The Leavenworth Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 21

THE LEAVEN WORTH TIMES LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1977. Small Chapter But Big Potential FEW Chapter Helps Women Improve Careers By JEAN K. WILLIAMS Times Women's EdUbir" small gfbUp of women at LeaveWotth' have started an organization here with the purpose of improving the lot of women employed by the federal government. The organization, Federally Employed Women, was chartered Jan.

22 as the SUnflower Chapter of FEW and is the first such chapter in Kansas. Nineteen women, employed at federal agencies and installations throughout the Leavenworth area signed the charter. Dr. Louise Speck, the chapter president, wh'o is employed, at Ft. Leavenworth, explained the purpose of FEW is to help women employed by the federal government by improving both the wofking conditions and the women's job "Skills.

is a training organization," Dr. said. "It iaa working group, not a Asocial group. It is not a group for people to Ccoline to to air their complaints." Help Each Other jgois Nelson, a FEW board member'who at the U.S. Disciplinary Ft.

Leavenworth, added, women think it is a tea party. We to let them know that it isn't. We are getting better JODS," Dr. Speck commented. Alpxis Goetz, another board member who is'employed at the U.S.

Penitentiary, further explained the purpose, "A lot of women employed by the federal government are not educated on how to gep promotions. That is one of the things can do." Federally Employed Women is not.to be confused with the Federal Women's Program. FEW is a private group which worljjp with the Federal Women's but since it is a private group lues paying membership it has the to lobby. Women's Program is a federal agency which is part of Equal Empliyment Opportunity for federal employes and represents all women e'mplpyed by the federal government. TjucFEW national headquarters spells outTflfe, purposes of the organization this way Purposes "Jfo action to end sex discrimination employment in the government service.

1 increase job opportunities for wonteri in the government service and to the potential of all women in the government. improve the merit system in help each other." want; to improve the potential for lArmy Daughters Royalty government employment. "VTo assist government employes and applicants for government employment who are discriminated against because of sex. cooperate with, and assist other organizations and individuals concerned with equal employment opportunity in the government without discrimination sex, race, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, religion or physical handicap." Activities The-sctivities of the organization, as listed" the national headquarters, include? the Federal Women's Program through speakers, seminars, discussions. recommendations for improving the Federal Women's Program and follow.ing through on their implementation.

proposed legislation designed to eliminate' discrimination against employed women in government and imthe private sector; deciding which legislation to endorse; providing information to members on which to base correspondence to their respective Congressional representatives and senators urging support for such legislation; and maintaining a record of congressional action on endorsed legislation. the Equal Employment Opportunity Program as it affects women." with the Civil Service Commission to improve the implementation of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Federal Women's Programs. members of opportunities for training to improve their job potential." Membership Requirements Dr. Speck explained membership in FEW is open to any woman employed by the federal government and also to any federally employed man who is interested in improving conditions for Associate memberships also are available for persons who are not employed by the federal government but who are interested in the organization. Associate members are entitled to attend meetings and serve on committees, but cannot vote.

Dr. Speck noted the potential for membership in the Leavenworth area is in- the hundreds, since the federal government is the largest employer of women here. Women who work at Ft. Leavenworth, the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Penitentiary the Post Office and any office in the Federal Building are eligible for membership.

Women in the military also may join. Programs for Year Dr. Speck said the programs for the rest of the year have been planned, explaining the programs are designed to educate the members. The next meeting will be Feb. 28 at the Leavenworth National Bank and will feature Maj.

Alice McFarland, a student at tlje Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, speaking about black women in America in honor of Black History Week. At the March meeting the members will learn more about the factor evaluation system, which is a new system of evaluating federal employes and affects all federal jobs, Dr. Speck said. An assertiveness training workshop is planned for the April meeting.

In May the chapter will participate in the Man- Woman Interaction Program Symposium at Ft. Leavenworth. Workshop on 171 Form At the June meeting there will be a workshop on how to fill out the 171 form, which is the personnel form used to evaluate federal employees. In July members will have a social meeting and no meeting is scheduled for August. The September program will be about health and nutrition for women.

During October, which is United Nations Month, the chapter will review the status of International Women's Decade. The annual meeting, at which officers will.be elected, will be in November and the December meeting will be a Christmas dinner. In addition to the monthly programs of the local chapter, FEW also offers regional and national workshops for members at which they can again-learn more about improving job opportunities, Dr. Speck said. Want to Pay Expenses Mrs.

Nelson plans to attend one such workshop next month using annual leave time and paying her own expenses. Dr. Speck said hopefully the chapter will develop some ways and means projects so the costs of attending such workshops can be defrayed by the chapter in the future. Both the chapter and the national headquarters publish newsletters to keep members aware' of. activities and the national organization also keeps a lobbyist in Congress.

