The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 6

PAGE 6, SECTION A THE TIMES rOAlD Tuesday, May 4, 1971 Claudia Dreifus: 'Women's Liberation Begins At Home 4 A A 1 "Today." she said, "day care centers are regarded as something un-American in concept." "Children need to socialize with other children and mothers need to be freed from what, in excess, can become extremely boring," she said. bor Statistics "Whereas a male with a PhD would earn average yearly, a female can expect $6,114 or slightly less than a male high schooi graduate," she said. THIS WAS only the beginning. Dreifus. an editor of New York's "The Last Village Other," the country's oldest rii i i fw mmm trm i IF7'- I rv 11MKS11KKAU) a Y' i Jlfa i -v COLLEEN A I KM AN Aikman-Roseski l.MLAY CITY Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Aikman announce the engagement of their daughter. Colleen, to Vincent Roseski, son of Mrs. Wanda Roseski and the late Vincent Roseski. Miss Aikman is a 1970 graduate of Imlay City High School, now attending the Port Huron School of Beauty Culture.

Her fiance was graduated by Dryden High School in 1966. A Nov. 6 wedding is being planned. MRS. MICHAEL B.

MESSING Messing-Kubacki is CAROL A. SIMPSON Simpson-Spanninga Mr. and Mrs. Jack Flinchbaugh, Riverside Drive, announce the engagement of Carol Anne Simpson, to Russell H. Spanninga son of Mrs.

James Kline, Bronson, Mich. Miss Simpson is the daughter of Mrs. Flinchbaugh and the late John B. Simpson. The bride-elect is a graduate of the former Port Huron Junior College and received a B.A.

degree in Education from Eastern Michigan University. She is presently teaching art in Albion Senior High, Albion. Mr. Spinninga received his B.A. degree with a major in social studies and his Masters degree in Education from Michigan State University.

He is presently teaching history and government in Albion High School. The couple will be married June 13 in the Wesley Chapel of the First United Methodist Church, Albion. Bride-elect Honored HARBOR BEACH Miss Donna Cook was honored at a bridal shower, given by Mrs. Cecelia Cook, Mrs. Vincent Wolschlager, and Misses Mar-cy Ann Cook, Rhonda Rapson, Joan Leisse and Diane Cook, in a meeting room of Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic Church.

Miss Cook and Ronald Wolschlager will be married May 29. By SUE STARK (Times Herald Reporter) "Sexism can easily be defined in the United States as patriarchy in which 49 per cent of the population, men. control the other 51 per cent, women," Claudia Dreifus. prolific writer and spokeswoman for the women's liberation movement, told a small audience Tuesday night in the Clara E. Mackenzie Library Lecture Hall.

"It is a brutal, vicious system," she continued, "which destroys every ounce of individuality in the female who is consequently a passive product consumer and baby-maker." Brought to Port Huron by St. Clair County Community College Women's League in conjunction with its "Women's Week You've Come a Long Way, Baby," the 26-year-old Dreifus. in point after point, tore down that assumption. "Economically," she said, "the situation is getting worse for women, not better, and the gap is widening." CITING FIGURES from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Guide and Handbook which, she said, says it more cogently than all the arguments in the world, Dreifus pointed out that a male with an elementary education averages $3,488 per year while a female with that same educational background could expect $1,190, or a paltry third." A male with a high school education averages $6,576 whereas a female is listed at $2,368, she said. "And for those women who believe education will put them on an equal economic level with their male counterparts," Dreifus went on, "is the really shocking news that a male college graduate averages $9,728 while the female valedictorian of his class can expect to earn less than half." Not even a doctorate degree can absolve a woman's crime of being a female according to Dreifus and the Bureau of La Best man was Frederick Messing, Ruth, brother of the bridegroom.

Ushers were Duane Guza, Port Huron; Paul Booms, Bad Axe; James Geiger, Madison Heights; Michael Kubacki, brother of the bride, Ubly, and Harry Booms, East Lansing. A breakfast and reception was held in Ruth Knights of Columbus Hall to honor the newlyweds. After a wedding trip through northern Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Messing will live on Prie-mer Road, Harbor Beach.

for men. "Besides the advantages of sharing fully and becoming freed from the often painful masculine he-man role, men will live longer if the ulcer and heart problem route of providing sole support is lightened." Telling the women to think. "I can do anything I Dreifus said that only if women consent to it will oppression continue. "All we want is to assert the full humanity of all the world's people." she concluded. IN HER SPEECH.

"Liberation Now: What Are Militant WomenFighting For?" Claudia Dreifus also cited innumerable instances explaining why women are fighting. "Although the assumption that progress is inevitable may be true for some groups, it certainly isn't true for women." she declared. Besides the fact that female professionals make half as much as their male counterparts, they are seldom admitted to prestigious positions, Dreifus said. "We're decades behind Sweden, Denmark, Israel, and the Soviet Union," she said, and offered the following example: In Russia, women pharmacists number 95 per cent, women dentists, 83 per cent, and women doctors number 75 per cent, while in the United States they number two per cent, two per cent, and seven per cent, respectively. Dreifus explained that when women do get admitted to male strongholds they are made to feel totally unwelcome by their colleagues and professors.

