, about the celebration of the 90th anniversary (August 26) of women’s voting rights. Her comments follow:
“Good evening Chairman Jenkins and members of the Board. As co-chair with Susan Konig and Regina Riely, I am pleased to speak before you once again about the 9th Annual Westchester Women’s Equality Day Reformed that will have its annual celebration this year on Friday, August 13, here at the County Board Michaelian Building. We will commemorate 90 years of women being recognized with full citizenship through the granting of voting rights. Ninety years – quite a milestone! We, as always, extend an invitation to all members of the Board, but especially its women: Legislators Myers, Williams, Spreckman and Marcotte. We especially thank the Hon. Gordon A. Burrows who has been our sponsor for many years and the Hon. John G. Testa, also a sponsor this year. We thank them for attending and look forward to working with them this year on Board business, as well as with Sheila Marcotte. We hope she will join us each year, and for many years to come.
Our 2010 honoree is Dr. Catherine Hickey, Yonkers multi-award winning, life-long educator and recently retired Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York. Our theme this year is ‘Calling Youth to Excellence in Education and Life’.
Women’s voices have been heard in the public square these last 90 years, and so what we have become as a society rests equally with women as with men - as it should be. The four women who sit on the County Board of Legislators are testaments to the unique voice and perspectives that women bring to the great debates of our time. When we speak of our young people in particular, we seek for them parents, heroes and heroines, teachers and mentors that inspire and call them to the highest standards in the classroom, and in the living of life itself.
The day’s program will challenge women on this occasion of reflection on the powerful words and actions of our most outspoken feminist foremothers – Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony – who did not see the advancement of women or activism as opposed to motherhood; quite the opposite. Elizabeth Stanton was known to raise a flag outside of her home with the birth of each of her five children – shocking her neighbors in Seneca Falls surely as when she fought with Mott and Anthony for women’s voting rights! Join us on August 13. It will be another grand celebration!”
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/Dear Judy, Your presentation
makes us all proud. It will be another wonderful day to advance the work of women in the support of Life. Thank you.
Joy
Posted by: Joy Dechiario | July 14, 2010 at 05:11 PM