Although the local chapter's; membership now stands at about 30 members, the board members expect the membership to increase as women find' out more about what the organization is, doing. i The Junior Daughters United Army have selectted -queen candidates for their formal, which will be 8 p.m. to midnight in the of the Ft. Officers Club. The queen candidates are Little, daughter of Lt.

and Mrs. J. A. Little, 2 Drive, Ft. Karen Powers, of'Lt.

Col. and Mrs. i -Max L. powers, 510 Grand Leavenworth, and Pam daughter of Maj. and C.

S. Simerly, 322-3 Ft. CLeavenwprth. 'v The junior'princess is Dawn i'Camper, duughter of Lt. Col.

and Mrs. W. C. Camper, 325-3 Pope Ft. Leavenworth.

The sophomore princess is Tammy Spagnoli, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. J. B. Spagnoli, 323-7 Pope Ft.

Leavenworth. The queen will be crowned at the dance. Voting for the queen will be at the door the evening of the formal. The theme for the event will be "Opening Night." The band will be Fyre from Emporia. Tickets are $6 for couples and $3 for singles.

They will be sold only by members of the executive board. Tickets must be shown at the door. The dance is open to all students. Biography Is New View of Man From Our Museum Museum Gears Up Again By EVELYNDELANEY Historical Society The Leavenworth Historical Museum reopened Feb. 1 and several special events are planned for the next few months.

The annual dinner meeting of the Leavenworth County Historical Society, is scheduled for March 3 at the Ft. Leavenworth Officers Club. Reservations may be phoned to the museum. Joseph Snell, incoming director of the Kansas State Historical Society, will speak at th'e meeting on Leavenworth's early history. Historical society membership for 1977 may be renewed at that time or by mail to the museum.

Individual membership dues are $3 and family memberships are $5, contributing memberships $20, and patron's $50. A limited number of copies of H. Miles Moore's Early History of Leavenworth County, reprinted last year, area again available for $17.50 plus tax or in cprhbination with membership dues for $20 for book and dues. On the spring calendar at the museum is a two-week exhibit of needlework of all kinds by Leavenworth women, beginning late in March. A bus tour to the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City to see the Sacred Circles collection is Fire Prevention Alpha Pi scheduled April 26.

This exhibition of American Indian art and culture extravagantly praised, in London, where it was on display for three months. It was organized and assembled by Ralph T. Coe, assistant director of the Nelson and drew oveY 200,000 visitors in London. Only one bus is being chartered for the Historical Society tour to the Nelson and reservations may be made to Mary Jo Springe at 682-0871. Historical society activities in the past year included a craft day last summer at the museum featuring a variety of old fashioned craft demonstrations, two bus tours to Kansas City dinner theaters, a pot-luck supper, and a holiday tasting tea.

The museum celebrated a Victorian Christmas decorated as a 19th century home. LOS ANGELES (AP) Even death Clark Gable continues 4o loom larger than many movie stars. No cult has developed, as with Bogart, but his fame js one of lingering admiration Almost awe and a remembrance lof the excitement he created in films and his life. "Clark Gable was the celebrity more than ultimate movie star," said Tornabene. "I don't think inhere was a more famous He was the king of celebrities." Mrs.

Tornabene is the author iOf "Long Live the King," the sfirst Gable, biography since published after he died of attack in 1960. She and Jyesearcher Meredith Brucker Spent three years on the book. She said she approached it as story of a man who happened $0 be a movie star but as a man." vJJncovering that story was no (mean feat. 'You think you know all about jJGable, but you really know so she said, "He never gave during his time at KMGM. There was no body of vlcorrespondence.

No collected itliterary works. I had to -reconstruct him from scratch," Mrs. Tornabene said she Interviewed nearly 200 people, 'Sjften haying) to cross-examine like a prosecuting "The loyalty of his friends is she said. "You get the Reeling people are hiding things. JWhat is it ab6ut Gable that trying to hide?" She uncovered no startling tyevelations but many insights never put makeup on his face.

His father died never approving ofhim." had a cleanliness fetish, shaved his armpits and chest and would never sit in a bathtub of dirty water. He even disliked swimming in a pool. was not his last movie, "The Misfits," that killed him as everyone thinks, Mrs. Tornabene said. "He had had other warnings about his health," she said.

"At least two times in the 10 years preceding his death he had something resembling heart, attacks. He was told to quit drinking and. smoking. He was a very heavy drinker and a very heavy smoker." Mrs. Tornabene said she went to Dr.

Alice Ginott for a psychiatric analysis of Gable, which is included in the book. "Dr. Ginott said a child'who loses his mother at 10 months is a permanently scarred person," she said. "The child is too young for grief and becomes angry at the loss. A child doesn't know there is a reward for giving as well as for taking.

