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Today’s top 20 list features characters of all shapes and sizes from anthropomorphic animals to gun-wielding spies and brings together the most recognisable faces from across the world of games. These characters, and the games in which they star, boast a collective 44 BAFTA Games Awards between them over the past two decades, and make up some of the best-loved entries into the canon of video game history, and some of the most memorable characters of any medium.
Taking the number one spot is the generation-spanning heroine Lara Croft, star of the Tomb Raider franchise. Lara Croft first appeared in 1996, nearly three decades ago, and since then she has been remastered and evolved several times for television, film, video games and even her own live immersive experience in London, England.
This year alone, Tomb Raider I–III Remastered was released across multiple platforms and the highly anticipated Netflix TV show Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is scheduled for release later in the year. Shelley Blond, the original voice of Lara Croft, will also present an award at the 20th BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 11 April, in the official ceremony hosted at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Jumping into the second spot is Mario, of the eponymous Nintendo franchise. Created by the legendary Japanese game designer and recipient of BAFTA’s prestigious Fellowship, Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario has been the face of Nintendo and a highly recognisable character in the wider world of video games since he first appeared as Jumpman in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. Since then Mario has featured in many games - including this year’s BAFTA-nominated game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Taking third spot is Agent 47 from the Hitman series. Conceived by Danish video game developer IO Interactive in 1998 and debuting in 2000 with the release of Hitman: Codename 47, Agent 47 has become an icon in the games industry, captivating gamers worldwide. The genetically engineered assassin has since appeared in eight mainline games, two spin-offs, two books, one comic series and two films.
The Most Iconic Video Games Characters of All Time (ranked in order of votes received):
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
First introduced to the world in 1996 in Tomb Raider for the Sega Saturn, Lara Croft has appeared in over 15 games, three films, multiple novelisations and comic book adaptations, and an upcoming Netflix animated series.
Mario, Super Mario
One of the most senior characters on this list, Mario was created in 1981 – not as the star of his own series, but as a player character in the first instalment in the Donkey Kong series. From humble beginnings, he has appeared in over 200 video games, two films, and numerous other multimedia adaptations.
Agent 47, Hitman
A genetically-enhanced clone with a penchant for murder, Agent 47 made his video game debut in 2000’s Hitman: Codename 47. Since then, he’s killed his way across screens both big and small, appearing in over ten games, two novelisations, and two live-action film adaptations.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic
Sonic the Hedgehog sprinted his way into the hearts and minds of fans worldwide in 1991 as the star of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. He has appeared in over 100 video games as both a main character and supporting cast, as well as starring in several TV shows and two films, with a third slated for release in late 2024.
Sackboy, LittleBigPlanet
One of the most customisable characters on this list, Sackboy made his video game debut in 2008 as the star of Sony’s LittleBigPlanet to instant critical acclaim. He’s since starred in all six LittleBigPlanet mainline games, as well as making an appearance in numerous other game franchises as everything from a playable character to an adorable easter egg.
Pac-Man, Pac-Man
This little yellow hockey puck has appeared in over 50 games and has made appearances in innumerable other trans-media properties.
Link, The Legend of Zelda
The silent protagonist of the Legend of Zelda franchise, Link has appeared in 20 games in the series, as well as starring in his own animated series and multiple comic book and manga adaptations.
Master Chief, HALO
Full name Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, this Spartan super-soldier appears in six games in the HALO franchise. He appears as the main character in three of the 19 HALO novels, as well as in the 2012 film Halo 4: Forward Until Dawn and the 2022 HALO television series.
Kratos, God of War
From murder-hungry Spartan warrior to protective parent, Kratos has appeared in eight games in the God of War franchise. He’s also made appearances in two comic series, three novels, and in several games outside the God of War franchise.
Shadowheart, Baldur’s Gate 3
One of the youngest characters on this list in terms of release date, Shadowheart charmed her way into the hearts of players worldwide with the release of 2023’s Baldur’s Gate 3.
Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2
The protagonist of 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan is one of the few characters on this list to only appear in a single game.
Pikachu, Pokémon
The only Pokémon to appear on this list, Pikachu has appeared in over 100 properties across screens both big and small, as well as making appearances in multiple comic books and manga.
Steve, Minecraft
The iconic player character from 2011’s Minecraft (the best-selling video game of all time as of 2024), Steve has also made appearances in four other games including the Minecraft spinoff Minecraft Dungeons.
Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
Debuting in 1987’s Metal Gear, Solid Snake (real name David) is a stealthy super-spy who’s appeared in over ten games in the Metal Gear franchise, as well as in multiple novelisations of the game series.
Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot
Introduced to the world in 1996’s Crash Bandicoot, this genetically enhanced marsupial has appeared in 20+ video games throughout his lifespan.
Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII
A mercenary and man of few words, Cloud Strife has made 30+ appearances in both video games and wider media properties since his video game debut as the protagonist of 1997’s Final Fantasy VII.
Astarion, Baldur’s Gate 3
Much like his fellow party member Shadowheart, Astarion’s rogueish charms have made him a fan favourite since his appearance in 2023’s Baldur’s Gate 3.
Kazuma Kiryu, Yakuza
A gruff former Yakuza mobster, Kazuma Kiryu has appeared in ten games in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise, as well as starring in multiple film adaptations and a stage play of the franchise.
Ellie Williams, The Last of Us
Best-known as the star of 2013’s The Last of Us, Ellie Williams actually did not make her first appearance in the game. The world’s first introduction to the bad-mouthed teenager was in The Last of Us: American Dreams, a four-issue comic book series that served as a prequel to the game. She’s since starred in sequels and DLC for the The Last of Us franchise, as well as the 2023 TV adaptation of the game.
Nathan Drake, Uncharted
The gentleman explorer with a penchant for violence, Nathan Drake stars in six games in the Uncharted franchise, as well as multiple comic book series and a live-action film adaptation.
Shelley Blond, performer and first voice actor for Lara Croft (number one in the poll), said: “I had no clue when voicing the original Tomb Raider game that it would be such a global phenomenon and neither did Eidos or Core Design. They had only ever done children’s games before and of course they hoped it would be a success, but I think it went above and beyond any and all expectations. When creating the voice for Lara Croft, it came just by looking at the rough sketches I had in front of me and I took note of the fact that she was a female Indiana Jones type of character, ballsy and well spoken. Lara is very special to me purely because she means so much to the gamers. I love hearing stories from people around the world who played the game and channelled Lara to escape their bullies or to help them feel stronger when they wanted to come out to their loved ones. And most beautiful of all is hearing how gamers used to play it with their parent/s who are no longer with us and the sound of my voice, the music from the game and sound effects are all wrapped up in their memories of that loved one. I’m honoured to play a part in that for them.”
Blond goes on by joking, “I found out well into dating my husband that he had played Tomb Raider and used to enjoy hearing Lara scream and say ‘No’. Now of course he has to put up with that on a daily basis."
Shigeru Miyamoto, legendary game designer, creator of Mario and BAFTA Fellowship recipient (2010), told Variety last year: “When I first came up with the character, and we created the first Mario game, we had a limited capacity of the pixels that we could use. It was technically a 16x16 pixel square that we were able to use for characters – but as a designer, I thought that I needed to make the best out of those 16 dots. I felt it was my job to draw a character with recognisable features, so if I draw a big nose and a moustache I don’t need to draw a mouth. Also, if I draw a big hat I don’t need to draw hair, etc. And we were able to, within that limited space, create such an iconic character. I was really happy with the result, and I felt that this would be the character who will be my gaming legacy.”
David Smith, Co-Founder & Technical Director at Media Molecule and co-designer of Sackboy (number five in the poll) said: “Sackboy started life as a humble yellow and magenta lump of debug graphics, with wiggling legs for running and stick arms for grabbing. Sackboy was never meant to have a gender but the name stuck. Their character is anchored in chaotic fun and creativity with an eager dog-like personality! Beyond this, they are whoever you want them to be. Sackboy grabs on to things with R1, the same as Wander in Shadow of the Colossus and this is no coincidence! The games from Team Ico gave us great confidence that 'grabbing' was an exciting addition to the tried and tested 'run and jump' formula.”
As Christopher Judge said in his acceptance speech at the BAFTA Games Awards last year (2023), as he took home the award for Performer in a Leading Role for Kratos in God of War - “it’s the role of a lifetime”. Kratos reached number nine in the Most Iconic Games Character Poll, Christopher Judge reflects on his time creating the character exclusively for BAFTA, ”Playing Kratos has truly been a great joy of my professional career. How often do you play a character that gives you, the actor, as much as you give him? From being a father to even making me redefine what it truly means to be a man. Being a man isn’t about muscle, and it isn’t about how loud you are - ultimately, Kratos gave me that it’s about listening, and loving, and ultimately about opening your own heart and accepting being loved… what a gift!”
Neil Newbon, BAFTA-nominated performer at this year’s BAFTA Games Awards for his portrayal of Astarion (number 17 in the poll) in Baldur’s Gate 3, said: “Playing Astarion has been a career highlight for me. To be able to spend so long with a character, work with such an amazing company as Larian and working alongside the gorgeous writer Stephen Rooney, as well the awesome directors and crew at Pitstop Productions and employ every acting tool I’ve ever studied, to go incredibly deep into such a versatile and layer character, has been a dream job.
“Streaming has been a wonderful way to extend my work and passion for games and also interview fellow actors, directors and writers in the industry to help spotlight them. Film/ TV writer Tom De Ville and myself have had such a wonderful time creating our comedy/ interview show and the community that has sprung up around it has proven to be so wholesome and inclusive. We have been keen to make a safe space a cornerstone of our shows and thrilled that people have taken that to heart. It’s also super fun to re-experience Astarion as a player especially when our usual brand of chaos erupts (haha!).
“I feel so many people have reached out to me , the cast and everyone at Larian saying how they connected with the story and therefore the characters, so they felt seen and understood. For a game to have such an impact is beautiful and to have played a role that has captured people’s imagination is a gift. The community that has been created by the audience around the game I feel largely represents this spirit of togetherness and shared joy, which is the essence of roleplay games. A testament to Swen, Larian, the cast , writers and directors. I hope a legacy that will help further this in future games.”
In 2015, Ashley Johnson took home the BAFTA Games Award for her performance of Ellie in The Last of Us - who placed number 19 in the Most Iconic Games Character Poll - during her acceptance speech she celebrated the character for being “a strong female character that isn’t sexualised or a damsel in distress - or even the opposite of that. Ellie is vulnerable, and she’s kind, and she’s loyal and she’s the girl that probably wouldn’t have fit in at school. At times she was allowed to be scared…”. | |||||
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Star Soldier is a 1986 NES shoot 'em up from Hudson Soft that was in part inspired by Star Force, an early Arcade shoot 'em up from Tecmo that was developed for home consoles by Hudson. As such, while Star Soldier is the first official game in the series, Star Force is often considered to be the precursor.
The Star Soldier games were developed primarily for an annual competition Hudson hosted, the Hudson All-Japan Caravan Festival, in which players across Japan could compete for the highest score on a single game. The games were almost always a vertical-scrolling shooter, Star Force being the first to be used in the competition, and Hudson created new ones every year while the event ran. For this reason, Hudson created new shoot 'em up games between 1986 (the release of the original Star Soldier) to 1992 (the release of Super Star Soldier). Four of these were part of the Star Soldier series.
Games in the Series
Star Soldier was released on the NES and MSX in 1986. It was later rereleased on modern systems in retro-focused platforms like the Wii's Virtual Console and PSN.
Super Star Soldier was released exclusively on the TurboGrafx-16 in 1990. It was followed by Final Soldier in 1991 and Soldier Blade in 1992, also exclusively for the TurboGrafx-16 (though Final Soldier never left Japan) and were the last three games of the Hudson Caravan event.
Hudson revisited the Star Soldier franchise in 1995 with Star Parodier, a Parodius-like take on the franchise. Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth came out in 1998 for the N64 and adopted an angled top-down view that better accentuated the game's 3D polygons. In 2003, Hudson rebooted its more famous 16-bit franchises for the GameCube and PS2, including Star Soldier (which also saw a PSP port). Finally, Hudson (now part of Konami) resurrected Star Soldier one last time for the WiiWare Star Soldier R. | ||||
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The special attack squad, lead by the Mother Brain, has launched an all out invasion on Earth. Take your small-scale fighter, the Neo Caesar, with its arsenal of 4 regular weapons and 2 special weapons, and send them back where they belong! In addition to the Normal Game mode in this vertical-scrolling shooting game, there are 2-minute and 5-minute Time Attack modes and a mode where high-scores can be checked. Normal Game is made up of 8 different stages, and in each stage (except Stage 7), a boss awaits you at the end. | |||||
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Looking to replace their cavalry detachment, West Point–which had only graduated three Black cadets at the time–received the 9th Cavalry in 1907 and the 10th in 1931. These were two of the Army’s all-Black regiments, and part of what came to be known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Between 1931 and 1947, the detachments remained at West Point, providing cadets with riding instruction and mounted drill, and doing menial work on campus.
“They did all the work on the military base that the white soldiers did not want to do or they didn't feel that they needed to do,” Dr. Matthews says. “They stayed up, they did everything, but it was pride. They were at West Point, and they knew that if they held it down, became a stellar soldier, and showed their discipline and their craft that they would make headway for other soldiers, who were experiencing adversity, trials, and tribulations due to racism.”
Simply put, life as a Buffalo Soldier was far from easy. Dr. Matthews explains, “It was hard. Matter of fact, he would even say it was hell, but they achieved their mission, which was they were just as good, if not better, than any other white soldier. And that they had the honor that they were chosen to come to West Point because that meant they were the best of the best.”
On July 26th, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, banning racial segregation in the armed forces, slowly initiating the end of all-Black units. It is believed that SGT Matthews was one of the last Buffalo Soldiers to serve at West Point.
Leaving a Legacy
After retiring from the Army in 1962, SGT Matthews became the first African American police officer for Highland Falls, a big accomplishment in the heart of the civil rights movement.
“There's a reason why my grandfather was chosen to be the first African American police officer,” Dr. Matthews says. “The skills that he learned facing all that adversity—and still coming out with dignity and respect and treating people fairly—he attributes that to his experiences at West Point, seeing all people as people.”
Like many other Buffalo Soldiers, SGT Matthews stayed in the area after leaving service. They formed a growing community within the village on what Dr. Matthews refers to as “Snyder.”
“If you were an African American or person of color and you came to West Point, you probably came to Snyder Ave,” she shares. “[It] was phenomenal. My grandmother ran the first Black beauty shop in Highland Falls. So, our house was always bustling with cadets, their families, and military people. My grandfather was an excellent cook, and then also being a police officer, a lot of people liked him, appreciated him.”
Continuing a tradition that started during their time at the academy, SGT Matthews and the group of former Buffalo Soldiers would throw a large gathering every Labor Day. Some would travel great distances for the reunion for a chance to remain connected to their days of service. “All the families would descend back into Highland Falls for our Labor Day event,” Dr. Matthews recalls. “You got to meet everybody and they were close knit.” It would remain a tradition, even as the living number of Buffalo Soldiers decreased.
In 2008, with the help of several supporters, SGT Matthews formally established the Buffalo Soldiers Association of West Point. The association would go on to work on several educational endeavors still active today, as well as military and Veteran awareness campaigns. But SGT Matthews would become most famous for his efforts to bring a permanent memorial to West Point.
“My grandfather died at 95, and that's all he's ever dreamed about,” Dr. Matthews explains. “He wanted a statue.”
Making a Dream a Reality
The year that started it all, according to SGT Matthews’ granddaughter, was 1973 when he was present for the ribbon cutting of the academy’s newly dedicated Buffalo Soldier Field. A simple rock and plaque marked the spot, a small reflection of the contributions of hundreds of thousands of African American soldiers. “I guess you could probably say that really began what was to transform that rock into something comparable to the other statues on West Point,” Dr. Matthews claims. The dedication of another large Buffalo Soldier monument at Fort Leavenworth, by General (Ret.) Colin Powell in 1992, also served as inspiration.
SGT Matthews would work tirelessly for years advocating and fundraising to see the dream of a similar, grander statue at West Point come to fruition. Unfortunately, he would succumb to cancer before it became a reality.
”Right before he passed, he gave me the mission: I had one mission and one mission only, and that was to put [in] the monument,” Dr. Matthews says. She would take up the torch and run the Buffalo Soldiers Association of West Point, but she wouldn’t work alone.
“When he passed, everybody just picked up the mantle, together as a village, and we were all just determined to make that [the statue] happen,” Dr. Matthews shares. “We recruited Retired Major General Fred Gordon, who was the first African American commandant at West Point. He accepted, and three years later, we had the money for the monument.”
The association raised up to $1 million, and on September 10th, 2021, the statue sculpted by Eddie Dixon was officially unveiled at West Point, bearing the likeness of none other than SGT Matthews. His legacy was realized; now visitors to the academy can see a testimony to the years of service of the Buffalo Soldiers.
“It was beautiful to see all races of people, just the number of families and everybody who cheered this on and made it happen and allowed it to be put up,” Dr. Matthews shares. “We are just glad to continue the legacy of West Point by being able to be inclusive, be diverse, and recognize the human spirit, regardless of color. To do what's right for those soldiers that have served this country and to make sure that they get the recognition and the acknowledgement that they deserve.”
More importantly, she notes that the families of the Buffalo Soldiers, and current military families, will also be seen for their sacrifices.”To all the families that are serving, I just want to say thank you,” Dr. Matthews says. “I'm thankful to be able to serve all of you in a way that makes sure that all of your stories and all the sacrifices and all the contributions that your families are making will never be forgotten, as well. So, when you come to West Point, and you look at that Buffalo Soldier monument, that's for you. That's for all the traveling. That's for all the times you miss them and you worry about them. That statue says we can hang in there and everything's going to be alright.”
Blue Star Families’ Campaign for Inclusion works to highlight initiatives, such as this one, to amplify the importance of seeing all military families. Through the annual Military Family Lifestyle Survey, we understand that your experiences are unique. We have also learned that they influence others and initiate change. Fill out this form, and consider sharing your story too. | |||||
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Today we look at Hudson Soft, a once near-titan level publisher that’s now owned (and frequently squandered) by Konami. Their properties are still floating around though, and some of them are even actively in development! So just what has Master Higgins, Bonk, and their friends been up to these days? Let’s find out!
Nuts & Milk
What? What the heck is Nuts & Milk? Well, it’s a game that never turned into a long-lasting franchise. Heck, it never even got an official US home console release. But it has an important part in video game history thanks to it being the very first 3rd party game released for the Famicom. It’s also a neat little game with a lot of character. Originally released on Japanese home computers in 1983, Nuts & Milk has a lot in common with Nintendo’s early arcade output like Donkey Kong and Popeye. It’s a single screen action game where you move these adorable little… cars? I don’t know what they're supposed to be, but you collect fruit, and it’s fun.
Health rating: Basically dead
Nuts & Milk never got any sort of sequels, and has rarely been re-released. It was a moderate success back in its day though, so its lack of legacy is sort of bizarre. It was ported to mobile phones in 2003 and then to Game Boy Advance as part of a retro game compilation in 2005, but outside of that, it’s kind of been a ghost. Which is a shame because it’s a neat concept. Regardless, I seriously doubt Konami has any interest in doing anything with this brand any time soon.
