Show V 14— The Herald Journal Louan Utah Sunday March 30 1986 'I don't particularly like the word courage but lone is a courageous person She is willing to go against the predominant ways of thinking She will stand for what she thinks is right' Chipping Away at injustice By Oiane Browning staff writer Most pathways to social change are carved slowly: some deftly some dramatically and some so quietly that their eruption in a community assumes dimensions only in retrospect a quiet death from university enforcement with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 But before that time it demanded a toll of unrealized opportunity professional women right what she perceived as injustice cut a wide path through many i state mid-194- 0s controversy “lone believed everyone should have the opportunity to develop to the best of their abilities" said Alison Thorne a friend of Bennion’s and an ally for for heightened enlightment and social consciousness in the community As dean of women Bennion was not satisfied with assuming the traditional disciplinarian role of the position She saw her position as one of responsibility in broadening women students’ horizons for their future She organized and brought together the first career conference for women at USU where she introduced students to women holding professional and then at the time nontraditional jobs “She was a good dean of women” Thorne said “She emphasized the importance of education for women How education would help them lead programs and diminutive status for many NELSON HOMES saw in other people’s lives After leaving the university Bennion became a home teacher for the Logan City School District Through her job she went into private homes to teach students unable to attend the public school programs And as a home teacher Bennion found herself teaching a grow- “The antinepotism ruling became a real barrier to a lot of women with husbands on the Thorne said “lone faculty would have been a good teacher and a good researcher but she never had the opportunities” The antinepotism ruling died IS2K4WN liOjMn Ulh MinsuhrMiuih I ing number of pregnant teenagers who at that time were expelled from public school Bennion’s concern for the rights of these expectant mothers to receive an adequate education eventually resulted in the organization of what is now just be some place and without looking established as the Young participating around and trying to make Mother's for Logan Program and Cache County school district students things better “I’ve always been concerned” Bennion said “about women issues” “I was very young when women got the vote in 1920 I remember talking with my mother and becoming aware of “I don't particularly like the word ‘courage’ but lone is a courageous person She is willing to go against the predominant ways of thinking She will stand for what she thinks is right Roth’s comments are echoed many things women still by Bennion’s neighbor Allen couldn't do I resented things Stokes: 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the university faculty when one held an administrative position Thorne said As a result of the ruling Bennion chose to step down as dean of women for at that time she was married to a prominent member of the faculty offer understanding and competence when you need it most We Among them: the Women’s involved” Legislative Council (state and Larry and Yoko Eisner have local) the League of Women shared a friendship with lone Voters (state and local) the for several years A friendship Voluntary Action Center built on years of socializing Planned Parenthood the Alli- shared interests in the Orient ance for the Varied Arts and in gardening and in fine food “lone can develop a quality several international student FUNERAL programs She also served on a life” Larry Eisner said “You national civil rights committee See BENNION on page 15 under President Dwight Eisenhower where she visited All Navajo Indian reservations Her contributions have been made in time money scholarships and equipment Most importantly as echoed by several of her close friends her dba Consumer Technologies contributions continue in her untiring persistence to implement constructive change in the community “She has always been an agent of change" said Helen Roth a close personal friend of Bennion “She is never happy to Unwittingly the apparent injustice that resulted in BenAnd often the identities of the nion’s leaving the university individuals driving through launched Bennion on a lifelong these changes fade as the battle against the injustices she changes move from controversy and confrontation to assume positions of acceptance and even prominence in the community Since 1950 social change has resulted in new and expanded social services and much of it has come about after years of quiet yet persistent pursuit by an unassuming but disarmingly effective longtime Logan resident: lone Bennion Her causes many of them unpopular when first adopted have attacked what she considers a deplorable social ill: injustice And a reoccurring theme in many of these adopted projects has been a concern for women rights “I’m motivated by injustice” the Bennion replies in answer to a question of why: why after almost 40 years of activism in Logan she keeps working for change? “I act on injustice” she adds Bennion first came to Logan as the dean of in the women at Utah State University She brought energy to her position and she also brought and local Guidance seeks credit She never takes She does things so credit quietly often you wouldn’t know it unless you were directly 10:00-7:0- 0 Wo guorontoo tho lowost prico in tho stata Bring in any od and wt'll boat it providing it is in stock and BROIHERS Consumer Technologies — Customor Satisfaction available to ovoryono innrmng Fri-S- at 123 East 1400 North Logao Utah 753-131- aaac Mon Thurs 10:00 to 8:00 0 naac “ Q |