Clinton Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame (Hill, not Bill)

ABC News / AP ^ | October 9, 2005 | BEN DOBBIN

[Stoat]

Clinton Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame

 

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maya Lin, Eight Others Inducted Into National Women's Hall of Fame

 

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks after being inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press Writer

The Associated Press

 

 

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Oct 9, 2005 — Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.

"It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl," recalled the letter writer, better known today as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as she was enshrined Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame, along with nine other inductees.

Honored with her were Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, who became the first female director of the National Science Foundation in 1998; and Betty Bumpers, a crusader for childhood immunizations who was Clinton's predecessor as Arkansas' first lady.

 

"I don't think there has ever been a better time to be a woman than in the United States of America in the 21st century," Clinton said in an interview.

The first known women's rights convention was held in 1848 in this upstate New York village. The hall, which opened in 1969, acclaims women who have made valuable contributions to society and especially to the freedom of women. In all, 217 women have been chosen by a national committee of judges.

Six women honored posthumously this year included pilot Blanche Stuart Scott, a barnstormer in the early days of aviation; Ruth Fulton Benedict, an anthropologist whose 1934 book, "Patterns of Culture," became an American classic; and Florence Ellinwood Allen, who in 1934 became the first female judge appointed by a president to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

[Stoat]

Pardon me while I leave the room for a moment.....I know that it's not polite to be physically sick in public.

[hflynn]

Clinton Indicted in The Women's Hall of Fame (Bill, not Hill)

[AmericanChef]

What the heck has she done that's actually important, or is being a lesbian the only criteria? As a woman, I'm digusted.

[badpacifist]

He might have made it too..... wait sorry that was a really bent thing to say.

[putupjob]

She should be inducted into the Women's Hall of Shame. For being the greatest woman pathological liar.

[maggief]

[Stoat]

Naturally, Margaret Sanger is on their list as well, but I was surprised to see Elizabeth Dole's name there.  Can you spot any other Conservative women?  Just curious.

