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Show Phyllis Schlafly: Spasker AS VJSC Phyllis Schlafly, who has testified before most state legislatures which defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, Amend-ment, will be the Weber State College convocation speaker May 3. HER TALK, 'The Power of the Positive Woman," will be presented in the WSC Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Per-forming Arts at noon. No admission ad-mission fee will be charged and the public is invited. Her appearance is sponsored spon-sored by the WSC Associated Students convocation committee. com-mittee. MRS. SCHLAFLY, an opponent op-ponent of women's lib, has been recognized by the news media as a national leader and spokesman for American women. She is founder of "Stop ERA," president of Forum, and a member of the Illinois Commission on the Status of. Women. MRS. SCHLAFLY was chosen by the World Almanac as one of the 25 most influential influen-tial women in the nation, and by Good Housekeeping as one of the ten most admired women in the world. She holds a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Washington University Law School, a master's degree from Harvard in political science, and a bachelor's degree from Washington University, St. Louis. SHE IS co-author with Admiral Ad-miral Chester Ward of five books on defense and foreign policy, with subjects relating to the Kissinger and the McNamara years. Her ninth book, "The Power of the Positive Woman," is a best-seller in both hardback and paperback. paper-back. SHE HAS received numerous awards, including nine honor medals from Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Women of Achievement in Public Affairs Af-fairs by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Globe-Democrat, the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and an honorary doctor of laws from Niagara University. Univer-sity. Mrs. Schlafly has been studying military affairs since World War II when she worked her way through college as a gunner and ballistics technician at the largest ammunition plant in the world. SHE IS the wife of an at- torney and mother of six children, all of whom she taught to read at home before they entered school. They live in Alton, Miss. |