Flora Stone Mather
Center for Women

Calendar of Events of Interest to Women

ON GOING PROGRAMS 2008

Sally Ride Exhibit
The International Women’s Air & Space Museum


The International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) is paying tribute to Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, with a new exhibit now open on the 25th anniversary of her historic flight into space on June 18, 1983. This exhibit, located in the west concourse of the Burke Lakefront Airport terminal building, includes biographical information, memorabilia from Kennedy Space Center, photos and crew & flight information. The exhibit will be open through August 15, 2008. Museum admission is free.

In the mid-1970’s Sally Ride was working on her PhD at Stanford University when she saw a notice that NASA was looking for scientists interested in becoming mission specialists. NASA was encouraging women to apply. Ride was one of 8,369 people (including 1,000 women) to apply to NASA for the astronaut class of 1978. From that original group of applicants, 35 were chosen and joined NASA as astronaut trainees. Ride and five other women were among them.

Ride was selected as a mission specialist on STS-7, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride and her four other crewmates took off from Cape Canaveral at 7:33 am. The mission lasted six days, two hours and twenty-three minutes. Ride was responsible for deploying two satellites into space and participating in forty different experiments. Upon completion of a successful mission, the space shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24, 1983 after bad weather caused a Florida landing to be scrubbed.

A little over a year later Ride took a second successful shuttle trip. In 1986, after the Challenger tragedy, Ride was part of a special commission that was responsible for investigating the accident and suggesting changes to the shuttle program. She was once again called upon to serve her country as a member of the commission that investigated the Columbia disaster. She was the only person to serve on both committees. Ride is currently the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science.

IWASM’s mission is to preserve the history of women in aviation and space by documenting their past, present and future contributions. The Fay Gillis Wells Research Center houses an extensive collection of information on women in these fields. The museum has several permanent exhibits documenting the role of women in space, including the Women in Space: Wall of Fame, and Living & Working in Space.

The International Women’s Air & Space Museum is located in the Burke Lakefront Airport terminal building, 1501 N. Marginal Road. Museum admission is free and exhibits are open 8:00 am –7:00 pm daily.

The Fay Gillis Wells Research Center and Gift Shop are open 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday through Saturday.

Call (216) 623-1111 for more information or visit us on the web at http://www.iwasm.org/

Mammogram Mondays

Do You Qualify for a FREE Mammogram?

Do you have a physician?
If YES:
• Obtain the Mammogram order from your physician
• Contact scheduling 216.636.8000 Monday thru Thursday
(7:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m.) and Friday (7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
• Tell scheduling it’s “Mammogram Mondays” program

No Physician…No Problem!
• Call 216.761.7684 for more information

Although marketed as “Mammogram Mondays” patients can schedule Monday through Friday to receive the free mammogram. No age restriction (if you have a family history of breast cancer, Mammogram Baseline age is 40 years of age), transportation will be provided as needed within a 5 mile radius and uninsured patients that require follow-up will be referred to Huron Hospital Community Health Center 216.761.8992.

This is a grant funded program to provide free mammogram screenings for qualified women with no insurance. Huron Hospital, in partnership with The National Breast Cancer Foundation and Colgate Palmolive, is sponsoring “Mammogram Mondays.”

July 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 6:00 pm at Rainbow Babies' & Children's Hospital Amphitheater, University Hospitals of Cleveland

Introducing HIV Microbicide Trials to Greater Cleveland
The Microbicide Committee of the CWRU/UH/MetroHealth Community Advisory Board

An HIV microbicide is a gel, cream or foam that can be used for protection from the sexual transmission of HIV.

Learn about:

· The 1st microbicide trial open in Cleveland

· Community involvement in clinical trials

· How you can become involved

Park in Adelbert Road Parking Garage. Bring your ticket with you - we will validate. For directions and more information go to our site: http://www.clevelandactu.org/html/events.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Bob Bucklew, Outreach Coordinator or call 216.844.2247.

IMAGINE WHAT’S POSSIBLE WITH 100 WOMEN ROARING

Hear Us Roar! is a collection of auto-biographical stories, like Andrea’s, that celebrate the vitality, strength, and power of women across the globe. Our goal is to collect stories from 100 women by July 31, 2008, publish them in a book by the end of the year, and raise $100,000 from book sales to be donated to charity by June 2009.

In 2006, Andrea “came out” as a rape survivor and created a program for survivors of sexual violence who are ready to laugh again. Within six months of its inception, Living Out Loud was given a prominent mention in SELF magazine and acquired by a national nonprofit. Through that experience, Andrea traded being weighed down by her secret for being empowered by her own leadership abilities. She woke up to her strength and to the power of sharing of her story.

Many women have had similar defining moments in life—a sudden or gentle awakening where something unmistakable happens: a woman’s experience of herself shifts from powerless to powerful. From whispering her worth … to roaring.

