Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 1999/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 06:19:41 -0500

It's uplifting to know about Sadie Delany. However, noone should *have* to
be a hero(ine). Why should people from "minority" backgrounds have to be
several times as competent as those from "majority" backgrounds to achieve
things?
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dee D. Hays wrote:

> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:28:25 -0600
> From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin V. Lacy <el2@-----.edu>
> To: klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 12:27 AM
> Subject: [kl] Women and orchestras
>
>
> >Yesterday, the Associated Press reported the death of "Sadie" Delany at
> >the age of 109. She and her sister, "Bessie" Delany, had become
> >successful authors with their book, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters'
> >First 100 Years" when they were respectively 104 and 102 years old.
> >Later, they co-authored another book, "The Delany Sisters' Book of
> >Wisdom," and after her sister's death, Sadie had written her own book, "On
> >My Own at 107." Bessie was a dentist, only the second woman ever admitted
> >to practice dentistry in the state of New York. Sadie earned a Master's
> >Degree in Education from Columbia University, and became the first black
> >domestic-science teacher in the New York City Public Schools.
> >
> >Their father was a former slave who educated himself and became
> >vice-principal of St. Augustine College. He had 10 children, all of whom
> >attended college.
> >
> >These sisters faced a life of racism, officially-sanctioned segregration,
> >lynchings, and more. Sadie was quoted as saying, "I never let prejudice
> >stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."
> >
> >Now there's an attitude and a woman to be admired, respected and emulated.
>
>
>
> I agree totally. These ladies did not sit and whine but when out and DID
> things.
>
>
> Dee Hays
> Canton, SD
>
>
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