Bomberman
Now Bomberman is a much more well-known name. In fact, if Hudson has a mascot (besides that bee) it’s Bomberman. It’s a multiplayer classic that’s seen countless spinoffs, ports, sequels, and cameos over the years. Bomberman himself even shows up as an assist trophy in the latest Super Smash Bros. game. Bomberman is a genuine gaming icon, and he has the catalog to prove it.
Health rating: Excellent
Bomberman is absolutely still going strong. Of all Hudson’s brands that Konami acquired, Bomberman is the one they’ve seen most fit to keep releasing games from. Just this year, Amazing Bomberman, a music based Bomberman game, released on Apple Arcade, and Super Bomberman R2 is coming to modern consoles next year. Bomberman is a happy and healthy mascot, and the gaming world is all the better for it.
Adventure Island
Adventure Island is Wonder Boy. Weirdly enough, Wonder Boy is also Adventure Island, but that’s a whole other story. In terms of actual origin, Adventure Island is literally a port of Sega’s Wonder Boy with Hudson’s own unique character since they had certain home console rights to produce the game, just not to use the actual Wonder Boy character. However, those two brands diverged after the first game. Where Wonder Boy dove into more RPG style mechanics, Adventure Island continued to evolve the original Wonder Boy mechanics. The series became a steady moderate success, and saw a number of sequels.
Health rating: Could be better
The last original Adventure Island game was Adventure Island: The Beginning on WiiWare. Before that there was a 2008 mobile game in Japan, but things have been pretty quiet ever since. Various Adventure Island games were still being ported to modern platforms like Wii U Virtual Console in 2014, but that’s about it. The brand is clearly in a bit of a lull right now, but it seems more than possible that someone will dust off Adventure Island someday.
Star Soldier
Similar to how Adventure Island spun out of a port of Sega’s Wonder Boy, Hudson’s Star Soldier exists because Hudson handled the NES port of Tecmo’s Star Force. Star Soldier basically continued where Star Force left off. It’s a vertical shooter series that’s had some pretty decent staying power over the years, and has earned a fairly nice following.
Health rating: Could be better
Also like Adventure Island, the last Star Soldier game was released in 2008 for WiiWare. That was Star Soldier R, which was relatively well received, but since it was a WiiWare game, very few people actually played it. There was also a PSP Star Soldier collection released the same year, but that was it. Again, this is a franchise that has some name recognition, but things have been quiet for way too long.
Neutopia
Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda had a profound effect on the video game world. People are still consistently attempting to clone its success with various homages and such, but back in the late 80s, Zelda clones were a bit more fresh. Hudson’s Neutopia series was basically Zelda for TurboGrafx-16, and they’re pretty memorable. The first game was successful enough to warrant a direct sequel on the same platform, and they’re frequently remembered as some of the best games on the system.
Health rating: Basically dead
After Neutopia II, the series came to a complete stop. As far as I know there hasn’t ever even been a rumor of a Neutopia 3. The series saw a slight resurgence a few years back as it appeared on various Virtual Console and PSN services, but outside of that, things are all too quiet on the Neutopia front. With excellent games like Blossom Tales out there in the world, the lack of new efforts in the Neutopia world is kind of a bummer, and with Konami’s track record of late, I can’t imagine this one is getting dusted off any time soon.
Bonk
Bomberman may have been the closest thing to a Hudson mascot back in the NES era, but Bonk became the real face of the company when the TurboGrafx-16 came out. Sega had Sonic, Nintendo had Mario, and NEC had Hudson’s Bonk. Of course, Bonk eventually got ported to NES as well, but as far as perception goes, Bonk was the TG16 mascot the same way Crash was PlayStation’s. It was a pretty great little game too that saw a number of excellent sequels over the years. Things have slowed down, but Bonk is still remembered pretty well today.
Health rating: Could be better
Bonk was riding high for a while there. After the TG16 more or less died, Bonk continued to find success on the Super NES with Super Bonk in 1994. Things went quiet after that though until 2006 with the little known release Bonk’s Return for BREW and J2ME mobile formats. Needless to say, that didn’t exactly set the world on fire. There was a canceled attempt to bring Bonk back during the Wii era, but that’s about it for the little caveman that could. There was also a sort of spin off game series called Air Zonk, and I can’t really say I’ve ever understood how these two series are connected, but that game hasn’t done any better either, with its last original release being 1993’s Super Air Zonk. Neither of these brands are exactly going anywhere, but with it being such a long time since either has seen a release, things don’t look so good.
Bloody Roar
This one’s more of an Eighting thing, but Hudson has been involved in some way in every release in the series, so it definitely belongs in this conversation. Bloody Roar is an awesome fighting game series that started life on PlayStation where different characters transform into animals and beat the snot out of one another. These games are very well loved by fighting fans, and for good reason. Eighting makes some killer fighters. But after they moved on to making various excellent Naruto games, Bloody Roar more or less hit the brakes.
Health rating: Not so good
It’s been almost 20 years since the last new Bloody Roar game, which is crazy to think of considering how much fun these games were. Bloody Roar 3 hit PS2 in 2000, which saw enhanced ports to GameCube and Xbox in the form of 2002’s Bloody Roar: Primal Fury and 2003’s Bloody Roar Extreme. While Extreme was technically the most recent release, the last original game was Bloody Roar 4 for PlayStation 2, also from 2003. The game was moderately successful, but the fighting game market was considerably more crowded back in those days. It’s unfortunate that this brand seems to be mostly dead, but it’s a much more modern game than many of Hudson’s more well known names, so it’s a bit more fresh in people's minds. It’s been quiet, but if Konami ever decided to give this game a new lease on life, I suspect it could make some serious waves.
And that about wraps things up for Hudson. It will never not be weird to me that Konami owns all of these brands, but that’s the nature of this acquisition-happy industry. Konami hasn’t done nearly enough with Hudson’s stuff, but considering how little they’ve done with their own properties, that’s not surprising. It’s still a shame, but that’s the sad reality of things. I’m going to remain cautiously optimistic though that someone is going to take the Hudson torch and run with it. Super Bomberman R was a surprising success for Konami, and seeing a proper followup as well as the game’s various ports and DLC options was nice. So who knows? Maybe there's more Hudson in our future.
Join us next time when The Franchise Report tackles SNK. Basically the counter-Capcom, SNK is in a weird position these days, so it should be interesting to see where their various properties have wound up. Until next time!
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Main games[]
Star Soldier (1986)
Super Star Soldier (1990)
Final Soldier (1991)
Soldier Blade (1992)
Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth (1998)
Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier (2003)
Star Soldier R (2008)
Spin-off games[]
Starship Hector (1987)
Star Parodier (1992)
Star Soldier Vs. DoDonPachi Daioujou: Caravan '06 (2006)
Other games & compilations[]
Star Force (1984)
Super Star Force (1986)
Final Star Force (1992)
Blazing Lazers (1989)
Vertical Force (1995)
Caravan Shooting Collection (1995)
Hudson Best Collection Vol. 5: Shooting Collection (2006)
PC Engine Best Collection: Soldier Collection (2008)
Cancelled games[]
Kuma Soldier
Super Star Soldier 3D
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Gainey graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Defense Artillery. He also earned a Master of Science in personnel management from Central Michigan University. His professional military education includes the Air Defense Officer Basic and Advanced courses, Command and General Staff College, and Senior Service College at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security, where he earned a Master of Science in national security and resource strategy.
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He has deployed in support of Operation Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Joint Task Force-East, and Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Application for Military Related License Plates (form #VR-120) – Be sure to include the vehicle/motorcycle's information.
Proof of military service:
For ACTIVE military, a copy of the military ID is sufficient.
For VETERAN or RETIRED military, please submit:
Copy of military discharge papers (DD-214); or
Copy of records from National Personnel Records Center
Please note the requirements for veteran or retired military below:
VETERAN:
A person who served on full time active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, other than active duty for training, and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
An individual who was disabled from a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in the line of duty while performing active duty for training or inactive duty training.
Certain members of a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Certain members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (formerly the Coast and Geodetic Survey) and the regular or reserve Corps of the Public Health Service.
RETIRED:
Retired after 20+ years of military service; or
Medical retirement if before 20 years
Combat-related license plates are issued in recognition of a customer's military achievements. They can only be issued to a veteran or active member of the military who furnishes documentation proving receipt of the military award or honor recognized on the plates. Samples of combat-related license plates are available for you to view.
Vehicles in the following classes only are permitted to display combat-related license plates:
A (passenger car)
M (multi-purpose vehicle)
EPO (truck with a one ton or less manufacturer's rate capacity)
The application documents needed include:
Application for Military Related License Plates (form #VR-120) – Be sure to include the vehicle's information.
Proof of combat-related award:
Copy of military discharge papers (form #DD214); or
Copy of document verifying award (e.g., Purple Heart Certificate); or
Written proof from the National Personnel Records Center that the applicant received the award.
The Gold Star Plates are available for the loved ones of those who served in the United States Armed Forces and lost his or her life. If you are the surviving spouse, parent, child or a sibling of a lost service member, you may apply for a Gold Star Plate. See the designs below:
GOLD STAR LAPEL BUTTON DESIGNGOLD STAR NEXT OF KIN DESIGN
Eligible vehicles include:
Passenger cars
Multi-purpose vehicle
Motorcycles
Trucks (10,000 lbs. or less)
The following documentation is needed to apply for a Gold Star plate:
Application for Military Related License Plates (form #VR-120 – Be sure to include the vehicle's information.
Proof of military casualty:
Copy of DD-3 approved by the Department of Defense
Copy of DD-1300 approved by the Department of Defense (Report of Casualty); or
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Flea opened by asking Harrelson is he remembered the time the two of them went on a nude snowboarding run. “He and I snowboarded naked. I have footage of Woody Harrelson and I snowboarding stark naked down a big snowy mountain,” Flea told Danson about the trip to Utah by the two pals.
Harrelson said the footage is “great,” with Flea noting that he was ready to post it on Instagram before Woody’s wife, Laura, “cautioned me against it.” Always a gentleman, Danson joked that it was cold, after all, so the footage might have come up short, if you know what he means. Woody added that he and Flea always have a great time and good laughs when they hang out, some of his greatest times, in fact, even though Flea balances his Zen nature with a competitive side.
After reminiscing about their friendly buff bomb down the mountain, he also talked about another time their antics on the snow almost ended in fisticuffs.
Flea confirmed that he is super-competitive, though he doesn’t really care if he wins or loses, before throwing friendly shade when Harrelson said he also doesn’t care who’s on top when they play basketball or race on their snowboards.
“I’ve seen you sulking after losing. I remember one of the last times we went, we were racing, and we were both reckless ’cause let’s face it. We go very fast, but we’re very average snowboarders. We have to admit that we’re average,” Flea said. “So we’re racing and I’m like out of control rocketing down this mountain and I nearly take a lady out, but I don’t. I see her and I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ Swerve out of her way and I miss her. All’s good. We’re racing. I can’t remember who won. Probably me, probably me, and we get down there, but then the lady, we’re getting ready to get on the lift and we’re laughing and yelling at each other, and this lady comes up and she’s infuriated.”
Flea said the woman chewed him out for nearly running into her, saying he was out of control and prompting the bassist to apologize and admit she was right. “‘I’m so glad that I didn’t hit you, but I’ll be much more careful next time. Please forgive me. I’m very sorry,'” he said he told her. “As you know, I’m neighborly. I’m polite, I’m considerate.”
When Danson asked if Flea meant it, the Chili Pepper said absolutely, acknowledging that it was probably a bit scary to see the rocker ripping by her on the mountain. “I didn’t even touch her, and she was like, ‘Well, you’re an a–hole.’ Blah, blah, blah, and I was like, ‘Ma’am, I’m very sorry,'” he reiterated. But then things got weird when Flea said the woman stuck her ski pole in his face, which agitated him. That’s when Harrelson skied up and saw the tense pole dance and came to his pal’s defense.
“And then she goes, ‘Well, my husband’s gonna come down here and he is gonna show you what for,’ and then that’s when you’re like, ‘Bring the f–king husband. I want to see her bring the husband,” he said Harrelson told the woman. The pair decided to exit the tense scene and hop on the lift, but not before Harrelson, “itching for a brawl,” started yelling, “‘I’m waiting at the top of the lift. I’ll be waiting up top!'”
Harrelson, who says he’s much more chill now, told Flea at the time, “nothing could make me happier,” than if the woman’s husband joined them at the top of the mountain, acknowledging back then — they didn’t specify when this adventure happened — the time the actor used to derive great joy from “impending chaos.”
Watch Flea and Harrelson tell their naked ski skirmishing tales below. | |||||
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The standard citation is given to indicate where to find the complete text of a decision. For example, Kreimer v. Bureau of Police for Morristown, 958 F.2d 1241 (3d Cir. 1992), tells the names of the main parties in the case ("Kreimer" who sued the "Bureau of Police for Morristown"), the abbreviated title of the case reporter where the decision is published ("F.2d" for Federal Reporter, Second Series)-which is preceded by the particular volume number ("958") of the reporter and followed by the page number ("242") where the decision begins-and, in parentheses, the name of court that issued the decision ("3d Cir." for Circuit of Appeals for the Third Circuit) and the year ("1992"). Other conventions may apply, depending on which case reporter is involved.
Abbreviations:
U.S. = United States Reports
S.Ct. = Supreme Court Reporter
L.Ed. = United States Supreme Court Reports Lawyers' Edition
L.Ed.2d. = United States Supreme Court Reports Lawyers' Edition, Second Series
F.2d = Federal Reporter Second Series
F.3d = Federal Reporter Third Series
F.Supp. = Federal Supplement
F.Supp.2d = Federal Supplement Second Series
N.W. = North Western Reporter
N.W. = North Western Reporter, Second Series
N.Y.S. = New York Supplement
N.Y.S. = New York Supplement, Second Series
P. = Pacific Reporter
| Foundations of Free Expression: Historic Cases | The Right to Read Freely | Freedom of Expression in Schools | Minors' First Amendment Rights | Free Press | The Right to Dissent | The Right to Free Association and the Freedom of Religion | Right to Privacy and Anonymity | When Is Speech Unprotected? | The First Amendment and New Technologies | Related Court Cases | U.S. Supreme Court Links | Findlaw First Amendment Annotations Expanded |
Foundations of Free Expression: Historic Cases
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S.Ct. 247, 63 L.Ed.2d. (1919): Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated in this case his famous aphorism about "falsely shouting fire in a theatre" and set forth a "clear and present danger test" to judge whether speech is protected by the First Amendment. "The question," he wrote, "is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has the right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions of the defendants for conspiring to violate certain federal statutes by attempting to incite subordination in the armed forces and interfere with recruitment and enlistment. During wartime, the defendants mailed to new recruits and enlisted men leaflets that compared military conscription to involuntary servitude and urged them to assert constitutional rights.
Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927): Since Anita Whitney did not base her defense on the First Amendment, the Supreme Court, by a 7 to 2 decision, upheld her conviction of being found guilty under the California’s 1919 Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish the Communist Labor Party, a group the state argued taught the violent overthrow of government.
“The Whitney case is most noted for Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s concurrence, which many scholars have lauded as perhaps the greatest defense of freedom of speech ever written by a member of the high court.”--Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy. Below--all quotes from Justice Brandeis--are a few reasons why.
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.
Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S.Ct. 625, 75 L.Ed. 1357 (1931): In this case, the Supreme Court interpreted the First and Fourteenth Amendments to forbid "previous restraints" upon publication of a newspaper. "Previous restraints"--or in current terminology, "prior restraints--suppress the freedom of the press to publish without obstruction, and recognize that lawsuits or prosecutions for libel are "subsequent punishments." The Court invalidated as an infringement of constitutional guarantees a Minnesota statue allowing specified government officials or private citizens to maintain a lawsuit in the name of the State to suppress a public nuisance and enjoin the publication of future issues of a "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical," unless the publisher can prove "the truth was published with good motives and for justifiable ends."
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 89 S.Ct. 1827, 23 L.Ed.2d. 430 (1969): The Supreme Court established the modern version of the "clear and present danger" doctrine, holding that states only could restrict speech that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and is likely to incite or produce such action."
The Right to Read Freely
Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno County, 222 P. 801 (Ca. 1924): The California State Supreme Court held that the King James version of the Bible was not a "publication of a sectarian, partisan, or denominational character" that a State statute required a public high school library to exclude from its collections. The "fact that the King James version is commonly used by Protestant Churches and not by Catholics" does not "make its character sectarian," the court stated. "The mere act of purchasing a book to be added to the school library does not carry with it any implication of the adoption of the theory or dogma contained therein, or any approval of the book itself, except as a work of literature fit to be included in a reference library."
Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York, 92 N.Y.S.2d 344 (Sup. Ct. Kings County 1949): After considering the charge that Oliver Twist and the Merchant of Venice are "objectionable because they tend to engender hatred of the Jew as a person and as a race," the Supreme Court, Kings County, New York, decided that these two works cannot be banned from the New York City schools, libraries, or classrooms, declaring that the Board of Education "acted in good faith without malice or prejudice and in the best interests of the school system entrusted to their care and control, and, therefore, that no substantial reason exists which compels the suppression of the two books under consideration."
Todd v. Rochester Community Schools, 200 N.W.2d 90 (Mich. Ct. App. 1972): In deciding that Slaughterhouse-Five could not be banned from the libraries and classrooms of the Michigan schools, the Court of Appeals of Michigan declared: "Vonnegut's literary dwellings on war, religion, death, Christ, God, government, politics, and any other subject should be as welcome in the public schools of this state as those of Machiavelli, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville, Lenin, Joseph McCarthy, or Walt Disney. The students of Michigan are free to make of Slaughterhouse-Five what they will."
Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541 F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976): The Strongsville City Board of Education rejected faculty recommendations to purchase Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and ordered the removal of Catch-22 and Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle from the library. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against the School Board, upholding the students' First Amendment right to receive information and the librarian's right to disseminate it. "The removal of books from a school library is a much more serious burden upon the freedom of classroom discussion than the action found unconstitutional in Tinker v. Des Moines School District."
Right to Read Defense Committee v. School Committee of the City of Chelsea, 454 F. Supp. 703 (D. Mass. 1978): The Chelsea, Mass. School Committee decided to bar from the high school library a poetry anthology, Male and Female under 18, because of the inclusion of an "offensive" and "damaging" poem, "The City to a Young Girl," written by a fifteen-year-old girl. Challenged in U.S. District Court, Joseph L. Tauro ruled: "The library is 'a mighty resource in the marketplace of ideas.' There a student can literally explore the unknown, and discover areas of interest and thought not covered by the prescribed curriculum. The student who discovers the magic of the library is on the way to a life-long experience of self-education and enrichment. That student learns that a library is a place to test or expand upon ideas presented to him, in or out of the classroom. The most effective antidote to the poison of mindless orthodoxy is ready access to a broad sweep of ideas and philosophies. There is no danger from such exposure. The danger is mind control. The committee's ban of the anthology Male and Female is enjoined."