National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall

The total number of inductees is 207.  Abdellah, Faye Glenn  Abzug , Bella  Adams, Abigail  Addams, Jane  Albright, Madeleine Korbel  Alcott, Louisa May  Alvarado, Linda G.  Andersen, Dorothy H.  Anderson, Marian  Andrus, Ethel Percy  Angelou, Maya  Anthony, Susan B.  Apgar, Virginia  Baker, Ella  Ball, Lucille  Bancroft , Ann  Barton, Clara  Bethune, Mary McLeod  Blackwell, Antoinette  Blackwell, Elizabeth  Blackwell, Emily  Bloomer, Amelia  Bly, Nellie  Bourke-White, Margaret  Bradley, Lydia Moss  Bradwell, Myra  Breckinridge, Mary  Brooks, Gwendolyn  Buck , Pearl S.  Bunch, Charlotte Ann  Cabrini, St. Frances Xavier  Calderone, M.D., Mary Steichen  Cannon, Annie Jump  Carson, Rachel  Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith  Cary, Mary Ann Shadd  Cassatt, Mary  Cather, Willa  Catt, Carrie Chapman  Child, Lydia Maria  Chisholm, Shirley  Cochran, Jacqueline  Coleman, Bessie  Collins, Eileen  Colvin, Ruth  Cooney, Joan Ganz  Cori , Gerty Theresa Radnitz  Croly, Jane Cunningham  Davis, Paulina Kellogg Wright  Day, Dorothy  de Forest, Marian  de Varona, Donna  DeVoe, Emma Smith  Dickinson, Emily  Dix, Dorothea  Dole, Elizabeth Hanford  Douglas, Marjory Stoneman  Dudley, Anne Dallas  Dyer, Mary Barret  Earhart , Amelia  Earle, Ph.D., Sylvia  East, Catherine  Eastman, Crystal  Eddy, Mary Baker  Edelman, Marian Wright  Ederle, Gertrude "Trudy"  Elion, Gertrude Belle  Evans, Alice  Ferraro, Geraldine  Fitzgerald, Ella  Friedan, Betty  Fuller, Margaret  Gage, Matilda Joslyn  Gibson, Althea  Gilbreth, Lillian Moller  Gilman , Charlotte Perkins  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader  Graham, Katharine  Grasso, Ella  Griffiths, Martha Wright  Grimke, Sarah  Grimke Weld, Angelina  Hallaren, Mary A.  Hamer, Fannie Lou  Hamilton, Alice  Harper, Martha Matilda  Harris, Patricia Roberts  Hayes, Helen  Height, Dorothy  Hicks, Beatrice A.  Hobby , Oveta Culp  Holdridge, Barbara  Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole  Holm USAF (Ret.), Major General Jeanne  Holt, Bertha  Hopper, Grace Murray  Howe, Julia Ward  Huerta, Dolores  Hunt, Helen LaKelly  Hurston , Zora Neale  Hutchinson, Anne  Jackson, Shirley Ann  Jacobi, Mary  Jacobs, Frances Wisebart  Jemison, Mae  Jones, "Mother" Mary Harris  Jordan, Barbara  Keller, Helen  Kelly, Bishop Leontine  Kelsey, Ph.D., M.D., Frances Kathleen Oldham  Keohane, Nannerl O.  King, Billie Jean  Kuhn, Maggie  Kwolek, Stephanie L.  La Flesche, Susette  Lange, Dorothea  Leet, Mildred Robbins  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow  Lockwood, Belva  Low, Juliette Gordon  Lucid, Shannon W.  Lyon, Mary  Mahoney, Mary  Mankiller, Wilma  Mayer, Maria Goeppert  McClintock, Barbara  McCormick, Katherine Dexter  McManus, Louise  Mead, Margaret  Mink, Patsy Takemoto  Mitchell, Maria  Motley, Constance Baker  Mott, Lucretia  Mullany, Kate  Novello, Antonia  O'Connor, Sandra Day  O'Keeffe, Georgia  Oakley, Annie  Parks, Rosa  Paul, Alice  Pennington, Mary Engle  Perkins, Frances  Peterson, Esther  Rankin, Jeannette  Reno, Janet  Richards, Ellen Swallow  Richards, Linda  Ride, Sally  Ridgway, Rozanne L.  Rogers, Edith Nourse  Roosevelt, Eleanor  Rose, Ernestine Louise Potowski  Roulet, Sister Elaine  Rudolph, Wilma  Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre  Sabin, Florence  Sacagawea,  Sanger, Margaret  Saubel, Katherine Siva  Schiess , Betty Bone  Schroeder, Patricia  Schwartz, Felice N.  Seibert, Florence  Seton, Elizabeth Bayley  Shaw, Reverend Doctor Anna Howard  Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy  Siebert, Muriel  Sills, Beverly  Smith, Bessie  Smith, Margaret Chase  Smith, Sophia  Solomon, Hannah Greenebaum  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady  Steinem, Gloria  Stephens, Helen  Stevens, Nettie  Stone, Lucy  Stowe, Harriet Beecher  Strong, Harriet Williams Russell  Sullivan, Anne  Tallchief, Maria  Tarbell, Ida  Taussig, Helen Brooke  Truth, Sojourner  Tubman, Harriet  Vaught USAF (Ret.) , Brigadier General Wilma  Wald, Florence  Wald, Lillian  Walker, Madam C. J.  Walker, M.D., Mary  Warner, Emily Howell  Warren, Mercy Otis  Wattleton, Faye  Wauneka, Annie Dodge  Wells-Barnett, Ida B.  Welty, Eudora  Wharton, Edith  Widnall, Sheila E.  Willard, Frances  Winfrey, Oprah  Winnemucca, Sarah  Woodhull, Victoria  Wright, Fanny  Wu, Chien-Shiung  Yalow, Rosalyn  Yerkovich, Gloria  Zaharias, Mildred "Babe" Didrikson

[Finalapproach29er]

Fame? Yes.

Accomplishment? NO!

[maggief]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499112/posts

Women's hall of fame honors Hillary Clinton, Maya Lin [Hillary wanted to be an astronaut...]

[leadpenny]

I can't seem to find the National Men's Hall of Fame?

Maybe there isn't one?

Oh, it could have been fun had the ERA been ratified.

[Calpernia]

so much for the emails and phone calls.

[DogBarkTree]

I wonder if any of the 207 listed ever had to put some ice on it?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'm not seeing a lot of Republicans on that list.

[SwinneySwitch]

"Clinton Indicted"

That's what I saw for a nano second.

Any Ronnie Earle type DA's in NY?

[PositiveCogins]

beat me to it.
There are many famous criminal idiots. This is right up there with the Nobel Peace Prize and screen doors on submarines.

[Westlander]

Puke Alert.

[SALChamps03]

Caption should read: "Are you a gasper?"

[RckyRaCoCo]

Oh....INDUCTED....not INDICTED....in the words of Roseanne Rosanna-Dana.....never mind!