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Karen Bass
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John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award - May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010
It is truly an honor to be here at the Kennedy Library and to join my colleagues in receiving this most prestigious of awards. I have been trying to balance the incongruity of receiving an award on Monday for resolving $60 billion in budget deficits and then having to go back on Tuesday and help find solutions for an additional $20 billion deficit. I think the answer may lie in a book on my desk in the State Capitol. It's a collection of Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson. I […]
Lyn Stinson
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 29, 2009
August 29, 2009
Thank you so much, this is indeed an Honor and I am so Grateful. I would like to Thank the commission, the committee, my friends and especially those who got up early this morning to travel from Burlington, and my daughter who is here from California, she just received her masters. Isn’t life an amazing and exciting journey, and with so many blessed steps. Not only did I adopt Iowa as my home state, I also have friends who adopted me and have become my family. To be nominated! Chosen […]
Mary E Kramer
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 29, 2009
August 29, 2009
Thank you for that introduction. As I listened, I thought perhaps I would just not say anything, And maybe all those lovely words would continue! Heartfelt thanks to the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women Who lift up the accomplishments of women in Iowa. As I look at past honorees – and those of us here today, Recognition of such diverse accomplishments helps us to remember it takes Many hands, much energy and a tireless spirit to build the communities we find in Iowa. I am reminded of my […]
Linda K Kerber
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 29, 2009
August 29, 2009
Please copy-edit out most of those adjectives! But this is a great honor, and I’m delighted to accept. And I’m grateful to be adopted into Iowa at last; as someone who lives in a house which is still known (happily) by the name of its former owner, some 30 years later, I appreciate the seriousness of this adoption. I accept this honor in the name of my colleagues at the University of Iowa, who have sustained the work of women’s history for so long, and with thanks to the people […]
Jacqueline Easley McGhee
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
Governor Branstad, Lt. Governor Reynolds, Dr. Jill Olsen, my fellow inductees and honored guests, as I survey this impressive audience; I only wish you all were with me three weeks ago. At that time I was entering the security gate in Atlanta when a TSA agent scanned my identification and sneered, “Iowa? Really?” More about my response later. First, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the Hall of Fame committee for selecting me for this prestigious award, with special acknowledgement to Alba Perez and Som Baccam for […]
Charlotte B Nelson
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
Governor Branstad, Lt. Governor Reynolds, Chairperson Olsen, Committee Chair Peters, Honorees seated in front, and Honorees on the stage. A little Commission history: Pat Geadelmann was chair when I began; she and subsequent chairs, and commission members, have been great to work with. On the committee that proposed my name to the Governor in 1985 was Eunice Kuyper Folkerts. Eunie envisioned the Friends of the Commission, and Michelle Durand-Adams built on that vision. All are here today. Also on that committee was Mary Wiberg, now Executive Director of the California […]
Mildred Wood
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
Thank you, Governor Branstad and Lt. Governor Reynolds, I am so pleased that I was born in 1920, the year in which women were given the right to vote. I am equally pleased that my sister, Donna, and I were taken to the empty little white school house years ago so we could watch Mother vote for the first time. The school had been closed for several years. Signs were hanging from the fence urging people to vote. Signs were also fastened to the door. Men were shaking hands vigorously […]
Mildred Wood
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Important Things (Poem) - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
I owned a single pair of shoes, two dresses, a pony, and a horse. I did not learn to roller-skate or to ride a bike, But I made a purple crown of burdock and marveled at how firmly it stayed on my head. I named my white goose Bonnie, and Bonnie turned out to be a hissing gander. I netted butterflies until I discovered that I did not like them dead. I fed pigs and lambs from a bottle and taught calves to drink milk from a pail. I drove […]
Nancy A Dunkel
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Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Acceptance - Aug. 27, 2011
August 27, 2011
I am so proud to be the recipient of this prestigious induction into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame. What an honor! But this award should not be just about me—I’d also like to publicly thank and recognize my husband, Kenneth, who’s been, as an old song goes, “the wind beneath my wings”. I also want to thank my mom, Olga Helle, for making the trip here from Delaware County to celebrate with me. My dad had a pace maker put in last week, so he isn’t able to be […]
Mother Teresa
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Nobel Lecture - Dec. 11, 1979
December 11, 1979
As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much--we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us, and I always wonder that 4-500 years ago as St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer that they had the same difficulties that we have today, as we compose this prayer that fits very nicely for […]