Salvail v. Nashua Board of Education, 469 F. Supp. 1269 (D. N.H. 1979): MS magazine was removed from a New Hampshire high school library by order of the Nashua School Board. The U.S. District Court decided for the student, teacher, and adult residents who had brought action against the school board, the court concluding: "The court finds and rules that the defendants herein have failed to demonstrate a substantial and legitimate government interest sufficient to warrant the removal of MS magazine from the Nashua High School library. Their action contravenes the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights, and as such it is plainly wrong."
Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980): When the Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board refused to approve Mississippi: Conflict and Change for use in Mississippi public schools, on the grounds that it was too concerned with racial matters and too controversial, the authors filed suit. U.S. District Judge Orma R. Smith ruled that the criteria used were not justifiable grounds for rejecting the book. He held that the controversial racial matter was a factor leading to its rejection, and thus the authors had been denied their constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and the press.
Kreimer v. Bureau of Police for Morristown, 958 F.2d 1242 (3d Cir. 1992): In detailed analysis, the court of appeals held that a municipal public library was a limited public forum, meaning open to the public for the specified purposes of exercising their First Amendment rights to read and receive information from library materials. Such exercise could not interfere with or disrupt the library's reasonable rules of operation. The court then upheld three library rules which: 1) required patrons to read, study, or otherwise use library materials while there; 2) prohibited noisy or boisterous activities which might disturb other patrons; and 3) permitted the removal of any patron whose offensive bodily hygiene was a nuisance to other patrons.
Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995): When the Olathe, Kansas, School Board voted to remove the book Annie on My Mind, a novel depicting a lesbian relationship between two teenagers, from the district's junior and senior high school libraries, the federal district court in Kansas found they violated the students' rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the corresponding provisions of the Kansas State Constitution. Despite the fact that the school board testified that they had removed the book because of "educational unsuitability," which is within their rights under the Pico decision, it became obvious from their testimony that the book was removed because they disapproved of the book's ideology. In addition, it was found that the school board had violated their own materials selection and reconsideration policies, which weighed heavily in the judge's decision.
Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, 64 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 1995): Public school district removed the book Voodoo and Hoodoo, a discussion of the origins, history, and practices of the voodoo and hoodoo religions that included an outline of some specific practices, from all district library shelves. Parents of several students sued and the district court granted summary judgment in their favor. The court of appeals reversed, finding that there was not enough evidence at that stage to determine that board members had an unconstitutional motivation, such as denying students access to ideas with which board members disagreed; the court remanded the case for a full trial at which all board members could be questioned about their reasons for removing the book. The court observed that "in light of the special role of the school library as a place where students may freely and voluntarily explore diverse topics, the school board's non-curricular decision to remove a book well after it had been placed in the public school libraries evokes the question whether that action might not be an attempt to 'strangle the free mind at its source.'" The court focused on some evidence that school board members had removed the book without having read it or having read only excerpts provided by the Christian Coalition. The parties settled the case before trial by returning the book to the libraries on specially designated reserve shelves.
Sund v. City of Wichita Falls, Texas, 121 F. Supp. 2d 530 (N.D. Texas, 2000): City residents who were members of a church sought removal of two books, Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate, because they disapproved of the books' depiction of homosexuality. The City of Wichita Falls City Council voted to restrict access to the books if 300 persons signed a petition asking for the restriction. A separate group of citizens filed suit after the books were removed from the children's section and placed on a locked shelf in the adult area of the library. Following a trial on the merits, the District Court permanently enjoined the city from enforcing the resolution permitting the removal of the two books. It held that the City's resolution constituted impermissible content-based and viewpoint based discrimination; was not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest; provided no standards or review process; and improperly delegated governmental authority over the selection and removal of the library's books to any 300 private citizens who wish to remove a book from the children's area of the Library.
Counts v. Cedarville School District, 295 F.Supp.2d 996 (W.D. Ark. 2003): The school board of the Cedarville, Arkansas school district voted to restrict students' access to the Harry Potter books, on the grounds that the books promoted disobedience and disrespect for authority and dealt with witchcraft and the occult. As a result of the vote, students in the Cedarville school district were required to obtain a signed permission slip from their parents or guardians before they would be allowed to borrow any of the Harry Potter books from school libraries. The District Court overturned the Board's decision and ordered the books returned to unrestricted circulation, on the grounds that the restrictions violated students' First Amendment right to read and receive information. In so doing, the Court noted that while the Board necessarily performed highly discretionary functions related to the operation of the schools, it was still bound by the Bill of Rights and could not abridge students' First Amendment right to read a book on the basis of an undifferentiated fear of disturbance or because the Board disagreed with the ideas contained in the book.
See also: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982)
Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile (Ala.) County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987)
Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 827 F.2d 1058 (6th Cir. 1987)
Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County, 862 F.2d 1517 (11th Cir. 1989)
American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844, 117 S.Ct. 2329, 138 L.Ed.2d. 874 (1997)
Mainstream Loudoun, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 24 F.Supp.2d 552 (E.D. of Va. 1998)
Freedom of Expression in Schools
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969): In this seminal case considering the First Amendment rights of students (John F. Tinker, Christopher Eckhardt, and Mary Beth Tinker) who were expelled after they wore black armbands to school in symbolic protest of the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court held that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate" and that the First Amendment protects public school students' rights to express political and social views.
Zykan v. Warsaw (Indiana) Community School Corporation and Warsaw School Board of Trustees, 631 F.2d 1300 (7th Cir. 1980): A student brought suit seeking to reverse school officials' decision to "limit or prohibit the use of certain textbooks, to remove a certain book from the school library, and to delete certain courses from the curriculum." The district court dismissed the suit. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the school board has the right to establish a curriculum on the basis of its own discretion, but it is forbidden to impose a "pall of orthodoxy." The right of students to file complaints was recognized, but the court held that the students' claims "must cross a relatively high threshold before entering upon the field of a constitutional claim suitable for federal court litigation."
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982): In 1975, three school board members sought the removal of several books determined objectionable by a politically conservative organization. The following February, the board gave an "unofficial direction" that the books be removed from the school libraries, so that board members could read them. When the board action attracted press attention, the board described the books as "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." The nine books that were the subject of the lawsuit were Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris; Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas; Best Short Stories of Negro Writers edited by Langston Hughes; Go Ask Alice; Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge; Black Boy by Richard Wright; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress; and Soul on Ice by Eldrige Cleaver.
The board appointed a review committee that recommended that five of the books be returned to the shelves, two be placed on restricted shelves, and two be removed from the library. The full board voted to remove all but one book. After years of appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld (5-4) the students' challenge to the board's action. The Court held that school boards do not have unrestricted authority to select library books and that the First Amendment is implicated when books are removed arbitrarily. Justice Brennan declared in the plurality opinion: "Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile (Ala.) County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987): Parents and other citizens brought a lawsuit against the school board, alleging that the school system was teaching the tenets of an anti-religious religion called "secular humanism." The complainants asked that forty-four different elementary through high school level textbooks be removed from the curriculum. After an initial ruling in a federal district court in favor of the plaintiffs, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that as long as the school was motivated by a secular purpose, it didn't matter whether the curriculum and texts shared ideas held by one or more religious groups. The Court found that the texts in question promoted important secular values (tolerance, self-respect, logical decision making) and thus the use of the textbooks neither unconstitutionally advanced a nontheistic religion nor inhibited theistic religions.
Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 827 F.2d 1058 (6th Cir. 1987): Parents and students brought this action challenging the mandatory use of certain textbooks on the ground that the texts promoted values offensive to their religious beliefs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the plaintiffs' claim, finding that the Constitution does not require school curricula to be revised substantially in order to accommodate religious beliefs.
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260, 108 S.Ct. 562, 98 L.Ed.2d 592 (1988): After a school principal removed two pages containing articles, among others, on teenage pregnancy and the impact of divorce on students from a newspaper produced as part of a high school journalism class, the student staff filed suit claiming violation of their First Amendment rights. The principal defended his action on the grounds that he was protecting the privacy of the pregnant students described, protecting younger students from inappropriate references to sexual activity and birth control, and protecting the school from a potential libel action.
The Supreme Court held that the principal acted reasonably and did not violate the students' First Amendment rights. A school need not tolerate student speech, the Court declared, "that is inconsistent with its 'basic educational mission,' even though the government could not censor similar speech outside the school." In addition, the Court found the newspaper was part of the regular journalism curriculum and subject to extensive control by a faculty member. The school, thus, did not create a public forum for the expression of ideas, but instead maintained the newspaper "as supervised learning experience for journalism students." The Court concluded that "educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored expressive activities so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." The Court strongly suggested that supervised student activities that "may fairly be characterized as part of the school curriculum," including school-sponsored publications and theatrical productions, were subject to the authority of educators. The Court cautioned, however, that this authority does not justify an educator's attempt "to silence a student's personal expression that happens to occur on the school premises.
Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County, 862 F.2d 1517 (11th Cir. 1989): This case presented the question of whether the First Amendment prevents a school board from removing a previously approved textbook from an elective high school class because of objections to the material's vulgarity and sexual explicitness. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a school board may, without contravening constitutional limits, take such action when the removal decision was "reasonably related" to the "legitimate pedagogical concern" of denying students access to "potentially sensitive topics." The written "stipulation concerning Board Reasons" cites explicit sexuality and excessively vulgar language in two selections contained in Volume 1, The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities as the basis for removal of this textbook. The two selections are Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and Aristophanes's Lysistrata.
Romano v. Harrington, 725 F.Supp. 687 (E.D. N.Y. 1989): The U.S. District Court found in favor of a faculty adviser to a high-school newspaper who claimed a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments when fired following the newspaper's publication of a student's article opposing the federal holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. The Court held that educators may exercise greater editorial control over what students write for class than what they voluntarily submit to extracurricular publications.
Cohen v. San Bernardino Valley College, 92 F.3d 968 (9th Cir. 1996): Tenured professor of English was disciplined for violating the college's sexual harassment policy against creating a "hostile learning environment" for his in-class use of profanity, and discussions of sex, pornography, obscenity, cannibalism, and other controversial topics in a confrontational, devil's advocate style. The court held the policy unconstitutionally vague as applied to Cohen's in-class speech, calling it a "legalistic ambush." In-class speech did not fall within the policy's core definition of sexual harassment and Cohen, who had used this apparently sound and proper teaching style for year, did not know the policy would be applied to him or his teaching methods.
See also: Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno County, 222 P. 801 (Ca. 1924)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York, 92 N.Y.S.2d 344 (Sup. Ct. Kings County 1949)
Todd v. Rochester Community Schools, 200 N.W.2d 90 (Mich. Ct. App. 1972)
Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541 F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976)
Right to Read Defense Committee v. School Committee of the City of Chelsea, 454 F. Supp. 703 (D. Mass. 1978)
Salvail v. Nashua Board of Education, 469 F. Supp. 1269 (D. N.H. 1979)
Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980)
Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995)
Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, 64 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 1995)
Counts v. Cedarville School District, 295 F.Supp.2d 996 (W.D. Ark. 2003)
Minors' First Amendment Rights
American Amusement Machine Association, et al., v. Teri Kendrick, et al., 244 F.3d 954 (7th Cir. 2001); cert.denied, 534 U.S. 994; 122 S. Ct. 462; 151 L. Ed. 2d 379 (2001): Enacted in July 2001, an Indianapolis, Ind., city ordinance required video game arcade owners to limit access to games that depicted certain activities, including amputation, decapitation, dismemberment, bloodshed, or sexual intercourse. Only with the permission of an accompanying parent or guardian could children seventeen years old and younger play these types of video games. On March 23, 2001, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the trial court's decision stating that "children have First Amendment rights." On Monday, October 29, 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari.
Interactive Digital Software Association, et al. v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al., 329 F.3d 954(8th Cir. 2003): St. Louis County passed an ordinance banned selling or renting violent video games to minors, or permitting them to play such games, without parental consent, and video game dealers sued to overturn the law. The Court of Appeals found the ordinance unconstitutional, holding that depictions of violence alone cannot fall within the legal definition of obscenity for either minors or adults, and that a government cannot silence protected speech for children by wrapping itself in the cloak of parental authority. The Court ordered the lower court to enter an injunction barring enforcement of the law, citing the Supreme Court's recognition in Erznoznik v. Jacksonville, 422 U.S. 205, 213-14, 45 L. Ed. 2d 125, 95 S. Ct. 2268 (1975) that "speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them. In most circumstances, the values protected by the First Amendment are no less applicable when the government seeks to control the flow of information to minors."
See also: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969)
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982)
Free Press
New York Times Company v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.Ct. 2140, 29 L.Ed.2d. 822 (1971): In the "Pentagon Papers" case, the U.S. government attempted to enjoin the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing classified documents concerning the Vietnam War. Applying the doctrine of prior restraint from Near v. Minnesota, the Court found that the claims that publication of the documents would interfere with foreign policy and prolong the war were too speculative, and could not overcome the strong presumption against prior restraints.
Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d. 41 (1988): Hustler Magazine published a parody of a liquor advertisement in which Rev. Jerry Falwell described his "first time" as a drunken encounter with his mother in an outhouse. A unanimous Supreme Court held that a public figure had to show actual malice in order to recover for intentional infliction of emotional distress as a result of a parody in a magazine. The Court held that political cartoons and satire such as this parody "have played a prominent role in public and political debate. And although the outrageous caricature in this case "is at best a distant cousin of political cartoons," the Court could see no standard to distinguish among types of parodies that would not harm public discourse, which would be poorer without such satire.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105, 112 S.Ct. 501, 116 L.Ed.2d. 476 (1991): The Supreme Court struck down New York's "Son of Sam Law," which required book publishers to turn over to the state, any proceeds from a book written by any person convicted of a crime, related to or about that crime. The Court said the law impermissibly singled out income only from the prisoner's expressive activity, and then only expressive activity relating to his crime, without necessarily compensating any victims of those crimes. The Court agreed that many important books--including The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, and works by Martin Luther King--perhaps might not have been published with such a law in place.
See also: The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964)
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974)
The Right to Dissent
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 87 L. Ed. 1628, 63 S. Ct. 1178 (1943): In 1940, the West Virginia Board of Education issued regulations requiring every schoolchild to participate daily in a salute to the flag of the United States. The Barnette children, all members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, refused to participate in the flag salute, consistent with the tenets of their religious beliefs, and were expelled from school. The Supreme Court struck down the regulation on the grounds that the First Amendment barred any rule compelling an individual to salute the flag or participate in the Pledge of Allegiance. In strong language, the Court affirmed the right to dissent: "But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us."
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977): A Jehovah’s Witness objected to New Hampshire’s state motto—“Live Free or Die”—on his license plate. Because the saying went against his conscience, he did not believe the state had a right to force him to advertise something the state believes in, but he does not. When the state discovered he had covered up the motto on his license plate, they prosecuted him. The Supreme Court agreed with him, saying, “We begin with the proposition that the right of freedom of thought protected by the First Amendment against state action includes both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.” In addition, the Court said, “The fact that most individuals agree with the thrust of New Hampshire’s motto is not the test; most Americans also find the flag salute acceptable. The First Amendment protects the right of individuals to hold a point of view different from the majority and to refuse to foster, in the way New Hampshire commands, an idea they find morally objectionable.”
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.Ct. 2533, 105 L.Ed.2d 342 (1989): In this case the Supreme Court held that burning the United States flag was a protected form of symbolic political speech, concluding that there is no legitimate government interest in protecting the U.S.flag where the sole act in question is destroying the flag in its symbolic capacity. "A bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."
U.S. v. Eichman and U.S. v. Haggerty, 496 U.S. 310, 110 S.Ct. 2404, 110 L.Ed.2d 287 (1990): The Supreme Court struck down a federal statute designed to allow the government to punish persons who burn United States flags. The Court held that the plain intent of the statute was to punish persons for political expression and that burning the flag inextricably carries with it a political message.
City of Ladue v. Gilleo, 512 U.S. 43, 114 S.Ct. 2038, 129 L.Ed. 2d. 36 (1994): A federal court struck down a local ordinance banning the placement of signs on private property, in a challenge brought by a woman who had posted a sign on her lawn protesting the Persian Gulf War. The Court said lawn signs were a "venerable means of communication that is both unique and important," for which "no adequate substitutes exist."
R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377, 112 S.Ct. 2538, 120 L.Ed.2d. 305 (1992): St. Paul, Minnesota passed an ordinance that banned "hate speech," any expression, such as a burning cross or swastika, that might arouse anger, alarm, or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, religion, or gender. The Supreme Court struck the ordinance down as unconstitutionally discriminating based on the content of expression: the law banned only fighting words that insult based on race, religion, or gender, while abusive invective aimed at someone on the basis of political affiliation or sexual orientation would be permissible. The law thus reflected only the city's special hostility towards certain biases and not others, which is what the First Amendment forbids.
See also: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969)
The Right to Free Association and the Freedom of Religion
Concerned Women for America, Inc. v. Lafayette County, 883 F.2d 32 (5th Cir. 1989): The County library that had permitted various groups to use its auditorium had created a designated public forum and thus could not deny access to groups whose meetings had political or religious content. Such a denial would be based on the content of speech and would be permissible only as the least restrictive means to serve a compelling interest. Preventing disruption or interference with general use of the library could be such an interest; library officials' first step to controlling such disruptions would be to impose reasonable regulations on the time, place, or manner of the auditorium's use, provided the regulations apply regardless of the subject matter of the speech.
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 508 U.S. 384, 113 S.Ct. 2141, 124 L.Ed.2d. 352 (1993): The Court held that a school district that opened its classrooms after hours to a range of groups for social, civic, and recreational purposes, including films and lectures about a range of issues such as family values and child-rearing, could not deny access to a religious organization to discuss the same, permissible issues from a religious point of view. Whether or not the classrooms were public fora, the school district could not deny use based on the speaker's point of view on an otherwise permissible topic.
Right to Privacy and Anonymity
Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 55, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542, 89 S. Ct. 1243 (1969): A man found to possess obscene materials in his home for his private use was convicted of possessing obscene materials in violation of the state laws of Georgia. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, holding that Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, and to be generally free from governmental intrusions into one's privacy on the grounds that the government "cannot constitutionally premise legislation on the desirability of controlling a person's private thoughts."
McIntyre v. Ohio Election Commission, 514 U.S. 334, 115 S.Ct. 1511, 131 L.Ed.2d. 426 (1995): The Supreme Court struck down a state law banning distribution of anonymous campaign literature, emphasizing the long tradition of anonymous and pseudonymous political and literary speech and recognizing the right to exercise First Amendment rights anonymously as an "honorable tradition of advocacy and dissent."
Tattered Cover, Inc. v. City of Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Colo. Sup. Ct., 2002): The Colorado Supreme Court reversed a court decision that required Denver's Tattered Cover Book Store to turn over information about books purchased by one of its customers. As part of an investigation, officers of the City of Thornton (Colo.) discovered two books on the manufacture of amphetamines in a suspect's residence and found a Tattered Cover mailer in the garbage. The officers, seeking to tie the books to the suspect directly, served a Drug Enforcement Agency subpoena on the Tattered Cover. The subpoena demanded the title of the books corresponding to the order and invoice numbers of the mailer, as well as information about all other books ever ordered by the suspect. The Tattered Cover then brought suit to litigate the validity of the search warrant. The court began its opinion by stating that both the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article II, Section 10 of the Colorado Constitution protect an individual's fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference.
