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Hello this is Virginia Swain magine
Wister in the world today I have

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a what's your native who
has gone into the world in

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a very unusual way let's start with
Lister Erika welcome welcome to my show.

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Thank you for having me Virginia so tell
us what you did in Wester before you left

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to go into the war oh well
let's see out you know it was

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a list of at least here I graduated
college and what did my badges degree in

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New York City in your
technology and then I was

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a teacher in was to public schools for six
years and taught high school English my

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son level twelve years for six years
and I knew you when you were doing

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that I because I was a Bronco high school
appointed by the turn in general of S.

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Use this as a mediator and you were

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a former peer mediator trained by that
same program and so we became friends and

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learned a lot about I learned

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a lot about you and your hopes and dreams
and now I see them coming true inner

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let's go very exciting tell us how it all
started that you and it up changing your

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career from being a Western
public school teacher to

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a broadcast journalist. Well I think we
met. Say two thousand and three and you

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have a record Nadir and I remember my
classroom was. I saw you and there was still

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a poster I think of us that purely back.
In the ninety's when I was at Burma and I

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might hold hearings to be

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a peer mediator and that's how we connected
to mediation was always referring

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students to you to be. A ping mediator
or to be on the other side of.

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A situation peacefully so I
enjoyed that and I enjoyed being

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a teacher I really loved teenagers and I
still do I think they're. By. People who

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are in a constant work in
progress so enjoy my career as

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a teacher but I also realise that at
some point. From my own professional

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growth I was becoming

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a bit stagnant and I knew I didn't want
to be the teacher who didn't want to be

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there and it was time to give up my seat
to the net young person or old person or

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whoever wanted to come in and and be
teachers I think it's teachers are in

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a position to. Really challenge the way

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a person thinks so I think you know their
value not in the country and in the world

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so I thought if the passion wasn't there
for me to do it it was it was time. So I

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wanted to change my career and after teaching
her six years and working it was just

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a very diverse population
with students from

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a wide range of social
economic backgrounds I had a

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a wealth of his stories from students and
how they grew up with experiences as.

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I wanted to tell I wanted to tell the
world stories of how people live

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and I realized you know I never went to
school to be teacher to begin with I went

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to school to be

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a black nationalist and I never did it I
never did it so at certain points time

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I said you know I have
nothing to lose. So I quit I

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quit my nice salary a young
woman and I had a nice car

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a nice you know I was comfortable I didn't
have to do anything that I'm doing now

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and have to do it but I chose to challenge
myself and take myself out of my comfort

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zone and go after

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a career of telling stories of how
people live across the world and rushing

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there when I was given

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a program with the United Nations you came
and brought us. With your team from your

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school it was fascinating to watch you to
watch your brain America and to see in

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this other side of you and since then
you've gone to Guyana to work for

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a television show tell us about how that
happened then and you were there about

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here right and you were. In each
of the news so you were on the

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web all the Charmin up to your
album. Well first I'll backtrack

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a little bit I it was easy it's easy to
say just jumped into journalism and I

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didn't because when I was looking at
jobs I realized I don't have any of this

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experience they were looking for in terms
of qualifications and that's the power of

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education is that the doors are always
open and you can always go back and that's

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what I did so I went back to school and I
got my masters in broadcast journalism

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and while I was in school in New York
City back to my alma mater. New York

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Institute of Technology I had internships
and really tried to broaden my experience

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because a graduate degrees is not
that long you know I didn't hear and

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a half so I really had to broaden my
experiences and get as many internships

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qualifications in

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a short amount of time so I could be
marketable at the time of graduation so while

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I was in school you know
we connected at the U.N.

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I think twice one time I reported for you
with your timing attend your conference

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and I just really it's a dream
to even. Step foot in the U.N.

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Especially you know you consider yourself

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a global citizen as both
of us do so meant to have

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a second opportunity to report there was
great I asked my professors if I could

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take a camera man

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a sound person with me and it was great
to me to really have that experience and

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use my practical skills that I learned
at school and actually put them into

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a professional place so it was

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a great experience to be in that general
assembly and just the whole day was was

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really really good I think maybe your
semester or I did that with you. Until you

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Bacha who a bit more maybe a year and

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a half ago while I was in school I realized
that if I wanted to be cutting edge and

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if I want to. Really challenge myself I
really had to have something solid on my

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resume that would make me stand
out other people that were have

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a sync career aspirations so natively my
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a family that was connected and I connected
with family that knew. The head of

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a company called A.T.V. Donna
it was a brand new T.V.

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Station. Calls and I asked if I
could be there as an intern for

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a month in child out so I went for

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a month and it was college credit and it
was great to take everything I learned in

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New York City and bring it to
to Africa and I practiced as

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a journalist as an intern for

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a month and I was at the end of the month
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in work as

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a full time employee upon my graduation
so I really took some time to think about

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it and I spoke with my mentors at Fox News
Net and B C N They both said you go you

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have nothing to lose so you know what why
not and they said that's going to give

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you an edge and have you know great
experience and go ahead so I left I packed

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and left I think that's

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a habit of my. I pack and leave but
I packed and I left and I would was

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working as a broadcast
journalist in Africa for

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a year and it was an interesting
experience to say the least. End

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of this show will have

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a segment of one of your broadcasts so in
our viewers can see how you what you saw

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in summer and some of the situation
but. I want to backtrack

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a little and ask you what you would say
to your English students now you are.

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Don what you've done. Here made by
Mr So are your students. Are in

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code and we were talking.
Sure and I see them

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all the time the sample that I'm
still in communication with in

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a funny story is when I was in. My internship
I was walking through security on my

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way back at the airport in Qana and I'm
walking you know about to board my flight

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and I hear Miss A C.

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So it is

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a small world indeed because I saw two
students at the airport. And we were on the

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same flight yeah there
were two students from

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a technical high school
so it is yeah you are

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a teacher for life. So. If
I could say anything to

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inspire them I would say
one is to. Dream big

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dream big and whatever your big dream is
multiply it times one hundred and make

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it bigger and go after it and know that
you are only on this planet one time

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you're on this planet one time to do it big
soldiering really really really really

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instead of being the nurse to be the nurse
practitioner and be the doctor said of

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being a paralegal and being

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a legal secretary be the lawyer then run
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go after it and secondly. I
would say is challenge yourself

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especially after high school take yourself
comfort zone was there will always be

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here and if you leave and come back
everything will probably be just the same. So

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dream big and take yourself out of your
comfort zone to really challenge yourself

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and I think that builds character because
you can dream big and if you go to places

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Robert resources are laid out for you it
makes it easy but when I was in Africa I

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mean I had my struggles daily I mean even
within the forced oppressed forty eight

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hours I wanted to come back. So whatever
whatever your dream is imagine doing it in

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a third world country and ask yourself how
bad you really want to see James Bacon

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take yourself out of your comfort zone.
You are in big right now and you've just

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been accepted embracing national
broadcast America and Western.

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TIME Tell us about. Well I won't divulge
all the details yet but I am. Relocating

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packing up and moving again journalists
go back to the city and I'll

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be with and. I will just.
Stay tuned. This is very

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exciting I know you have an even bigger
aspiration which you want to send but your

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biggest one yeah yeah

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ultimately I use fire to be. In I'm in I
think I'm in the process of doing as an

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international. News journalist
but I don't always want to cover

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the crisis it's especially in Africa it's
actually that's the easiest thing to do

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and it's I think media often portrays

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a negative stereotypical side of Africa and
I'm not going to say that those things

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aren't true you know it's a lot of

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a lot of that is true but in order to
challenge yourself to find the good

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especially when you're working in
a place where there are there are

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a lot of setbacks. I haven't traveled all
over the world but I think probably one

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of the most two of the most
difficult places to be a woman and

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a journalist probably an African

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a Middle East like who chooses by choice
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a woman. It's really difficult to to gain
suspect in not be just the pretty face

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you know I changed not in only public
speaking and writing and directing but I KNOW

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HOW TO DO care work and she's doing I can
do and in it's difficult to. Be amongst

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it's a it's

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a man's business especially in Africa
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you know there that they're there they're

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a bit taken aback and. Want to coddle you

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a bit so it you really have to take

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a stand and show that you know how to do
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a pretty girl. And really step stand up
for yourself but you also have to realize

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there's

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a cultural barrier barriers and differences
in how women are perceived in America.

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a strong independent woman that's the model
you stand at the right so he tells you

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you know makes you feel bad. For her.
In other countries it's almost being

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a strong independent woman can kind
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strong because there is they're not used
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role of women I think is different
especially in Media Inc and I found that

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you'll see women presenting
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a test but you don't see as many women
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interviewing getting the work done caring
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even at times of engineering you know various
government officials as when they see

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me I felt like the seriously.

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One of your favorite stories that you covered
perhaps introduce us to the one we're

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going to show right now after we finish.
My personal favorite is that one I did in

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think I did in the beginning of March
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conflict in Libya so this story was on
the county and government actually going

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to get the native country and citizens
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a big controversy because it was all so
fast and they wanted them to be safe that

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safe upon their return but some of these
canyons they'd left you know fifteen

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twenty twenty five years ago and had been
strange from their family and now they're

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told by the Chinese government you have
to come back the not. You know things

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things are very hot in Libya at that time
and they could they came back and it just

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wasn't organized people have left their
belongings their complaints at the

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government wasn't helping them reconnect
with their family some were just coming

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with clothes in their bags never left the
light so there was all the I believe the

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government had good intentions but
upon their return there was a lot

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a lot of chaos and then also. Want to be
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money do you know or in other various
industries they're now they're back in Guyana

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they haven't been there in years. Now
what So personally I think that that's my

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personal best and night I enjoyed the
challenge of doing it every story you see

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that you're showing your program with someone
in Libya or another one you choose to

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show Mind you I'm working in one hundred
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Everything by ten am It's about one hundred
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humid and hot and this ship probably
the one from Libya they were in

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a big park called. Five hundred people
there that day when I went into the ground

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and they hadn't showered and it stunk.
You know and that's what I mean you know

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taking yourself at your comfort zone
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Ain't it working in that whether it was
it was really challenging and if you

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enjoy that one much it you know it's going
to be wonderful for our viewers see

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another side of you know you Erica because
many many people here know you have got

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this they're going to community here Mr.
I don't have an exact number but I think

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it's it's pretty huge even when I grew up
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going to college in New York and coming
back and realize wow Conor really has

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a huge community and huge base here now I
see so many little stories that that were

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here before and gone you know homeownership
and entrepreneurship so I think we're

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still has a very vibrant.
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a fresh generation and so
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a part of it well America will watch you
with great interest to watch your career

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with great interest and we'll stop now
because we want to show this clear. But

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please come back again when you're rich in
payments and tell us about your travels

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and where we're really curious to see where
you're where you go because one thing

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that really sticks out in my mind about.
Your courage. When you dream big you have

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a lot of courage to go in and you have.
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a very well we'll look forward to seeing
the court Thank you Erica I know and being

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seen and thank you Michel
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a pleasure knowing you for all these years
and having the opportunity to see my

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growth and you know have the pings that
come full circle going to part of this

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journey with me so thank
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Madge and western and well this government
signed this makeshift cardboard sign

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indicates the severity of this issue but
yet the quality of the science shows us

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how seriously the A.M.A.

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Is taking on this issue keep it clean and
tidy is obviously not what you see here

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now what are the possible health implications
with cholera spreading rampaging

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gonna shoot hawkers on the road is so
commonplace that after April first Their

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absence is really going to
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Is overlooking the huge economic factor
in imposing this new policy not only is

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there no running water in the toilets
but also here in the showers take

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a look completely dry nothing
and this is the same

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place where women are having their babies.
More guardians are arriving from Libya

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and they are expressing
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a gun in government although the administration
has evacuated over thirteen hundred

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national since the crisis in Libya began
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government upon their arrival I think from
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stood up. The day before yesterday we live
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our country because Libya is the
report they were shooting must throw

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a bomb here and I will manage
to cross through. This bada who

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stood up to the whole night there was no
water for us to ask what our food always

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just had like your hunger but waiting in
lines with excessive heat and no food

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these nationals are famished and dismayed
at the lack of organizational structure

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in trying to reintegrate
back into the no this is

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a certain someone for us does which
isn't and as in the. Box Now

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behind me is

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a fifth batch of Ghanians to arrive from
Libya and they say they were forced to

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sleep outside here in the park last night
they also say their belongings are

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scattered and marked and that the majority
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And not from the Gandhian government and it's
not gonna get our government that brought

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us here is the you and the sympathizers
So that is this is crucial you know the

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process of organizing the last minute
belongings at the Gunney in workers could

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take with them from Libya is

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a tenuous task now we weren't going to
government to have the messy and sympathy to

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go and bring our blood but has done us
still. So we can all be cured up to get up

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so that is what I am to get our government
to do for us reporting for each T.V.

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News I'm Erica.

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Ghana's fifty fourth independence celebration
is under threat of being distracted

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by following in cremation why demonstrations
by teachers hundreds of teachers

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protest Ed now ha in literally sacked the
competing students out of the hall I

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think maybe it's good for them because the
children and you have to take care of

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their wife and children the ranch and all
the stuff so if you are looking down I

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don't really know how we are going to solve
right but now all of the students were

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in favor of their aggressive approach
to so we should get out so even though

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because that the teacher we all know what
we are come to do so she got out some of

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the also use kids on ours so we ran away
from home dressed in black and red to show

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their solidarity teachers protested against
the single spined salary structure in

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which they say is unjust today we are get
this something less less less we are

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worse off we can't even articulate our
children we can't feed our families we can't

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even do anything and then

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a truck and it doesn't lock in the society
you know everybody's working out the

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teacher we want we are producing the meat
of this country if I got. A good work

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that I was there for more than ten years
it took you four hundred fifty four point

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five million dollars and the
police constable we are now making

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a comparison police constable we want
we have decided to make the comparison

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because

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a police constable is seconds seven hundred
fifty one to seven point five million

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who you really see the target there you
think you just don't have a case we have

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a case of the teachers threaten to
interrupt traditions of the six March

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Independence Day Parade by not showing up
at their schoolchildren this Sunday we

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are not going to this is will not change
opposition. Although the police made their

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presence there were no arrests made and
the mob of teachers escorted them out and

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away. The teachers here today
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are angry and they are saying they are not
going to support Independence Day parade

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they will not support the government
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a bold to say. We have. You
with us thank you very much

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for joining us. And we just saw
your story. And how did you come

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so why do you think I thought
it was necessary because as

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a voice of the young people in Ghana in
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culture can be people to believe
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a voice and that they're to be seen and
heard and these are growing adults who have

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choices and opinions and I think their
voice in regard to education was

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a concern this is. A mansion Wester in
the world today and greeting more people

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normal to you on my show but now I.
Know it's not a new day because we have

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a women's history project

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a special program the women's
oral history and. The

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women are women one hundred sixty years
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mentioned by Charlene Martin
Maureen Ryan Doyle so. OK So

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first of all Charlene tell us about
yourself and how you ended up writing

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a book Voices of western women.
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History Project. Beyond the steering
committee along with Maureen. Linda Rose

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someone asked us to co-chair
the oral history project

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a few years ago so I believe we came to
the mutual conclusion after reading many

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many of the oral histories that are part
of the project that these stories really

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needed to be more accessible to
our Wister community we do have

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a repository of all of the. Harvard but not
too many people going to drive down to

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Cambridge to read through them so
we thought that putting them in

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a book format was excerpts from various
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together and.