"They are asked degrading questions concerning the pill, the when-where-and-how of children, and other questions a male wouldn't dare be asked unless the asker wanted a slug in the mouth," she said. Laws, too, conspire to keep women in their place, which, Dreifus said, "We all know is the home." When a woman marries, she said, she loses her right to be considered a legal adult, "a little-known fact that does not appear in the marriage contract," Dreifus noted. Once a woman assumes her husband's name, she needs permission to enter a hospital, have an abortion, and several other important functions of society, not to mention losing the right to her own name, which, Dreifus asserted, seems almost naturally symbolic of the whole loss of identity. Dreifus, who kept her own name when she married her psychologist husband five years ago, said she underwent intense hassles simply to keep the name she was born with, grew up with, and writes under. "The whole thing is ludicrous," she said, summing up the total plight of women.

PARISVILLE Miss Joyce A. Kubacki, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens Kubacki, and Michael B. Messing, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Bernard Messing, Harbor Beach, were united in marriage May 1, in St. Mary's Catholic Church. The maid of honor was Miss Annette Kubacki, sister of the bride, Ubly. Bridesmaids were Miss Jan Booms, Roseville, Miss Janice Zurek, Harbor Beach, and Miss Elaine Micklash, Madison Heights, Mich.

Broska Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Miller, Maplewood Drive, announce the marriage of their daughter, Kathleen Mae Boman to Stephen Paul Broska, April 3, in the Nellis Air Force Base Chapel, Las Vegas, Nev. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Boska, Evanston, 111. Mrs. Nancy Jean Boman, Engel FORESTVILLE Miss Janice Ann Ulfig and Paul Andrew Engel were united in marriage, April 17, in Trinity Lutheran Church. Parents of the couple are Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Ulfig, Ruth, and Mr. Mrs. William Engel, Minden City. Miss Diane Samczyk, Sandusky, was maid of honor.

Bridesmaid was the bridegroom's sister, Miss Mary Engel. Miss Annette Clor was Tomlinson Trinity Lutheran Church was the scene of the March 27 ceremony uniting Darlene A. Endelmann and David L. Tomlinson in marriage. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. Gerald Matthews, North River Road. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Tomlinson, Lakeshore Road. Attending the couple were Area Nofes Club News 'N Notes will close to women at 5 p.m. this Thursday. We will reopen at 7 p.m. to MEN ONLY! Do your Mother's Day shopping and enjoy a chat with Mike Lucci of the DETROIT LIONS.

Family and largest underground newspaper, and author of numerous articles on feminism and other current topics in such publications as the Nation. Penthouse, the Ladies Home Journal, Healist, and Cavalier, proceeded to outline other areas of discrimination against women and then outlined liberation demands. Giving priority to equal job and education opportunity for all women and commenting that black women were the poorest of the poor suffering under a double discrimination, she urged that all barriers to female economic progress be torn down. "We want an equal try at all kinds of jobs, not just the glamorous and prestigious but also the profitable," she maintained. "Why can't we have a try at the unglamorous but independent job of taxi driving at $265 a week, for example, rather than serve as a surrogate wife-secretary for some businessman at $65 a week?" Dreifus asked.

Calling for a massive national network of free 24-hour i 1 d-care centers, Dreifus said that this was a reality during World War II when women power was necessary and it was "positively patriotic (like buying to drop your children in the centers which were quickly and efficiently established. Adams, serving as hostesses. A white elephant sale will be held at tonight's meeting. DELTA KAPPA GAMMA SOCIETY Twenty members of the Alpha Zeta chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society attended a birthday luncheon and Founders' Day observance Saturday in the Surf Lounge, Mount Clemens. The event was sponsored by the four chapters of the society in Macomb and St.

Clair counties. Miss Aharas Kresin was in charge of the birthday ceremony for the council chapters. Mrs. Katherine Keeling, state president of Delta Kappa Gamma, chose as her topic "Build a Better You." Members will attend the state convention in Benton Harbor, May 14-16. Cor bA-fcts cut -UPS Writing And It's fun to try writing stunts every once in a while.

One of the hardest is to write your name, looking in a mirror, only. Another is to hold the paper under the table, and print your name on it. All kinds of things make invisible ink; lemon juice or milk both make good ink, and the writing is visible when the paper is heated. Model 1609 (Dad's, bring the kids in to get Mike's autograph). ALSO DREIFUS advocated Living a national network of abortion clinics that would provide free abortions on demand to women who seek them.

"Every year," she said, "millions of women place their bodies under the hands of butchers. Ten thousand die, thousands more are made sterile and sick." "Perhaps if men could bear children, legislation would change fast," Dreifus mused. "But existing laws have no sympathy for a woman's right to control her own body." Asserting that women's lib-e a i begins at home, Dreifus called for a restructuring of the family. "Sharing the duties of house-cleaning and children, men could reap the blessings and also be free from carrying the burden of sole support for their families," she pointed out. WHEN QUESTIONED as to what we in Port Huron can do, Dreifus, mentioned setting up consciousness-raising groups just to talk about common feelings and the ultimate political life of being a female.