When Is Speech Unprotected?
Obscenity and Indecency
Butler v. Michigan, 352 U.S. 380, 1 L. Ed. 2d 412, 77 S. Ct. 524 (1957): A man convicted of selling "a book containing obscene, immoral, lewd, lascivious language, or descriptions, tending to incite minors to violent or depraved or immoral acts, manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth" to a police officer appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court. The Court overturned the conviction and struck down the law, holding that the state's attempt to quarantine the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women to read in order to shield juvenile innocence "is to burn the house to roast the pig." Famously, the Court ruled that the state of Michigan could not "reduce[s] the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children."
Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 62, 20 L. Ed. 2d 195, 88 S. Ct. 1274 (1968): The Supreme Court upheld a New York State statute barring retailers from selling sexually explicit publications to minors under the age of 17. Noting that the statute did not interfere with the right of adults to purchase and read such materials, it found that it was not constitutionally impermissible for New York to restrict minors rights to such publications in light of the state's interest in safeguarding children's welfare and supporting parents' claim to authority in the rearing of their children.
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 93 S.Ct. 2607, 37 L.Ed.2d. 419 (1973): In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court mapped out its famous three-part definition of obscenity. First, the average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interests; second, that it depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct as defined by state law; and third, that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. The Court ruled that community standards and state statutes that describe sexual depictions to be suppressed could be used to prosecute Miller, who operated one of the largest West Coast mail order businesses dealing in sexually explicit materials.
New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747, 102 S.Ct. 3348, 73 L.Ed.2d 1113 (1982): In July 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court added child pornography as another category of speech excluded from First Amendment protection. The other categories excluded are obscenity, defamation, incitement, and "fighting words." The ruling came in the case when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a conviction against Ferber for showing a movie depicting two young boys masturbating. The film itself was not seen as obscene for adults, but the Court made the distinction between what was obscene if children were the participants compared with if adults were the leading actors.
American Booksellers Assoc., Inc. v. Hudnut, 771 F.2d 323 (7th Cir. 1985) (Easterbrook, J.), aff'd., 475 U.S. 1001, 106 S.Ct. 1172, 89 L.Ed.2d 291 (1986): The city of Indianapolis passed a statute outlawing pornography, defined as the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women, presenting women as sex objects, or as enjoying pain, humiliation, or servility. The court of appeals struck the law down, saying it impermissibly established an "approved" view of women and how they react in sexual encounters. The law therefore allowed sexually explicit words and images that adhered to that approved view, but banned sexually explicit words and images that did not adhere to the approved view. The court called this "thought control," saying the "Constitution forbids the state to declare one perspective right and silence opponents."
National Endowment for the Arts, et al. v. Finley, et al., 524 U.S. 569, 118 S.Ct. 2168, 141 L. Ed. 2d 500 (1998): In 1990, homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and blasphemous ones by Andres Serrano created a furor on Capitol Hill, because both artists had received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As a consequence, the NEA governing statute was amended to require the NEA to consider "decency" and "respect" for American "values" when selecting future grant recipients. Shortly thereafter, performance artists Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller were denied fellowships, because of the "decency and respect" clause, they alleged. They made this allegation in a federal court lawsuit seeking to have the clause declared unconstitutional; and they were successful at the district court and court of appeals level. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, however, that the statute is constitutional "on its face." Writing for the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor did not "perceive a realistic danger that it will be utilized to preclude or punish the expression of particular views," nor did she think that the statute would "significantly compromise First Amendment values."
John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, et al. v. Free Speech Coalition, et al., 535 U.S. 234, 122 S.Ct. 1389, 152 L.Ed.2d 403, (2002): The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Ninth Circuit's judgment invalidating the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 on the grounds that the act's ban on any depiction of pornographic images of children, including computer-generated images, was overly broad and unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote: "First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought."
See also: Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 55, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542, 89 S. Ct. 1243 (1969)
Libel
The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964): To protect "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" debate on public issues, the Supreme Court held that no public official may recover "damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice'--that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." The Court stated that the First and Fourteenth Amendments require that critics of official conduct have the "fair equivalent" to the immunity protection given to a public official when he is sued for defamatory speech uttered in the course of his duties.
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974): The Court applied the rule in the New York Times case to public figures, finding that persons who have special prominence in society by virtue of their fame or notoriety, even if they are not public officials, must prove "actual malice" when alleging libel. Gertz was a prominent lawyer who alleged that a leaflet defamed him.
See also: Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d. 41 (1988)
The First Amendment and New Technologies
Broadcast and Cable Communications
FCC V. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726, 57 L. Ed. 2d 1073, 98 S. Ct. 3026 (1978): In a case that considered the First Amendment protections extended to a radio station's daytime broadcast of comedian George Carlin's "Seven Filthy Words" monologue, the Supreme Court held that Section 326 of the Telecommunications Act, which prohibits the FCC from censoring broadcasts over radio or television, does not limit the FCC's authority to sanction radio or television stations broadcasting material that is obscene, indecent, or profane. Though the censorship ban under Section 326 precludes editing proposed broadcasts in advance, the ban does not deny the FCC the power to review the content of completed broadcasts. In its decision, the Court concluded that broadcast materials have limited First Amendment protection because of the uniquely pervasive presence that radio and television occupy in the lives of people, and the unique ability of children to access radio and television broadcasts.
Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U.S. 727, 116 S.Ct. 2374, 135 L.Ed.2d. 288 (1996): In a decision that produced six opinions, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law permitting cable system operators to ban "indecent" or "patently offensive" speech on leased access channels. The Court also struck down a similar law for non-leased, public access channels, and struck down a law requiring indecent material to be shown on separate, segregated cable channels. The case is significant in that the Court affirmed that protecting children from some speech is a compelling state interest.
United States, et al. v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803, 120 S.Ct. 1878, 146 L.Ed.2d 865 (2000): On May 22, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a U.S. District Court decision that Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 violated the First Amendment when it sought to restrict certain cable channels with sexually explicit content to late night hours unless they fully scrambled their signal bleed. In an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court ruled that the government may have a legitimate interest in protecting children from exposure to "indecent material." Section 505, however, is a content-based speech restriction and, therefore, must be the least restrictive means for meeting the governmental interest. The court found that Section 505 is not the least restrictive means.
Telecommunications
Sable Communications of California, Inc v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115, 106 L. Ed. 2d 93, 109 S. Ct. 2829 (1989): The Supreme Court overturned a Telecommunications Act ban on indecent telephone messages, concluding the law violates the First Amendment because the statute's denial of adult access to such messages far exceeds that which is necessary to serve the compelling interest of preventing minors from being exposed to the messages. Unlike broadcast radio and television, which can intrude on the privacy of the home without prior warning of content and which is uniquely accessible to children, telephone communications require the listener to take affirmative steps to receive the communications. The failure of the Government to show any findings that would justify a conclusion that there are no constitutionally acceptable less restrictive means to achieve the Government's interest in protecting minors, such as scrambling or the use of access codes, demonstrates that a total ban on such communications goes too far in restricting constitutionally protected speech. To allow the ban to stand would have the effect of "limiting the content of adult telephone communications to that which is suitable for children to hear."
The Internet
American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844, 117 S.Ct. 2329, 138 L.Ed.2d. 874 (1997): In a 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 1997, declared unconstitutional a federal law making it a crime to send or display indecent material on line in a way available to minors. The decision in the consolidated cases completed a successful challenge to the so-called Communications Decency Act by the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, in which the American Library Association and the Freedom to Read Foundation played leading roles. The Court held that speech on the Internet is entitled to the highest level of First Amendment protection, similar to the protection the Court gives to books and newspapers.
Mainstream Loudoun, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 24 F.Supp.2d 552 (E.D. of Va. 1998): Adopted in 1997, the Loudoun County, Va., Library Board's "Policy on Internet Sexual Harassment" was designed to prevent adult and minor Internet users from accessing illegal pornography and to avoid the creation of a sexually hostile environment. To accomplish these goals, the board contracted with Log-On Data Corporation, a filtering software manufacturer that offers a product called "X-Stop." Though Log-On Data Corp. refused to divulge the method by which X-Stop filters sites, it soon became apparent that the software blocks some sites that are not prohibited by the policy. Shortly after the adoption of the policy, People for the American Way Foundation commenced litigation on behalf of several Loudoun County residents and members of a nonprofit organization, claiming the policy violates the right to free speech under the First Amendment. The suit was predicated on the theory that the policy is unnecessarily restrictive, because it treats adults and children similarly, and precludes access to legitimate as well as pornographic material. On November 23, 1998, Judge Leonie Brinkema declared that the highly restrictive Loudoun County Internet policy was invalid under the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.
United States, et al. v. American Library Association, Inc. et al., 539 U.S. 194, 123 S.Ct. 2297, 156 L.Ed.2d 221 (2003): The Supreme Court upheld the Children's Internet Protection Act, which requires libraries receiving federal funds for Internet access to install filters so that both adult and child patrons cannot access materials considered obscene, child pornography, or "harmful to minors." Chief Justice Rehnquist announced the judgment of the court that the law, on its face, is Constitutional. Speaking for a plurality of four justices, Rehnquist held that CIPA was a valid exercise of Congress' spending power and did not impose an unconstitutional condition on public libraries that received federal assistance for Internet access because Congress could reasonably impose limitations on its Internet assistance, and because any concerns over filtering software's alleged tendency to erroneously "overblock" access to constitutionally protected speech were dispelled by the ease with which library patrons could have the filtering software disabled. Justices Kennedy and Breyer concurred with the judgment, holding that CIPA, while raising First Amendment concerns, did not violate the First Amendment as long as adult library users could request that the Internet filter be disabled without delay.
Related Court Cases
Kathleen R. v. City of Livermore is a complaint filed by the mother of a 12-year-old who allegedly used public library Internet access to download and distribute sexually explicit materials. The case was settled in favor of the library. See Kathleen R.
U.S. Supreme Court Links
The Supreme Court of the United States Home Page
The Federal Judiciary Home Page
Oyez Oyez Oyez, Northwestern University
Supreme Court Decisions, Findlaw
Findlaw First Amendment Annotations Expanded
See also U.S. Constitution: First Amendment Annotations from FindLaw
Assistance and Consultation
The staff of the Office for Intellectual Freedom is available to answer questions or provide assistance to librarians, trustees, educators and the public about the First Amendment. Inquiries can be directed via email to oif@ala.org or via phone at (312) 280-4226.
Updated May 2017 | |||
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Cyber Officer
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Armor Officer
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Aviation Officer
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Military Intelligence Officer
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"Letter of the Month" - Now, obviously what this letter is about is the fact that the Wing Commander III capital ships never get names. I understand that it was done for gameplay reasons, but wasn't it frustrating as all heck? The fan community only made it worse, giving each ship a whole host of increasingly improbable names that no one really accepted. So solving that old problem (which admittably had nothing to do with Wing Commander Arena or its gameplay) was the first thing I realized could be done as flavor text with a 'letter to the editor'.
"'69 Thunderbolt" - this would be the T-bolt variant we flew in Wing Commander 3. This is one of several attempts to suggest that space fighters are treated as similar to cars (Privateer does this, too)... and also to remind readers that we consider the original Wing Commander ships to be classics!
"Cpl. Almond, Hades' Hellcats" - this is the first nod to a Wing Commander fan. Barrie "Cpl Hades" Almond was a member of the WC:CIC staff. "Hades' Hellcats" is also an attempt to suggest how the mercenary community organizes itself... in a manner similar to Strike Commander (and the alliterative squadron name is straight out of Starship Troopers). Finally, I thought it was funny that there was a Thunderbolt pilot from a group called the Hellcats.
"torpedo-boat" and "gunship" - I used these (new) alternate classifications mostly just to play with the minds of everyone who insists on using this kind of text as the be-all end-all for classifying ships. Expect to see "Kamekh-class Corvette/Torpedo Boat" on the community ships list someday soon. I also like the idea that there might be a functional difference between the Kamekh and the Kamrani rather than just that they're different vintages of corvettes.
Note that we left off the big ships that a mercenary wouldn't see in 2701 (fleet carriers and above) and included one or two that already had names (since they wouldn't have been identified under the fictional circumstances here). I made sure I gave the WC3 dreadnought a class later in the text. In all honesty, I felt some reservation about this in the end - since they weren't really my ships to name. The Armada/III/IV teams designed, built and used them... and they were happy with just the classes. But practicality won out.
"Evansville" - I have a brother who lives in Evansville, Indiana. The citizens abbreviate the name as "E'vil"... it seemed appropriate for the sinister Black Lance transport. We processed the WCIV VDU to make it look more like a WC3 screenshot.
"Clarkson" - I don't want to tell you what this is named after. It was originally going to be 'Clarksville', after my hometown, but then I realized that would be two 'villes in a row... and 'e-vil' was a better joke.
"Belleau Wood" - some people didn't catch this... it's the rarely seen Confederation transport from Wing Commander Armada (the Kilrathi ship is on the opposite side). We converted the line art VDU image into something that looks like it was from Wing Commander III. It's named after a World War I battle and a Wing Commander Aces Club destroyer from years and years ago.
"Southampton" - WC3 destroyer. The other examples we see are the Victory's escorts in Wing Commander III, the Coventry and the Sheffield. Since those two ships were named after British Type-42 destroyers lost in the Falklands War, I resolved to simply pick another ship of the same class for the name. I believe I picked Southampton because one of the CIC staff members lives there (now that I look back on the list of options I regret not picking Nottingham. Robin Hood lives there!)
"Tallahassee" - WC3 cruiser. Everyone had assumed it was Tallahasse-class, after a reference in False Colors... so here's the confirmation.
"Yorktown" - WC3 light carrier. Okay, this was probably the most discussed ship name in Star*Soldier (which is something, since I had a transport named after Kelly Clarkson... whoops). Here's the deal: compared to all this trivia, the one 'empty' WC3 ship name which has most frustrated fans over the years has been this one. Sure, it's annoying not knowing the escorts... but not knowing what the ship you're on? Madness, cats and dogs living together, Russians and Americans on the same space station. This will give you an idea of how long I've been around: when Wing Commander III came out, we called it Victory-class because of a reference to 'Victory class transports' in Fleet Action. The assumption being - for whatever reason - that the Victory must be a converted transport. Years later we adopted 'Ranger-class' after a reference in Action Stations. I was all set to go with that here... but then I checked it. The novel doesn't mention a Ranger light carrier, it mentions a Ranger carrier. The intention of the passage was different than I had thought - the ship was supposed to be old, not small. So I named it after the aircraft carrier that came one after the original USS Ranger, the USS Yorktown.
"Caernaven" - WC4 frigate. This one was already (somewhat confusingly) stated in the Wing Commander IV novelization. The book claims the pirate/Black Lance base frigate from the Hellespont series is a Caernaven (so far, so good) but also that the Confederation has retired them... and since we see them in Confederation colors later in the game, something isn't right.
"Jakhari / Dukara / Sha'kar" - The Kilrathi transports from Armada, Wing Commander 3 3DO and Wing Commander 3, in order. My original plan was to have all the Kilrathi ships be given WC1/2-based names... and there's an earlier version where all three transports start with 'Dork'. Late in the project I decided I'd rather "canonize" the various ship names created for cancelled games.. so these are the light, medium and heavy freighters mentioned in the (first) Privateer Online proposal. (Actually, I had named the Armada ship Targu II at one point, following Standoff's designation for their frigate... but that bowed to Privateer Online in the end. I do explain the difference in class names here later in the manual, though.)
"Kamrani" - This was the name used by the Unknown Enemy fan project, the first major Wing Commander 'fan game' ever released. I wanted to credit them for that reason alone, of course... but also because they deserve recognition for bothering to give the ship an original name (with some thought behind it!) instead of an existing one (the old 'we know one of these is named Lexington, therefor it must be Lexington class!' fallacy).
"Ralarrad / Ralaxath" - The 'scout' and 'heavy' destroyers from Wing Commander III. These are completely made up, derived from "Ralari" and "Ralatha" destroyers seen in Wing Commander I and II, respectively.
"Fralthi II" - The Wing Commander III cruiser. This name is given in Wing Commander Prophecy. It hasn't ever sat right with me for some reason. I guess it just seems like an odd name for a ship (we have one cruiser named that, why not two!). Also, it brings up a debate I never want to have: whether the Kilrathi ships are named by the Kilrathi or by the Confederation military (like the Sivar dreadnaught).
"Wake and Harrier CVEs" - same concept, giving names to the Confederation's two classes of escort carriers... but we didn't have a WC3 VDU image for them.
"Landreich" - here's an early example of one of Star*Soldier's alternative purposes. It's a short few sentences that suggests (but doesn't state!) the current status of the Free Republic of the Landreich from the Wing Commander novels.
"taking down a former Lancer" - sorry, StarLancer fans, I turned your name into a slur! I'm just kidding around; aren't we all StarLancer fans?
"Fish in the Water" - References real torpedoes. I just wanted to point out that I think we did a great job coming up with pointless little header titles for all the letters, just like a real lifestyle magazine. This particlar question is probably the most blatant explain-continuity-for-me instance in the manual.
"Octavio Gourami" - Named after an alt.games.wing-commander poster (Octavio Motta) and a kind of fish (which I suppose goes with the header, though it was subconscious).
"ogourami@sol.texas.university" - A futuristic email for University of Texas students, a school whose alumni include many Origin veterans. Hook 'em!
"nations" - I really like normal-sounding names for futuristic space hegemonies. So sue me.
"... McAuliffe Ambush..." - The events of Action Stations. This article is explaining the seemingly contradictory story of torpedoes (which were originally supposedly new in Wing Commander II, but then were used as a plot point in the prequel novel).
"Advanced Phase Shielding" - Weasel words to cover up for the fact that on several occasions now (including in Action Stations) capital ship shielding was called Phase Shielding before the appearance of the new technology in Wing Commander II.
"m/am shipkillers" - Matter/Anti-Matter torpedoes (the topedoes used in WC2, WC3 and various novels).
"Proton bombs" - The "dumb fire" torpedo technology which appears as an oddity in the original Privateer. Since Arena includes torpedoes that cause damage and look similar to the main-series weapons but which do not require a lock (and which damage shields), I included this cross-over by means of a slight explanation.
"VN Day" - This is the strongest indication yet that the war with the Nephilim has ended in some way (presumably VN is Victory over Nephilim day). Apologies to the letter writer, but nobody celebrates VE or VJ Day today... it's likely no one in 2701 is celebrating VK Day, either.
"Confederation Day" - The 4th of July-style day which celebrates the founding of the Confederation. It was a major plot point in Action Stations.
".222 and .236" - the latter is Confederation Day, while the former (supposedly VN Day) is... August 10, the WCNews birthday event!
"TCS William Eisen (CV-74)" - Another kindness, to canonize the information presented on the WCNews TCS Eisen hats.
"Cheryl Johnson" - ... is not named after anyone.