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I also would like to add that many of
these oral histories are available on our

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website so if someone
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So you have divided this book and the oral
histories into poor areas right tell us

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about the areas and why you
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project was formed to commemorate the fifty
convention that was held here in the

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first national women's rights convention
so the issues of that. That were discussed

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by men and women of the time were.
Education or health and politics or

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community involvement so we
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a good place to start we did the chapters
according to those four main issues that

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were discussed in eight hundred fifty and
we wanted to show how some of the issues

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may be the same how things have changed
in that time and we decided to add

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a fifth chapter to crowd uniquely Wister
remembrances and we did that because

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almost every woman included some story about
growing up in Wister or their life so

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we decided to include

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a fifth chapter and more in Missouri
name that you found it was the

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overarching theme of all the
women. That you could talk about.

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And I think. One of the themes was
that when that every every story read

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was compelling and what was
very difficult as was choosing

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We have two hundred fifty stories so that
was very difficult very very but each

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story has just died interesting
another common lies

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the whole facts of balancing life
and I think women have. This valid

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problem since time began and we saw them
just about their story trying to find time

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for personal life trying to on time for
family. Time for year and I think these

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are issues that everyone.

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Could buy this book but the book
can be purchased on the Amazon

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site we also have our own blog that has
further information about the book and how

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to buy the book. At voices of wisdom
Women dot blogspot dot com So you're

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much more about the book about
the project you hold it up.

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And the cover design is by my
niece We believe strongly in

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supporting women of all as much
as we possibly can so she's

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a graphic designer so we gave her an
opportunity to design the cover names Briana

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Well the conversation bubbles
are to depict to depict women's

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voices and what they have to say she quote
some of the occupations of the women

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that are included in here such as
caregiver teacher mother lawyer artist

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we have many many different kinds of women
in the book we have nuns we have priests

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we do yes it's

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a very interesting story.
Twenty seven years. She felt.

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That she was ministering. She
loves her job and she even

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talks about how difficult it is to find
clergy. That will fit her correctly the

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clothes because clothes are not
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And that most of the room you
interview have a calming

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a calming I think I don't know
if they necessarily chart

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that way I think to us when we hear it
and read it it can come across that way

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whether it's an occupation or talking
about raising children and I think that

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hundred sent not more than one hundred
percent. And like Maureen said it's often

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not just one thing that they're doing
they're balancing many things. Mother

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caregiving volunteering so
I think that it has to be

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a calling of some sort.
That much and with them.

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Both attend the two thousand conference.

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OK I happen to have. I actually
went and I just loved it

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and more about that. But it was very
important for women I think and Western to

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know about our history
here and to have. Others.

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As well. And our history.

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And I think. History proud of and
I think sometimes might have

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a bit of a complex Boston but if you delve
into the history of Western We have

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a lot to be proud and I think that's part
of what we're hoping to bring forth with

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this and I think that when you talk to
friends and have the land you'll find

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out

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a lot about that woman two thousand conference
and why they put it together and how

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we're marking history and the importance
of history and and I think that we're all

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history project started that way too so
that we can be into document current day

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history perfusion historians but I think
Maureen and I feel that this book. And the

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oral history. Community there are other
women's stories that we're developing

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community that we cannot identify with
something in you know almost any story that

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we read and even if our lives aren't similar
to the women that we're reading about

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there's often

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a challenge that we can if my hero or
that inspires us I think that the oral

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history project in this book does

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a pretty good job community I'm
sure the names who are here

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tonight. Who should be named.
And I want. To know if

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you want to name them.
I think Maureen and I

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are very appreciative and thankful of all
the support that the main organization

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that was storm's history project has
given us the past president the current

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president Heather Lynn Healey I have been
very very supportive of the oral history

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project and our work on it and I think we'd
also want to thank our own oral history

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project committee very very much because
they've been great about supporting us in

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this book project on the spot I
named them I'm sure to forget some

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one. Are Well Arlene Vade I'm Gina

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Edmonds.

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Stephanie your Judy ask Nancy
Johnson was the one that was

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escaping me OK Lisa is no longer part of
the oral history project but thank you for

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mentioning her because Lisa was

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a big prop part of starting the oral
history project and setting us in

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a way that we says a true oral historian
who is a professor it was just

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a university and she was a big help
and might be able to fill you in

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a little bit more on the start start of
that when she was of such help to us.

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It's been wonderful to see that media is
reflecting this credit which is you know

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the interview. You had and great
interviews and I look forward to

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attending this event tonight will be
will be filming it so we'll see what's

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happening in listen to you and want to
thank you I know you have to get ready but

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we still have. To interview so thank you
so much and we'll look forward to later

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thank you for coming so we appreciate
it very much thank you so much.

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Well so now you have Linda Rosen one Linda
hi Linda someone I've known for many

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years and I'm so thrilled that you're
on the show now and can talk about the

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history project started with

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a woman's wish for Mr
Blodgett please. OK well.

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History Project as we
know it was founded by

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a small group of women in one thousand
nine hundred more. And each year or maybe

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every two or three years the steering
committee meets and reviews what has been

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done and what can be done in the future to
really sustain the project in the county

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and staying

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a resource for the city list or so back
in that two thousand hole where the

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steering committee started to wonder
what can be done next and the group.

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Decided that an oral history project
which really fit into the mission of

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documenting the contributions
was one. So we decided to

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do the fundraiser and the year two thousand
was very well attended and joined Union

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Station and that provided seat money
to how year and that actually

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a professional consultant and that was
when you say Chris I think there's

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a history professor at Worcester State at
that time college university and Lisa was

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instrumental in preparing the
project in organizing it in

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a professional way because
people think that

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a lot of people think and I was one of those
people that thought will how hard can

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speak just go out and interview people
document it and then you're on your way but

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you actually need Hoyt if you opt her
hamburgers you need. Consent forms indeed of

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gifts and all those things that people
really don't think about so that we can use

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the words for future programming
and such as this book.

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You have been guiding this project
since for almost ten years

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well it started in two thousand and
five I was a past present. And Sister

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a project so when when I was that president
I think that was from two thousand and

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three two thousand and five that's when
it was decided to undertake the oral

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00:37:40,57 --> 00:37:47,41
history project and from there I became
chair of the world history and I

433
00:37:47,42 --> 00:37:50,66
did that about two years and then

434
00:37:51,28 --> 00:37:58,09
a stroke of fortune Marini Sherrilyn
joined steering committee and the

435
00:37:58,10 --> 00:38:03,25
project at that time and I still sit on
committing. They're there guiding the

436
00:38:03,26 --> 00:38:10,17
project and other things that you found
in the oral history of the interview is

437
00:38:10,18 --> 00:38:15,51
that important for you to mention. In
and maybe it goes that you why you won

438
00:38:17,88 --> 00:38:24,84
what was important. Well
as I mentioned in the

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00:38:24,85 --> 00:38:29,52
preface of the book are the forward warming
and Shailene have asked me to write

440
00:38:29,53 --> 00:38:35,22
that so when I started to reply I really
why I thought this was important I was

441
00:38:35,23 --> 00:38:39,54
brought back to my my grandmother my great
grandmother on my mother's side and my

442
00:38:39,55 --> 00:38:44,82
great grandmother had emigrated from Italy
at the turn the century and she did not

443
00:38:45,12 --> 00:38:51,32
read or write so when I got involved with
genealogy going I realized I'm not going

444
00:38:51,33 --> 00:38:54,15
to be one of those people and I
could never find a journal or

445
00:38:54,16 --> 00:39:00,81
a diet so I believe strongly
in the oral tradition and this

446
00:39:00,82 --> 00:39:07,82
project was developed with the idea that
we're not interested in only as of woman

447
00:39:08,86 --> 00:39:14,88
I doing wonderful public things in the
community where also interested in the

448
00:39:14,88 --> 00:39:19,31
ordinary people the people that I often
think why do you want to talk to me I don't

449
00:39:19,32 --> 00:39:24,13
really have anything to share as we know
that's not true they're balancing their

450
00:39:24,14 --> 00:39:30,59
work at their home their families
very often they're activists in their

451
00:39:30,60 --> 00:39:35,81
community and then oftentimes they look
lose that whole community together and I

452
00:39:35,82 --> 00:39:42,77
think God as Maureen had stated before
with her has watched her window and many

453
00:39:42,78 --> 00:39:48,82
people don't know that they don't know
the history. Of the city they don't know

454
00:39:48,83 --> 00:39:53,21
that it was a hotbed of reform
in the eighteen to you we have

455
00:39:53,22 --> 00:39:58,14
a lot of the crowd up here and we begin to
new I mean we have many many immigrants

456
00:39:58,81 --> 00:40:04,61
that have to make Wester their home and
we try to document that Hodge act as wow

457
00:40:07,20 --> 00:40:08,92
that's great I know that you have

458
00:40:08,97 --> 00:40:14,61
a role to play tonight that you have to
get ready so I suppose that thank you so

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00:40:14,62 --> 00:40:19,35
much for this personal interview and we'll
be down to listen to you and just film

460
00:40:21,81 --> 00:40:26,06
thank you we really really important

461
00:40:29,48 --> 00:40:34,69
now I'm dreaming Heather lives Haley who
is the president of the Women's was your.

462
00:40:35,38 --> 00:40:41,81
Among many and many other Nancy but today
we're talking about that and Heather do

463
00:40:41,82 --> 00:40:47,90
you prefer to the listener or just have
Heather please tell us more about the goals

464
00:40:47,90 --> 00:40:52,39
of the of the project and and some of the
things that you're working on at the

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00:40:52,40 --> 00:40:59,39
present time. Thank you as in you know
as you heard already listening to people

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00:40:59,40 --> 00:41:03,66
talk about the oral history project that's
one of our large and should haves right

467
00:41:03,67 --> 00:41:07,61
now and we are still building the
oral history project we have

468
00:41:07,62 --> 00:41:13,58
a higher education collaborative that's
part of the project and Linda was modest in

469
00:41:13,59 --> 00:41:19,04
describing her role in putting this together
it's really very complex the way that

470
00:41:19,05 --> 00:41:23,99
they collect the histories by working
with different colleges and professors at

471
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:29,56
different teaching your different courses
use the oral history project as an

472
00:41:29,57 --> 00:41:34,91
assignment for their students to give them
the opportunity to collect First the end

473
00:41:34,92 --> 00:41:39,70
information and then those interviews
are shared with us and added to our

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00:41:39,71 --> 00:41:44,70
collection so all those people are
using a common set of West so there's

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00:41:44,71 --> 00:41:49,65
a pretty active committee as they described
that works on that initiative in the

476
00:41:49,66 --> 00:41:56,52
past we've done other projects for example
have you been to mechanic song Yes

477
00:41:59,87 --> 00:42:04,94
You know so if you go to make your next
haul it looks like your ordinary hall with

478
00:42:05,25 --> 00:42:11,18
lots of giant oil paintings of rich and
famous people but it's not just men there

479
00:42:11,19 --> 00:42:15,69
were women up there as well who are very
influential in the way that shaping the

480
00:42:15,71 --> 00:42:19,69
way that we live today and that's something
that was an initiative of the will

481
00:42:19,71 --> 00:42:24,33
store women's history project to raise
the funds and commission the artists to

482
00:42:24,35 --> 00:42:30,86
create works of art that were of comparable.
Value to the ones that were already up

483
00:42:30,87 --> 00:42:37,58
there and then high quality artwork.
We've also put plaques on various

484
00:42:37,59 --> 00:42:43,10
buildings to help people know about the
history as it relates to women's rights in

485
00:42:43,11 --> 00:42:45,24
western and there is

486
00:42:45,28 --> 00:42:50,84
a trail guide that we also have
put together that shows us

487
00:42:51,07 --> 00:42:55,99
a few different walking paths around
the city and highlighting historically

488
00:42:56,00 --> 00:43:02,42
significant homes and buildings that were
relevant to the story of women's rights

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00:43:02,43 --> 00:43:07,79
around eating fish so those are Several
of the different things we've done in the

490
00:43:07,80 --> 00:43:14,69
past we do outreach now locally at the start
on the street festivals in the spring

491
00:43:14,70 --> 00:43:20,39
in the hall you'll often find us on the
common during the summer on Fridays at the

492
00:43:20,62 --> 00:43:23,68
city's concert series we often set up

493
00:43:23,69 --> 00:43:30,54
a table where we offer free quelling which
is an interactive activity that we do

494
00:43:30,55 --> 00:43:36,74
with kids all over the city to help them
learn a skill that's easy to do and has

495
00:43:36,75 --> 00:43:43,53
a store meaning to it and it's easy to
do and it's easily transferred and you

496
00:43:43,54 --> 00:43:48,01
can use recycled materials and so I think
that's one of the places where people see

497
00:43:48,02 --> 00:43:53,69
us in the community now as at those events
and while where showing the kids the

498
00:43:53,70 --> 00:43:58,36
arts and crafts we're also educating the
families about the history of Western

499
00:43:58,37 --> 00:44:03,17
sharing some of the materials that we've
developed over time we also sponsor

500
00:44:03,18 --> 00:44:09,37
a play about Abbey Kelly star called Yours
for Humanity Abbey where we sponsor

501
00:44:09,41 --> 00:44:15,33
a wonderful actress named Lynn McCann the
light at. Several of our past during

502
00:44:15,33 --> 00:44:20,90
committee members wrote the play based on
texts written by Abby in letters back and

503
00:44:20,96 --> 00:44:26,66
forth with her daughter. As she was traveling
the country writing her women's right

504
00:44:26,66 --> 00:44:33,18
. OK Abby Kelly Foster

505
00:44:33,59 --> 00:44:35,94
is one of our local heroes
you may know there's

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00:44:35,95 --> 00:44:40,11
a school named after her so many people
have heard of her because of the Abby Kelly

507
00:44:40,12 --> 00:44:44,78
Foster school but they're not really sure
what she did and why the name to school

508
00:44:44,79 --> 00:44:49,78
after her Abby Kelly Foster was
around in the eight hundred fifty S.