Are you ready to roar? Do you know someone else who is? For more information, and to submit your story online, please visit www.hear-us-roar.com.

Be one of the first 25 women to submit her story and you become eligible for the drawing for a Hear Us Roar! grant. Use your grant as seed money to unleash your power and make a difference, or just take the spoils and enjoy! Details to be announced. But don’t delay - only the first 25 storytellers will qualify.

The time has come to Hear Us Roar!

August 2008

August 7
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

August 15
12-1:00,
Guilford Parlour

Interest Meeting: Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative

Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative (WSLDI) is a new year-long program offered to full time women staff at  Case Western Reserve University. The program aims to nurture and develop talent, while helping women staff cultivate their leadership skills.

Selected participants will assess and integrate their personal career goals into the program.  They will also attend:

-two professional development workshops from the Weatherhead School of Management

-Three topic workshops (leadersons, workplace dynamics, and career planning)

-a one-on-one session with a professional executive coach

An interest meeting will be held Friday, August 15, 2008 from noon to 1:00pm in Guilford Parlour

Applications are due Tuesday, September 2, 2008.

Click here for more information

The Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative is made possible through the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Human Resources Department.

August 21
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

August 27
(TIME TBA), 309 Thwing

FSM Center for Women Open House

September 2008

September 4
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

Beginning September 5, 2008
At the City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44114

Flora Stone Mather Center for Women
Women’s Table
At the Cleveland City Club Friday Noon Forums

Beginning Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, the City Club of Cleveland will have a reserved “Flora Stone Mather Center for Women” table at the Friday Forums. The table will be sponsored by the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Anyone who wishes to attend a forum may call the City Club main line at 216-621-0082 to reserve a seat at the member price for this table.

We are thrilled with this opportunity for women to come together for these important civic events and at the same time do some networking and enjoy stimulating conversation.

The featured speaker for Sept. 5 is Johnnetta B. Cole, President of the Board of the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute.

Dr. Cole, President emerita of Bennett College for Women, Spelman College, and Emory University, has a long and distinguished career as an educator and humanitarian. Her work as a college professor and president, her published works, her speeches, and her community service consistently address issues of racial, gender and all other forms of discrimination.

We will feature upcoming speakers on our web site calendar and on our announcements. You may also go directly to the City Club web site to see what’s coming up.

The City Club is located at The City Club Building, 850 Euclid Ave., 2nd Floor. Parking is available immediately west of The City Club Building in the Euclid/Prospect Gateway Garage.

The cost is $7.25 before 4 pm and $4.00 after 4 pm. If you are at The City Club between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm, The City Club can validate your parking to reduce your cost to $2.25. (There is a walkway from the garage to the City Club Building.)

Callers will be able to pay the member’s price of $18, but will have to give a credit card number to reserve their space and must mention the Flora Stone Mather Center when making the reservation. Reservations and cancellations must be made at least 24 hours in advance. All no-shows will be charged. Note that this special table is only available for noon Friday Forums that take place at The City Club.

September 13
10-12pm, Strosacker Auditorium
+ 12-2pm, Adelbert Gym

“Women, Make Your Mark!”

Women & the Vote:
10-12pm, Strosacker Auditorium

Lunch, Info Fair, and Voter Registration
12-2pm, Adelbert Gym

September 17
12-1pm, (LOCATION TBA)

International Women’s Group

September 18
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

Sept. 22-26

Wellness Week

(daily events tba)

September 25
11:30am-1:30pm, Thwing Ballroom.

Health and Wellness Fair

Thursday Sept. 25 the Dittrick Medical History Center

Zverina Lecture to feature Wendy Kline
speaking on Our Bodies, Ourselves

“Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: Birth Control and the Women’s Health Movement"

On Thursday Sept. 25 the Dittrick Medical History Center will offer the Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture featuring Wendy Kline, Ph.D.   Professor Kline will present “Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: birth control and the women’s health movement.” 
The lecture is free to the public and will be held in the Herrick Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library (corner Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road).  The lecture begins at 6:00PM and is to be followed by a reception in the Powell Room of the Allen at 7:00PM.

Professor Kline’s lecture is being offered in association with the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women as the culminating event of a health which will take place from 11:30 to 1:00 in the Ballroom of Thwing Student Center.

Kline’s lecture will focus upon the impact that the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, has had on women’s knowledge about and attitudes toward their bodies and birth control.  From its first publication as a stapled newsprint booklet in 1970 to its latest Russian re-edition in 2007, Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book about women's health and sexuality, has grown in popularity and influence throughout North America and the world.  It is produced by Our Bodies Ourselves, a non-profit organization formerly known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Professor Kline (Ph.D., UC Davis) teaches in the History Department of the University of Cincinnati and is author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).   A version of her Zverina Lecture presentation will appear as “The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women’s Health and Second-Wave Feminism” in Stephanie Gilmore, ed., Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States (forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, Women and American History Series).