"Correction" - How do I explain this one... it is, essentially, a favor for a friend. Back in 1997 when the original Wing Commander Universe map was created they wanted to include all the members of the Wing Commander Home Sector website staff. If you've ever talked to Chris Reid or Ben Lesnick I'm sure they've bragged about this honor. However, there was another staff member on the roster - "Nigel Miller". This was in actuality a pseudonym for for Brandon Strevell, aka "ace-1". No one at Origin knew this and so his honor was somewhat odd. Given the opportunity I simply blew up another star (the one belonging to WCHS' unpopular founder, Dan "Akkbar" Hardwicke) and restructured the map a little. The idea for jump lines being affected after a supernova comes from the WC3 Bible/Confederation Handbook treatise on jump theory... plus a reference in Action Stations to the Yarin System being a humanitarian disaster because of a similar event. | |||||
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The franchise started on the Famicom/NES and then eventually moved on to the TurboGrafx-16 and after that, it took years before it was revived again.
OK, yes there was a Nintendo 64 version indeed, but the less we speak about that the better right?
Star Soldier came back in the early 2000’s for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube format and this is where this PlayStation Portable version originates from, ported and enhanced but based on them.
Hudson went into liquidation back in 2012, how such a strong name managed to do that is beyond my understanding, but then again most old-school companies just can’t stay afloat in today’s market sadly.
Bomberman, Adventure Island, Bonk/BC/PC Kid, and the instant Amiga hit Yo! Joe! – Beat The Ghosts – is just a few of their classics. The quality they showed over the last 30 or so years means that Hudson will be remembered by both name and game for sure, may they R.I.P.
”In January 2011, Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. was acquired by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Konami.
On January 12, 2012, it was announced that on March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. would officially cease to exist as it would be absorbed into Konami Digital Entertainment, with its music business being absorbed into Konami Music Entertainment.”
Thanks, Konami… FFS!
The first thing that you see in Star Soldier on the PSP will most likely be this screen, yes it’s actually a warning that you have to turn the handheld into “TATE” / vertical mode.
The word TATE might not be the most used word around here but its basically the Japanese word (tah-tay) for Vertical screen mode.
Yes, Star Soldier is one of those few PSP games that indeed use this mode, others that support this mode is some Pinball games from System3/Farsight Studios.
Playing while holding the PSP vertically does feel weird at first for sure, but it won’t take you long before you forget it and that’s when the fun starts.
Star Soldier comes with a lot of options and game modes, Auto fire being the most pleasant one due to it being a handheld game and all, that said, it can be switched off for those of you who want it more brutal.
The difficulty settings certainly help the n00bs out there and for first timers of the game, it is recommended to start at easy just to get into the gameplay mechanics.
Once you complete the game (10 stages) is where the fun starts, you unlock new game modes and a newgame+ mode too, you will find a proper challenge here for sure.
There was also a leaderboard website on the internet where you could input a randomly generated code that was acquired when completing the game.
If this website/service is still operational is unknown for now (can’t find anything on google sadly).
There are 3 ships to chose from which means that there’s something for everyone here, the middle one (ENIGMA) is the most brutal one, the game will get too easy once you fully upgrade that one, that said I always prefer the first one (A.CAESAR) anyways as it moves faster and its just more fun to play with.
As with all shooters, there’s always one ship that I suck at… Yup, you guessed it…
Oh and, yes you can unlock a bonus ship although that can be hard without some idea how to do it, I’ll give you a hint (thanks Mosaic / GameFaq!):
Attack the level-8 crab boss until it transforms into its ship form. Do not destroy the boss. Instead, avoid its bullets until it leaves the screen. You’ll unlock the fourth ship for your trouble. Using stage select to warp directly to level-8 is OK.
This remake use 3D Polygons instead of sprites and 2D graphics in a way that doesn’t ruin the fun at all, the speed (as with all SS games) can be a bit too quick for some but once you get used to it, well you wouldn’t want it any different.
The enemy waves are thoroughly laid out and planned carefully which will mean that most will find a challenge here although not in a bullet hell type of way as this is more of a shoot em all instead of dodge, shoot, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, shoot type of game.
The upgrading system can be really brutal, it’s easy to find them but actually picking them up can be a different story as they fly out of the screen quickly.
I have yet to see any slowdowns or whatever in the game and that’s quite a feat for such a title with so many objects flying over the screen at the same time as the background is scrolling at 60 frames per second.
The graphics fit perfectly on the PSP screen and this is most likely the best version out there due to the TATE mode and the small/long screen.
The music is as retro as should be, a really strong soundtrack which will make you want to play it more.
Boss battles are one of the things that Star Soldier does best, humongous bosses that throw thousands of bullets at you and the only way you manage to stay alive is due to the brilliant battle music which manages to zone you out of the real world and into the game, you will become one with the game in a heartbeat.
Everything just “sits” perfectly!.
I have included a pretty damn good video of the game here but let me suggest that you try the game yourself instead of watching this playthrough as this is one of those games that YOU just have to play and enjoy to get the maximum effect out of.
Like many other excellent Shoot ‘Em Up games Star Soldier Portable never came to the west, the only version available is this Japanese version but thankfully the PSP is region free so getting the game to work ain’t a problem either, oh and one more thing, there ain’t much text in the game either, all important stuff like menus is in English.
Star Soldier Portable goes down into the history as one of the better Vertical Shooter games out there, it is definitely the best PlayStation Portable shooter out there and one that every shoot ’em up fan out there need in their collection. An instant classic, finally a remake that beats the living hell out of the original. The game ain’t a technical achievement nor is it full of special effects to use as a showcase title for the hardware, the only reason to hype this game up is for the exceptionally good gameplay mechanics and how well everything is put together to make it one of the best out there. TATE Mode FTW!
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] | 2022-12-02T14:57:11+00:00 | These are the best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Disney Plus in August, including iconic Star Wars and Marvel titles. | en | Space.com | https://www.space.com/disney-plus-best-space-scifi-streaming.html | Looking for the best sci-fi movies and TV shows on Disney Plus? You're in the right place. Every month, the popular streaming platform adds new content to its wonderful array of picks and it's also home to the most impressive galaxy-spanning back catalog from Marvel to Star Wars.
Notable fresh sci-fi content coming to Disney Plus in August comes in the form of the animated Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. And, while you're considering whether to secure a subscription, if you didn't know already Disney Plus is also the home to (almost) all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as all things Star Wars. If that's not enough to entice you to the streaming platform, there's a plethora of impressive sci-fi content spanning iconic TV shows and blockbuster movies to bewitching documentaries from across the universe.
If you're looking to navigate your way through our sci-fi top streaming picks then, there's a handy sidebar that will lead you through everything from Star Wars, to Marvel, to movies, to TV shows, to documentaries, depending on what you're looking for. when it comes to Disney Plus, there's something for everyone in the sci-fi genre, no matter the age or interest.
In a busy streaming landscape, Disney Plus isn't the only platform to offer stellar sci-fi content though. If you don't find something suitable below, we've also got the best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Paramount Plus to peruse, as well as our round-up of the best streaming deals on offer right now. For now, let’s embark on a journey through the best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Disney Plus this August.
Star Wars
1) 'Star Wars' original trilogy
Watch or watch not, there is no try. Disney Plus is home to one of if not the biggest franchise in cinematic history, "Star Wars." Starting with "A New Hope" in 1977, the saga begins as a young Luke Skywalker meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, begins to learn the ways of the force, joins the Rebel Alliance and eventually blows up the Death Star. The start of a cinematic dynasty.
The story continues with what many consider the best film in the franchise's history, "The Empire Strikes Back." In this installment, Luke meets Master Yoda for the first time to enhance his Jedi training, The Empire fights the Rebel Alliance in the epic battle of Hoth and Darth Vader captures and holds Han Solo hostage before dropping one of the biggest bombshells in the history of cinema … But we're not going to spoil that; you'll have to watch it yourself.
Finally, in "Return of the Jedi," this epic trilogy comes to its conclusion as the Emperor and Darth Vader try to coerce Luke over to the dark side while Han Solo, Princess Leia and the rest of the Rebel Alliance defeat the Empire in the battle of Endor, which results in the destruction of the second Death Star.
2) 'Star Wars' prequel trilogy
Disney Plus also houses the entire prequel trilogy, the story of how the galaxy fell into civil war. "The Phantom Menace" stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Samuel L Jackson, and the film is best known for the antagonist, Darth Maul and his double edged lightsaber, as well as the epic battle between the Sith and two Jedi knights featuring one of the most recognizable pieces of music in the franchise, "Duel of the Fates."
The second installment, "Attack of the Clones," gives viewers their first look at a grown up Anakin as a Jedi. It's best known for its love story between Anakin and Padme Amidala and the battle of Geonosis, which sees a host of Jedi fighting side by side against a wave of droids.
This trilogy comes to a close with what many people consider the best of the three films, "Revenge of the Sith." This film sees Chancellor Palpatine fully transition into the Emperor and Anakin transform into Darth Vader after killing Count Dooku and all the Jedi younglings. The film ends in an emotional battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
3) 'Star Wars' sequel trilogy
This trilogy includes some of the most recent "Star Wars" films and tells the epic tale of what happens after the events of the original trilogy. It relays how, despite the Empire's defeat in the galactic civil war, The First Order rise to power and features the first female lead protagonist in the "Star Wars" movies.
"The Force Awakens" is the first film in this trilogy and the first since Disney bought Lucasfilms. It was a hit with most fans, who enjoyed seeing a whole host of new characters introduced to the franchise as well as the return of some old favorites including Han Solo, Princess Leia and a shock cameo in the final scene from Luke Skywalker.
Episodes VIII and IX continue the journeys of Rey Skywalker, Po Dameron, Finn and Kylo Ren as the Rebellion continues its struggle against the First Order and questions are answered around Supreme Leader Snoke. We also learn of Kylo Ren's path to the dark side, Luke Skywalker's involvement in it and a surprise return of the Emperor as the trilogy comes to a thrilling end.
4) 'Star Wars' anthology movies
"Star Wars: Rogue One" is the story of how the rebels obtained the Death Star plans in the first place and gives fans one of the most menacing impressions of Darth Vader since the original trilogy. An epic story ends as "A New Hope" begins, with Vader boarding a rebel ship while R2-D2 and C3PO escape with the plans.
"Solo: A Star Wars Story" is Han Solo's origin story and we see how he meets characters like Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian for the first time.
5) 'Obi-Wan Kenobi'
Ewan McGregor is reprising his role as the famous Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi in this TV series set between episodes III and IV. This series will tell the story of Obi-Wan watching over a young Luke Skywalker while evading the Empire's Jedi hunters during his exile on Tatooine.
The series began streaming back in 2022 and was initially due to be released on the anniversary of "A New Hope" but the launch was delayed. With the series finale was released in the Summer of that year, so you'll be able to binge watch this series, meaning you'll have your Disney Plus and Star Wars fix through the month.
6) 'The Mandalorian'
The hit series is set five years after "Return of the Jedi" and tells the story of the Mandalorian, a bounty hunter and his sidekick Grogu (aka Baby Yoda). The Mandalorian, or Mando for short, works in the outer reaches of the galaxy, where he is far from the reaches of the newly formed Republic.
This TV series is a great way for fans to get their "Star Wars" kick, and it's also a good introduction to the franchise as it features a lot of action and adventure, plenty of sci-fi and plenty of comedic moments. "The Mandalorian" has been very well received by fans and critics alike and all three seasons are available to stream in their entirety.
7) 'The Book of Boba Fett'
Released on December 29 2021, The Book of Boba Fett is an exciting addition to the Star Wars universe. A spinoff from "The Mandalorian" this new series sees Boba Fett navigate the underworld of the universe with "Fennec Shand" as they return to Tattooine to stake their claim on the territory formerly owned by Jabba the Hutt.
Episodes six and seven came fresh for February 2022 with seven being the series finale. This series has proved a hit with fans and critics alike, and we think is reason enough to try Disney Plus if you haven't yet.
8) 'Star Wars: Andor'
This story tells the tale of Cassian Andor, one of the heroes from 'Rogue One', but five years before his antics alongside Jyn Erso.
We find our protagonist as a thief without too much going for him while plans to act out in rebellion against the Empire aren't on his agenda. We knew the least about this show that's new to our screens and it's been a huge success with fans. It premiered initially with two episodes, and new installments were then released weekly. All episodes are now available to binge.
9) 'Ahsoka'
This new series tells the story of former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano following the collapse of the Empire. Jedi Ahsoka Tano appears across a number of shows within the Star Wars franchise and now they have their own show, with all episodes now available to stream.
10) 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'
Set in the time between "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," this animated series follows the wartime activities of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda. "The Clone Wars" is well known for adding both story content and new characters to "Star Wars" canon, including Anakin's apprentice Ashoka Tano.
11) 'Star Wars: Rebels'
"Star Wars: Rebels" is set between the events of "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope." It tells the story of the Empire tightening its grip on the galaxy as it hunts down the last of the Jedi, but a rebellion in its infancy is taking shape.
12) 'Star Wars: The Bad Batch'
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch'' focuses on a clone special unit called "The Bad Batch'' who make their way across the newly established Empire, trying to find out why all other clone troops opposed their Jedi generals.
Series two is now available to stream in its entirety as the Bad Batch continue their journey across the galaxy following events on Kamino. New episodes from season three are available to stream this month and you can check out how the fractured group survive new threats from different directions and the new alliances they'll have to form to free themselves from the Empire.
13) Lego 'Star Wars'
Disney Plus also has a collection of Lego "Star Wars" series and miniseries available to watch. These include "All Stars," "The Freemaker Adventures," "The Resistance Rises," Droid Tales" and "The New Yoda Chronicles," which take place all across the "Star Wars" timeline and tell stories in a family-friendly and humorous way.
14) 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures' (Shorts)
Young Jedi Adventures (Shorts) comprised six short episodes which premiered on Disney Plus ahead of the full show’s release. The five/six-minute shorts introduced viewers to the High Republic Era following Jedi younglings on their journey to becoming a Jedi Knight as they study the force, help those in need, and explore the galaxy. In August, another six-episode shorts will join the Disney Plus platform ahead of the second season of Young Jedi Adventures.
15) 'Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures'
Set centuries before the main Star Wars films is the animated series, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. After a successful first season dropped on the platform in 2023, it's time to once again revisit the apprentices under Master Yoda training at the Jedi temple. On August 17, the second chapter of Young Jedi Adventures will land on Disney Plus to follow the younglings once again as they continue their training and travel to take on bigger missions across the galaxy.
The description for season two reads, "Helping to lead the younglings on these missions is Master Zia's new Padawan, Wes Vinik, and his astromech RO-M1."
16) 'Star Wars: Visions' Volume 2
This new volume of Star Wars: Visions shows a new perspective on the storied mythos of Star Wars with nine new shorts from nine studios around the world, incorporating different animation styles from different countries.
17) 'Tales of the Empire'
This new animated short series of six episodes tells the tale of Morgan Elsbeth's past and Barriss Offee's next chapter after leaving the Jedi Order. It's a welcome addition, seemingly to Star Wars' lore and the trailer packs more of a punch than fans might have expected.
18) 'The Acolyte'
Described by Lucasfilm as "a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era," The Acolyte is a live-action look at the High Republic era of the Star Wars timeline.
The plot follows a former Padawan reuniting with their Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes. What we do know, from the trailer, is that this series promises plenty of action to keep us gripped. All eight episodes are now available to stream.
Marvel
1) Marvel's "Avengers" 1-4
The first Marvel entry on this list, "The Avengers" films were all cinematic highlights of the 2010s, and each film is a coming together of all the best superheroes in the Marvel Comic Universe. The first film features Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Thor. The following three movies include the likes of Spiderman, Black Panther, Vision and more as they collectively bring the 11-year story to its conclusion.
These films are more than worthy of their place in this list, as aliens from outer space threaten the fate of Earth and it's down to the Avengers to save the planet. Thanos, who is the main enemy through these films, is known as the destroyer of worlds, and the theme of space and exoplanets is explored greatly, especially in "Infinity War" and "Endgame."
Marvel's "Avengers" films all have a great blend of sci-fi, action and comedy, which mean they are great for viewing even if comic book heroes aren't totally your thing.
2) 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Volumes 1,2 and 3
Starring Chris Pratt as "Star Lord," these films have a great blend of space exploration, action, comedy and a good story to go with it. Each film has a soundtrack largely from the 1980s, the era in which the protagonist, Star Lord, grew up. "Guardians of the Galaxy" Vol. 1 is also a key film in the Marvel Comic Universe, as the story revolves around an "infinity stone" that Thanos needs to collect in order to wipe out half of the universe.
Vol. 2 picks up where Vol. 1 leaves off, with more great comedy, action sequences and the evolving love story between Gamora and Star Lord. In the second film, Star Lord — helped by Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket — finds out who his father is and discovers that he is half-celestial and half-human.
Vol. 3 is available to stream from August 2023, and is the final instalment in the franchise. It's an emotional send off for the crew with a strong narrative focus on "Rocket" but this is definitely a movie to appease new and returning fans alike.
3) 'Iron Man'
All of the Iron Man movies are available to stream on Disney Plus and it's here, in the first movie, that the "Infinity Saga" begins. Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., creates a weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Across the franchise, he fights numerous villains, offers plenty of entertainment and plays a pivotal role in setting up the first two Avengers movies. He also goes on a personal journey from being a brilliant but brash billionaire genius to discovering whether the suit makes the man or vice versa. Along the way we are introduced to numerous new characters that also have big roles across the Marvel franchise.
4) 'Thor'
Another Avenger with their own franchise within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor is a superhero based on the Norse god of the same name. Played by Chris Hemsworth, Thor is a mighty yet arrogant God, who is banished from Asgard to live on Earth.
While he becomes one of humanity's greatest defenders, Thor balances keeping peace in the universe, finding love, battling family differences and overcoming villains. It is one of the most instantly recognizable franchises within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the four Thor films expand across all Avenger movies.
5) 'Captain America'
If you're looking at chronological order, this is where the Infinity Saga begins. Another instantly recognizable superhero, Steve Rodgers is a weak and sickly man, rejected for military service in World War 2 but transforms into Captain America after being injected with super soldier serum.
There is three films in the Captain America franchise: "The First Avenger," "The Winter Soldier" and "Civil War." Captain America is one of the leading superheroes within the Avengers and there's a lot of content with in the Captain's movies that help set up the first two Avengers, with Civil War acting as a direct fall-out of "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
6) 'Spider-Man'
Peter Parker must come to terms with his new found superhero identity while living at home with his aunt, May. While trying to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Parker faces threats from villains to his school friends as well as the rest of the world, while under the watchful eye of Tony Stark, to begin with.
There are three movies in this Spider-Man franchise and the events of which start after Avengers: Age Of Ultron and then continue after "Endgame." Unfortunately, while Homecoming and Far From Home can both be found on Disney Plus, 2021's No Way Home has yet to find a home on the streaming platform. With Sony owning the rights to the Spider-Man movies, a deal is yet to be made for this title, but we can hope to see it soon.
7) 'Ant-Man'
The three movies in the Ant-Man franchise are pivotal in understanding the nuances of the Infinity Saga, not to mention they contain plenty of humor along the way too. If you're wanting to watch the movies in chronological order, the first instalment is the first watch after Age Of Ultron and the second movie is the last watch before "Infinity War"
Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd, is a con-man who becomes armed with a super suit that has the extraordinary ability to shrink in size but increase strength astronomically. Along the way, Lang must balance being a superhero and a father while travelling to different realms and fighting all sorts of weird and wonderful villains.