509
00:44:50,02 --> 00:44:54,96
When people were fighting for
women's right to vote it was also

510
00:44:55,34 --> 00:45:00,68
a time where they were fighting for the
rights of African Americans and so she was

511
00:45:00,69 --> 00:45:06,21
involved with both of those movements she
was very active she was vocal and she was

512
00:45:06,22 --> 00:45:11,58
not afraid she would stand and speak her
mind and tell people what she thought was

513
00:45:11,59 --> 00:45:13,98
right or not right and try to make

514
00:45:13,99 --> 00:45:19,32
a difference so that there would be equality
for all people regardless of age or

515
00:45:19,33 --> 00:45:25,67
gender or race and so she
was really a pioneer at

516
00:45:25,68 --> 00:45:30,86
a time when women weren't allowed to speak
publicly she went out spoke publicly and

517
00:45:30,87 --> 00:45:31,63
she got

518
00:45:31,64 --> 00:45:37,37
a lot of flak for it people yelled at her
for us speaking in front of her promiscuity

519
00:45:37,54 --> 00:45:41,42
audience which at the time meant the crowd
that was men and women together in the

520
00:45:41,43 --> 00:45:46,22
same crowd that was something that was
frowned upon in those days she was kicked

521
00:45:46,23 --> 00:45:46,51
out of

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00:45:46,52 --> 00:45:53,100
a church in Connecticut for
spreading her. And it was she

523
00:45:54,01 --> 00:45:55,44
was really causing

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00:45:55,45 --> 00:46:01,28
a ruckus and she's actually going back Abbi
our actress is going back to that same

525
00:46:01,29 --> 00:46:06,44
church in Connecticut next year and going
to give the play for the congregation

526
00:46:06,45 --> 00:46:13,32
there and talk about how things have
changed since the end of slavery I do not

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00:46:13,33 --> 00:46:18,16
remember the name of the town but you'll
be able to find out on our Web page we

528
00:46:18,17 --> 00:46:20,68
have a very active web presence we have

529
00:46:21,15 --> 00:46:27,50
a Facebook page also but if you go to our
website which is W W H P dot org which

530
00:46:27,51 --> 00:46:33,95
stands for Wester Women's History Project
W W H B. You'll find that you can

531
00:46:33,96 --> 00:46:38,73
access documents for almost all of what
happened in eight hundred fifty at the

532
00:46:38,74 --> 00:46:43,61
National First National Women's Rights
Convention held here in WA star we have

533
00:46:43,62 --> 00:46:49,93
transcripts of what everyone said so if
you want to read Abby's speech you can we

534
00:46:49,94 --> 00:46:54,90
have many other support and documents we
have curriculum packets for use in the

535
00:46:54,91 --> 00:47:01,52
schools. We have access to all the
oral histories so you can read

536
00:47:01,53 --> 00:47:07,65
those some of the oral histories were
actually conducted through Holy Cross and

537
00:47:07,66 --> 00:47:12,64
there Jeff studies department with people
who are deaf and so I believe you can

538
00:47:12,65 --> 00:47:19,25
watch the video of the interviews being
done in sign language and then students

539
00:47:19,26 --> 00:47:25,96
translated from the sign language into
English so kinds and the stuff on the web

540
00:47:25,97 --> 00:47:31,27
page that you can see so we really welcome
you to go and learn more about our

541
00:47:31,28 --> 00:47:37,35
organization we have and events committee
that's pretty active we sponsor oral

542
00:47:37,36 --> 00:47:43,26
history workshops for the community as well
as those tables out of the events that

543
00:47:43,27 --> 00:47:49,81
I told you about earlier and we also
sponsor of reading by local women

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00:47:50,15 --> 00:47:54,37
voters which used to happen every February
and we're moving it to March this year

545
00:47:54,77 --> 00:48:00,79
in celebration of Women's History Month
which is in March and so you'll find

546
00:48:00,80 --> 00:48:05,38
details about that on our Web page as well
we have really interesting authors lined

547
00:48:05,39 --> 00:48:11,24
up for the twenty twelve version. You
can probably spoken one you know.

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00:48:12,56 --> 00:48:13,92
Who the founders it was

549
00:48:13,93 --> 00:48:18,11
a small group of people the founded the
women's western and I want to know their

550
00:48:18,12 --> 00:48:24,77
name. The Western women's history
project I can tell you it began with

551
00:48:24,82 --> 00:48:27,23
Lisa Connelly cook who was

552
00:48:27,27 --> 00:48:32,37
a student Clark and she read in the textbook
that the First National Women's Rights

553
00:48:32,38 --> 00:48:37,23
Convention was held in Worcester in eight
hundred fifty and she was amazed she grew

554
00:48:37,24 --> 00:48:38,25
up in western was

555
00:48:38,26 --> 00:48:42,69
a history then how could she not have known
that and she decided that there really

556
00:48:42,70 --> 00:48:48,21
should be an organization that spread the
word so that other people would know that

557
00:48:48,22 --> 00:48:53,21
this was part of Wall Street's
history and she worked together with

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00:48:53,26 --> 00:49:00,10
a really dynamic amazing group of women
I was not involved at that time and

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00:49:00,11 --> 00:49:05,05
so I don't know that I could list all of
them you can go on the website and read

560
00:49:05,06 --> 00:49:10,15
all about the history of the organization
that cell and many of the names that

561
00:49:10,17 --> 00:49:14,58
you'll see there are people that you all
know from other community groups I think

562
00:49:14,60 --> 00:49:20,70
are steering committee at various times
has included faculty from most if not all

563
00:49:20,72 --> 00:49:26,78
of the local colleges several of the local
nonprofit and social service agencies.

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00:49:28,14 --> 00:49:31,53
I believe Linda Kavli Ollie
from the Why don't you see

565
00:49:31,55 --> 00:49:38,38
a was involved at the founding as was
Judy Kerr who's now the Boys and

566
00:49:38,39 --> 00:49:44,73
Girls Club So you were you
may know some of them

567
00:49:45,63 --> 00:49:48,54
I was actually at the weekend it was

568
00:49:48,55 --> 00:49:54,08
a wonderful weekend and I do know these
are very well Mr CONWAY amazing woman I

569
00:49:54,09 --> 00:50:00,72
want to thank you so much. Lynn Haley
or coming to the show today and or

570
00:50:00,97 --> 00:50:06,81
being the the guiding light for this group
right now it's been wonderful presence

571
00:50:06,82 --> 00:50:12,69
in Western and we look forward to seeing
you downstairs at the time. Yes I can't

572
00:50:12,70 --> 00:50:16,42
wait it's such an interesting book I
haven't even finished it yet I just got my

573
00:50:16,43 --> 00:50:22,84
copy that it's terrific if you haven't got
your car yet you can go to Amazon or to

574
00:50:22,85 --> 00:50:29,37
the blogs what voices of western women
dot blogspot dot com pretty sure was

575
00:50:30,50 --> 00:50:37,35
sure thank you thanks. I am Good
afternoon my name is Atlanta and

576
00:50:37,36 --> 00:50:37,66
Rose is

577
00:50:37,67 --> 00:50:42,51
a month out of bed Bob with the wrist ones
history project for quite some time of

578
00:50:42,52 --> 00:50:47,91
the founding share of the oral history
project that I it brings me great pride to

579
00:50:47,92 --> 00:50:54,61
be here tonight to introduce Charlie Martin
army rank and to while I first of all

580
00:50:54,62 --> 00:50:56,59
I'd like to welcome Jodi had

581
00:50:56,60 --> 00:51:06,55
a yarn mayor lack that in the
back room thank you. Thank

582
00:51:06,55 --> 00:51:12,52
. You it will take me I have many many
minutes to write introduce I'll have to be

583
00:51:12,53 --> 00:51:16,45
pulled out and working out right now all
of you have been tremendous support there

584
00:51:16,46 --> 00:51:16,61
is

585
00:51:16,62 --> 00:51:22,26
a lot of this is for your project and we're very
thankful I for your support your friendship

586
00:51:22,27 --> 00:51:27,25
and your commitment I do want to call
attention and I do say Winehouse president of

587
00:51:27,26 --> 00:51:30,36
the Women's History Project
here friendly and so.

588
00:51:31,40 --> 00:51:38,28
Thank. You every president

589
00:51:38,29 --> 00:51:38,97
I have a little

590
00:51:38,98 --> 00:51:45,92
a lesions in the back of the
room to beyond Mayor thank you

591
00:51:46,11 --> 00:51:52,49
thank you Ira welcome the representative
of the mass culture zero zero zero

592
00:51:52,69 --> 00:51:59,47
Thank you so where I live as this
will be tonight and we are here

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00:51:59,48 --> 00:52:04,12
tonight to celebrate the birth of our
children Markel love then work research the

594
00:52:04,13 --> 00:52:09,82
oral history transcripts of women who
were interviewed as hired by the Western

595
00:52:09,83 --> 00:52:14,56
woman's oral history project and
compiled the historic service into

596
00:52:14,57 --> 00:52:18,49
a body showing Maureen had given
some of the Massachusetts

597
00:52:18,50 --> 00:52:25,04
a wonderful get together these stories
underlining the importance of preserving

598
00:52:25,05 --> 00:52:29,01
memories as well as providing
a glimpse into the voices of

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00:52:29,02 --> 00:52:34,77
a community and it plainly spoke in
terms. Shalimar reading and I share

600
00:52:35,27 --> 00:52:40,05
a special bond through our Assumption
College connection where we are

601
00:52:40,06 --> 00:52:44,75
a long name where work at the college you
know is funded scammers and Challis had

602
00:52:45,10 --> 00:52:46,55
that employed as

603
00:52:46,56 --> 00:52:52,04
a work study student from Armenia in the
seventy's and the public relations office

604
00:52:52,05 --> 00:52:52,30
I was

605
00:52:52,31 --> 00:52:58,06
a work study student for Charlene's and
they continually get on this on the ninety

606
00:52:58,07 --> 00:53:04,34
days. So instead of using my own words
to introduce tonight's Shot there is

607
00:53:04,35 --> 00:53:09,64
a guy that I would go back to their own
friends friends and they were interviewed

608
00:53:09,65 --> 00:53:15,20
back in two thousand and eight and they
wish to humble to include those in the book

609
00:53:15,75 --> 00:53:17,72
so I arrived at that spot here with

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00:53:18,55 --> 00:53:23,37
a. Higher bar reading writing
and oil graduated from

611
00:53:23,41 --> 00:53:29,31
a Sunday college and was the first class
woman is an entrepreneur our own your own

612
00:53:29,38 --> 00:53:35,98
freelance writing business and property
management company. So those were my

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00:53:36,05 --> 00:53:41,73
words they use and they are. Seldom are
reasons Well perhaps I should speak to my

614
00:53:41,74 --> 00:53:42,95
experience as

615
00:53:42,96 --> 00:53:47,52
a first class of women at assumption
that was kind of an interesting time in

616
00:53:47,53 --> 00:53:52,42
general to be in college there are
similarities to life you are always Syria and

617
00:53:52,43 --> 00:53:57,73
saying because of the backdrop of the current
war of the Vietnam War with this land

618
00:53:57,74 --> 00:54:01,24
I was in college there was a
difference and that we had

619
00:54:01,25 --> 00:54:06,27
a draft so there was tension circling
around the campus and in terms of being

620
00:54:06,28 --> 00:54:11,16
a woman the first class of women as we
arrived time have been sweet were greeted by

621
00:54:11,17 --> 00:54:16,09
him for class and then because they were
all the man they were offering each of us

622
00:54:16,10 --> 00:54:21,37
a red rose now that would never
happen today. And I'm sure in

623
00:54:21,38 --> 00:54:26,17
a way it seems so little focus on the
area sure but it was very sweet.

624
00:54:30,55 --> 00:54:35,51
I never freelance writing business. I
write any of the customers I do work for

625
00:54:35,52 --> 00:54:40,27
non-profits I do work for construction
company inside to work for architectural

626
00:54:40,28 --> 00:54:45,11
companies I work in charge and stowing
newsletter is fairly sure is that type of

627
00:54:45,12 --> 00:54:50,38
thing and with the property management I
own several properties and I manage those

628
00:54:50,39 --> 00:54:52,59
from pretty spread sense
that there was never

629
00:54:52,60 --> 00:54:56,24
a problem in question and I'm the person
who would rate against whatever needs to

630
00:54:56,25 --> 00:54:59,43
be done. One bonus is that instead of

631
00:54:59,44 --> 00:55:03,99
a constant balance both businesses and
also in family life because it's always

632
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:08,96
a juggling act and it is for everybody and
there's no instruction manual on how to

633
00:55:08,97 --> 00:55:10,68
do it and you know if you have

634
00:55:10,69 --> 00:55:15,34
a deadline and have to consent but the
chicken fights you have to find balance they

635
00:55:15,35 --> 00:55:17,98
are doubling down saying by keeping

636
00:55:17,99 --> 00:55:22,38
a happy home life and realizing
this is life and lace not

637
00:55:22,39 --> 00:55:28,56
a destination but ensuring. Charlene
long environ spent most of her

638
00:55:28,89 --> 00:55:33,77
professional career as an assumption in
the continuing education department and

639
00:55:33,78 --> 00:55:34,55
after filling

640
00:55:34,56 --> 00:55:40,02
a series of positions she became dean of
the program she developed the first on

641
00:55:40,03 --> 00:55:44,68
line courses for the college and she
founded the Wistar Institute Senior and

642
00:55:44,69 --> 00:55:51,42
education known as flies. And
her words she said I decided

643
00:55:51,43 --> 00:55:55,73
a couple of years ago that I was approaching
fifty that because I spent my whole

644
00:55:55,74 --> 00:55:59,74
professional life that assumption and then
it was time to do something different

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00:56:00,30 --> 00:56:03,04
and if I was going to do
it I don't know it seems

646
00:56:03,05 --> 00:56:08,16
a great time to do it but I still loved I
actually I always loved my job there was

647
00:56:08,17 --> 00:56:12,05
no reason I had to leave but it felt like
the right time to be challenged in the

648
00:56:12,14 --> 00:56:14,17
new way when I left

649
00:56:14,18 --> 00:56:18,22
a subject and I decided to open my own
business and I need to take seriously I do

650
00:56:18,23 --> 00:56:23,60
more well while I college have Finder's
retirement innovations so I still need to

651
00:56:23,64 --> 00:56:29,62
work for the older and educational programs
and that kind of things I do some an

652
00:56:29,63 --> 00:56:36,27
iris or baby boomers were approaching.
Retirement and so way to be

653
00:56:36,28 --> 00:56:42,07
different for baby boomers today because
of my maturity will load much longer now

654
00:56:42,35 --> 00:56:42,50
than

655
00:56:42,51 --> 00:56:48,62
a couple of generations ago so I did and
fabric retired say sixty or sixty five you

656
00:56:48,63 --> 00:56:54,90
could conceivably have another thirty years
to look forward to. Share also says I

657
00:56:54,91 --> 00:56:59,67
think for me success is being challenged.
Why I'm doing it it's one of the

658
00:56:59,68 --> 00:57:04,37
challenge of doing something interesting
and helping someone else and I always felt

659
00:57:04,56 --> 00:57:09,33
about education while working at assumption
that I was helping adult students get

660
00:57:09,34 --> 00:57:12,27
their livestock not tracked
and retooled to get

661
00:57:12,28 --> 00:57:16,94
a new career and then later when the older
students I really felt like I was making

662
00:57:16,95 --> 00:57:22,04
a difference in the land out there why.
They would tell me things like I don't know

663
00:57:22,05 --> 00:57:27,96
what I would be doing if I didn't have wives
to share some for me it was to be able

664
00:57:27,97 --> 00:57:33,01
to find her something to her that you
follow me and how people and that's what I

665
00:57:33,02 --> 00:57:37,06
like to do. So please join me and give me

666
00:57:37,07 --> 00:57:47,48
a warm welcome to Charlayne and my. Thank

667
00:57:48,22 --> 00:57:55,12
you. Thank You letter but there's
very high coming. Over the past year

668
00:57:55,13 --> 00:57:59,97
it happens Charlotte and I have been
researching and writing this book one of the

669
00:57:59,98 --> 00:58:05,16
most frequently asked question that
we've been down for it why write

670
00:58:05,17 --> 00:58:11,95
a book you've got to live with when. Closing
answers are really and completely we

671
00:58:11,96 --> 00:58:16,52
need to delve this into the history of
the women's men and to the history of

672
00:58:16,53 --> 00:58:21,87
western South. In the
nineteenth century Wister was

673
00:58:21,88 --> 00:58:28,32
a hotbed of religious and political activity
abolitionists and those were really

674
00:58:28,36 --> 00:58:34,52
the temperance and spoke regularly from
the podium here in the city. When did not

675
00:58:34,53 --> 00:58:35,91
have those and as

676
00:58:35,92 --> 00:58:41,33
a result had little boys and will control
over their lives and their desk things.

