Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Career advice from working women was also a part of the Career Fair program coordinated by Judy Schweikart. Dr. Ramey tells her audience that she feels that women can be a potent pressure group in A merican society. 29

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Dr. Estelle Ramey was the keynote speaker for the Women ' s Career Fair in September. Ramey main speaker at Career Fair Dr. Estelle Ramey, a professor of biophysics and physiology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. was the keynote speaker for the first Women ' s Career Fair in mid-September. Literature and advice from women involved in professions were part of the fair coordinat ed by Judy Schweikart, assistant director of admissions. Men tend to regard women as charming, soft, nur- turing pinheads, Ramey said. There is no woman who has made it without the occasional support from the occasional man who helps her without feeling that he is being threatened himself. She rejected the idea that in some devious way, women control men and the implication that women really run this country. Men are caught in the same system, she said. There is no security in marriage anymore, not even in Catholic marriage. In a divorce court, if a man of 50 is getting remarried and must support another family, the judge says, ' You ' re a healthy woman, get a job ' , and gives her $100 a month. Ramey said that it is difficult to be a man because he must follow the sterotyped male role of being strong and never crying. Men are brought up to believe that anxiety is their lot in life and that they must do what they are programmed to do. She used incidents from her own life to illustrate why she became interested in Women ' s Lib. In the late 1930 ' s, she applied for a job as a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. After World War II began, she was told that it was her patriotic duty to teach and after the war ended, she was told to go back home to her husband. It is my deepest conviction that women perceive the world differently than men, Ramey said. Being a woman makes it impossible to know what it means to be a man and the reverse is true. The best thing is to have a variety of these ideas in order to solve the world ' s problems. But women have no input in the decision-making forums of this or any other country. An example of this in the academic community is Harvard, according to Ramey. Harvard selects and educates the best young women and then tells them to marry a Harvard man. In 1970, there was only one female on a faculty of 473 instructors. Everyone tells the story about how some incred- ibly talented relative of theirs was denied a job that was given to some ' ignorant ' woman or black, she said. Everyone has them. It ' s a lie. In a question and answer session after her address, Ramey urged women to write their representatives to let them know their feelings on women ' s rights. Women don ' t realize it sometimes, she said, but they can be a potent force as a pressure group. As a child, I had a sampler that said ' I Am My Brother ' s Keeper ' , she said. Now I have one that says ' I Am My Sister ' s Keeper ' . Women can no longer afford to view each other as enemies. Ramey, president of the Association of Women in Science, received the 1973 distinguished Alumna award from the University of Chicago and is also a board member of the International Institute of Women ' s Studies and governor of the Women ' s Political Caucus of Maryland. 28

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» w Herbie Mann ' s flute artistry highlighted the concert which also featured the Family of Mann and special guest David Newman. Creighton, UN-0 host Herbie Mann show Put a pianist, a percussionist, a guitarist, a Dass player and a drummer together. Add one of today ' s leading (if not only) pop flautist and what do you have? Herbie Mann and the Family of Mann. Mann ' s group starred in the first joint concert spon- sored by Creighton ' s Student Board of Governors and the Student Programming Organization of the Univer- sity of Nebraska at Omaha. The organizations combined their resources in an effort to bring big name stars like Mann to Omaha. The group controlled the audience for the entire two and a half hours of the concert and when it was over, the audience still wanted more. The group gave the audience the encore it demanded. The Family of Mann group included David Newman on saxophone, Pat Rebillot on piano. Bob Mann on guitar, Tony Leien on bass and Steve Gadd on drums. Percussionist Armen Halburian made a real impres- sion on the audience as he played an assortment of instruments including gongs, yips, maracas and cymbals. .J- Percussionist Armen Halburian played several instruments, including the maracas, during the concert at Civic Auditorium. 30