7) 'Doctor Strange'
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Strange in this two-movie franchise as he plays a fantastic neurosurgeon who suffers a terrible car accident that nearly takes his life. Strange undertakes a journey of physical and spiritual healing for his recovery where he discovers and tries to perfect the world of mystical arts.
Strange plays a crucial role in the Infinity Saga and his story is intertwined with a number of other superheroes. As his powers with the mystic arts grow stronger, he is able to travel between realms and multi-verses.
9) 'Captain Marvel'
So far, there's only been the one Captain Marvel movie, despite appearing in numerous other franchise movies. Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) is one of the most powerful superheroes in the universe and is caught in a galactic war between two alien races. Her story takes place right at the start of the Infinity Saga, between Captain American and Iron Man's first movies.
10) 'Black Panther'
There are two movies in this franchise and it tells the story of T'Challa, the prince who becomes king and must prevent the reclusive but advanced nation of Wakanda from being dragged into war, while fending off challengers to his throne.
The second movie once again involves forces seeking to invade Wakanda, but can their leaders band together to save the nation once again?
11) 'Black Widow'
This standalone movie tells the story of Natasha Romanov, A.K.A. Black Widow and a dangerous conspiracy linked to her past. She is perused by a force that will stop at nothing to see her demise, and she must confront broken relationships and her days as a spy in order to overcome absolute peril.
12) 'The Marvels'
Captain Marvel gets her powers intertwined with a super-fan, Kamala Khan and S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. shortly after reclaiming her identity. Together, they must work to save the universe.
13) 'The Eternals'
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, the ancient alien race called The Eternals, who have been living on Earth in secret, come out of hiding to defeat an old enemy known as the Deviants.
14) 'Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The 10 Rings'
Shang-Chi, master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, must confront his past after he is dragged into the 10-rings organisation.
15) 'Morbius'
Biochemist, Michael Morbius infects himself with a form of vampirism accidentally as he conducts an experiment to try and cure himself of a rare blood disease. In an attempt to save himself and in turn, find a cure for others suffering from the same issue, Morbius creates something worse than the disease itself.
16) 'Loki'
A spin-off series from Marvel Studios, "Loki" focuses on the title character and his role as the god of mischief. The series is set after the events of "Avengers: Endgame" and features lots of alien life, cool special effects and different world settings. Acclaimed by critics and fans alike, Loki offers a great blend of science fiction, action and adventure with two seasons ready to stream on Disney Plus right now.
17) 'Wanda Vision'
Wanda Maximoff and Vision live out their lives in a sitcom based style before they start to suspect everything isn't as it seems.
18) 'Hawkeye'
One of the original avengers, Hawkeye get his own series in which a 22-year-old archer, Kate Bishop looks to take on the role of Hawkeye from Clint Barton following his retirement from the Superhero group. His sole focus now that he's retired from being a superhero is getting back to his family for Christmas with the help of Bishop.
19) 'Moon Knight'
This Marvel TV show tells the story of gift shop employee, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) who becomes plagued with blackouts and flashbacks of another life. Steven Later discovers he has had powers from an Egyptian Moon God thrust upon him. These powers mean Steven shares his body with a Mercenary named Marc Spector, as the powers become both a blessing and a curse. Steven and Marc explore their complex identities to investigate a deadly mystery among the Egyptian gods while their enemies converge on them.
20) 'She-Hulk: Attorney At Law'
This addition to the Marvel timeline is available to stream in its entirety. In this series, we see Jennifer Walters face the difficulties of balancing having a regular life, being an attorney and being a super-strong, green and angry she-hulk.
21) 'Secret Invasion'
This entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is centered around Nik Fury as he recruits Skrull Talos, among others, to defeat a clandestine invasion of Earth by shapeshifters, known as Skrulls. They must work together to save Earth - all episodes are available to stream.
Movies
1) 'Lightyear'
The film that inspired the 'Buzz Lightyear' toys and indeed the character of the same name in the "Toy Story" franchise. This spin-off is an animated Summer 2022 blockbuster and has landed on Disney Plus. Notably, Chris Evans (Captain America) is the voice of Buzz Lightyear and not Tim Allen, who voiced Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films.
2) 'Tron'
This brilliantly colorful 1980s sci-fi action/adventure film sees hacker and arcade owner Kevin Flynn abducted into a digital world. Once in the computerized world, Flynn interacts with programs and joins forces with "Tron'' to outmanoeuvre the Master Control Program (which holds them captive) in what is essentially an ever-challenging, massive computer game. "Tron Legacy" is a sequel that was released in 2010. It's Also on Disney Plus.
3) 'Armageddon'
"Armageddon" is an epic 1998 sci-fi film that sees a giant civilization-destroying asteroid hurtling toward Earth. The only way to stop it is to drill into its core and detonate a nuclear bomb down there. (No, this is not how we'd actually tackle a killer asteroid.) The star-studded line-up includes Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, who play members of an underfunded but resourceful team that are humanity's last hope as hysteria grips the public around the world.
4) 'Alita: Battle Angel'
"Alita: Battle Angel" is a 2019 story of a deactivated cyborg who gets reactivated but cannot remember who she is or anything from her past. Dr. Dyson Ido (played by Christoph Waltz) discovers Alita and sees her as the key to ending death and destruction. Ironically, the things she must do to fulfill her purpose are fight and kill.
5) 'X-Men' movies
This comic book-turned movie franchise is instantly recognizable and is enjoyed by many all over the world. The films tell the story of mutants with superpowers and their constant struggles against people who fear them. "X-Men" gave Hugh Jackman arguably his most recognized role (Wolverine), and the original trilogy features Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier and Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto, the character who originally devises an evil plan for war.
6) 'Independence Day'
Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum star in this 1996 sci-fi disaster movie, in which an invading alien species destroys major cities around the world including New York, London and Moscow. Humanity discovered the plans of the invading aliens just days before their attack, and on the Fourth of July, we fight back, making it the world's Independence Day.
Independence Day: Resurgence is also available to stream, set two decades after the events of the first movie and also starring Jeff Goldblum.
7) 'Alien' Franchise
The "Alien" franchise is a favorite among sci-fi fans, not least for the first couple of instalments that captivated audiences around the world. Sigourney Weaver plays Ellen Ripley - the protagonist to begin with - and has to fight against Xenomorphs in the first batch of movies. "Prometheus" is the pick of the more recent additions to the franchise, and ranking among some of the best of all the 'Alien' films. A lot of tension, gore, sci-fi and action help make this franchise a classic and has helped it to resonate with fans for over 40 years.
8) 'Avatar' and 'Avatar: The Way Of Water
"Avatar" is a modern classic from director James Cameron. The movie tells the story of paraplegic Marine Jake Sully, who agrees to infiltrate a native alien species on the exomoon Pandora while going undercover as an avatar of one of the Na'vi species. While undercover, Sully falls in love with one of the natives and decides to fight back against his colonel's efforts to drive out the Na'vi and mine the woodland for minerals and resources.
The second movie sees Jake Sully as his avatar with a family and as leader of his tribe. They are driven out of the forest and forced to live among another tribe on the water's edge. There, legend becomes reality and they fight back against a human military and brutal mining corporation.
9) 'Wall-E'
A family-film entry to this list, "Wall-E" is the story of an adorable robot whose primary job is to clear Earth of trash after humanity has left to settle on another planet. Set in the future, Wall-E (the name of the robot protagonist) is alone on Earth before meeting EVE, a reconnaissance robot sent to Earth to prove it is a habitable planet. The main draw of this film is the love story between the two robots.
10) 'Free Guy'
Released on Disney Plus in February 2022, Ryan Reynolds stars as 'Guy,' a bank teller with a fairly routine and normal life. That is until, he discovers he is a character in an open-world video game. After discovering this, Guy is determined to rewrite his own life in a world that has no limits, save his computerized world from being erased and perhaps find a little romance along the way.
11) 'Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!'
In this animated movie, the Marvel heroes come together to stop Loki and Ymir (a frost giant) from stealing Santa Claus's powers, which they intend to use to rule the world. Perfect for some Marvel festive fun.
12) 'Venom'
Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock, who is at his lowest point in life when he becomes host to an alien symbiote which results in him having extraordinary powers. Venom, as he comes to terms with these powers, must choose whether to use his newfound superpowers for good or for evil, and it's not always an easy choice to make. There are two movies in this mini franchise.
13) 'Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny'
Although the Indiana Jones franchise may not be the first thing you think of when you think of 'sci-fi' but the latest addition to the saga revolves around a dial that has the ability to alter the course of history. With time travel possible, archaeologist Indiana Jones pits his wits against against a former Nazi, who works for NASA.
14) 'Tomorrowland'
A former boy genius and a teen, brimming with scientific curiosity are bound together as they explore somewhere that exists in their collective memory and try to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space.
TV Shows
1) 'X-Men' animated series
The "X-Men" animated series tells a continuing story of the problems mutants face at the hands of a human populace that resents their very existence and the evil of a select few mutants who want to make the world submit to their will. Charles Xavier's school for gifted children is a sanctuary for mutants to learn to control their powers and to try and fit in, as well as being home to the X-Men.
2) 'The Orville'
From creator Seth MacFarlane, is this worth-the-watch TV series that has plenty of sci-fi adventure, drama and comedy. Set 400 years in the future, this series tells the story of the crew onboard the U.S.S Orville as they explore the mysteries of the universe, as well as the complexities of their own relationships.
3) 'Phineas and Ferb' 'Star Wars' crossover
Although this isn't "Star Wars" canon, the popular children's show "Phineas and Ferb" does offer a cute crossover where the title characters interact with "Star Wars" characters when telling the story of "A New Hope."
4) 'Futurama'
The hit animated series from Matt Groening set in the year 3000 is on Disney Plus! The long-running futuristic comedy focuses on the antics of Fry, a delivery boy who was accidentally cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years and gets a job with Planet Express in the 31st century. Fry and his friends, including Bender (a robot) and Leela (a one-eyed mutant), get up to shenanigans all across the universe as well as in their resident city, New New York.
5) 'Mars'
First airing in 2016, this two-series TV show depicts the first manned mission to the Red Planet in an attempt colonize it in 2033.
6) 'Crater'
After the death of his father, Caleb is about to be relocated to a faraway planet after being raised on lunar mining colony. But before he goes, Caleb and his friends hijack a rover to explore a mysterious crater as this final adventure could fulfil his father's wish.
7) 'Doctor Who'
Doctor Who is a stalwart in the sci-fi genre. The latest iteration sees Ncuti Gatwa take on the role of the Doctor, the 14th actor to do so as the newest episodes made their way to the Disney Plus platform in May 2024.
The infamous timelord also has specials available to stream on Disney Plus. David Tennant, a fan favorite as The Doctor, reprises his role for a couple of 60th-anniversary specials before we finally get a look at Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor in this year's holiday special. Unfortunately, the 1963 and 2005 episodes don’t have a home on Disney Plus, but the rest do.
Documentaries
1) 'Among The Stars'
"Among The Stars" is a docu-series that takes a behind-the-scenes look at NASA's mission to repair a $2 billion science experiment (the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) which aims to reveal the origins of the universe.
2) 'Hubble's Cosmic Journey'
After launching in 1990, The Hubble Telescope has revolutionized what we know about the universe and has taken stunning pictures of space. Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, this documentary tells the definitive story of one of the most successful scientific ventures ever.
3) 'Mission Pluto'
This exciting documentary tells the story of New Horizons, a NASA spacecraft launched to explore the furthest parts of our solar system. The spacecraft will be used to intercept, give us a clearer picture of and better our understanding of the ninth planet or 'dwarf planet', Pluto.
4) 'Welcome to Earth'
Released in December, Will Smith presents this docu-series that takes a look at the hidden worlds within ours. It shows extreme ends of the planets from active volcanos to deep ocean adventures and more.
5) 'Aliens of the Deep'
Filmmaker James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists and marine biologists to try and explore some of Earth's deepest, most extreme and unexplored environments. This documentary is the result of multiple expeditions to deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites and takes a look at some of the life forms that live there. The vents could be similar to environments on other worlds, so maybe the creatures that live there could be similar too.
6) 'Expedition Mars: Spirit and Opportunity'
"Expedition Mars: Spirit and Opportunity" tells the story of the twin Mars rovers that helped save NASA's Mars program and showed the world that water once flowed on the Red Planet.
7) "Mars Inside SpaceX"
This documentary goes behind the scenes of SpaceX and its plan to get humanity to Mars. "Mars Inside SpaceX" gives us an insight into SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk and his team of engineers as they experience triumphs and setbacks over the course of the three years during which this documentary was filmed.
8) 'One Strange Rock'
This docu-series gives us an insight into our planet and what makes it so special, but from a unique perspective as astronauts tell the story of Earth.
9) 'The Space Race'
This new documentary tells the stories of Black astronauts as they aim to break down the barriers of social injustice to reach the stars and beyond. From 1963 through to 2020, Black astronauts, scientists and engineers at NASA have at times felt worlds apart from colleagues, despite wanting to achieve the same goal. This new documentary weaves together and tells some of those stories. | |||||
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] | 2024-08-04T15:00:00+00:00 | A Reddit user explained that 'House of the Dragon' wasn't letting its characters be medieval enough, and it kind of makes sense? | The Mary Sue | https://www.themarysue.com/is-house-of-the-dragon-is-too-moral-to-be-medieval/ | Almost 9/10 times when someone calls a movie or a show “too woke,” I do a hard ignore, lest there be an unsavory exchange of words. But when the show in question is a medieval fantasy like House of the Dragon, you can’t help but give a second thought to its morality.
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When Game of Thrones first landed on our TV screens, we were all rightly shocked because we’d never seen something so ruthless, brutal, and, erm … incestuous. When Ned Stark lost his head and when the seemingly good guys committed war crimes without blinking an eye, it was accepted because that’s how savage, survival-driven, and problematic the medieval times were. Patriarchy reigned supreme. Men were beasts, and women weren’t all that great, either. Every character was fifty shades of grey.
There were enough complaints of violence-porn on screen against the series that when House of the Dragon arrived and chose to refrain from it, there was a collective sigh of relief. The female gaze in the sex scenes was welcome, and so were the anti-war statements that the show was subtly making by having its female characters like Alicent, Rhaenyra, and Rhaenys refrain from rash violence while doing everything they could to keep the peace.
And yet, one user on Reddit pointed out that House of The Dragon wasn’t letting its characters be medieval enough. And their observations weren’t all that off.
Leaked spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon season 2 finale in the Reddit post!
The author of the post lists six reasons for claiming what they do, all of which point out how multiple characters like Aegon, Aemond, or Rhaenyra are shamed for doing something that would actually be quite acceptable for medieval society, especially during a time of war. Two points, in particular, stood out to me—the aversion to war and the smallfolk thinking they deserve the same comforts as the God-like Kings and Queens that rule over them.
By making Rhaenyra and Alicent the initial moral markers of the story, House of the Dragon is trying to show a gradual decline and breaking of those morals for maximum emotional impact. Both of these characters are mothers with the instinct for protection and peace and are risk and conflict-averse. But of course, when sh*t hits the fan, their anger overruns any moral responsibility they feel towards their people, and the war still happens.
However, as the post’s author points out, people of those times, especially in such positions of power, would never think twice about the collateral damage in war or waging a war itself. Just look back at Game of Thrones and you’ll see how even someone as maternal as Catelyn Stark didn’t think twice before amassing an army and letting her firstborn lead it to avenge her husband’s execution. War was an inevitability in those times, and being a woman didn’t mean you were a pacifist who would judge others for causing so much bloodshed.
This point is a strong argument against the entire Harrenhal arc for Daemon Targaryen, who, through his visions, is being therapized into feeling remorse for something as basic as wanting to rule. It’s natural for members of royal families to harbor that ambition and be jealous when someone else gets it, especially when that person is your weaker sibling or your wife because feminism didn’t exist and women in those times were not considered fit to rule!
The other point about the socio-economic disparity that the smallfolk took offense at might be a stretch because, of course, a king can’t (or rather, shouldn’t) be feasting when his subjects are dying from a lack of resources. Once again, though, the argument persists that in those times, it was completely normal for the royal family to continue living a life of luxury during a war instead of opening their kitchens and treasuries to the poor.
So yes, House of the Dragon is uncharacteristically sanitized and moral for a medieval-inspired fantasy. Perhaps this is to make the immoral choices stand out in stark contrast, which would then make the downfall of a once god-adjacent House Targaryen seem even more tragic.
What do you think? | ||||||
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] | 2018-08-05T00:00:00 | Just before Mr Gums and I set off for our Arnhem Land holiday in early July, I came across an obituary for the Australian-born academic, educator and writer Jill Ker Conway (1934-2018). She had died on June 1, but I hadn't heard. Why not? Her first memoir, The road from Coorain, was a best-seller, and… | en | https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/8c3588ce3b1916fc8408adba735c6f2541d3e4cb0cbfbbb52cad346cb33a4360?s=32 | Whispering Gums | https://whisperinggums.com/2018/08/05/vale-jill-ker-conway/ | Just before Mr Gums and I set off for our Arnhem Land holiday in early July, I came across an obituary for the Australian-born academic, educator and writer Jill Ker Conway (1934-2018). She had died on June 1, but I hadn’t heard. Why not? Her first memoir, The road from Coorain, was a best-seller, and I think her second one, True north, was also well received. I’ve read, and enjoyed, them both, but long, long before blogging. Her final memoir, A woman’s education, a slimmer volume, is on my TBR.
Those who know Jill Ker Conway will know why her passing didn’t make big news here. It’s because she made her name in the USA … added to which she was a woman. Or, am I being too paranoid?
So, who was Jill Ker Conway? Well, for a start she was born on a sheep station her parents named Coorain (Aboriginal for “windy place”) in outback New South Wales. Although more often hot, dry and dusty than not, Ker Conway loved it, as she shares in her first memoir.
Now, though, I’ll quickly summarise her career. She was, says Wikipedia, “an Australian-American scholar and author”. She was “well-known” for her autobiographies/memoirs, particularly for The Road from Coorain, but she also made history by becoming the prestigious Smith College‘s first woman president (1975-1985). She made history, of course, because she was its first woman president, but it’s fascinating to me that she was also Australian. She was 40 when appointed to this role, and in her first year was named Time magazine’s “woman of the year”. That’s impressive.
She was, later, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004, she was named a Women’s History Month Honoree by the National Women’s History Project, and in 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. She was, in other words, a bit of a mover-and-shaker!
I have, though, exaggerated the lack of news of her death here. There were some reports, including two in The Sydney Morning Herald. To give you a sense of how she was viewed, here are some of the titles of her obituaries:
Jill Ker Conway, 83, Feminist Author and Smith President, Dies (New York Times)
Jill Ker Conway, trailblazing historian and Smith College president, dies at 83 (Washington Post)
Jill Ker Conway, chairman and trailblazer, dies at 83 (The Sydney Morning Herald Business section)
Jill Ker Conway: author, historian and Smith College president (The Sydney Morning Herald National section)
Did you notice the odd one out? Yes, the SMH Business section report which identifies her as “chairman and trailblazer”. Chairman? Apparently, in addition to being an educator, academic, author and historian, she was a “business woman”. She was, in fact, “the first female chairman of global property group, Lendlease”. The Sydney Morning Herald says of her business career:
Dr Conway served on the boards of businesses including Merrill Lynch, Nike, Colgate-Palmolive and Lendlease. She was also a former chairman of the American Antiquarian Society.