677
00:58:42,54 --> 00:58:48,01
Yet it wasn't muster that the First National
Women's Rights Convention was held in

678
00:58:48,02 --> 00:58:54,07
eighteen that. This was the very first
organized national college to action.

679
00:58:55,12 --> 00:59:00,19
Attendance was estimated at over. One
thousand people including delegations from

680
00:59:00,20 --> 00:59:06,08
many states and southern European countries.
The final resolution of the convention

681
00:59:06,09 --> 00:59:11,64
called for equality before the law
without distinction that were coming.

682
00:59:12,84 --> 00:59:16,77
Despite controversy outraged by
critics and the little led by

683
00:59:16,78 --> 00:59:23,05
a poet and organized movement for women's
rights began its long struggle and it

684
00:59:23,06 --> 00:59:29,99
began right here money's free and grimly
hot. In October of two thousand and that

685
00:59:30,00 --> 00:59:31,90
was Do women's history project held

686
00:59:31,91 --> 00:59:37,16
a national three day conference to
commemorate the one hundred and fifty and

687
00:59:37,17 --> 00:59:42,48
adverse trade of that convention. It was
decided where we should continue to raise

688
00:59:42,49 --> 00:59:44,13
awareness of the convention and

689
00:59:44,14 --> 00:59:48,88
a good strategic role in the history of
women's rights. Then in two thousand and

690
00:59:48,89 --> 00:59:54,42
five that was to women's work history
crackers began reporting and document in the

691
00:59:54,43 --> 01:00:01,06
lives of ordinary women and women whose
voices may have previously been left out of

692
01:00:01,07 --> 01:00:04,60
this historical record
we had always P.C.T.

693
01:00:04,61 --> 01:00:06,11
Invaluable assistance for

694
01:00:06,12 --> 01:00:11,14
a local college student to conduct and
transcribe oral histories from coursework

695
01:00:11,54 --> 01:00:17,09
and turn their files over to over age hey.
We now have over two hundred and fifty

696
01:00:17,10 --> 01:00:22,35
world histories of what's your area women
are permanent from house Tory left in

697
01:00:22,36 --> 01:00:28,11
your library on the history of women in
America and it had Mr Bradley Institute at

698
01:00:28,12 --> 01:00:35,07
Harvard University. So why did
we write this book. Because it

699
01:00:35,08 --> 01:00:37,36
is our contention that one way to build

700
01:00:37,37 --> 01:00:43,60
a community is by sharing stories and
in this case women's stories. We know

701
01:00:43,61 --> 01:00:48,73
gratitude to them then women from the
eighteenth to the convention to five the

702
01:00:48,74 --> 01:00:54,85
continent who already have their age and
vision and new women brighter world of

703
01:00:54,86 --> 01:01:01,75
equality are in today and risk. With
this in mind the first four chapters of

704
01:01:01,76 --> 01:01:06,89
our book reflash the four major themes that
emerge from that eight hundred fifty to

705
01:01:06,90 --> 01:01:13,72
get. Education work health
policy and community involvement

706
01:01:14,60 --> 01:01:21,26
there is this chapter in title Heatley was
tearing down Francis. And worsened the

707
01:01:21,27 --> 01:01:26,64
stories that today's women you may ask
yourself how the experience of these women

708
01:01:26,65 --> 01:01:31,90
are like you're around or you love ways
are there challenges different white you

709
01:01:31,91 --> 01:01:37,64
think down. How far have we come and
how far into the still need to travel.

710
01:01:42,63 --> 01:01:46,45
Thank you.

711
01:01:50,59 --> 01:01:55,82
I know the world historian but I would
love to listen to people's stories as

712
01:01:55,83 --> 01:02:01,66
a child I listen to my mother and my
eyes stories around the kitchen table as

713
01:02:01,67 --> 01:02:06,64
a sociology major in college I learned about
the value of studying different kinds

714
01:02:06,65 --> 01:02:12,71
of groups of people my favorite group study
it was always women and when it came to

715
01:02:12,72 --> 01:02:17,32
selecting to treat using I was to just
uncommented research or wanted to get

716
01:02:17,33 --> 01:02:23,28
involved interviewing people I chose the
latter every time so you can understand

717
01:02:23,29 --> 01:02:28,54
that when I was asked by Linda to co-chair
the wizard women's oral history project

718
01:02:28,55 --> 01:02:34,51
a few years ago it was easy for me to say
yes I love to study the lives of women

719
01:02:34,94 --> 01:02:40,49
and I guess I'm up to where they are at
heart. As I went through the process of

720
01:02:40,54 --> 01:02:45,66
editing the many oral history transcripts
collected by the oral history project and

721
01:02:45,67 --> 01:02:50,23
keen to realize that there was not wind
and I didn't enjoy reading there was the

722
01:02:50,24 --> 01:02:54,87
line that I just tossed aside saying while
they are moments like this boring quite

723
01:02:55,00 --> 01:02:59,94
the opposite. I started. Thinking about
writing this book because although you

724
01:02:59,95 --> 01:03:05,91
handwrite to Cambridge and hang around the
Schlesinger library hard times and read

725
01:03:05,92 --> 01:03:11,93
all two hundred fifty of ours or his or you
can go to our website to read the full

726
01:03:11,94 --> 01:03:17,68
transcript I thought that all would be much
more accessible. But it kept getting by

727
01:03:17,69 --> 01:03:20,24
the damn thing about I don't
know anything about finding

728
01:03:20,25 --> 01:03:24,45
a publisher and so one day I just woke
up and I realized I could just write

729
01:03:24,53 --> 01:03:26,80
a book I just wanted to create

730
01:03:26,81 --> 01:03:31,44
a book of excerpts from these wonderful
stories so I started to find an outline of

731
01:03:31,45 --> 01:03:35,44
how to begin when Maureen mentions the
point day that she tired of should be

732
01:03:35,45 --> 01:03:42,41
written to and seal the deal we'd be
on the project for. The first chapter

733
01:03:42,42 --> 01:03:46,40
gives an overview of four of the wisdom
women's history project is all about and

734
01:03:46,41 --> 01:03:51,09
how the oral history project came to be
you can read all about it but I want to

735
01:03:51,10 --> 01:03:53,50
tell you that the women of
this organization have done

736
01:03:53,51 --> 01:03:58,60
a wonderful job of reminding the people
of Western and even beyond was Star that

737
01:03:58,61 --> 01:04:03,15
the First National Women's Rights Convention
was held in the city in eighteen fifty

738
01:04:03,52 --> 01:04:08,57
something I never learned and any history
book that is an event that wizard can be

739
01:04:08,58 --> 01:04:13,46
proud of and your it is Asian continues
to showcase the role of women through

740
01:04:13,47 --> 01:04:19,19
various programs including the oral
history project we see the world history

741
01:04:19,20 --> 01:04:19,68
project as

742
01:04:19,69 --> 01:04:26,23
a way to document the lives of today's
women are to morrow's historians but it is

743
01:04:26,24 --> 01:04:28,80
a story mentioned also a way to create

744
01:04:28,81 --> 01:04:35,63
a community as we read or listen to
these stories we make connections that

745
01:04:35,76 --> 01:04:40,19
I believe is the power of the
story we need finally share

746
01:04:40,20 --> 01:04:45,40
a common experience or even in our lives
in very different we can find something to

747
01:04:45,41 --> 01:04:52,40
it my own or in mine. When women say for
interviewers and they almost always still

748
01:04:52,83 --> 01:04:58,53
why would you want to hear my story we say
why wouldn't we. You know we're going to

749
01:04:58,54 --> 01:05:03,32
take going to go backwards tonight between
the chapters and share if you will be

750
01:05:03,33 --> 01:05:08,46
excerpts from the first chapter it is
education having worked in higher ed for

751
01:05:08,47 --> 01:05:14,39
about thirty years I loved researching the
education chapter they open reminds us

752
01:05:14,40 --> 01:05:19,24
how different things work for women and
earlier here as women we discouraged from

753
01:05:19,25 --> 01:05:23,100
getting an education and some directors
even claim they're pursuing intellectual

754
01:05:24,01 --> 01:05:30,14
activities could physically harm women by
the way and even prevent them from having

755
01:05:30,15 --> 01:05:35,81
children the little over one
hundred sixty years later we come

756
01:05:35,82 --> 01:05:41,68
a long way and the women's educational
opportunities have expanded but even when

757
01:05:41,69 --> 01:05:45,93
college campuses opened up to women
we learned that while access did not

758
01:05:45,94 --> 01:05:51,52
necessarily mean equal experience as some
of the women I chose to include in this

759
01:05:51,53 --> 01:05:56,95
chapter tells stories of what their elementary
school or college experience is what

760
01:05:56,96 --> 01:06:01,46
like others like Donna
Connelly can always and

761
01:06:01,47 --> 01:06:06,23
a great I mean Neal are going in because
they became teachers counselors or

762
01:06:06,24 --> 01:06:11,77
professors in schools and colleges
nor I'm certainly I came was

763
01:06:11,78 --> 01:06:17,24
a teacher and the Japanese internment hand
story world works of. Others times about

764
01:06:17,25 --> 01:06:22,48
their experiences as an African-American
student an immigrant student and Holder

765
01:06:22,49 --> 01:06:28,32
a student and student. Player mentality
very constant share what it was like to be

766
01:06:28,33 --> 01:06:34,22
among the first female professors I formally
are male or predominately male college

767
01:06:34,23 --> 01:06:39,11
and. It was difficult to
select just sixteen X.

768
01:06:39,12 --> 01:06:42,26
Service of this chapter and it is
even more difficult to pick just

769
01:06:42,27 --> 01:06:46,14
a couple just share with you
tonight. I'll start with

770
01:06:46,15 --> 01:06:49,98
a woman who didn't feel she had
many other options except to become

771
01:06:50,02 --> 01:06:51,90
a teacher she becomes

772
01:06:51,91 --> 01:06:56,42
a powerful force in not only sharing the
importance of women's issues within her

773
01:06:56,43 --> 01:07:02,65
own family. But with those students and
community. So the first excerpt is about

774
01:07:02,66 --> 01:07:07,03
Linda Miller who was interviewed in two
thousand and seven by Katie let me Donald

775
01:07:07,32 --> 01:07:07,48
was

776
01:07:07,49 --> 01:07:14,52
a college of the Holy Cross. My mother came
here when she was seventeen from Brazelton

777
01:07:14,53 --> 01:07:20,02
the Army my father mom was I think
an amazing woman and she never had

778
01:07:20,03 --> 01:07:25,21
a college education but she was celibate
educated she read it for graciously she

779
01:07:25,22 --> 01:07:30,65
had an inquiring mind my father came here
from Lebanon when he was silent so his

780
01:07:30,66 --> 01:07:34,41
formative years were spent they are but
then you went to junior high and high

781
01:07:34,42 --> 01:07:39,28
school here in Wister you decided
to become a doctor so here

782
01:07:39,29 --> 01:07:44,58
a great value for education and my mother
did because she didn't have formally so

783
01:07:44,59 --> 01:07:48,54
it was always assumed the three of us
would go to college my brother went to

784
01:07:48,55 --> 01:07:54,33
Williams my sister I just met so they set
very high standards I was the third I

785
01:07:54,34 --> 01:08:00,05
went to the base College in Lewiston Maine.
It was understood that we should all

786
01:08:00,06 --> 01:08:00,37
have

787
01:08:00,41 --> 01:08:04,90
a liberal arts education my parents felt
that was very important no matter what you

788
01:08:04,91 --> 01:08:09,90
did afterwards or base wasn't my first
choice she laughs to be very honest but I

789
01:08:09,91 --> 01:08:10,30
received

790
01:08:10,31 --> 01:08:15,33
a fine education had babies I met some
classmates there were some friends of forty

791
01:08:15,34 --> 01:08:18,93
years later the professors
were excellent it was sort of

792
01:08:18,94 --> 01:08:23,74
a sin in my family that you went to college
to study to learn so I pretty much kept

793
01:08:23,75 --> 01:08:28,15
my nose to the grindstone I think if I
were to do it over again I would have gone

794
01:08:28,16 --> 01:08:32,52
to a bigger university but Bates of the
finance Mark college kind say I got

795
01:08:32,53 --> 01:08:38,79
a great education it got me into Harvard
Graduate School of Education and then I

796
01:08:38,80 --> 01:08:44,31
retired town twenty seven years total
middle school in eighth grade mostly in my

797
01:08:44,32 --> 01:08:49,65
generation and it was going to begin to
change soon after women to have all the

798
01:08:49,66 --> 01:08:54,19
options they have now I didn't have
all the options right I wanted to be

799
01:08:54,20 --> 01:08:59,35
a racist to be nurses but we didn't want
to do that. So I initially we both became

800
01:08:59,36 --> 01:09:02,88
teachers and she went on to
publish from there and I read

801
01:09:02,89 --> 01:09:07,52
a teacher. When I first got into teaching
the women's liberation movement had just

802
01:09:07,53 --> 01:09:12,64
begun very pretty I had just written The
Feminine Mystique and so I got into this

803
01:09:13,31 --> 01:09:17,56
well I went to the library to get my son
some books and I found books that said men

804
01:09:17,57 --> 01:09:24,50
are pilots women are stories. Men are
doctors women are nurses that is very

805
01:09:24,51 --> 01:09:28,93
blatant sexism all at once the whole the
library and found those sparks and I

806
01:09:28,94 --> 01:09:33,87
raised the issue with the librarians at
the same time to point those out. Even

807
01:09:33,88 --> 01:09:34,54
though I did have

808
01:09:34,55 --> 01:09:39,73
a daughter it was important to me to show
the girls to do anything and it was never

809
01:09:39,74 --> 01:09:44,63
suggested to me that I could be anything
else by a nurse or a teacher or possibly

810
01:09:44,64 --> 01:09:49,89
a librarian. Now in my life I see that I
have strings that suggest I could have

811
01:09:49,90 --> 01:09:54,88
been other things not that I would have
necessarily because I love to teach kids

812
01:09:54,89 --> 01:09:55,35
things such

813
01:09:55,36 --> 01:09:59,68
a learning experience to learn from one
students for the most part I have wonderful

814
01:09:59,69 --> 01:10:06,60
students that was until. Another
favorite of mine is held the high

815
01:10:06,61 --> 01:10:12,48
I. Was interviewed at the age of seventy
seven in two thousand and nine by Lord

816
01:10:12,49 --> 01:10:15,91
Hass was a community volunteer
for a project while she was

817
01:10:15,92 --> 01:10:21,03
a graduate student at Simmons College
Hill High was born in Germany and was the

818
01:10:21,04 --> 01:10:24,85
first tenured female faculty
member at Holy Cross as

819
01:10:24,86 --> 01:10:28,78
a professor of philosophy one nine hundred
seventy and saw one thousand nine

820
01:10:28,79 --> 01:10:35,55
hundred nine. And then we came here
to wisdom by that time I just had my

821
01:10:35,63 --> 01:10:42,13
third child I thought I would stay home but
after three weeks of vast She laughs I

822
01:10:42,14 --> 01:10:47,39
decided I don't think I want to
say. And so I kind of tough for

823
01:10:47,40 --> 01:10:48,62
a while but then didn't lead to

824
01:10:48,63 --> 01:10:53,68
a fulltime job so then I went to Holy Cross
which is how I ended up in Western I

825
01:10:53,69 --> 01:10:58,70
was the first the interim president College
of the Holy Cross to get ten. Well it

826
01:10:58,71 --> 01:11:03,32
crossed my career in one nine hundred
seventy two I remember being asked in an

827
01:11:03,33 --> 01:11:08,61
elevator by one of the priests once
what did they mean when students eat.

