Vol 1, No. 2

NOVEMBER 1994

COORDINATOR'S CORNER

This month our faculty profile features Dr. Kathryn MacKay, the first coordinator of the Women's Studies program and a faculty member dedicated to providing the best possible learning and growing experience for all her students, in Women's Studies as well as other programs. Those of us in the program now have benefited immeasurably from her continuing efforts and creativity. She has contributed time, money and ideas over the years that the program was in its developing stages and we would offer her, once again, our deepest gratitude.

One of the arenas in which Kathryn continues to serve the program is as advisor for the student group, "Broomstick," which is gathering momentum with its plans for the year. Membership is open to all interested students. Women's Studies minors, in particular, are urged to join, contribute ideas, and take advantage of the activities designed to supplement formal coursework with opportunities that broaden the learning environment to include the entire campus and community. In past years,"Broomstick" has sponsored lectures by well-known scholars active in feminist research today in addition to hosting social activities. This year the group will become a W.S.U. registered organization and the coordinators, Natasha Kap and Jackie Bell, have planned a major event for each quarter. The autumn quarter activity is a quilting project to be held in the Sage Room of the Education Building on 30 November at 6:00 p.m. Participants will complete some quilts, begun last year, to be donated to Ogden's Y.C.C. Winter quarter's major event will be a poetry reading and contest in memory of Dr. Lee McKenzie, a long-time supporter of Women's Studies, whose untimely death many of us still struggle to accept. Proceeds from entry fees will be used to purchase a book for the American women's poetry section in the library. Spring quarter's activity will be a Mayday celebration featuring booths with items and information from women-owned local business. Please join with other students and faculty in making these events successful!

FACULTY PROFILE

Dr.Kathryn L. MacKay, former Coordinator of Women's Studies, Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Forum, and Associate Professor of History, has been at W.S.U. for the last seven years. Since she was born in Honolulu, HI, a lot of geography has passed beneath her feet. She has a secondary teaching credential in English from California State University, Northridge, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Utah. She has worked for many years in Indian Country doing tribal histories and curriculum projects as well as helping to create tribal archives. Her professional experience includes being a researcher for a law firm in Salt Lake City and an independent contractor in historic preservation. She has taught classes in women's art history for Women's Studies at the University of Utah and researched women in Utah politics and women workers in the state's candy industry. At Weber, Kathryn teaches courses in the history of the American West and legal and environmental history in addition to several of the Women's Studies core and cross-listed courses. She has given much of her expertise to the Honors Program as well and has received formal recognition for her service and teaching skill and commitment.

The winter quarter video series will have as its theme "Women's Health Issues." All meetings will be held in the Special Collections Room of the Stewart Library at 2:00 p.m. on THURSDAYS, beginning 19 January. The "Video Days" series will merge with this series for Winter Quarter. Off-campus visitors are best advised to park in the Browning Center lot at meters or check at the information kiosk. Join us for entertaining, enlightening, and educational afternoons in the comfort of the library while snow and temperatures fall outside.

Dr.Wangari wa Nyatetu Waigwa is organizing a "study abroad" program to East Africa, from the end of August 1995 through the first three&127; weeks of September 1995. Look for more information in future newsletters.

THANKS(!) to all of you who returned your subscription forms and indicated an interest in receiving the Women's Studies newsletter. For those of you who subscribed to the electronic version, it will come with a subscription to our electronic bulletin board - "She-News" -both of which will appear automatically in your E - or P - mailboxes. There will be instructions for you to un-subscribe to one or both at any time in the future should that become desirable for you. "She-News" will be the place where announcements of potential interest to our readers will be distributed if they come out with a timing that prohibits their publication in the regular newsletter. Should those of you receiving paper copies of the newsletter desire access to "She-News" listings a hard copy will be posted on the Women's Studies bulletin board outside SS 382 or you could call Norma Hassell at (626-7632) for updates. Submission of items for potential listing is welcomed; call Norma or send the information to the Women's Studies Office, SS381 (MC 1217).

WINTER QUARTER CLASSES - W.S. Honors 490L - Honors Colloquium: 20th Century European Women Writers- TTH, 12:30-2:00, Wangari wa Nyatetu Waigwa

Honors LS151 - Perspectives in Life Sciences: Women's Perspectives in Biology, TTH, 8:30 - 10:30, Gloria Wurst

Psych 220 - The Psychology of Women, MWF, 9:30-10:20, Maria Parrilla-Vazquez

English 373 - World Literature: Women Writers of the Middle East, MTTH, 10;30, Kathleen Herndon

English HL271 - Perspectives on Women's Literature: Survey of Women's Literature, MWF, 8:30, Sally Shigley

CALENDAR

30 NOVEMBER - "Broomstick" quilting project, Sage Room, Education Building, 6:00 p.m.

1 DECEMBER - Seventh Annual World AIDS Day, Candlelight Vigil, Utah State Capitol, 5:30 p.m.

5 DECEMBER - Executive Council and Curriculum Committee Meetings, 9 a.m. SS 137

10 DECEMBER -Thought Continuum Readings Series, Christmas Story Time, 11 a.m. by Bill Higley.

12 DECEMBER - deadline for W.E.R.C. "Women of Courage" writing contest.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!