In 2000 she was appointed as chair of Lendlease at a time when the company needed a firm hand.
Interesting woman eh? For an excellent obituary, do read the SMH National Section one.
She was also one of that wave of Australian intellectuals who left our shores in the 1960s and never really returned, mostly because of the stultifying academic lives they found here. Others included Germaine Greer (1939-), Robert Hughes (1938-2012), Clive James (1939-), not to mention writers like Randolph Stow (1935-2010). They went to England, while Ker Conway made the USA her home.
Ker Conway chronicles exactly why she left Australia in her first two autobiographies/memoirs. It was because she was regularly overlooked for significant jobs – or any job – in favour of men, and because she could not find the sort of intellectual enquiry she sought. Here she is, near the end of The road from Coorain, describing Sydney’s academic circles around 1959, and the group she thought most interesting because they were “iconoclasts, cultural rebels, and radical critics of Australian society”:
When I rejected the inevitable sexual advances, I was looked at with pained tolerance, told to overcome my father fixation, and urged to become less bourgeois. It was a bore to have to spend my time with this group rebuffing people’s sexual propositions when what I really wanted to do was explore new ideas and to clarify my thoughts by explaining them to others. I didn’t know then that I was encountering the standard Australian left view of women, but I could see that the so-called sexual revolution had asymmetrical results.
By the end of True north, she had her Harvard degree in history, and was living with her husband in Toronto when the Smith College job came up. She writes:
I’d been pushed out of Australia by family circumstances [all chronicled in the first memoir], the experience of discrimination, frustration with the culture I was born in. Nothing was pushing me out of this wonderful setting but a cause, and the hope to serve it.
And what was that cause? Well, as she also writes in True north, her main consideration when choosing whether or not to accept Smith College’s offer was “where my work would have the greatest impact on women’s education”. That “impact”, she explains, was not just about numbers. It was about proving that a woman’s institution was not only valid but valid and relevant in a modern world, and about the potential for making it “an intellectual centre for research on women’s lives and women’s issues, research that could have influence far beyond Smith’s lyrical New England campus”. She was there for 10 years, and made her mark.
Ker Conway was, then, a significant woman whose achievements I’ve only touched on. Check the Wikipedia article linked above for more, including a list of her books. Meanwhile, I’m ending with her final words in The road from Coorain, as she’s departing Australia:
Where I wondered would by bones come to rest? It pained me to think of them not fertilising Australian soil. Then I comforted myself with the notion that wherever on the earth was my final resting place, my body would return to the restless red dust of the western plains. I could see how it would blow about and get in people’s eyes, and I was content with that.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s (National section) obituary concludes:
Her love for her two worlds was reflected in her final wishes. Half her ashes will rest in a small private cemetery with John’s, near their beloved house and garden in Massachusetts. The other half are to be scattered by the big tree beside the roadway into the house at Coorain.
How good is that? | ||||
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] | 2018-06-21T16:20:59+00:00 | Dr. Jill Ker Conway modeled for women a life divided into distinct chapters during her 83 years. All woman can learn from her example. | en | Kelsey Cleveland LLC | https://kelseycleveland.com/jill-ker-conway/ | Photo courtesy of Smith College
Your body of work is everything you create, contribute, affect, and impact. For individuals, it is the personal legacy you leave at the end of your life, including all tangible and intangible things you have created. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.
Pamela Slim, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together (p. 7)
A girl from the Outback, who grew up to become one of my role models, died this month. Dr. Jill Ker Conway served as the first female president of my alma mater, Smith College, from 1975 until 1985. Even though our paths only intersected the one time I heard her speak on campus, I followed her career. I felt a kinship with her due to our shared connection to both Australia and Smith College. Although not a student during her tenure, I benefitted from her legacy. Her death gave me the opportunity to reflect on the lessons I take from her life and career.
As both a scholar of woman’s history and in designing her own life, Dr. Ker Conway took the long-range view on women’s lives. She modeled for women a life divided into distinct chapters during her 83 years. All woman can learn from her body of work and the chapters of her life.
Fail fast and learn from it.
The Australian government passed Jill Ker Conway over for a job in the foreign service. Even though she graduated at the top of her class from the University of Sydney. The sexist hiring committee presumed that the attractive woman would marry and no longer want the job. Her failure to get that job was one of the best things that never happened to her.
Jill Ker Conway didn't acquire the mistaken belief that in life some people are winners while others are losers. Instead, she understood that life is an infinite game from which you can learn and improve. Only when the foreign service passed her over, did she look for an alternative solution for career and country.
With a bias to action, she briefly capitalized on her looks by studying modeling at a fashion school in London. Her next pivot took her to graduate studies in history at Harvard University. Her education at Harvard University led to her career as a trailblazing educator and her marriage to a fellow historian, John Conway.
Find a true partner for marriage.
I didn't marry until I met a man who was willing from the get-go to support my desire for a separate professional life. People always said to me, 'How lucky you are to have a husband who supports your separate career,' and I always say, 'It wasn't luck.' Young women are trained to think they should marry someone who is a great romantic love. You should really marry someone who respects your working self and creative ability and wants to enter into a relationship where each supports the other. And that's not the romantic story.
Jill Ker Conway in an excerpt from a 2002 Globe and Mail article
She and her husband took turns choosing where they should live, influenced by career opportunities. After their marriage, they moved to Toronto. Later, they moved to Northampton, Massachusetts for Dr. Ker Conway to assume the post of president of Smith College.
I am fortunate that I too found a true partner for marriage. Together, we fulfilled my longheld dream of living and working in Japan.
Modeled living life with different chapters
Scholar. Author. Advocate. Corporate board member.
Jill Ker Conway’s life proved that women don’t need to be limited by one career or mode of work. During each new chapter in her life, she leveraged existing skills and experiences. While, at the same time, developing new ones. She brought the same long-range view of feminist history to designing her life.
Scholar and educator
Jill Ker Conway earned her doctorate in history at Harvard University. Cambridge was a far cry from her early correspondence school education in the windswept Australian Outback. First, she worked as an academic with a focus on women’s history. Next, the trailblazing educator served as the first female president of Smith College from 1975 to 1985.
I am grateful for the following legacies of her tenure at Smith College:
All subsequent presidents of the college have been women.
She oversaw the construction and creation of the indoor track and tennis facilities. While playing tennis on those courts, a member of the athletic department encouraged me to join the team.
She championed the Ada Comstock Scholars Program, for untraditional aged students. These scholars inspired me with their eagerness to learn and finish their education.
Comparative Literature, which was my major, didn't exist at Smith until her tenure.
Three chapters after Smith College
Jill Ker Conway deliberately divided her life into thirds when her academic life ended.
WRITER
First, Jill Ker Conway devoted herself to writing her memoir trilogy. I immediately read her best-selling memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989) upon my acceptance at Smith College. In this book, she recounts her childhood on an isolated 32,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia. I liked knowing that a president of the college I would soon be attending had been born in Australia like me. She also brings us into her decision to leave her homeland in pursuit of a graduate degree. It's incredible that a girl from the Outback, who had not met another girl her age until she was age seven, went on to become president of a woman’s college.
I read her next two memoirs after college. True North, published in 1995, covered her academic career before Smith College. The final book in the trilogy, A Woman’s Education, published in 2002, addressed her term as president.
Jill Ker Conway also wrote fiction with Elizabeth Topham Kennan, the former president of Mount Holyoke. Under the pen name Clare Munnings, the two wrote a mystery/thriller titled Overnight Float set on a fictional college campus.
ADVOCATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.
Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway’s next pivot was to think about and advocate for the environment. She did so as a visiting professor in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
GOVERNANCE
In her final chapter, Jill Ker Conway used her governance expertise, gained at Smith College. She served on boards of both corporations, nonprofits, and foundations.
Her memoirs didn’t sugar coat the life of an ambitious woman.
Jill Ker Conway’s memoirs depicted the ups and downs of her life as an ambitious and intelligent woman. She doesn’t leave out the hard facts such as being discriminated against as a woman or her husband’s struggle with manic depression. She takes risks and has adventures in her quest for knowledge and career advancement.
With her experience as a memoirist and as a scholar of woman’s history, Jill Ker Conway further explored woman’s autobiographies in:
When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women
In Her Own Words: Women’s Memoirs From Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
She helped pave the way for aspiring female memoirists, such as myself, to share their truth.
How many chapters will be in my obituary?
The obituaries about Jill Ker Conway inspired me to ponder my life. How many chapters will be in my obituary? How do I want to be remembered by my husband, son, relatives, friends, and community? What will my legacy be?
Still curious?
If you, like me, are considering a new chapter in your life or career, I recommend the following books: | |||||
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After graduating from the University of Sydney with a degree in history and English in 1958, she discovered that there were few opportunities for women scholars in Australia. In 1960, she moved to the United States. In her 1994 memoir, True North, she narrates her life as a graduate student in history at Harvard experiencing culture shock, exhilaration at the joy of studying with gifted, dedicated professors and a compassionate concern for the education of women. Upon completion of her Ph.D. from Harvard in February 1969, she joined the faculty at the University of Toronto and served as its vice president of internal affairs from 1973 to 1975.
In 1975, she was named the first woman president of Smith College and served for ten years in that post. Since 1985 she has been a visiting scholar and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's program in Science, Technology and Society.
A naturalized citizen, Dr. Conway is active in the corporate world. She serves as chairman of the board of Lend Lease Corp. International, chairman of the board of the Kresge Foundation, vice chairman of the Knight Foundation and a director of a number of major companies, including Merrill Lynch, Colgate-Palmolive and Nike.
She holds 32 honorary doctorates from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In addition, she has authored seven books, including three volumes of anthology of women's autobiography from around the world, the most recent titled, In Her Own Words, and has contributed to numerous periodicals.
Dr. Conway was married to the late John J. Conway, Canadian war hero and professor of British history at Harvard. She resides in Boston.
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Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934. She resided in the Australian outback until the death of her father in 1945. At that time, Conway, her mother, and two brothers moved to Sydney, an industrious seaport city. Conway received most of her education in the neighboring private schools and university. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, after having dropped out for some time due to financial and emotional reasons. In 1960 she moved to the United States and received her PhD from Harvard University in 1969. Conway taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975, serving as Vice President from 1973 to 1975. She became the first woman president of Smith College in Massachusetts in 1975. Following Conway’s ten-year administration, she has received sixteen honorary doctorates from numerous other colleges and universities. Her success and personal definition are shaped by her childhood experiences and are detailed in her autobiography, The Road from Coorain. She is currently a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women’s History Month honoree by the National Women’s History Project.
The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain is an account of Conway’s journey from the rural Australian outback to the urban metropolis in Australia and then to the United States. Conway describes growing up in a house, named “Coorain”(which is an aboriginal word for “windy place”), with her mother, father, and two older brothers. The family endures several hardships, including the death of her father and one of her brothers. A devastating five-year drought causes the family’s business to fail and forces the remaining members of her family to relocate to Sydney. This misfortune shapes Conway’s character and development because she learns to overcome that adversity.
Conway’s autobiography describes her intellectual development and her realization of the ways in which society suppresses women (see Gender and Nation). For instance, Conway describes her experience in applying for a prestigious trainee-ship with the Department of External Affairs (the equivalent of foreign service) while she is at the University of Sydney; she is denied a position because of her gender. She states, “I could scarcely believe that my refusal was because I was a woman” (191). In addition to gender bias, Conway addresses the irrelevance of the education the British provided during their postcolonial rule of Australia. After she visits Britain, she realizes the true beauty of the Australian landscape and credits it with being a crucial factor in defining who she is. However, she admits that the British-imposed educational system in Australia ultimately fails her when she states, “I had come to an intellectual dead end in Australia”(233). For this reason, and to escape her mother’s attempt to thwart her ambition, Conway decides to pursue her graduate studies at Harvard University in the United States.
Jill Ker Conway stated in an interview for The New York Times, that her purpose in writing is “to communicate to people very directly about the authenticity of women’s motivation for work, about how a person strives to find some creative expression. The moral of my mother’s life was that while she had challenging work, she was indomitable and when she didn’t, she fell apart. It’s very much the vogue to talk about women as developing their moral consciousness through a connectedness to mother, but I think that’s misleading. My book is deliberately a story of separation- of independence and breaking away.”
British Influence in Australia
One of the issues that elicits strong emotions in Conway is the British influence in Australia. She is considered a postcolonial writer, which raises other issues concerning the term “postcolonial.” Richard Lever and James Wieland discuss the role of post-colonialism in Australian literature in their bibliography, Postcolonial Literatures in English: “The term ‘post-colonial’–in practice often used synonymously with ‘New Literatures in English’ and ‘Third World Literatures’–emerged in the late seventies as a counter to the hegemonic and universalizing implications of the traditional categories ‘Dominion’ and ‘Commonwealth’ literature, which implicitly privilege the British imperial ‘Center’ and grant authority status to its literary and cultural traditions. Post-colonialism acknowledges, indeed insists upon, the fact that literatures of the nations and territories affected by British imperialism remain engaged with British traditions” (ix).
In Her Own Words
Jill Conway chose the autobiographical format because autobiographies provide the ability to hear “the voice” of the author. In her anthology Written by Herself, Conway states: “Autobiographies by women excite particular interest today, because three important trends in late-twentieth-century culture intersect to heighten the resonance of this form of narrative. The rise of democracy has enlarged the focus of interest in the lives of other people-from monarch, great general, and political leader to the ordinary person -someone like ourselves. And, as feminists have insisted that battles for power, authenticity, moral stature, and survival occur as fiercely within the domestic as in the public arena of life, what was once seen as placidly domestic now offers the reader a world charged with great issues.”
Selected Additional Works by Jill Ker Conway
— A Woman’s Education. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2001.
—“Forward.” Women on Power: Leadership Redefined. Ed. Sue J.M. Freeman, Susan C. Bourque and Christine M. Shelton. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.
––Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. Ed. Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston and Leo Marx. Boston: University of Massachusetts, 1999.
–– Conway, Jill Ker, Clare Munnings and Elizabeth Topham Kennan. Overnight Float. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
––In Her Own Words: Women’s Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. New York: Vintage, 1999.
–– When Memory Speaks. New York: Vintage, 1998.
–– Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History. New York: Knopf, 1997.
—. Written by Herself, Volumes I and II. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. An anthology of the ever-changing statuses of women throughout history. It provides a firsthand account by women from different cultures and time periods (1800-present).
—. True North: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1994. A continuation of The Road from Coorain, this sequel traces Conway’s journey from Harvard, to her marriage, to her assumption of the presidency of Smith College in 1975.
—. The Politics of Women’s Education. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993. An international collection of works by women, addressing the changes that have occurred in women’s education in many countries throughout the world. The collection deals with issues women face and how they react to them.
—. Learning About Women. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1989. A collection of works by several different writers that provide an analysis of the shifting status of women in various parts of the world.
—. The First Generation of American Women Graduates. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Conway’s published thesis that she presented to the Harvard Department of History to receive her doctorate in American History.
—. Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? Nineteenth Century Feminist Ideas About Equality. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987.
—. The Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982.
—. Women Reformers and American Culture: 1870-1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971-2.
—. ”Merchants and Merinos.” Journal and Proceedings (Royal Australian Historical Society), vol 46, part 4, 1960, pp 206-223.
—. Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History. New York: Knopf , 1977.
Selected Bibliography
Conway, Jill. The Road from Coorain. New York: Knopf. 1989.
—. Learning About Women. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1989.
Heron, Kim. “Importance of Work for Women.” The New York Times Book Review. May 7, 1989. 3.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. “The Call of the Wind and the Kookaburra.” The New York Times Book Review. May 7, 1989. 3.
Lever, Richard, James Wieland, and Scott Findlay. Post Colonial Literatures in English. New York: G.K. Hall & Co. 1996. | |||||||
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Title: The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
ISBN: 0-679-72436-2
Publisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 11 August, 1990
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $12.00
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Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (38 reviews)
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Rating: 3
Summary: half decent
Comment: Jill Ker Conway was born in 1934 in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia. This memoir takes her from her birth up to her departure for graduate school in America; she would go on to become the first woman president of Smith College.
I very much liked the first section of the book, which describes her young girlhood on a 30,000 acre sheep station in the Australian outback. It has much of the elegiac yearning of books like How Green Was My Valley (1939)(Richard Llewellyn 1906-1983) and West With the Night (1941) (Beryl Markham 1902-1986). But as the book goes along it really takes on a sort of self pitying tone that I found a bit hard to take. In particular, she complains several times about how they weren't taught in school about how badly the aborigines were treated and the precipitating cause of her flight from Australia is an incident that she attributes to pure sexism. But in general, the story seems to be saying, "Look at all I achieved despite my hard scrabble upbringing out in the bush." Meanwhile, the girlhood she describes, while it does seem a little lonely and quite taxing physically, comes across as nearly idyllic and an ideal background for future self reliance and achievement. Add to that the relative wealth that her family eventually accumulates and the fortuitous appearance of scholarship money at opportune moments and I have trouble seeing what she has to complain about, other than a quarrelsome, but obviously lonely, mother.
She had me early, but lost me later--a half good book.
GRADE: C
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will stay will me always.
Comment: "The Western plains of New South Wales are grasslands." Grasslands that with their vastness, their cycles of drought and bounty, and above all their isolation, shaped a little girl who would one day become Smith College's first woman president.
This book has been marketed as a coming of age story for girls. It's surely that, and a remarkable one. It is also (for this American reader, anyway) a fascinating look into a culture of many similarities - but with subtle, yet sometimes startling differences. Something else it ought to be is required reading for any young woman (particularly any gifted young woman!) trapped by a co-dependent relationship with her birth family. Read it, and think about what this world loses every time a woman capable of Jill Ker Conway's lifetime achievements subsumes her talents and sacrifices her dreams because the code of her childhood demands it.
A book that will stay will me always.
--Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of "Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle"
Rating: 4
Summary: Mental claustrophobia of an era
Comment: I found this to be an uncomfortable read as I can totally empathise with the author, growing up in the same era and knowing the feeling of being out of sync with the older generation. I realise that this probably happens even now but at least these days, females have grown up knowing themselves to be the equal of males and without having to apologise for sometimes being smarter.Jill was fortunate to have a very good education but was also responsible for earning Australian government scholarships which are awarded solely on the good marks earned in exams( not by good luck as one reviewer implied).Even so, she was, not so subtley reminded that a woman's primary function was as a wife and mother and as a mere adjunct to her husband and even brothers. This state of affairs probably existed in all cultures at that time, and not just i Australia, but even as I read, that old feeling of suffocation was present...the feeling that you wanted more but of what, you couldn't say and your parents certainly didn't understand either.
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In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.
She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents’ thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a “man’s job” of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband’s sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency.
We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free.
About The Road from Coorain
In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.
She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents’ thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a “man’s job” of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband’s sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency.