828
01:11:10,39 --> 01:11:15,76
Cereal what. Are some of course I
responded cottage cheese and why Chris.

829
01:11:18,39 --> 01:11:18,72
There was

830
01:11:18,73 --> 01:11:23,16
a fear of the presence of women with mean
that all sorts of unspeakable things were

831
01:11:23,17 --> 01:11:29,25
turned into on the use of stuff and they
were the only mirrors in the bathrooms and

832
01:11:29,62 --> 01:11:36,24
it was very strange. They were absurd and
I said so it was she laughs. I mean and I

833
01:11:36,25 --> 01:11:41,62
mean go out on the campaign truth that women
are more human beings but essentially

834
01:11:41,63 --> 01:11:47,65
I did I guess because it was very much
an old boy now for. A time of course and

835
01:11:47,66 --> 01:11:52,46
philosophy of women nobody would have thought
of it before going coed and actually

836
01:11:52,47 --> 01:11:57,61
the people who objected the most were
not the faculty but the students it was

837
01:11:57,62 --> 01:12:02,60
a very conservative bunch of students and
any talk that those bitches be of course

838
01:12:02,78 --> 01:12:08,70
so I needed ta. And so I got seventy
five students and their class which the

839
01:12:08,71 --> 01:12:13,45
majority were women but the women were all
freshmen and that except the men in the

840
01:12:13,46 --> 01:12:18,39
class because the women because of their
number and because of course it's relevant

841
01:12:18,40 --> 01:12:20,46
to women it's sort of paid down

842
01:12:20,47 --> 01:12:26,53
a position of power while the men went
berserk over them. You have to realise this

843
01:12:26,54 --> 01:12:30,53
is something that was going on all over
the country at that time I mean this is

844
01:12:30,54 --> 01:12:32,60
late sixty's early seventy's

845
01:12:32,75 --> 01:12:37,33
a lot of this kind of political exploration
was going on and so I was only doing

846
01:12:37,34 --> 01:12:41,55
what was happening everywhere else in my
own eyes but not in the eyes of the you

847
01:12:41,56 --> 01:12:47,09
know the administration or the students at
Holy Cross. I think that nobody expected

848
01:12:47,10 --> 01:12:50,82
women to achieve the level of representation
both on the faculty and among the

849
01:12:50,83 --> 01:12:56,09
students their significance and just something
that anybody imagine now and I think

850
01:12:56,10 --> 01:12:59,79
that all of the schools that were.
Coverage of the time made the decision not

851
01:12:59,80 --> 01:13:04,31
motivated by human rights issues or
equality issues but largely by any actual

852
01:13:04,32 --> 01:13:08,88
issues because it increases the will from
which you could select students and it

853
01:13:08,89 --> 01:13:13,31
meant that you could get better students
but I don't think they understood I don't

854
01:13:13,32 --> 01:13:18,01
think anybody understood the quality of
change how is this going to account will be

855
01:13:18,02 --> 01:13:23,16
actually do here I don't think they got
it I think our Holy Cross as it happened

856
01:13:23,17 --> 01:13:28,27
everywhere else women young women now
more than older women my age have

857
01:13:28,28 --> 01:13:32,92
a sense of entitlement of course the world
is going to be there to provide their

858
01:13:32,93 --> 01:13:38,69
needs that wasn't true that it simply didn't
enter into anyone's consciousness and

859
01:13:38,70 --> 01:13:43,68
they have to change over time I just don't
think that we can relax and say OK we've

860
01:13:43,69 --> 01:13:46,96
done it where they are I mean I think
there are a you know women are in

861
01:13:46,97 --> 01:13:52,19
a fairly good place but I also don't want
women to just become assimilated I mean

862
01:13:52,20 --> 01:13:56,54
anything that we need to change the world
not become part of it the way it is and

863
01:13:56,55 --> 01:14:02,35
we aren't they are that's all the time
now Hillary is going to. Read some

864
01:14:02,36 --> 01:14:08,89
selections from her chapter on work. And
surely mention one of the most difficult

865
01:14:08,90 --> 01:14:14,54
half sleeve pages choosing which world
history to include in cancer or any chapter

866
01:14:15,01 --> 01:14:19,89
and then selecting that there it
is to share with you today. In

867
01:14:19,90 --> 01:14:21,91
a chapter on where we see

868
01:14:21,92 --> 01:14:27,15
a gradual and profound elation take place
those are other considerations for women

869
01:14:27,16 --> 01:14:32,46
coming of age in the nineteenth there is
to the next in the sixty's into their job

870
01:14:32,47 --> 01:14:37,86
opportunities in the fields or same
teaching and secretarial work and long many

871
01:14:37,87 --> 01:14:43,10
women Claridge those careers it was evident
that you know how their career paths

872
01:14:43,19 --> 01:14:45,67
were closed down. They lived in

873
01:14:45,68 --> 01:14:50,83
a time when the help wanted section of these
papers were clearly divided into help

874
01:14:50,84 --> 01:14:56,19
wanted their help and help wanted to now.
It's in this chapter contains the stories

875
01:14:56,20 --> 01:15:01,16
of nurses said. Mildred Cummings who states
that one of the best decisions of her

876
01:15:01,17 --> 01:15:05,47
entire life has become a nurse
we hear it will be on Iraq

877
01:15:05,88 --> 01:15:09,31
a teacher who received her master's
degree from Harvard her doctor is

878
01:15:09,35 --> 01:15:14,36
a grand University. We are selling
how shares your parents scheme

879
01:15:15,01 --> 01:15:21,86
a motorcycle riding on. Kathleen O'Connor
but she sure do ladies side needs to come

880
01:15:21,87 --> 01:15:27,74
in and churning. Feeling the wind whose
career leveraged it was your juvenile or it

881
01:15:28,04 --> 01:15:33,43
him who could have assumed ssion of being
interviewed by her own daughter. And she

882
01:15:33,44 --> 01:15:35,80
might be there who thought
she was going to be

883
01:15:35,81 --> 01:15:39,64
a high school science teacher
but found her true kind as

884
01:15:39,65 --> 01:15:44,33
a writer. This is the story of Joe Barton.

885
01:15:46,88 --> 01:15:47,25
I have

886
01:15:47,26 --> 01:15:53,66
a bachelor's Bachelor of Arts in English
literature in the outer ornaments I also

887
01:15:53,67 --> 01:15:53,85
have

888
01:15:53,86 --> 01:16:00,45
a downstairs in divinity from religion is
illogical seminary. I'm sitting here off

889
01:16:00,46 --> 01:16:04,93
between college and getting my master's
degree to quickly find out that

890
01:16:04,94 --> 01:16:11,81
a bachelor's degree doesn't mean as
much as he used to. At one point I was

891
01:16:11,82 --> 01:16:12,58
going to marry

892
01:16:12,59 --> 01:16:17,07
a man who was Wednesday and minister. I
was going to be in the mysteries of life

893
01:16:17,71 --> 01:16:24,52
and work in Christian fiction. But
my car just changed and I sensed

894
01:16:24,65 --> 01:16:30,87
that God was Colleen. Is
not the usual thing for

895
01:16:30,88 --> 01:16:35,23
a woman to be a craze I
felt very much here you see

896
01:16:35,24 --> 01:16:39,35
a younger female voice and priesthood
saying that it doesn't always have to be

897
01:16:39,36 --> 01:16:45,33
older men or relating to Doc when he relates
that instantly as well that God speaks

898
01:16:45,34 --> 01:16:50,84
to all of God's children you know in
the now and so having some words which

899
01:16:50,85 --> 01:16:57,79
represent. Him mourns. In
this simple church you. Go to

900
01:16:57,80 --> 01:17:03,100
where you mind just turn that process.
If you get through that process and then

901
01:17:04,01 --> 01:17:07,10
people agree that you are colleagues
in the industry you Christian

902
01:17:07,11 --> 01:17:13,32
a master's degree. When you finish school
you look great job. I don't work in San

903
01:17:13,33 --> 01:17:18,90
Francisco or actions on same premises is
my own hours so I didn't think that I

904
01:17:18,91 --> 01:17:24,34
would be coming home I thought I would be
someplace in the south. But the rafters

905
01:17:24,35 --> 01:17:30,18
reached out and said you know we want to
be under you know. On the first you know

906
01:17:30,19 --> 01:17:36,52
priests and Francis. I love what
they do and get to preach the gospel

907
01:17:37,10 --> 01:17:38,44
and hopefully reach

908
01:17:39,01 --> 01:17:43,39
a different group of people I work
closely with the house through care and

909
01:17:43,40 --> 01:17:48,40
specifically how it's really here the
women sense even still in church as

910
01:17:48,41 --> 01:17:49,26
a very of a church

911
01:17:49,27 --> 01:17:54,32
a good tradition I dress in the now and
still pretty church they don't even need

912
01:17:54,33 --> 01:17:59,61
a priest that scary well for women yet.
And there are all these little girls that

913
01:17:59,62 --> 01:18:01,67
congregation would probably never see

914
01:18:01,68 --> 01:18:05,47
a woman dressed like that standing up there
presiding of the elements in preaching

915
01:18:05,48 --> 01:18:10,76
this aren't assertive that I hope
it's relatively balance between

916
01:18:10,77 --> 01:18:17,04
a notional educational theological and
intellectual. I understand it growing up

917
01:18:17,73 --> 01:18:24,73
and now they can. See the next

918
01:18:24,74 --> 01:18:31,56
story is on the early history
of Harry Johnson. So I was

919
01:18:31,57 --> 01:18:36,26
able to do polishing Howard morning and I
majored in journalism and really didn't

920
01:18:36,27 --> 01:18:38,64
know what I want to do that
somebody said that I was

921
01:18:38,65 --> 01:18:43,36
a good writer so I started reading the
newspaper and in college I wrote to the

922
01:18:43,37 --> 01:18:50,26
public relations person or that he used
against services projects when somebody's

923
01:18:50,27 --> 01:18:51,70
got shelves or he has

924
01:18:51,71 --> 01:18:56,16
a tux and now versus here I am talking to
these guys and trying to figure out where

925
01:18:56,17 --> 01:19:00,53
they're coming from. And where they're going
getting it on television programs can

926
01:19:00,54 --> 01:19:05,62
be able to know them into public
service announcements. And it was

927
01:19:05,63 --> 01:19:11,38
a challenge but I guess I was young enough
to jump in and idealistic and not fit

928
01:19:11,39 --> 01:19:17,94
and an agent. I was there for
that she hears facts ask chooses

929
01:19:18,58 --> 01:19:23,41
I want to work that for me and I when she
worked for the National West Daily News

930
01:19:23,42 --> 01:19:28,85
as the first black reporter here I am their
first black people order and they were

931
01:19:28,94 --> 01:19:33,16
walking around egg shells first tripping
over themselves trying not to offend or

932
01:19:33,17 --> 01:19:38,18
say rather than I feel I'm going to bring
people around me and we all work well

933
01:19:38,19 --> 01:19:44,62
together I wait for their actions how grand
is that. I ended up leaving the tower

934
01:19:44,63 --> 01:19:51,62
and because I started cleaning company I
actually started it snakes extra money and

935
01:19:51,63 --> 01:19:58,18
I started making more money there than I
didn't tell a friend that. He grew to be

936
01:19:58,19 --> 01:20:04,21
a really and one half million dollar company
and I had one hundred sixty five plays

937
01:20:04,46 --> 01:20:05,57
probably could have gotten

938
01:20:05,58 --> 01:20:10,51
a lot bigger every really know what we
were doing and why she uses really are

939
01:20:10,52 --> 01:20:15,58
supposed to do I'm very good it changing
business planning now and I use my

940
01:20:15,59 --> 01:20:21,99
company's sparkle clean as a paid setting.
We were winning it and then I was on

941
01:20:22,00 --> 01:20:28,53
a dead end street. With clean well but
men are Nasser's and make money from it.

942
01:20:29,88 --> 01:20:34,87
And then here we come trying to
collar Self Matters So we walked into

943
01:20:34,88 --> 01:20:40,47
a conference room with twelve guys in
business suits twelve white men in business

944
01:20:40,48 --> 01:20:46,77
suits and everybody's just kind of dropped
to the ground including ours. It was

945
01:20:46,78 --> 01:20:52,63
talkin to you says corporate America because
they were in the doors open for us so

946
01:20:52,64 --> 01:20:55,82
we got involved in a program which is

947
01:20:55,86 --> 01:21:02,00
a program to help minorities. This is peace
and getting government contracts. We

948
01:21:02,01 --> 01:21:07,09
work with the Small Business Administration
and have do quite well we didn't cancel

949
01:21:07,10 --> 01:21:08,98
the Air Force Base or that it was

950
01:21:09,32 --> 01:21:13,68
a new port for the Navy we did
federal buildings in name and we did

951
01:21:13,69 --> 01:21:20,22
a lot of post offices we were in four states
Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and

952
01:21:20,23 --> 01:21:26,87
Rhode Island. Seventeen years later we
still that sparkle is still going on

953
01:21:27,71 --> 01:21:29,04
it helped me grow as

954
01:21:29,05 --> 01:21:35,14
a person it hope you feel like I was worth
something I said to the kids to college

955
01:21:35,28 --> 01:21:41,07
bought a house bought a real car and
took my kids on vacation. I wrote

956
01:21:41,08 --> 01:21:47,03
a book about my experience it's called
from the pits to the basement. As are you

957
01:21:47,04 --> 01:21:49,03
teaching at the center
to work an enterprise

958
01:21:49,04 --> 01:21:54,10
a lot of time down and I just love it I
do it fourteen the business plan for it.