She advised the younger girls in the audience to think carefully about marriage. "You won't be a failure at 20 if you don't marry the first guy that asks or, heaven forbid, if you dare graduate college without marrying," she declared. "Your first and most primary task is to become a person. Marry when you feel like it, don't give in to pressures," she advised. Dreifus also deemed it wise to wait until later in life to have children and then to have only two.

"Besides being ecologically better," she laughed, "it will save you from going mad." "And, above all, never learn typing or stenography," she warned. "What you don't know, they can't exploit." She told the married women in the audience to share the domestic duties because real love demands sharing. Dreifus pointed out to the scattered males in the audience that women's liberation, contrary to popular belief, has bonuses Offices in Member WEDNESDAY Ladies Auxiliary to Charles Schoor Post, No. 796 meeting in Post Home, 7:30 p.m. Cedarwood Grove, No.

3, Woodmen of the World Officers Club and social meeting in the home of Mrs. Esther L. Busha, 3811 Ravenswood Road, Marysville, 8 p.m. Port Huron Musicale Annual May Luncheon in First Congregational Church, 12:30 p.m. Catherine Merena Baird, pianist John R.

Baird, baritone. Triple Link Club meet in the home of Mrs. Charles Palm-ateer, 816 Garfield Street, 7:30 p.m. Blue Star Mothers, Chapter 15 meeting in Marian Manor, 7:30 p.m. (Notice change of date).

and False Advertising Is Program Topic Be it ever So Therefcno place like home. Boman Las Vegas, was matron of honor. Best man was the bridegroom's brother, Michael Paul Broska, Evanston, 111. Gary Himmelen, Las Vegas, was usher. Mr.

and Mrs. Broska are residing in North Las Vegas, near the Nellis AFB where he is stationed. Ulfig flowergirl. Phillip Moses, Minden City, was best man. Groomsman was the bridegroom's brother, Robert Engel.

The bride's brother, Kenneth Ulfig, and Fredrick Engel, brother of the bridegroom, were ushers. A reception was held in Klumps Restaurant following the ceremony. The newlyweds honeymooned in Miami Beach, and are residing in Harbor Beach. Endelman Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Grabbitt sister and brother-in-law of the bridegroom. Miss Cheri Lynn Endelmann, daughter of the bride, was junior bridesmaid. A wedding supper honoring the couple in the Travelers Inn was given by the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Tomlinson are making their home on Alger Road in Port Huron. Nyda Bronson, secretary; Sister Zetta Timson, treasurer; and Sister Lenora Knight, warden. Officers elected for District No. 5 are: president, Sister Josephine Ginter; vice-president, Sister Nadenne Goulette, secretary, Sister Laura Pick-ard; and treasurer, Sister Doris Havens. The 1972 session will be held in Port Huron, May 11, 1972.

YALE Altar Society of Sacred Heart Catholic Church is sponsor for a Mother and Daughter potluck supper and program 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening for all women and girls of the parish and their friends. Mrs. Carol Weiss is in charge of the program. Huron and St.

(lair County ii PYTHIAN SISTERS ZENITH TEMPLE NO. 40 Mrs. Arthur Miller was high scorer in euchre when members of the Past Chiefs Club of Pythian Sisters No. 40 met in the home of Mrs. James Muir.

Other euchre winners were Mrs. Herbert Scheonrock and Mrs. Herman Fursteneau. Next regular meeting of the group will be May 26 in the Fursteneau home, 3775 Parker Road, 7:30 p.m. PORT HURON POWER SQUADRON Members of the Port Huron Power Squadron and their wives held a potluck dinner in the Squadron building, May 1, with Mrs.

Judy Gates, Mrs. Gordon Garbutt, Mrs. Daniel and Mrs. John will hold the monthly meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday in the church rooms.

The Women's Society is in charge of a Mother and Children, including sons, potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday followed by a program. CROSWELL Circle Five of the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Crosvvell United Methodist Church is collecting sheets and pillow cases to send to Dr. Glen Eschtruth at Piper Memorial Hospital, Kapanga, Africa. The sheets must be ready by May 7.

CASS CITY The W.S.C.S. of the United Methodist Church meeting, in the home of Mrs. Arthur Cais-ter, was highlighted by a lesson on "Giving" taught by Mrs. Gene Chapko, The May 12 meeting will be held in the home of Mrs. Robert Burns with the lesson being given by Mrs.

Clair Aus-lander. Rudolph WurUtzcr Spinet Piano 525 00 inc. Bench PORT AUSTIN Mrs. Ira D. McCoy spoke on "False "Aid to Dependent Children" and to Senior Pris-cilla Club in the home of Mrs.

Ray Copeland. Mrs. Edward Krease reviewed "Our Cultural Heritage in American The club make plans to plant more shrubs around Port Austin Township Public Library. MEMPHIS Five Assembly officers from Grand Rapids were present when members of the Memphis Rebekah Lodge were hostesses to the District No. 5 Session in Memphis.

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