That person clinically will turn out to be a taker all of his life." Mrs. Tornabene said, "Gable's relationships with women were like that. He took from women all his life, He ultimately married his mother image, Carole Lombard." QUEEN CANDIDATES The queen candidates for the Junior Daughters United States' Army are preparing for their annual formal, which will be from 8 p.ni: to midnight Feb. 20 in the Ft. Leavenworth Officers Club ballroom.

They are, bottom from left, Tammy Spagnoli and Dawn Camper; and top from left, Karen Powers, Pam Simerly and Laura Little. (Times Photo) Recent Births at Munson The following babies were born recently at Munson Army Leavenworth: Odessa Christine Cator, daughter of, 1st Lt. and Mrs. Richard D. Cator II, 1512 Hope, was born Dec.

31. Lt. Cator is assigned to the Combined Arms Combat Developments Activity at Ft. Leavenworth. The paternal grandparents are Capt.

(Ret.) 'and Mrs. Richard D. Cator, Anniston, Ala. The maternal grandparents are the Rev. and Mrs.

Edgar L. Brill, Norwich, N. Y. Aaron Prescott Zietner, son of Dr. (Capt.) and Mrs.

Richard M. Zeitner, 317-2 Pope Ft. Leavenworth, was born The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Montgomery, Vermillion.

Demetrius Joseph Walcott, son of Spec. 4 and Mrs. Ronald W. Walcott, 913-K Brookside, was born Jan. 4.

Spec; 4 Walcott is assigned to the 2()ath Military Police Company, Ft. Leavenworth. The paternal grandmother is Mrs. Deloris Walcott, Cambridge, Mass. The maternal grandmother is Mrs.

Georgina Dobbe, 321 Pine. Andreana Denice Jackson, daughter of Sgt. and Mrs. Gary L. Jackson, 24 Sixth Infantry Road, Ft.

Leavenworth, was born Jan. 7. The paternal grandmother is Willen Jackson, Bogalusa, La. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Johnny Rayborn, McComb, Miss. Timothy James Powell, son of Sgt. and Mrs. James L. Powell, 67 Sixth Infantry Road, Ft.

Leavenworth, was born Jan. 14. The paternal grandmother is June Monville, Saginaw, Mich. The maternal grandmother is Jessie Fackler. Mecosta, Mich.

Eric Michael Hanville, son of Capt. and Michael R. Hanville, Parkville, was born Jan. 14. The paternal grandmother is Mrs.

lone Telech, Beaufort, S. C. The maternal grandmother is Mrs. Jesse M. Spence, Savannah, Ga.

William David Cooper, son of Spec. 6 and Mrs. Billy Ray Cooper, 19 Wint Ft. Leavenworth, was born Jan. 15.

The paternal grandmother is Mrs. Louise Massie, Little Rock, Ark. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher Wheatley, Ark.

Kenneth Charles Bottorff, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Roger Bottorff, 10 Liggett, Ft. Leavenworth, was born Jan. 10.

The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Bottorff, St.

Joseph, Mo. The maternal grandparents are Mrs. Barbera Mussor and Francis Martin, both of St. Joseph, Mo. Cynthia Marie Kile, daughter of Spec.

6 and Mrs. Patrick H. File, 23 Liberty, Ft. Leavenworth, was born Jan. 18.

The paternal grandfather is Ernie H. File, Ft. Smith, Ark. A film and program about fire prevention was presented at the Tuesday meeting of Alpha Pi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi by Dean Johnson, a Leavenworth city firefighter. Johnson is the husband of Diane Johnson, a member of the chapter.

After his presentation a group discussion was held. The meeting, which was hosted by Harriett Pellman, was at the Strawberry Tree. A letter from Beta Sigma Phi International regarding the endowment and loan funds was read by Mary Alice Johnson. Members voted to pledge donations to each fund. Plans were discussed for having a bake sale and auction around Easter.

Members also discussed plans for spring rush. Final arrangements were discussed for the Valentine Dance to be held Feb. 12. All members still have tickets on hand. The meeting was attended by 13 members and Ginny Potter, member advisor.

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towardjthe end of his life i'did he become the Clark Gable everyone's imagination, "He tfwas roguish, gentle, dignified common, she "He Started out as a common he went out as a common but with an awful lot of Mfclass," He was torn between a stern. who never wanted his son ifto be a sissy in any way and a 'Stepmother wfto guided him Coward books, poetry and the Later, he kept hisfcesthetic frleanjngs a guarded secret. Mrs. said, "He never ifprqved himself to his father as a Sfjnian- His father thought acting sissy stuff and a real man About A Oeramio Valentine? Porterhouse Gift Your Lady with a Valentine Fashion from The Model WINTER CLEARANCE SALE still in progress OFF 424 Delaware Powntown BqnkAmencard Master Charge Lay-q-way Owners Frank and Rosie Fulk 682-8777 BAKERS GIFTS 410 DELAWARE Bridal Registry Michelle White to Gary D. Marshall Feb.

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