959
01:21:55,19 --> 01:21:59,86
And then I said I want to try college and
I met considered in the community college

960
01:22:00,40 --> 01:22:03,05
they served me out of
business ethics and it's

961
01:22:03,06 --> 01:22:09,26
a great time to teach business ethics with
commentary element out there. There are

962
01:22:09,27 --> 01:22:15,09
two quotes that are all about everything
that I value that I tried to convey

963
01:22:15,13 --> 01:22:22,01
talking to women because we just
need one hand. The greatest glory is

964
01:22:22,02 --> 01:22:24,90
not and never find but arriving at

965
01:22:24,91 --> 01:22:31,46
a time bomb. And the other is from having
to report. With these things in hand

966
01:22:32,25 --> 01:22:36,71
or you think you can't
you're right in the end.

967
01:22:41,96 --> 01:22:46,05
When that hope chapter I wanted
to include three character or is

968
01:22:46,06 --> 01:22:51,20
a place stories first from a woman who
entered the health care field such

969
01:22:51,21 --> 01:22:55,88
a struggle to win the young when she medical
school when women were still rare into

970
01:22:55,89 --> 01:23:01,53
their arms and who is now. President of the
Massachusetts Medical Society and Mary

971
01:23:01,54 --> 01:23:05,59
alas away from him America speakers
it was either that or a teacher or

972
01:23:05,60 --> 01:23:07,55
a secretary it was now

973
01:23:07,56 --> 01:23:13,44
a high level health care administrator. The
second category includes women Michael

974
01:23:13,45 --> 01:23:19,31
or Connelly and company to the clinic
here taking home for six spouses elderly

975
01:23:19,35 --> 01:23:23,71
parents grandchildren and
sometimes bypass and see

976
01:23:23,72 --> 01:23:29,27
a lot of the about caretaking.
And models of women.

977
01:23:30,61 --> 01:23:36,58
Been very category as women base their own
health challenges now women and eighteen

978
01:23:36,63 --> 01:23:41,70
fifty had some of the same diseases that
still have today but they also don't know

979
01:23:41,71 --> 01:23:46,38
where the lack of female doctors and with
the restrictions of the modesty of the

980
01:23:46,39 --> 01:23:51,22
times that kept them from seeing male
doctors or discussing personal matters with

981
01:23:51,26 --> 01:23:56,74
down. Some of the health issues that women
talk about in this book and you know

982
01:23:56,96 --> 01:24:01,91
been around one hundred sixty years ago but
they weren't discussed so in this book

983
01:24:01,92 --> 01:24:06,61
I salute the women who courageously share
the stories of their own health issues

984
01:24:06,96 --> 01:24:13,01
especially ones that were taboo not that
long ago. By the enemy here in story of

985
01:24:13,02 --> 01:24:15,70
sexual abuse and well as Sanchez

986
01:24:15,71 --> 01:24:20,78
a story of drug addiction both women not
only are the voice to these issues so when

987
01:24:20,79 --> 01:24:26,90
I'm sick of others with the same problems
another woman has last count Corey Sulu

988
01:24:26,91 --> 01:24:32,00
when jealousy she was interviewed in two
thousand and nine by Ariel Sharon and I

989
01:24:32,01 --> 01:24:38,90
only fan of Assumption College.
My only challenges were

990
01:24:38,91 --> 01:24:43,99
related to the eating disorder when you
develop an eating disorder it tastes OK

991
01:24:44,00 --> 01:24:48,99
you're buying IT engineers and your emotional
health physical health psychological

992
01:24:49,03 --> 01:24:51,43
health your ability to concentrate on

993
01:24:51,44 --> 01:24:57,37
a job or your studies and it's very
difficult to recover from I suffered from.

994
01:24:57,40 --> 01:25:02,21
Believe me of for twenty five years
I developed it nineteen within

995
01:25:02,22 --> 01:25:06,37
a few weeks after the death of my father
and I have only been three hundred since

996
01:25:06,38 --> 01:25:09,83
one thousand nine hundred eighty nine so I
always did about twenty five years of my

997
01:25:09,87 --> 01:25:16,29
life for all practical purposes there were
several times I should have died I have

998
01:25:16,30 --> 01:25:17,55
survived and I have

999
01:25:17,56 --> 01:25:24,16
a voice that can help. And very well for
the first well the president hears and

1000
01:25:24,17 --> 01:25:29,54
counted the word believe me and had an
event Well I'm sure it existed but it had

1001
01:25:29,55 --> 01:25:34,16
never been in the public eye my eating
disorder storage in January of nine hundred

1002
01:25:34,17 --> 01:25:38,81
seventy four at least to believe me I did
it was in the eighty's when I first heard

1003
01:25:38,82 --> 01:25:42,78
the word when I realized that I was not
the only one in the world to have this

1004
01:25:42,79 --> 01:25:48,01
horrible problem but by then it was so
it matched in my everyday living that I

1005
01:25:48,02 --> 01:25:54,63
couldn't start and I stopped trying to stop.
And even disorder doesn't just happen

1006
01:25:54,64 --> 01:25:57,13
on a diet it is that it's like

1007
01:25:57,14 --> 01:26:01,92
a puzzle the pieces here and here come
together and you start poking in certain

1008
01:26:01,93 --> 01:26:07,97
directions and the pieces still end maladaptive
behaviors in my case my mother had

1009
01:26:07,98 --> 01:26:12,77
cancer when I was growing up a hundred
pressure because of it which turned into

1010
01:26:12,78 --> 01:26:17,86
a mental illness some my mother's relationship
and mine is very difficult and then

1011
01:26:17,87 --> 01:26:22,71
when my ex-husband came into the picture I
was torn in twenty two again so when you

1012
01:26:22,72 --> 01:26:27,11
are already down there half you already
have problems with relationships and

1013
01:26:27,12 --> 01:26:33,08
wanting every minute is spent thinking about
food or eating or finding the bathroom

1014
01:26:33,09 --> 01:26:37,86
to throw it out because it's really difficult
to maintain relationships especially

1015
01:26:37,93 --> 01:26:42,42
when you don't mind anybody
you know. I look at things as

1016
01:26:42,43 --> 01:26:43,88
a jigsaw puzzle and I have

1017
01:26:43,89 --> 01:26:48,31
a lot of pieces while in my own recovery
during the process of that twenty five

1018
01:26:48,32 --> 01:26:50,90
years I developed alcoholism I was

1019
01:26:50,91 --> 01:26:55,16
a pretty hard alcoholic for about five
heroes and I've been sober now for sixteen

1020
01:26:55,17 --> 01:26:55,27
and

1021
01:26:55,28 --> 01:26:59,74
a half years and in some great. He and I
have learned how to cope with life on life's

1022
01:26:59,81 --> 01:27:05,68
terms and gradually build up the puzzle
of my life. There are no facilities in

1023
01:27:05,69 --> 01:27:10,39
Worcester County the treaty disorders there
may be more fire contrition and maybe

1024
01:27:10,43 --> 01:27:12,83
five or six there are as I've yet to find

1025
01:27:12,84 --> 01:27:17,91
a primary care physician that specializes
in eating disorders and so my goal is to

1026
01:27:17,92 --> 01:27:18,91
bring these services to

1027
01:27:18,92 --> 01:27:22,81
a strict County to treat people with
eating disorders because they are most

1028
01:27:22,82 --> 01:27:29,40
successfully treated with early diagnosis
and I think I have to tell I have no

1029
01:27:29,41 --> 01:27:33,55
choice you know there is there's
just no question about it I have

1030
01:27:33,56 --> 01:27:38,40
a voice now and I'm not going to let these
young kids spend twenty five years doing

1031
01:27:38,41 --> 01:27:44,45
what I. Told me recently that she has
cleared her master's and called education

1032
01:27:44,66 --> 01:27:49,83
eating disorders and she does she's a
live in several times in Washington D.C.

1033
01:27:49,91 --> 01:27:56,28
And how her help those with those
suffering from eating disorders. Are

1034
01:27:56,29 --> 01:28:01,11
youngest interviewed we in the oral
history project he ended this thought as

1035
01:28:01,12 --> 01:28:07,01
a young woman who has led no health challenge
stop. Me on the day I was eighteen

1036
01:28:07,02 --> 01:28:10,76
when she was interviewed in two thousand
and eight by Ken really how all of the

1037
01:28:10,77 --> 01:28:15,90
College of the Holy Cross has assisted
right to interpreters of American Sign

1038
01:28:15,91 --> 01:28:20,21
Language for back of our case and
Skyler Northeastern University.

1039
01:28:22,92 --> 01:28:25,05
I go to the Learning Center it is

1040
01:28:25,06 --> 01:28:30,47
a school for deaf kids maintainer class
would have to be ma'am I really love

1041
01:28:30,48 --> 01:28:36,25
solving problems my mom to find out I was
down I think I was around ten months old

1042
01:28:36,26 --> 01:28:40,52
when my parents found out so you know they
don't know I was born in town or it was

1043
01:28:40,53 --> 01:28:44,94
right after I became really
is that I was born with C.P.

1044
01:28:45,02 --> 01:28:48,91
Several hours a night here is
to me I was born with C.P.

1045
01:28:48,92 --> 01:28:53,50
And I went to the doctors and physical
therapy and they told me I would probably

1046
01:28:53,51 --> 01:28:59,23
never walk so I include them all wrong
because I could. I'm locked I ran into the

1047
01:28:59,24 --> 01:29:05,19
club I can do everything. I've been involved
with the Special Olympics and say nine

1048
01:29:05,20 --> 01:29:09,92
hundred ninety seven and I started competing
in ninety eight I do gymnastics they

1049
01:29:09,93 --> 01:29:14,16
do soccer goalie baseball
and basketball I have to be

1050
01:29:14,17 --> 01:29:19,53
a good support is just bowling in the
second string they asked. My mom first tell

1051
01:29:19,54 --> 01:29:24,04
me about modeling she asked me if I wanted
to go and be in Seventeen magazine and I

1052
01:29:24,05 --> 01:29:27,09
was like Of course they didn't
know where you go so you have

1053
01:29:27,10 --> 01:29:31,67
a patient and I sent it in with my picture
and they wrote me back and they said yes

1054
01:29:31,82 --> 01:29:36,36
they wanted me to go they could find girls
out of two hundred fifty girls in the

1055
01:29:36,37 --> 01:29:41,06
United States of course I was excited and
couldn't wait to go out and so went to

1056
01:29:41,07 --> 01:29:46,28
New York and I was there for two days and
stuff so much fun right now I actually

1057
01:29:46,29 --> 01:29:49,36
worked in Boston as a model and actually

1058
01:29:49,37 --> 01:29:54,09
a little dated so many of those mom who
came tonight explained that something of it

1059
01:29:54,21 --> 01:29:58,30
couldn't be here with us tonight because
she is now in the studio at Rochester

1060
01:29:58,35 --> 01:30:01,37
Institute of Technology in New
York setting engineering.

1061
01:30:05,25 --> 01:30:10,11
We.

1062
01:30:17,87 --> 01:30:22,04
I can honestly say it was Charlene and I
researched the original for all history

1063
01:30:22,08 --> 01:30:25,70
transcripts of the substantive
liar at Harvard and without

1064
01:30:25,71 --> 01:30:31,96
a single story that I didn't find
compelling on some level. Women's lives are

1065
01:30:32,00 --> 01:30:36,32
interesting. Chapter
five focuses on politics

1066
01:30:36,33 --> 01:30:39,69
a community involvement
here you'll encounter

1067
01:30:39,70 --> 01:30:45,08
a documentary Landers and who grew up and
extremely political family which in this

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01:30:45,09 --> 01:30:50,46
time could stand up for herself and question
authority Sarah ROBERTSON The first

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01:30:50,47 --> 01:30:57,37
e-mail there was her city has where Barbara
Howard. Play director of the Institute

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01:30:57,37 --> 01:31:02,46
. Global Leadership as well as Melody
American wisdom Dean's two women who were

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01:31:02,47 --> 01:31:08,01
very involved with the League of Women
Voters. To hear the story of Harriet

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01:31:08,02 --> 01:31:11,84
Chandler. This one's

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01:31:11,85 --> 01:31:15,11
a very late career because. I started as

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a teacher when that was one of the few jobs
I did not when I graduated from college

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01:31:20,72 --> 01:31:24,41
I was going to master's degree
from bar and they allowed me to do

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01:31:24,42 --> 01:31:30,63
a doctorate that he should be international
relations in governance I tried to bar

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01:31:30,69 --> 01:31:36,82
W P I and tots I said Good job is the
executive director of the National Women's

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01:31:36,83 --> 01:31:42,50
committees at Brandeis. Then I decided
that one of my in the egg so I'm going to

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01:31:42,51 --> 01:31:48,84
arrive at jobs. That is not simple at all
for someone my age who never expected to

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01:31:48,85 --> 01:31:55,41
work full time careers were not really
accepted. It was great concern in ninety

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01:31:55,42 --> 01:31:59,100
nine to about half the schools were so
bad there realtors laddies and trouble

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01:32:00,08 --> 01:32:05,70
selling homes I thought that maybe I could
be good somehow so I decided to run for

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01:32:05,71 --> 01:32:11,36
school and. The rest is history
and this and. I served

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01:32:11,37 --> 01:32:16,62
a lot of parents terms of the school and.
I later served three terms in state House

1085
01:32:16,63 --> 01:32:20,91
of Representatives and then
I ran for Senate. It was

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01:32:20,92 --> 01:32:27,39
a brutal race. Is crucially you can
do anything if you really want to

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01:32:27,94 --> 01:32:33,53
if you work hard enough. I served five terms
in the Senate I was the first woman to

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01:32:33,54 --> 01:32:39,75
run for Mr and when Sensi I've loved every
moment of it I love helping people.

