League History
Group of people added as members in 1974?
Who are men?
Eileen Bohn Speaker Series
What is the series of annual presentations made possible by the endowments provided by the family of long-time League member Eileen Bohn?
Label for people working to get the vote for women that was preferred and not considered to be demeaning
What is Suffragist?
Public meeting at which questions are written by members of the audience are asked of those citizens running for elected office
What is a candidate forum?
Charter member and first president of LWV DC who initiated the program for handicapped adults with developed into the Sunshine House
Who is Mary Bery?
US President who in 1957 addressed a national LWV gathering
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
The project revitalized in the 2000s for the purpose of promoting transparency in local government and monitoring Open Meetings compliance by local government
What is the Observer Corps?
Co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention who became famous for her "Solitude of Self" speech. She was controversial because of her extreme views and for publishing her "Women's Bible." She did not live to see women get the vote.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The Spring meeting when a local League sums up its previous year and prepares for the next year
What is the Annual Meeting?
Started the Hospice program in Door County
Who is Jackie Izak?
League method of study & decision-making in small groups which become institutionalized during the Great Depression when gas rationing resulted in small neighborhood groups studying fundamental issues
What is League's grassroots activity?
A campaign to encourage owners of private wells to test their water
What was a major and continuing concern addressed by the Door County League because of the concern over the purity of groundwater?
National American Women's Suffrage Association & national Women's Party
What two organizations led the fight for the final passage of the 19th Amendment?
Member's attempts to influence public policy by lobbying and advocacy
What is taking action?
A charter member of LWV DC who is responsible for getting women's names listed in phone books in their own right at no extra cost in the early '60s
Who is Florence Dickinson?
The First President of the Wisconsin LWV
Who is Jessie Jack Hooper?
Must the League of Women Voters stick their nose in EVERYTHING the county does
What was a County Board member's reaction to League's lawsuit on reapportionment?
Aunt Susan's nieces
Who were the hundreds of young women trained and inspired by Susan B. Anthony, who led the fight for suffrage after she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away?
The levels of representation that membership in the organization gives you
What are the national, state and local levels?
First (&only) woman principal of Sturgeon Bay High School
Who is Marjorie Reynolds?
Groups of Leagues in Various regions of the county that band together to fight for regional issues such as Lake Michigan LWV and Upper Mississippi LWV
What are Interleague Groups?
Baileys Harbor 4th of July parade during the '90s
Where did members march in dressed as Suffragists?
Supreme Court Case Minor vs Happersett
In what 1875 case did the Supreme Court rule that the US Constitution does not give women the right to vote and that states could decide who was allowed to vote. Paved the way for the Jim Crow laws?
Member Agreement Process
What is the process of arriving at the collective opinion of a substantial number of League members which is representative of the membership as a whole?
Secretary to Jens Jensen, founder of The Clearing, who kept it going after his 1951 death until 1988, when Friends of The Clearing took it over
Who is Mertha Fulkerson?