Show min 4 u Nates ute By fly Dr Wayne WaYDe Reid Held Superintendent Title IX has it helped are you for I or against Title Tille IX In some schools has become a dirty word Many are against certain provisions which are mandated In fact tact the Utah Board of ot Education has launched a legal suit against the federal government in this regards urging all other states to Join In the action In n the regards a recent survey took samples of ot women from coast to coast ranging inage In Inage Inage age from 16 to 86 Several questions asked of ot th these se ladies brought interesting responses What three women do you admire most 23 percent named Betty Ford while 22 percent admired Mrs Carter 13 il percent named Barbara Jordan Democratic Congresswoman from Houston Texas Next in popularity was my mother who claimed 10 percent Others named were Shirley Temple Black Beverly Sills Margaret Mead Barbara Walters Coretta King Helen Hayes Anne Lindbergh Billie Jean King Bess Truman Eleanor Roosevelt and Phyllis To the question Has your life changed since 1960 because of the focus on equal rights for women The overwhelming majority said no life hasn't changed for me But a strong 37 percent minority reported that their lives have indeed changed For those who said it had changed they mentioned I I 1 am now accepted as a working mother I have more confidence in my ability to lobe be financially independent As As a single woman Im I'm more relaxed traveling and eating alone We have more employment employment employment em em- opportunities Its changed but not all for the good Men are more reluctant to perform the niceties of holding chairs and opening doors and many other little things The laws governing women's credit are arc much fairer to me I have more impetus to pursue personal goals that give me a feeling of self worth and pride HOWEVER to the question Has your jour husbands husband's attitude or behavior toward the female sex changed a whopping 90 percent said hubby's attitude hasn't despite changed all the equal rights clamor of recent years The so-called so chauvinists are clinging to the following type of thinking Men just cant can't accept accept ac ac- ac- ac women in contact sports and the military schools Men think women are getting too aggressive and they want a passive wile wife They resent the militant women In the ERA movement Th They y feel tee a womans woman's salary should be in accord with her ability not just justin in accordance with a mans man's pay pay The fight for tor women's rights has focused a lot of ot recent attention attention at at- on the changing role of ot women today But for tor many remarkable females in past years all this new talk of ot equality and nd rights would surely be anti They made their pr presence known kno long ago IN EDUCATION alone many many women have held extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex distinguished positions as they do today Women have been on par with men in inthe inthe inthe the education profession for some time not because they demanded it to be so but because they were good enough to prove they deserved it My hat is off ott to our brilliant and devoted women teachers in Iii our school system today In retrospect Id I'd also like to pay tributes to all women by reviewing historically some of the more notable persons ie i.e. Amelia Earhart 1st woman to get a license to pilot a plane and first to solo across the Atlantic Allan Atlan n- n tic Clare Booth Luce Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- to Italy was the first woman named to a major US U.S. embassy and the first to deliver a keynote speech at a national political convention Pearl Buck 1st ever awarded the Nobel Prize with her writings translated into 60 languages Abigail Adams when it was Christian duty for wives ives to obey and serve husbands she lectured lectured lectured lec lec- the lawmakers Frances Perkins 1st to serve as Secretary of Labor in 1933 Carrie Nation called all alcoholic beverages hell broth and used her full fuU 6 ft ft height to smash salo saloon n windows windows windows win win- dows Babe D D. D Zaharias in won 17 consecutive golf tournaments Clara Barton called Angel of the Battlefield Battlefield Battlefield Bat Bat- she is credited with creating the American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross and Eleanor Roosevelt brought new dimensions to role of First Lady Lady- a J Jt f 2 I d 4 W fief VERNAL JR HIGH School choral department rated superior and won 1st and 2nd place trophies at Music Festival v Y W l e y 5 t N k i bb M RANDY L L. L HOUTZ and his junior high school band were awarded superior rating and 1st place trophy at the First Annual Uintah Basin Music Festival |