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01:32:40,81 --> 01:32:45,22
What better way of helping people than
changing some of the laws under which it

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01:32:45,23 --> 01:32:51,84
live. I've been very interested in
senior citizens because face of poverty

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01:32:52,40 --> 01:32:59,25
for seniors women. Women are very
hesitant to run for office start thinking

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01:32:59,26 --> 01:33:02,99
about how much money they have raised to
start wondering if they have enough to

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01:33:03,04 --> 01:33:07,49
base they ask themselves if they have the
right set of downs do they have the right

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01:33:07,50 --> 01:33:12,90
agree. We are winning think they are
everything by going to school and getting an

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01:33:12,91 --> 01:33:17,33
honor to bridge. The shoes of
the now there is no this is

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01:33:17,34 --> 01:33:23,30
a good way off to graduate from college
that wants to run they run. But women don't

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01:33:23,31 --> 01:33:28,18
think that way are going to be
more carefully planned out. About

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01:33:28,19 --> 01:33:33,07
a quarter of the legislature are women
and that is the same percent rehab the

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01:33:33,15 --> 01:33:39,82
entire sixteen years that. There is some
dealers you deal with and you really

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01:33:39,83 --> 01:33:45,40
advertiser them and there are others when
you know that you didn't write that. My

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01:33:45,41 --> 01:33:50,76
rule of fun and Bill is involved in conscience
I I have to feel I have to get up in

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01:33:50,77 --> 01:33:56,21
the morning look myself in there and say
this is reason I voted the way I did and

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01:33:56,22 --> 01:34:01,97
I'm comfortable with that if I can't say
that I can vote that way. And they're

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01:34:01,98 --> 01:34:08,36
always feels like. OK this is for two new
Swaim for Madge and west around the world

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01:34:08,36 --> 01:34:13,94
. Saying thank you to Heather Lynn Haley
who is the president of the Western

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01:34:13,95 --> 01:34:17,72
women's health history project for Linda
Rosen Lund who is the founder of the

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01:34:17,73 --> 01:34:22,86
women's Western History Project oral history
project and for Charlene Martin and

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01:34:22,87 --> 01:34:29,39
more enjoy the co-authors of
voices of western women presented

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01:34:29,40 --> 01:34:35,35
tonight at the wester library Westra
public library Saks from to an overflowing

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01:34:35,36 --> 01:34:42,24
crowd of western women what an exciting
event it was and is and shall be for those

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01:34:42,25 --> 01:34:46,06
who are interested in learning more please
go to the website of voices of women's

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01:34:46,07 --> 01:34:51,82
history Weiss's of western women and women's
history history project and it's my

1113
01:34:51,83 --> 01:34:56,92
pleasure to thank them for their
appearance on the show so often

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01:34:56,93 --> 01:35:01,16
a good night for Madge and Westron
the world from Virginia Swain.

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01:35:08,80 --> 01:35:08,85
The

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01:35:08,86 --> 01:35:18,97
bearer

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01:35:18,97 --> 01:35:21,67
. Of the last.

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Two hours. The

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big

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01:35:40,51 --> 01:35:46,56
. Thank you for your interest in saving
energy on next abruptness with National

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01:35:46,57 --> 01:35:49,97
Grid we know there was
an energy cost taking

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01:35:49,98 --> 01:35:55,41
a bite out of your budget by kicking steps
that you and I G more wisely you can

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01:35:55,42 --> 01:36:00,86
save money make your home more comfortable
and reduce your environmental and while

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01:36:00,87 --> 01:36:02,02
it's important for us to.

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01:36:37,17 --> 01:36:41,68
Thank you for your interest in saving energy
high on NEXT of raw Plus with National

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01:36:41,69 --> 01:36:45,09
Grid we know that rising
energy costs like taking

1127
01:36:45,10 --> 01:36:50,82
a bite out of your budget by taking steps
to use energy more wisely you can save

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01:36:50,89 --> 01:36:56,11
money make your home more comfortable and
reduce your environmental and while it's

1129
01:36:56,12 --> 01:37:01,05
important for us to all take action
remember that we are your partner in energy

1130
01:37:01,06 --> 01:37:06,40
efficiency National Grid offers rebates to
qualifying customers who install certain

1131
01:37:06,41 --> 01:37:11,74
high efficiency measures such as insulation
heating and water heating equipment and

1132
01:37:11,81 --> 01:37:17,12
Energy Star windows and thermostat We also
partner with local agencies to deliver

1133
01:37:17,13 --> 01:37:24,01
services for income eligible customers
visit us at W W W dot Think Smart think

1134
01:37:24,02 --> 01:37:28,30
green dot com or call the number on your
national grid build to learn more about

1135
01:37:28,31 --> 01:37:33,42
the many ways we can help you say. In the
video you're about to watch you'll learn

1136
01:37:33,43 --> 01:37:38,14
about small change to the newer behavior
in low cost investments that can provide

1137
01:37:38,18 --> 01:37:43,04
immediate results with your home energy
expenses from installing new energy saving

1138
01:37:43,05 --> 01:37:47,93
light bulbs to adjusting your hot water
thermostat or just covering pots on the

1139
01:37:47,94 --> 01:37:52,75
stove there are many little things you can
do to say that's the power of actually.

1140
01:38:04,87 --> 01:38:10,51
Want to become an energy in your home this
video will show you how to reduce your

1141
01:38:10,52 --> 01:38:15,33
energy costs increase the
performance of your home and create

1142
01:38:15,34 --> 01:38:20,44
a healthier and more comfortable living
space when it comes to energy efficient way

1143
01:38:20,57 --> 01:38:22,44
it's helpful to think of your home as

1144
01:38:22,45 --> 01:38:28,86
a three part system chale of how.
Heating and cooling systems.

1145
01:38:30,56 --> 01:38:36,37
And appliances and lighting the idea is to
get all three parts working together and

1146
01:38:36,38 --> 01:38:41,99
you'll be on your way to better missions
the and money saved for more information

1147
01:38:42,07 --> 01:38:47,97
please. Easy ways to save energy and
money at home found on our website.

1148
01:38:53,54 --> 01:38:56,13
Simple tips to help you
save energy at home.

1149
01:39:02,32 --> 01:39:08,52
Makes up about ten percent of the average
household energy costs aside from turning

1150
01:39:08,53 --> 01:39:13,89
off unneeded lights consider replacing
old halogen or incandescent bulbs with

1151
01:39:13,90 --> 01:39:20,10
energy efficient lamps such as compact
fluorescent or C.F.L. . C.F.L.

1152
01:39:20,11 --> 01:39:25,01
It's come in all shapes and sizes Be sure
to choose Energy Star qualified lighting

1153
01:39:25,41 --> 01:39:30,81
they use about one electricity and can
last up to ten times as long as standard

1154
01:39:30,82 --> 01:39:37,48
ball. And cooling your home
consumes about forty five

1155
01:39:37,49 --> 01:39:43,71
percent of the average household energy
but. Here are some simple tips to help you

1156
01:39:43,72 --> 01:39:46,01
save heating costs if you have

1157
01:39:46,02 --> 01:39:52,20
a furnace and ensure that ducks do not
have leaks and are sealed insulated. Check

1158
01:39:52,21 --> 01:39:58,96
your furnace filter each month and clean
or replace as needed. If you have

1159
01:39:58,97 --> 01:40:04,58
a boiler insulate your basement water or
steam pipes to avoid loss you can purchase

1160
01:40:04,59 --> 01:40:11,13
foam insulation at your local hardware store
and easily install yourself. Keep the

1161
01:40:11,14 --> 01:40:16,14
drapes and furniture away from vents or
radiators and keep them free of dust.

1162
01:40:18,40 --> 01:40:18,75
If you have

1163
01:40:18,76 --> 01:40:35,06
a fireplace make sure the flue is
tightly sealed when not in use. In

1164
01:40:35,07 --> 01:40:39,48
the summer clothes windows and draw blinds
in the morning to keep the house cooler

1165
01:40:39,48 --> 01:40:46,21
. Use fans to stay cool.
Keep air conditioner filters

1166
01:40:46,22 --> 01:40:52,41
clean. And maximize your energy savings
without sacrificing your comfort by

1167
01:40:52,42 --> 01:40:58,25
installing an Energy Star programmable
thermostat you can save approximately ten

1168
01:40:58,26 --> 01:40:58,70
percent

1169
01:40:58,71 --> 01:41:03,54
a year on your heating bill by turning your
thermostat back ten to fifteen percent

1170
01:41:03,55 --> 01:41:04,19
for eight hours

1171
01:41:04,20 --> 01:41:11,11
a day such as when you're
away or asleep. Water

1172
01:41:11,12 --> 01:41:14,80
heating accounts for about thirteen
percent of the average household.

1173
01:41:17,89 --> 01:41:22,11
Check that your water heater is set to about
one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit

1174
01:41:22,64 --> 01:41:24,33
water that's too hot can pose

1175
01:41:24,34 --> 01:41:30,11
a danger of scalding and it wastes energy
turn your gas water heater to vacation

1176
01:41:30,12 --> 01:41:35,64
mode if you're leaving your house for
an extended period of time. Install

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01:41:35,65 --> 01:41:39,37
a low flow showerheads and limit
showers to five minutes or less.

1178
01:41:51,74 --> 01:41:58,39
Run only full loads of laundry use cold
water for washing clothes clean the dryers

1179
01:41:58,40 --> 01:42:03,03
lint screen after every load.
Line dry clothes one possible.

1180
01:42:14,09 --> 01:42:18,85
Use microwaves or toaster oven instead of
the conventional oven or stove top when

1181
01:42:18,86 --> 01:42:24,21
you can avoid opening the oven door when
baking as the temperature will drop twenty

1182
01:42:24,22 --> 01:42:30,14
five to thirty degrees each time. You use
pots that match the size of your burners

1183
01:42:30,23 --> 01:42:36,79
and cover pots to reduce heat loss. Use
the energy saving mode on your dishwasher

1184
01:42:36,86 --> 01:42:38,39
and only run full load.

1185
01:42:48,27 --> 01:42:53,09
In the refrigerator uncovered foods release
more star and make the compressor work

1186
01:42:53,10 --> 01:42:58,49
harder cover them tightly set your
refrigerator to the recommended setting on the

1187
01:42:58,50 --> 01:43:04,60
dial considering moving your second
refrigerator from the garage or basement I

1188
01:43:04,61 --> 01:43:09,89
refrigerator or freezer that's twenty years
old could use two to four times more

1189
01:43:09,90 --> 01:43:10,88
like tricity than

1190
01:43:10,89 --> 01:43:22,26
a new efficient model. That

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01:43:22,27 --> 01:43:27,78
your computer to energy saving sleep
mode or turned it off when not a new use

1192
01:43:27,79 --> 01:43:31,57
a power strip to turn off
home electronics many D.V.D.

1193
01:43:31,58 --> 01:43:37,33
Players cable boxes and computers can still
draw power even if there powered off.

1194
01:43:38,80 --> 01:43:45,06
Unplug phone chargers as they still draw
power even if no phone is attached. Turned

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01:43:45,07 --> 01:43:48,82
off the T.V. If no one's watching
it a big new plasma T.V.

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01:43:48,95 --> 01:43:52,58
Could be consuming add much
electricity as your refrigerator.

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01:43:57,12 --> 01:43:57,31
On

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01:43:57,32 --> 01:44:02,10
a cold day you can really feel where droughts
are coming through your windows and doors

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01:44:02,64 --> 01:44:07,69
before you even turn on the heat this
winter make sure storm windows are properly

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01:44:07,70 --> 01:44:13,16
in place using storm windows and doors in
the winter can reduce your heat loss by

1201
01:44:13,17 --> 01:44:19,00
twenty five to fifty percent clean windows
and keep blinds open in the day to let

1202
01:44:19,01 --> 01:44:25,39
the warm sun in. Install rope caulk or
plastic window insulation kits on draft UN

1203
01:44:25,40 --> 01:44:30,62
does examine the weather stripping around
your doors and windows and repairs

1204
01:44:30,63 --> 01:44:35,95
necessary when you determine that it's
time to replace your windows look for the

1205
01:44:35,99 --> 01:44:41,50
Energy Star label it is very important that
they are properly installed to prevent

1206
01:44:41,54 --> 01:44:46,19
air and water from seeping in around the
frame check with your utility to see of

1207
01:44:46,20 --> 01:44:49,06
rebates are available for
high efficiency windows.

1208
01:45:00,09 --> 01:45:04,28
Weatherize ation also now known
as insulation and air sealing is

1209
01:45:04,29 --> 01:45:09,73
a key component to your whole house system
install and good weather as ation is one

1210
01:45:09,74 --> 01:45:13,71
of the best investments you can make
to save energy and make your home more

1211
01:45:13,72 --> 01:45:19,11
comfortable year round Well there are small
things you can do yourself we recommend

1212
01:45:19,12 --> 01:45:19,51
you find

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01:45:19,52 --> 01:45:24,64
a qualified contractor on major projects
check with your utility to see if you're

1214
01:45:24,65 --> 01:45:25,38
eligible for

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01:45:25,39 --> 01:45:39,58
a rebate to help defray the
cost of your investment. If

1216
01:45:39,59 --> 01:45:44,78
you have older insulation consider upgrading
it only twenty percent of homes built

1217
01:45:44,79 --> 01:45:51,06
before nine hundred eighty are well
insulated. In the Northeast it is recommended

1218
01:45:51,07 --> 01:45:56,40
that you use insulation rated R thirty
eight or greater in your attic if you have

1219
01:45:56,47 --> 01:46:01,21
are twenty two or less upgrading could
save twenty percent on your heating and

1220
01:46:01,22 --> 01:46:07,77
cooling costs. If your attic is
readily accessible carefully

1221
01:46:07,78 --> 01:46:13,85
inspect the condition and type of
insulation check for gaps or voids if your

1222
01:46:13,86 --> 01:46:18,49
insulation is discolored or has dirty
spots you may need air sealing.

1223
01:46:20,67 --> 01:46:23,84
Air sealing helps reduce the
overall leakage of air in

1224
01:46:23,85 --> 01:46:27,18
a house the most common
areas for air leakage in

1225
01:46:27,19 --> 01:46:32,76
a home are the basement and attic use
pliable caulk to seal leaks around your

1226
01:46:32,77 --> 01:46:38,79
home's foundation install gaskets behind
electrical outlets and check the weather

1227
01:46:38,80 --> 01:46:40,67
stripping on Windows and Doors.

1228
01:46:46,43 --> 01:46:52,02
On. Whether buying

1229
01:46:52,03 --> 01:46:54,81
a clothes washer boiler or even a T.V.

1230
01:46:55,04 --> 01:47:00,59
Remember that it has to price tags what
you pay upfront and what you pay for the

1231
01:47:00,60 --> 01:47:07,42
energy and water it uses. Look for the
government Energy Star label to know that

1232
01:47:07,43 --> 01:47:08,01
you're getting

1233
01:47:08,02 --> 01:47:14,23
a more efficient model Energy Star qualified
devices used ten to fifty percent less

1234
01:47:14,24 --> 01:47:18,96
energy and water than standard models
saving you over the life of the equipment.

1235
01:47:21,57 --> 01:47:26,89
Also look for the yellow energy guide label
this label estimates how much energy an

1236
01:47:26,90 --> 01:47:33,17
appliance uses compares energy use of similar
products and lists approximate annual

1237
01:47:33,18 --> 01:47:36,00
operating costs exact costs will very.

1238
01:47:47,11 --> 01:47:51,68
Energy Star qualified lighting such
as compact fluorescents or C.F.L.

1239
01:47:52,09 --> 01:47:54,07
Provide bright warm light at

1240
01:47:54,08 --> 01:47:58,64
a fraction of the cost of traditional bulbs
see ourselves come in many shapes and

1241
01:47:58,65 --> 01:48:04,29
sizes and some are even dimmable. Visit
your local hardware store to learn more

1242
01:48:04,30 --> 01:48:09,21
about lamps and lighting controls that can
save on operating costs while providing

1243
01:48:09,22 --> 01:48:16,15
light where and when you need it. We
hope this video has given you some new

1244
01:48:16,16 --> 01:48:21,71
ideas of ways to save energy at home and
reminded you of simple changes you can

1245
01:48:21,72 --> 01:48:26,62
make every day check with your utility
company to see if there are rebates

1246
01:48:26,63 --> 01:48:30,13
available when it's time to upgrade
your heating oil water heating

1247
01:48:30,14 --> 01:48:36,85
a quick man or weatherize your
home. Remember there are. At

1248
01:48:36,86 --> 01:48:42,82
home so pick the ones that align with
your budget today and. Tomorrow.

