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- From: credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Redmond)
- Subject: Re: The New, Improved, F.A.Q. List!
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1993Jan22.084349.6599@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:18:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.084349.6599@netcom.com> ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams) writes:
- >The new FAQ says that the Irregulars did not admit women "until very
- >recently." Have they definitely changed this deplorable policy? When
- >did it happen? Who was the first female Irregular?
-
- There actually was one female Irregular as early as the 1950's --
- Lee Offord -- who may have been admitted either by mistake or as
- a joke. Then in the early 1980's (I will look up specific date
- if anyone wishes) Lisa McGaw, proprietor of the William Gillette
- Memorial Luncheon, was also invested, again as an anomaly.
-
- But the BSI were truly opened to women in January 1991, with the
- investitures of Dame Jean Conan Doyle, Julia Carlson Rosenblatt,
- Evelyn Herzog, and Susan Rice.
-
- There were four more women admitted in 1992, and another one this month.
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- CAR
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