VFAs Complete Listing of Events
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VFA EVENTS and VIDEOS Dec. 1991 – First Reunion.. Planned by Jacqui Ceballos and
Dorothy Senerchia… Pioneer feminists from NY, NJ and CT at Seventh Avenue
Regiment in NYC. Present included Susan Brownmiller, Alix Kates Shulman,
Rox Baxendahl, Phyllis
Chesler, Barbara Seaman, Betty Spalding. May, 1993 – Honoring Catherine
East at the
Seventh Regiment Armory in NYC. Jacqui Ceballos chief planner, with help
from Dorothy Senerchia and Joan Michel. Our first official event, over
300 came from all over the country and England and Mexico to honor
Catherine, including Mary Eastwood, Sonia P Fuentes, other NOW founders..
Betty Friedan was in Los Angeles, and was to come, but she had her first
“stroke” and was unable to travel. December, ’93 -Honoring Flo Kennedy at the Armory. Gloria Steinem, Emily Goodman and others pay special tribute to
our beloved Flo. May ’94 - Honoring Congresswoman Martha
Griffiths, Betty Friedan, Virginia Allen and other great feminists from
DC, Dallas, NY and CA at the
Sewall Belmont House in Washington, DC. Jacqui Ceballos “officiated”
with help from Catherine East and Mary Eastwood. Present also, Tony Carabillo, Ellie Smeal, Judy
Meuli, Sonia P Fuentes. Fall, ’94 – Honoring Bella
Abzug at the Armory in
NYC. Gloria Steinem, Renee Taylor,
Shirley MacLaine , Geraldine Ferraro at guest table with
Bella. Spring, ’95 – Marriage and
Family with Coalition for Family Justice in Irvington, NY..Betty Berry , Monica Getz and
others honored. Fall – ’95 - Honoring Gloria Steinem _
Armory,
NYC November 12, 96 –Celebrating NOW’s
30th Anniversary and Honoring NOW Founders at Barnard College.
Everyone there
from around the country..including Friedan, Aileen Hernandez, Gene Boyer,
Carl Degler, Shep Aronson, Muriel Fox, Sonia Fuentes, Dorothy Austin, Inez
Casiano. November 13, ’96 – Honoring NOW
activists at the Armory in NYC. Joan and Gerry Evans Gardner, Mary
Jean Collins, Jim Robson, Lucy Komisar, Mary Jean Tully, Muriel Fox, Karen
DeCrow … everyone from all
over the country. 10 December 13, ’97 – Celebrating the
Women’s Liberation Movement…at the Armory, Heather Booth,
Jo Freeman, Ros Baxendahl, Susan Brownmiller; radical feminists from all over
the country. April, ’98 -- Honoring Gerda
Lerner, Betty Harrigan, Midge
Kovacs, Alllie Latimer, Daisy Fields, Claire Fulcher, Virginia Whitehill
and several others.. Armory Nov. ’98 - Honoring Kate Millett.
Armory in
NYC.. Gloria Steinem Emcees.
Eleanor Pam helped with planning..
Betty Friedan special
guest. May ’99 – D.C. Honoring Donna Allen, Tina Hobson, Eliz
Boyer, Arvonne Frazer, Vera Glaser, Carmen Delgado Votaw, Allie Hixson,
Doothy Haelgele, Mariwyn Heath, Dusty Roads, Louise Raggio, Marion Norby,
June Chewning. Sewall Belmont House in D.C. Nov, ’99 - Honoring Betty Friedan
at the
National Arts Club in NYC. April, 2000 - We Celebrate National Treasures
at Sewall
Belmont house in DC. Cathryn
Adamsky, Mary Gereau, Joy Simonson, Kappi Spencer, Kathryn Avery, Jean
Ledwith King, Maura McNiel, Anne Turpeau, Karline Tierney,Patricia
Ireland, Pat Schroeder &
Ruth McLean Bowers. October, 2000 - Celebrating the
30th anniversary of the Women’s Strike for Equality..
Seventh
Regiment Armory in NYC. National Strike organizer Karen
DeCrow,Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millett, Carole de Saram, Jacqui Ceballos
and other Strike organizers relive that great day when “We became a
Movement.” March 2001 - Celebrating
Louisiana feminists at Newcomb in New Orleans.
Roberta Madden, Sylvia Roberts, Karline Tierney, many others. June, 2001 - Celebrating Heroes of Women’s
Studies – Planned by Sheila Tobias ..Barnard College, NYC.. Jane
Gould, Lois Rader Elias, Renata Bridenthal, Louis Knight, Florence Howe,
Katherine Ellis, Lois Herr, Nancy Hoffman, Carol Jacobs, Barbara Gerber,
Lenore Weitzmann, Kira Brunner, Billie Luisa-Potts, Amy Swerdlow, Ferris
Olin, Kate Swift, Barbara Newell, Joyce Nower, Carol Council.. others.
April 6, 2002- Honoring Pioneer Feminists of
Florida..With South Palm Beach NOW and
Florida Atlantic U, at the university. All day events with students. Judy Kaplan, Irma Newmark,
Elizabeth and Bob Shepard. Eliz Perry, many others. JUDY Kaplan chief planner. 20 April 26, 2002 - Salute to Feminist Writers ..
