For information about giving in your own way, contact Ginny Healy at The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Giving Ways
WPOH executive committee members at the WPOH groundbreaking in 2005 (l-r): Anna Jolivet, Sally Drachman Salvatore, Betsy Bolding, Jennifer Aviles, Laurel Wilkening, Patricia Taylor and Margy McGonagill. Photo by Christine Scheer.
Kathleen A. Barry-Mankovitz has designated a planned gift to benefit graduate students in Women’s Studies who are researching genderism and patriarchy.
Sociology Professors Scott Eliason and Robin Stryker gave to help continue the sociology colloquia series, which brings top faculty from across the country to the UA.
Bruce and Edythe Gissing will be extending the $500 Magellan Circle scholarship for four students each semester for the duration of their undergraduate work.
Giving is a family affair for Hervey Hotchkiss, assistant attorney general of Arizona, and Susan Parker-Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss honored his mother, Alida S. Hotchkiss, by establishing a library acquisition fund in the Department of History, while Parker-Hotchkiss created a scholarship fund to honor her mother, Olympia Stavrou Parker.
Margaret Maxwell, emerita faculty and former department head in the School for Information Resources and Library
Thank You to the WPOH Executive Committee!
Having accomplished its goals, the Women’s Plaza of Honor (WPOH) executive committee is disbanding after more than a decade of tireless support for the creation of the Plaza and a Women’s Studies endowment.
Started in 1999, the WPOH executive committee succeeded in their mission: a beautiful Plaza honoring women now stands on campus between Centennial Hall and the Arizona State Museum. In addition, the life stories of the women honored are available on the plaza web site, www.womensplaza.arizona.edu, and will be accessible at the interactive kiosk in the Plaza that will be unveiled this spring. Finally, an endowed graduate fellowship has been created to help future generations of Women’s Studies students.
The original executive committee consisted of Jennifer Aviles, Betsy Bolding, Sally Drachman Salvatore, Ginny Healy, Liz Kennedy, Margy McGonagill, Patricia Taylor and Laurel Wilkening, and were soon joined by Anna Jolivet, Norma Maynard, Lynne Wood Dusenberry and Jan Wezelman. Recently, Edie Auslander and Saunie Taylor joined to help finish the project.
The WPOH executive committee coordinated the creation of the Plaza, overseeing various subcommittees, including fundraising, publicity, history, and design and construction committees.
“The kind of steady commitment these women exhibited is rare in a group of volunteers and is a testament to their love of
the project,” says Liz Kennedy, professor and former head of Women’s Studies. “And many other volunteers have helped with this project — I estimate approximately 45 volunteers have contributed 9,000 hours to bring this project to fruition.”
We thank the executive committee and the many other volunteers from the bottom of our hearts. Also, a special thank you goes to Liz Kennedy, who formed the committee.
Although the WPOH executive committee has finished its work, there are still opportunities to honor a woman in the Plaza.
Contact Ginny Healy at (520) 621-3938 for more information.
For more information, contact Lori Harwood at 520-626-3846 • Editor