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01:48:58,11 --> 01:49:00,84
Somebody took it away from
me in a blanket in less than

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01:49:00,85 --> 01:49:06,04
a mom this moment of joy when I worked over
fifteen years I mean your credit score

1251
01:49:06,05 --> 01:49:10,21
is basically all you have I was maad
they got my information they can really

1252
01:49:10,22 --> 01:49:13,87
negatively affect your life and they went
off with the information they basically

1253
01:49:13,88 --> 01:49:14,97
became a true it's

1254
01:49:14,98 --> 01:49:19,47
a loss of control that someone is out there
trying to be you. Doing things in your

1255
01:49:19,48 --> 01:49:23,87
name that can cause. Once you know somebody
was using my name I know my peers on

1256
01:49:23,88 --> 01:49:28,02
that day they down and I just didn't
even know where to start they had

1257
01:49:28,03 --> 01:49:33,35
a long record if you didn't vote for me
identity and it happens when your personal

1258
01:49:33,36 --> 01:49:36,98
information is stolen and used
without your knowledge it's

1259
01:49:36,99 --> 01:49:41,49
a serious crime the can cost you time and
money ruin your credit and destroy your

1260
01:49:41,50 --> 01:49:43,01
good name when I was

1261
01:49:43,02 --> 01:49:46,39
a victim I did have my mail had
been stolen I was shopping at it at

1262
01:49:46,40 --> 01:49:51,56
a grocery store and. Someone
took my wallet and he made

1263
01:49:51,57 --> 01:49:57,03
a purchase and they all my debit card
information on my briefcase and I've been

1264
01:49:57,07 --> 01:50:00,48
tampered with and I know when I looked
in and I saw that my passport and my

1265
01:50:00,59 --> 01:50:03,95
driver's license which I had in there had
been taken identity theft happens when

1266
01:50:03,96 --> 01:50:08,48
someone takes information about you and
then uses it to commit fraud identity theft

1267
01:50:08,52 --> 01:50:14,05
is very serious We know that identity fraud
in its various forms has affected ten

1268
01:50:14,06 --> 01:50:17,61
million people in any given here and
what that means in dollars is that it's

1269
01:50:17,62 --> 01:50:22,58
a loss to businesses of about fifty
billion dollars on top of that victims of

1270
01:50:22,59 --> 01:50:26,84
identity theft to spend five hundred
billion dollars trying to undo this harm

1271
01:50:26,99 --> 01:50:32,54
everyone needs to be conscious that identity
theft is real when you get news that

1272
01:50:32,55 --> 01:50:35,88
your identity has been potentially stone
it's very it's sort of this open ended

1273
01:50:35,89 --> 01:50:39,63
problem that has occurred and you don't
know what's going to come of it no one's in

1274
01:50:39,64 --> 01:50:42,93
you which isn't to say that
we're powerless there's

1275
01:50:42,94 --> 01:50:48,66
a lot we can do to deter the
tactic and defend ourselves.

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01:50:53,33 --> 01:50:58,68
My identity was stolen when I was mobbed
and it is pretty dramatic especially how

1277
01:50:58,69 --> 01:51:03,93
it happened to me they got my information
and it happened then they went off with

1278
01:51:03,94 --> 01:51:08,01
the information and they basically became
me when they went to charging items and

1279
01:51:08,02 --> 01:51:12,66
stores identity thieves can only take
advantage of you if you give them information

1280
01:51:12,67 --> 01:51:16,16
or if they obtain information about you
so what you want to do is take steps to

1281
01:51:16,17 --> 01:51:19,68
make it less likely that your information
falls into the wrong hands there are many

1282
01:51:19,69 --> 01:51:22,68
ways that you. You know that the first is
to stop and look in your wallet What are

1283
01:51:22,69 --> 01:51:25,63
you carrying around and if you lose your
wallet or you're getting somebody else an

1284
01:51:25,64 --> 01:51:30,04
opportunity to commit identity theft
solenoid carrying around any identification

1285
01:51:30,31 --> 01:51:33,60
that has your Social Security number on it
in your wallet because that can be used

1286
01:51:33,61 --> 01:51:37,50
very easily and efficiently by identity
thieves they can have your name they can

1287
01:51:37,51 --> 01:51:40,60
have your birthday but if they don't
have theirs your social security number

1288
01:51:40,61 --> 01:51:44,02
they're not going to get very
far but all they really need is

1289
01:51:44,03 --> 01:51:47,83
a social security number and they can
misspell your name is still their credit the

1290
01:51:47,84 --> 01:51:51,60
only place that Social Security card number
should be is in your head and protect

1291
01:51:51,61 --> 01:51:55,19
it somewhere at home where you keep your
other valuables in if someone asks you to

1292
01:51:55,20 --> 01:51:55,57
provide

1293
01:51:55,58 --> 01:51:59,79
a Social Security number and ask them why
they need it on the how they're going to

1294
01:51:59,80 --> 01:52:02,44
keep it how they're going to safeguard
it because you don't want that number to

1295
01:52:02,45 --> 01:52:08,50
fall into the wrong hands I had that I
thought was of valid reason to give out

1296
01:52:08,51 --> 01:52:12,71
information that till the last rush Social
Security Number one is foreigners and

1297
01:52:12,72 --> 01:52:16,88
first three did is to do
the deed that. This is

1298
01:52:16,89 --> 01:52:21,86
a crime you have to think when you're off
but they're your identity don't just

1299
01:52:21,87 --> 01:52:25,97
personal documents did their birth somebody
to come into your home and how do you

1300
01:52:25,98 --> 01:52:30,51
media access to that information you also
have to be careful about your trash now

1301
01:52:30,52 --> 01:52:31,55
a lot of people who team

1302
01:52:31,56 --> 01:52:35,04
a wrist see things in the mail maybe bank
statements credit card statements or

1303
01:52:35,05 --> 01:52:37,79
health insurance forms and if they don't
need them and they just throw them away in

1304
01:52:37,80 --> 01:52:40,65
the trench we shouldn't do
that everyone should invest in

1305
01:52:40,66 --> 01:52:44,42
a shredder so before they dispose of
these critical documents you shred them

1306
01:52:44,59 --> 01:52:47,81
identity thieves don't worry about getting
their hands dirty they will go through

1307
01:52:47,82 --> 01:52:52,47
your trash to retrieve these documents to
go where the information is they'll steal

1308
01:52:52,48 --> 01:52:56,95
your mail they will steal your trash they'll
steal your wallet and that's how they

1309
01:52:56,96 --> 01:53:02,37
get information about you deter identity
theft protect your social security number

1310
01:53:02,89 --> 01:53:07,09
shred financial documents and paperwork
with any personal information before you

1311
01:53:07,10 --> 01:53:11,57
throw them out never give out personal
information on the phone or internet unless

1312
01:53:11,58 --> 01:53:18,36
you know who you are dealing with. My

1313
01:53:18,37 --> 01:53:22,54
name is Nicole M. Robinson. The woman who
stole my identity Her name is Nicole

1314
01:53:22,55 --> 01:53:26,35
a Robinson she stole my information from
the pharmaceutical company that she worked

1315
01:53:26,49 --> 01:53:32,00
for after this happened it devastated my
financial life I want to my credit reports

1316
01:53:32,19 --> 01:53:32,69
and I received

1317
01:53:32,70 --> 01:53:36,59
a critter of four in the mail that was
fifty four pages long and had over one

1318
01:53:36,60 --> 01:53:41,40
hundred seventy accounts one hundred forty
of them were in collections forty two

1319
01:53:41,41 --> 01:53:46,40
different names and sixty five different
addresses on it not only was somebody else

1320
01:53:46,98 --> 01:53:52,04
reaping the benefits of my the credit I
could no longer have access to my own the

1321
01:53:52,08 --> 01:53:57,03
credit and I cried and cried every day for
three months on top of the financial and

1322
01:53:57,04 --> 01:54:01,49
the time that people spend in resolving
these issues it's an emotional burden on

1323
01:54:01,50 --> 01:54:06,15
tipped him smile before he added that
the case was wonderful and less than

1324
01:54:06,16 --> 01:54:10,92
a mom this moment astroid what I had worked
for for fifteen years she got my life.

1325
01:54:12,79 --> 01:54:17,74
And identity thief uses for example your
social security number and applies for new

1326
01:54:17,75 --> 01:54:23,50
credit in your name as opposed to raiding
an existing account there may be no way

1327
01:54:23,73 --> 01:54:29,03
for you to know about it unless you've
checked your credit report and you see that

1328
01:54:29,04 --> 01:54:33,80
a new account that you didn't even know
about has been opened That's why it's very

1329
01:54:33,81 --> 01:54:40,06
important to monitor your credit report
regularly detect identity theft check your

1330
01:54:40,07 --> 01:54:44,70
credit report at Annual Credit Report dot
com federal law gives you the right to

1331
01:54:44,71 --> 01:54:48,63
a free credit report every year from
the three national consumer reporting

1332
01:54:48,64 --> 01:54:54,04
companies review your financial accounts
regular look for charges you did not make

1333
01:54:54,04 --> 01:55:00,100
. When someone realizes
that their victim of

1334
01:55:01,01 --> 01:55:02,35
identity theft it's like getting

1335
01:55:02,36 --> 01:55:06,14
a kick in the got you know you feel
paralyzed from the moment but it's really

1336
01:55:06,15 --> 01:55:10,50
essential for victims to move quickly and
deliberately and starting to resolve the

1337
01:55:10,51 --> 01:55:14,81
problems that arise from identity theft I
did what everybody knows to do and that's

1338
01:55:14,82 --> 01:55:19,49
call your credit card companies and cancel
your credit cards however that's not

1339
01:55:19,50 --> 01:55:25,69
enough. There was one major bit of information
I did not have and that was to call

1340
01:55:25,73 --> 01:55:31,13
the three major credit bureaus and I did
not do that and what happened was this

1341
01:55:31,14 --> 01:55:37,62
person then went back she was able to
reopen the credit cards that I canceled she

1342
01:55:37,63 --> 01:55:43,00
was also able to open a new credit card
in my name if you find you've become

1343
01:55:43,01 --> 01:55:46,24
a victim of identity theft the first thing
you need to do is contact one of the

1344
01:55:46,25 --> 01:55:48,98
three major credit reporting
agencies and have them put

1345
01:55:48,99 --> 01:55:52,84
a fraud alert on your file you've got
to take it seriously you really suspect

1346
01:55:52,85 --> 01:55:56,07
you've got to put fraud alerts on you've
got to take the steps to protect yourself

1347
01:55:56,50 --> 01:56:00,54
and you got inform yourself about what to
do so that when it does happen to you you

1348
01:56:00,55 --> 01:56:04,65
can do it quickly because time is critical
you next want to contact each of the

1349
01:56:04,66 --> 01:56:08,62
creditors or other institutions where your
information has been misused then you

1350
01:56:08,63 --> 01:56:11,74
follow up in writing and
dispute these accounts and get

1351
01:56:11,88 --> 01:56:16,08
a letter from them resolving these
disputed fraudulent accounts the F.T.C.

1352
01:56:16,37 --> 01:56:20,44
Has an affidavit which in my case I used
to write out your explanation of what

1353
01:56:20,45 --> 01:56:24,39
happened and then you used to submit to
creditors trying to collect on Project

1354
01:56:24,40 --> 01:56:27,82
accounts when you're trying to tell them
look my identity was stolen it helps prove

1355
01:56:27,83 --> 01:56:32,55
it to you next want to contact the local
police department for the crime and get

1356
01:56:32,56 --> 01:56:39,52
a copy of the mission to contact the
police immediately because otherwise. You

1357
01:56:39,53 --> 01:56:41,43
have no proof that there was

1358
01:56:41,44 --> 01:56:45,18
a crime very important that you reported
to the police because there are certain

1359
01:56:45,19 --> 01:56:46,17
ages use that you need

1360
01:56:46,21 --> 01:56:51,32
a we recommend that you contact and they're
probably going to refer you back. To

1361
01:56:51,72 --> 01:56:52,75
the bottom of the C.D.R.

1362
01:56:52,76 --> 01:56:56,50
Liberties with or not and finally need
to contact the Federal Trade Commission

1363
01:56:56,51 --> 01:56:59,58
online at F.T.C. Dot gov slash I.D.

1364
01:56:59,59 --> 01:57:04,94
Theft or call us toll free at eight seven
seven ID theft to report this to us

1365
01:57:05,54 --> 01:57:10,16
defend against identity theft call the
three credit reporting companies and place

1366
01:57:10,17 --> 01:57:14,40
a fraud alert on your credit report then
ask for the free credit report your

1367
01:57:14,41 --> 01:57:18,61
intitled to close any accounts that you
suspect have been tampered with or opened

1368
01:57:18,62 --> 01:57:22,67
fraudulent me start my. Call in the security
or fraud department of each company

1369
01:57:23,04 --> 01:57:27,52
follow up in writing and include
copies of supporting documents file

1370
01:57:27,53 --> 01:57:30,69
a police report contact the F.T.C.

1371
01:57:31,09 --> 01:57:35,39
Your information also helps law enforcement
officials across the country to track

1372
01:57:35,40 --> 01:57:41,58
down and stop ID the news let's treat our
personal information as we would our cash

1373
01:57:42,46 --> 01:57:48,31
let's safeguard it whether we're at home
whether it's in our person or an office

1374
01:57:48,47 --> 01:57:54,15
your personal information is OK and in the
wrong hands it can destroy your life the

1375
01:57:54,16 --> 01:57:54,87
F.T.C. Plays

1376
01:57:54,88 --> 01:57:59,86
a central role in helping victims avoid and
recover from identity theft so we have

1377
01:57:59,87 --> 01:58:03,86
developed substantial consumer education
material it's available on our website at

1378
01:58:03,87 --> 01:58:04,60
F.T.C.

1379
01:58:04,78 --> 01:58:10,19
Dot gov slash ID theft identity theft is
serious but even if your identity has been

1380
01:58:10,20 --> 01:58:14,96
stolen and there has been no fraudulent
comes over to your name you can defend

1381
01:58:14,97 --> 01:58:18,25
yourself and get those results are your
favorite There are times when you just do

1382
01:58:18,26 --> 01:58:22,06
not want to finish and you just want to say
you know forget I can't do this anymore

1383
01:58:22,06 --> 01:58:26,89
. But you have to find that way inside of
you to just keep going because this is

1384
01:58:26,90 --> 01:58:30,36
something that if you don't clear it
definitely affects the rest of your life but I

1385
01:58:30,37 --> 01:58:32,46
want is for us to create

1386
01:58:32,51 --> 01:58:39,29
a culture of security for our personal
information. So that this crime in the

1387
01:58:39,30 --> 01:58:41,42
future will be diminished greatly.