September 26
12:30-2pm, Thwing Ballroom.

Women of Achievement Luncheon and Mather Spotlight Awards

– featuring keynote by President Barbara Snyder

This annual luncheon honors women faculty who have achieved tenure, promotion, and administrative appointments in the past year and presents the Mather Spotlight Awards to eight women faculty chosen by their respective schools for their outstanding research and scholarship.
All are invited. RSVP to: Denise.Lin@case.edu

October 2008

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH (EVENTS TBA)

October 2
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

October 3
Thwing Spartan Room.

Creative Art Raffle

October 10
12:30-2pm, Spartan Room.

Dr. Marjorie Greenfield presents:
“Building a life that works for your family, your career, and you.”

Come join the discussion as Dr. Greenfield presents factors that influence the best timing for having children and effective strategies for balancing pregnancy and parenting with a busy career. Following the presentation and discussion, Dr. Greenfield will sign copies of The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book.

A board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Marjorie Greenfield has practiced and taught obstetrics and gynecology since 1987, currently as Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine/University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She has been recognized for clinical excellence by local and national organizations, including AOL Digital City, Best Doctors in America, Consumer Research Council of America, The Center for the Study of Services, Northern Ohio Live Magazine, and Cleveland Magazine.

From 2000 through 2004, Dr. Greenfield was Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Dr. Spock Company, a health and parenting multimedia enterprise. In that position, she authored hundreds of articles for drspock.com and answered scores of “Ask Our Experts” questions. Her first book, Dr. Spock’s Pregnancy Guide, was published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster. It has been translated into Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian and Chinese, and for the United Kingdom edition, the Queen’s English.

Dr. Greenfield’s newest project, The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book (Yale University Press, May 2008) is a comprehensive pregnancy guide written especially for women in the workforce. When she isn’t writing or talking about pregnancy and work, Dr. Greenfield practices obstetrics and gynecology in Cleveland, Ohio, where she lives with her husband and teenage son.

Reviews of The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book:
This book could easily be titled “Everything You Wanted to Know About Working and Being Pregnant that the Other Books Didn’t Tell You.” Written by an obstetrician who is also a mother, it is chocked-full of information useful to all mothers, not just for the corporate woman. She takes the reader through the life-changing process starting with a pre-pregnancy life survey and shares fundamental advice for every demographic, not just married heterosexual women. The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book is an in-depth A+ resource guide. – Women’s Digest

Greenfield's anecdotes about pregnancy and motherhood from women in a variety of careers result in a unique, practical resource.—Library Journal

Any woman who plans to work through pregnancy can benefit from reading Greenfield’s book and glean sound advice on keeping healthy during the pregnancy as well as being a self-advocate in negotiating work and home life.— Mother-talk.com

If you're looking for a book that truly acknowledges the realities of pregnancy and the working woman - look no further! Filled with support and compassion...you're sure to find yourself wishing that Dr. Greenfield could join you in the delivery room!—Laura A Jana, M.D., pediatrician & author, Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality

This open-minded and informative resource realistically addresses the needs and concerns of busy working women. –Penny Simkin, author of The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions

Dr. Greenfield has interspersed biological, factual information with sound and critical social-emotional advice. Every career woman considering pregnancy should read this book.—Sylvia Rimm, author of See Jane Win: the Rimm Report on the Childhoods of 1000 Successful Women

The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book reads like both a visit to the doctor and lunch with a sympathetic friend. For any working woman who's thinking about starting a family or already pregnant, this book is the all-inclusive pregnancy guide you've been looking for.—Stacy Debroff, founder of MomCentral

October 15
12-1pm, (LOCATION TBA)

International Women’s Group

October 16
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

October 18-20

Women in Leadership Summit

October 27-28

Project on Men & Gender featuring Jackson Katz

Jackson Katz, Ed. M., is an internationally recognized author and filmmaker, known for his ground-breaking work in the field of gender violence prevention education with men and boys.

He is the co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention program in professional and college athletics.

He is the creator of educational videos including Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000), Wrestling with Manhood (2002), and Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies, and Alcohol (2004). His book, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, was published in 2006.

October 31
12:30-2pm

Faculty Development Luncheon

November 2008

November 6
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

November 7
12:30-2pm, (LOCATION TBA).

Spotlight Series on Women’s Scholarship

November 12
12-1pm, (LOCATION TBA)

International Women’s Group

Nov. 17-23

Women in Leadership Week (details TBA)

November 204-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

December 2008

December 4
11:30-1, (LOCATION TBA)

WellWomen Series

December 4
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu

December 10
12-1pm, (LOCATION TBA)

International Women’s Group

December 18
4-5:30pm, 309 Thwing

ACT III

Discussion group for those at or nearing retirement.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Please join the discussion!

To be added to the Act III distribution list, please contact us at centerforwomen@case.edu