Author: Robin Lloyd, Development Committee chair

Help choose the outstanding WILPF US women to represent us on the walls of the Peace Palace next April! The International Planning Committee for the Centennial Congress, Celebration and Conference has invited all sections to submit photos and biographies of a few of their most notable foremothers.

Please send your nominations ASAP to Heather Wellman. 

Include a few lines as to why you think your nominee should represent us. Nominations will end Oct 30.  Shortly thereafter, we will send out a survey inviting all members  to vote amongst those nominated.

Please share this information with older WILPF members who are not online; they may have special memories of notable WILPF women!

If you need some inspiration please visit the Swarthmore Peace Collection  or (not as user friendly) New York Public Library or read:

• Women for all Seasons, the story of WILPF by Catherine Foster, or
• Peace As a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights by Harriet Alonso, or
• Intelligent Compassion: Feminist Critical Methodology in the WILPF by Catia Confortini

(Due to lack of space only 3 – or maybe 5 – will be on the wall, but the top 10 will be displayed at our WILPF US table.)

PHOTO:  Jane Addams, from photo with Chrystal Macmillan, probably in 1919. Courtesy of the Jane Addams Collection, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.