1990-1995

1990

With a generous grant from alumna Julia Boyer Reinstein'28, the Women's Studies Program was established at Elmira College. Julia is the central figure in this photo which documents the first event: a lecture by Dr. Liz Kennedy, a founding member of Women's Studies at SUNY Buffalo. She is the author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: the History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993).

1991

(L-R) Marissa Margosian, Lois Schoener, Liz Wavle, Ann-Marie Lagonegro, Geradine Ferraro, Jan Kather and Candace Widmer

Using the Julia Boyer Reinstein endowment funds, EC students and faculty attended the NYWSA conference at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. Some of them pose here with keynote speaker, Geraldine Ferraro, who was the running mate of US Vice President and presidential candidate, Walter Mondale in 1984. Ferraro also visited the EC campus during her campaign.

1992

The NYSWA keynote speaker in 1992 was Barbara Smith, who in 1980, along with Audre Lorde and Cherríe Moraga, co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color.

1993

1st Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium: Women and Scholarship

Keynote: "Barbara McClintock and genetics in the 20th Century," by William Provine, Professor of History, Cornell University; special lecture "Working on gender as a gender non-conformist," by Sandra Bem, Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; panel discussion Joanna Rankin, U of Vermont, Marilyn Rivchin, Cornell, Rhonda Levine, Colgate and Carol Kelloff, Smithsonian Institution; feature film by Marilyn Rivchin and Sandra Pollick:"Never Done, the Life and Work of Alice Cook"

Front: Colby Keyser, Kristin Baron, Heather Normandin, Trish Kennedy, Lori Stanton, Jess Montgomery;

Back: Liz Wavle, Candace Widmer, Nancy Koschmann, Kathleen Montgomery and Jan Kather

A panel presentation on Adolescent Women was given by EC women's studies faculty Nancy Koschmann, Kathleen Montgomery, and Jan Kather. Pictured here are also the students - Colby and Kristin -who revived the women's student journal CALLISOPHIA in 1993. Trish and Lori, EC alums living in the DC-Baltimore area, made a special trip to hear their former professors speak at this national women's studies conference.

1994

A trip to nearby Women's Rights Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY.

1995

The 2nd Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium: The Woman in the Body featured speakers Dr. Joan Jacobs Brumberg and Dr. Paula Rust, along with panel members from the field of medicine Susan Smith, MD and Lisa Garceau, CNM. Criminal Justice professor, Dr. Regi Teasley, organized this event.

Students and faculty presented papers at the NYWSA hosted by SUNY Plattsburgh in 1995.

Cornell art professor Gail Scott-White discusses her installation based on Freud's notorius psychological studies of Lucy and Dora in EC's George Waters Gallery.

11-14-95: Women's Studies student Andrea Tillinghast'96 with Paula Giddings, the 1995-96 Phi Beta Kappa speaker who is talking with Tyrone Marsh'96 about the "Million Man March on Washington" at a morning brunch.

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