Barnard
College, NY.. Kate Millett, Erica Jong, Barbara Seaman, Phyllis Chesler,
Susan Brownmiller, Alix Kates Shulman, Letty Pogrebin, Marilyn French,
Beverly Sheitel (?) … Planned by Sheila
Tobias. Nov 8, 9 - 2002 - Celebrating 30th
Anniversary of Title IX – in Baltimore. Organized by
Betty Newcomb.. Terry O’Neil,
Ellie Smeal, Bernice Sandler, Holly Knox, Jean King, Lois Herr, Bonnie
Howard, Priscilla Leith, Betty Friedan, Mary Jean
Tully. Feb, 2003 – Mid west conference
in Chicago ??
Nov 2003 – Salute to Feminists
in the Arts… Nat Art Club, NYC..Jacqui
Ceballos with help from Suzanne Benton, Gloria
Orenstein and Cristine
Biaggi..Honorees include Judith Anderson, Silvianna
Goldsmith, Diane Kurz, Betty
LaDuke, Karen LeCocq, Kate
Millett, Arlene Raven, Sylvia
Sleigh, Alida Walsh, Ruth Weisburg, Barbara Zucker, Patricia Burnett,
others.. May 2004 – Boston, Conference
Celebrating 40 Years of Title VII – Bonnie Howard, Eleanor Clift,
Aileen Hernandez, Lis Herr, Muriel Fox, Sheila Tobias, Kathleen Casavant,
Betsy Dunn, Kathryn Rogers,
Natalie Norris,
Phyllis Segal, Martha Davis, Lorena Weeks, William H Brown August 27, 28, 2004 - Honoring
Midwest Feminists in Chicago, University of Illinois, “Unfinished Business of the
Feminist Movement”.. Judith Kagan,
Ann Crittenden, Maureen Ryan, Alice Palmer, Ruth Mojica-Hammer,
Sara Evans,Judy Long, Mary Jean Collins, Veronica Arreola, Anne Ladky,
Tracy Smith, Susan Ross, Ann Feldman, Virginia Watkins, Congresswoman Jan
Schakowdy.
May, 2006 - Honoring Helen Reddy
in Los Angeles
at the Feminist Majority Building…
May 1, 2006 – Honoring
California feminists… Los Angeles… Judy Meuli,
Jennifer Abod, Rosalie Abrams, Margie Adam, Marlene Crosby, Ivy Bottini,
Brenda Feigen, Joanne Parent, Dorothy Jonas, Betty Brooks, Zoe Nicholson,
AnitaWeiss, many others. NOVEMBER, 2006- DEBUT OF
FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA.. Columbia U and Barnard,
NYC… Barbara Love, Sheila
Tobias, Muriel Fox, Cheryl Redmon, Bettye Lane, many
others.. ______? 2007 - .. SHOWING OF TOWN BLOODY
HALL in Boca Raton. Present… Sheila Tobias, Jacqui
Ceballos, Irma Newmark, Gonzalee Ford, Betty Berry, Amy Hackett, Judy Kaplan,
many others.. No video. 2008 - Town Bloody Hall.. at Nat Art Club
in NYC.. Planned by Dorothy
Senerchia…Showing of the movie.. Afterwards there is a panel discussion,
with original
panalists, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston and Jacqui Ceballos. Marlene Sanders led
discussion. April 20, 2009 - Pompano Beach,
Fl.. Eleanor
Pam and Barbara Love honor
Fla feminists August 2009 - Stockton , CA.. Honoring north
California feminists.. Organized by Beverly
MaCarthy, Mayor Ann Johnston, Ruth Gottstein, Mary Stanley,
_______ 2010 – Honoring lawyers
and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Harvard Club in NYC.. Sheila Tobias in charge, with
help from Joan Michel, Muriel Fox and Sally Lunt. Among honorees ---
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Sylvia Roberts, Karen DeCrow, Emily Goodman, Jan Goodman, Faith
Seidenberg, Doris Sassower, Sonia P Fuentes, March, 2010.. Dallas, TX.. The Gender Agenda…
Bonnie
Wheeler, Gloria Steinem, Sheila Tobias, 100 Tx women, including Virginia
Whitehill, Winnie Wackowitz, Moira McNiel, Catalina Garcia, Sissy Farenthold, Louise Raggio,
Vivian Castleberry, and 100 others. August 21, 2010 – VFA honored
by the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY… They gave us a plaque at a
wonderful dinner.. I rec’d the plaque and called several VFA members there
to say a few words…Carole de Saram, Barbara Love, Gracia Molina Pick, Judy
Pickering, Cindy Judd Hill.
It was a thrilling event. Thanks to the women of the Hall, April, 2011- Honoring Betty
Friedan on 45th anniversary of NOW and Feminine Mystique..
Planned and
chaired by Jacqui Ceballos,
with Emily Friedan, Nataya Friedan and 3 other Friedan
grandchildren, Stephanie Coontz, Cynthia Epstein, Al Sutton, Jeanne
McGill, Grace Welch, Heather Booth, Muriel Fox, Sheila Tobias and many
personal friends of Betty’s… We auctioned Linda Stein’s painting of Betty,
showed intro of Mary Daly’s
movie, “She’s Beautiful When She Laughs” and Al Sutton and Jeanne McGill’s
movie of the August 26, 1970 March for Equality in NYC. October 28/29 - Rollins College, Orlando
Florida.. Muriel Fox, Judy Kaplan, Sheila
Tobias, Zoe Nicholson and The Bridge Project, college students, Michele
and Jacqui Ceballos,
July 2012 - Alverno College in
Milwaukee… Honoring many, including Bede
Urich…Sister Joel Read…. And interaction with students.. Earned lots for
VFA… I didn’t go.. 39 - Feb, 2013 - FEMINIST PANEL IN FT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA.. planned and run by Eleanor Pam, with Mary Vasiliades,
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