We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free. | |||
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] | null | [] | 2019-05-06T05:35:20+00:00 | It is important to acknowledge the significant role educational relations have played in furthering the bond between Australia and the United States. | en | Australian Institute of International Affairs | https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/70-years-australia-us-educational-relations/ | The focus of Australia-US relations is most often on mutual security and economic ties. But it is also important to acknowledge the significant role that educational linkages and exchanges have played in furthering the bond between the two countries.
In any analysis of Australian foreign policy the United States occupies a prominent place. Be it on occasion of the upcoming elections in Australia or the role of Australia in Asia-Pacific geopolitics, and regardless of the differences or similarities in attitudes about key issues between Australians and Americans, Australia and the United States greatly matter to each other in several ways.
In defence, record of Australian and American troops fighting together goes as far back as the Battle of Hamel in France (1918), decades before the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries took place in 1940 and the Australia, New Zealand & United States (ANZUS) Security Treaty was signed in 1951. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the ANZUS Treaty is “Australia’s pre-eminent security treaty alliance and enjoys broad bipartisan support.”
As for the economy, the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement that came into effect in 2005 served to enhance an already robust binational economic relationship. The United States is Australia’s largest investor (ten times greater than China) and its second largest trading partner. At the same time, the United States is the single largest destination of outbound Australian investment, with over a quarter of all Australian overseas investment going to the United States (more than seven times the amount going to China).
However, the first treaty signed between the two countries was an “Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America for the Use of Funds made available in accordance with the Agreement on Settlement of Lend-Lease, Reciprocal Aid, Surplus War Property and Claims of 7 June 1946,” (also known as the “Fulbright Agreement”) which entered into force on the 26 November 1949. Thanks to this agreement, more than 5,100 Australians and Americans have received scholarships to undertake academic degrees or research visits in the other’s country since 1950. According to DFAT, approximately 11,000 Americans were studying at Australian education institutions in 2017, with 2,500 Australians pursuing full-time academic studies in the United States at approximately the same time. Data from the Institute of international Education indicate that the number of Americans studying in Australia in 2018 was 9,112, while that of Australians studying in the United States in 2016 was 5,061.
Among other icons of the educational partnership between the United States and Australia are: the Australian-American Fulbright Commission (formerly the “Australian-American Educational Foundation” and originally the “United States Educational Foundation in Australia”); the United States Study Centre, opened in 2007 at the University of Sydney with a AU $25 million endowment and the Perth USAsia Centre, opened at the University of Western Australia in 2012, with the Australian government announcing an additional AU $12 million for these centres in 2018; the American Australian Association, the Australian American Association; and the Australian American Leadership Dialogue.
Numbers are important, but the quality of the educational exchanges is highly relevant too, especially in terms of the transformational impact these exchanges have not only on the individuals undertaking them but also for their countries of origin and adoption. Among many possible examples, two clearly illustrate this point.
Jill Ker Conway was born in New South Wales in 1934 and completed a history degree at the University of Sydney in 1958. A Fulbright scholarship allowed her to move to the United States in 1960, where she earned a PhD at Harvard in 1969. After her marriage to John Conway, they both accepted teaching positions in Canada. Jill eventually became a dean (1970) and then the first female vice president of the University of Toronto (1973), and president of Smith College in Massachusetts (1975). She authored bestselling memoirs The Road from Coorain, True North and A Woman’s Education. In 2013 she was both awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and appointed an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia by the Australian Government for “eminent service to the community, particularly women, as an author, academic and through leadership roles with corporations, foundations, universities and philanthropic groups.” Conway died in Boston last in 2018.
Brian Schmidt was born in Montana in 1967. He received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and earned an Astronomy Master’s degree (1992) and a PhD (1993) from Harvard University. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013. In 2011 he was awarded (together with three other researchers) the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Schmidt is currently the vice-chancellor, president and chief executive officer of the Australian National University, and continues his academic activity there as a distinguished professor of astronomy.
Australian-American defence and economic relations are evidently as significant in the life of both countries today as they were in the twentieth century. But the importance of their academic, research and cultural exchanges, as attested in the stories of thousands of Australians and Americans on both sides of the Pacific to this day, should not be overlooked. It is these interactions that provide the best hope for a constructive and fruitful relationship between our two countries in the twentieth-first century.
Dr Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira is the alumni relations manager at the Australian-American Fulbright Commission and an adjunct lecturer at the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has sixteen years of experience in international education, six of them at Fulbright.
This article is published under a Creative Commons License and may be republished with attribution. | |||||
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PROFESSOR JILL KER CONWAY, AUTHOR, "WHEN MEMORY SPEAKS: REFLECTIONS ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY" Well, I have been traveling around with my publicist from Alfred Knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and I started to explain to the audience before I read something about the genre, something about its history and where I thought my own work fitted in with it. And the audience would always get very interested and ask a lot of questions, and finally, my editor said one day, `Well, why don't you do a book about this?' So I thought it was a wonderful idea and I--I had to do a great deal of reading of 19th century memoirs that I hadn't read before in order to do the book, but I had great fun doing it.
LAMB: I have a copy of something you'll...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Mm.
LAMB: ...you'll recognize, "The Road from Coorain," your--What?--memoir or autobiography?
PROF. KER CONWAY: It's a memoir. It's my childhood and growing up in the outback of Australia and my education in Sydney. And it's definitely a memoir. It evokes the life and times a lot more than being a full-dressed autobiography.
LAMB: And--and what impact did this have--your--your memoir have on your whole idea of what memoirs are about?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I wrote it for three reasons. First of all, because I was tired of all the Australian movies that celebrated male heroes in the Australian outback, the worst being "Crocodile Dundee," and I wanted to write a story that had a female heroine, my mother, and a female narrative voice, mine.
The second reason was that I've been teaching since I was 23, so that's a very long time now. And if I'm teaching a young man and talking with him about his plans for his future, what he'll do after graduation, I can always find just dozens of memoirs by men--how I founded General Motors, how I rescued the Chrysler Corporation, how I discovered DNA--which will maybe inflate the power of the narrator to control his own destiny considerably. But on the other hand, it'll be a working, sort of, road map for a young man to think about how he might plan a future. But if I am talking to a young woman, who's just finishing college and thinking about her life ahead, there are really very few memoirs about a woman's education that will help her think about it, and also, very few that deal with how a young adult woman sets about planning her life. And so I wanted to write a story that would be a useful kind of road map for somebody going through that process of graduating from college and thinking about the future. And so that was a second important motive.
And then the third one was feminism today is expressed in rhetoric that's being so politicized over issues like abortion and the whole question of pornography, that most people just switch off. So I wanted to talk in a narrative voice that drew the reader into the story, male or female, and made them experience, through the story, some of the central issues of--of feminism--what happens, really, when a society is unjust in its dealings with women. And in--in that narrative, you see my mother, who has been such a powerful, very creative, likable, attractive woman sink into despair and neurotic mental illness, mainly because the world she lives in doesn't have a dignified idea of how a widow lives or what she does. And you also see me run into a lot of discrimination. And I wanted that to be told in terms that were very faithful to the important men in my life, father, brothers, teachers, lovers, but made it very clear that the story wasn't a romance. It's not about relationships with men; it's about how a woman gets her life under control and makes important choices.
LAMB: By the way, what's Coorain?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Coorain is the name of my family's sheep station in southwestern New South Wales, a very remote, arid area. The word means `windy place.' It's an aboriginal word. And it's the land that my mother and father took up as pioneers before I was born, when they were in their early 30s. And it's a--a story about what a l--beautiful world they built for a child to grow up in and then how that world is destroyed, mainly as a result of--of climate and Australia's recurrent droughts. But it's also destroyed because my parents, unwittingly, are agents of the destruction. They bring in sharp-hooved animals into a very delicate, arid countryside where they--they just destroy the root system of the plants. And so the country turns into desert.
LAMB: The book was written in 1989.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yeah.
LAMB: Out in paperback. And you can get the hardback, even. I found that in a store.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yeah.
LAMB: How many years does this book--your--your memoir cover?
PROF. KER CONWAY: It covers the first 25 years of my life. I'm 25 on the last page, when I'm walking out across the tarmac to get on a plane and come to the United States.
LAMB: What year did you leave Australia?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I left in 1960.
LAMB: And since that time, you've been president of Smith College for 10 years?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: Why did you leave that?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Oh, well, I--I had a--an agreement with my husband, was jointly arrived at, that every 10 years, the other person would get to say where you lived. And that way, nobody's career would be primary and the other one's secondary, nor would we have to have a commuting marriage. So the first 10 years of our married life was spent in Canada, and then he said, `I'll go wherever you want to go.' We spent 10 years at Smith. And then it was his turn again. We went to--to live in Boston, and I started teaching part-time at MIT.
But I really wanted to spend that time getting back my old writing style. I used to write a lot when I was an undergraduate at the University of Sydney. I stopped when I got to Harvard and did a PhD. I started writing for other historians and I began to write short articles and very scholarly academic prose. Then I became a university administrator, started writing bureaucratic prose, you know, memoranda to this person and that. So when I came to have the time again to go back to the writing I wanted to do, my style was gone. I--I couldn't write in anything but that terrible bureaucratic voice. So I knew I'd have to write something that was very close to the bone and got deep into my psyche in order to get my style back. So that's why I started, among other reasons, and it did come back.
LAMB: Small point, but I notice the difference in "The Road to Coorain," you dedicate the book to John...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...and in this new book, it's in memory of John.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. He died just about three years ago now.
LAMB: And where did you meet him?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I met him when I came to Harvard as a graduate student, and I didn't understand the system very well. I was in a big hurry to get through the pr--preparatory part of doing a PhD, in which you take courses and then you present yourself for a general examination on your understanding of the field you've chosen. And mine was 19th and 20th century American history. And I was in a hurry. And I'm also extremely compulsive, as--as a person, about studying, so I knew that if I gave in to the standard pattern in which graduate students took two, three, four years to prepare for their general examination, I'd just be so compulsive about it that I'd never get it done.
So I decided I'd have my general examination within days of passing all my preparatory courses. And I didn't understand that if I did that, I lost my scholarship and I had to get a teaching job. And so I hurriedly went to the Harvard history department to ask for a teaching job, and they said, `Oh, yes, there's one. You can go and be a teaching assistant in John Conway's course.' So I did, and that's how we met.
LAMB: How long were you married?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Thirty-three years.
LAMB: Any children?
PROF. KER CONWAY: No, alas. Not for lack of trying, but we just didn't manage that.
LAMB: Now in this book, did you ever total up how many different authors you talk about?
PROF. KER CONWAY: You know, I didn't count them. I've--I've often counted the ones in the anthologies I've done, but I didn't count them.
LAMB: Well, let me pick one...
PROF. KER CONWAY: OK.
LAMB: ...and have you talk about it. One of those that we know here on this network is Katharine Graham.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: Why did you pick her autobiography or memoir to write about?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Well, the main theme of "When Memory Speaks" is about the differences between the way, in different time periods, it's thought appropriate for a man or a woman to tell their life story. And in the opening chapters, I trace the way--the romantic myth about a female life shapes how women tell their life history. And the romantic myth, just to talk about it in almost parody form, makes the heroine wonderfully, emotionally finely tuned. She's usually beautiful or attractive or got some special quality. And she's carried by fate or destiny into meeting the romantic hero. There are some complications to the romance, but eventually, they marry, and then, you know, 19th century women's novels used to finish--or memoirs, `And so, reader, I married him.' And her history ends at the point of the marriage and is subsumed within his.
And for a--a strong or a powerful woman to try and present herself in this romantic vein, she has to conceal all her motivation for power, to exercise choice and influence over her destiny and to make herself seem like this lovely person to whom things just happened. And I was fascinated by Katharine Graham's memoir because she rescued a faltering family media enterprise, served very well as its president and as publisher of The Washington Post and clearly exercised a great deal of judgment about how that enterprise was run. But in her presentation of herself in her autobiography, she really lets you think that she's just this nice suburban woman who doesn't enjoy being thrust into this role and is always being badgered by her advisers and scarcely making a decision of her own. And she--she uses a phrase, `I heard my voice saying,' as though it's another person. And so I thought she was a wonderful example. She's a woman I admired greatly, and I'm so interested that even somebody who has exercised the power she has, after all, deciding to publish the Pentagon Papers, deciding to back the reporters who broke the Watergate story--despite that, she still feels obliged to present herself that way.
LAMB: Do you know her, by the way?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. Yes.
LAMB: Just before we opened the cameras up here and the microphones, you were talking about coming from a board meeting...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...and I believe--and I don't know that--but you are on quite a few boards, aren't you?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, I am.
LAMB: How many?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Six. Six for-profit boards and then hospitals, colleges, schools, foundations.
LAMB: Would you mind naming the six?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I'm a director of Merrill Lynch, Colgate-Palmolive, Arthur D. Little Consulting Company, a small high-tech company called Allen Telecom, Nike and an Australian company called Lend Lease International, which is a global property and real estate company.
LAMB: How many days a year are you in meetings on boards like that, the commercial boards?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Oh, goodness me. It's probably half my life.
LAMB: What do you think of it?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I enjoy it very much because, remember, I'm a historian. I've spent a lot of my life studying economic history, and it's fascinating for me to see how contemporary organizations that have to make a profit work and to contrast those, which are not entrepreneurial in the exact meaning of the word, but li--live and operate in the non-profit sector, and they must always generate a surplus in order to be able to manage and improve themselves, but are really working not to return to shareholders but to return to society. And so, it fascinates me.
LAMB: As you know, you write about a Merrill...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...by the name of James Merrill...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...who has something to do with the Merrill Lynch.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, he's son of the founder of Merrill Lynch, son of Charles Merrill. And, of course, one of America's greatest poets.
LAMB: Is he still alive?
PROF. KER CONWAY: No, he died--oh, seven or eight years ago.
LAMB: And what was his memoir?
PROF. KER CONWAY: His memoir is called "A Different Person." It's one of my favorites, first of all, because he's a great writer; secondly, because it describes the life of a young man, who's gay, coming to terms with his sexuality. And it's a story of his struggle to become a mature person and to somehow escape from being the child of so enormously a--successful a man and yet respect and admire what his father does. So it's beautifully written. He has a wonderful talent for prose. There's a wonderful passage in it in which he describes being in Rome with his father, who's going for an audience with the pope. And his father sets out in the morning dressed in an absolutely white silk suit, so Charles Merrill greets the pope clad in the same color. And James Merrill describes it as a confluence of Jupiter and Saturn. It's wonderful language.
LAMB: What was his relationship to his father?
PROF. KER CONWAY: He finishes his story describing his affection and respect for his father. Of course, he has the standard youthful rebellions, but he comes to think of him as a--a very benivol--benevolent influence in his life.
LAMB: Is there anything left in Merrill Lynch of the Merrill family?
PROF. KER CONWAY: There's no immediate kin of the Merrill family, but the--there were, until quite recently. And the heritage of Charlie Merrill stays very strong in the firm. There are stories told about him, people recall how he talked about himself and about the business, and it's quite common for people to begin a presentation about the firm today, starting out with a--a quotation from him. So his--his spirit is very much there.
LAMB: Right next to the Merrill story in your book is a--an author that I was first introduced to when we did a special on Oxford. And that was when Mr. Clinton came into office...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Uh-huh.
LAMB: ...the president, and we went over there and did a special, and one of the books I read to get ready for it was Jan Morris' book on Oxford.
PROF. KER CONWAY: On Oxford, yes.
LAMB: Now you paint an interesting picture of this human being.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: Tell us about Jan Morris.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Well, Jan Morris began life as James Morris. He--he--she tells in the story the experience of being, even as a very small child, convinced that the--the person who inhabited this body, which happened to have male genitalia, was female. And the story is a narrative of how James Morris eventually became Jan Morris by having an--an actual surgical effort to create female genitalia. And what interested me about the story was that the narrative is told very much in a male mode until maybe the last chapter--maybe chapter and a half, in which the newly emerged Jan Morris begins to feel that she can't handle ordinary mechanical tasks or--she describes not really liking to draw--to open the wine or park the car and all--all those other things. And she also describes the shock of discovering that in this new form, people condescend to her and explain things that she understands very well, in a very condescending way. But she's happy because she feels she's got the right physical body to match her inner psyche.
And to me, she's very interesting because there is a school of--of feminist thought today that is what we call essentialist and which believes that there is, somehow or other, an essential female or male psyche in--in all of us. I don't happen to agree with that. I think our identities are very much socially conditioned and that, really, biologically, apart from the arrangements for reproduction, our minds and our mental powers and--and physical capabilities are very similar. But Jan Morris is a wonderful example of someone who believes the opposite, and because she does, she has no personal history to recount after becoming female. She's found the right essence for her substance, and there's nothing more to develop. So the story gets pretty flat after that.
LAMB: Well, there is a line that I wanted to ask you about, though I don't know if you have any more information on it. `She now lives as a woman...'
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: `...with a female partner, and clearly doesn't want to think of the relationship as lesbian.'
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. I--I--I--that's just my own observation, but c--that's clear in the book, very clear.
LAMB: The--there's--the next chapter is Grimm Tales.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: Now what's that mean?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Well, I was thinking about Grimm's Fairy Tales, because a lot of the victim memoirs that we are reading today read like fairy tales. There are wicked parents and much misunderstood and mistreated children, and there is a narrative drive in all of those stories to rediscover that parent and, somehow or other, even up the scales or there's a preternaturally wonderful parent, mostly a mother, who is being celebrated by an adoring child. And those are--those are story categories out of fairy tales. Life is much more complex than that.
LAMB: You picked--a couple I want to ask you about--Rick Bragg of The New York Times.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. Wonderful story. It's about Bragg's childhood in poverty in the South.
LAMB: This was just in 1997, w...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. Yes.
LAMB: Yeah.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Very recent. And he is the child of a wonderful struggling mother who is married to a no-good, unreliable, alcoholic, brutal male who beats her and abuses her and the children. But she remains faithful to him and goes back whenever she's invited back to him, when he abandons--after he's abandoned them. And she labors mightily to support the two sons. And one son, Rick Bragg, escapes through his gifts and talents and one son remains in that imp--world of poverty, doing hard physical labor all his life. And Rick Bragg, the narrator, wants to celebrate this remarkable mother, as he becomes more and more successful as a journalist.
And he is--he writes in a narrative style that is not unlike the way women are obliged to present themselves in--as romantic heroines do, because he attributes his success to luck. It's just luck that he happened to get a job working as a sports reporter for a local paper. It's just luck that he's in the right place to move up in the journalistic world. It's even luck when he makes it to the Nieman Fellows Program at Harvard. And so he, in a way, treats his life as though he's not personally responsible for having abandoned the family and moved away, although he stays true to the South in wanting to report Southern stories. And I think that that's characteristic of--of men born in extreme poverty. It's almost too dangerous, psychologically, to think about striking out for extraordinary success. And so you attribute causation to luck.
But I don't think there's all that much luck in life. We are caught in a very complex web of causation, and we do exert our will and deploy our talents to make the most of that. And so I was very much struck by the way he presents his story, downplaying his talents and--and o--overemphasizing the role of luck in his life. And I'm also very struck by the portrait of the mother because it's a very conventional and traditional one of a suffering, nurturing maternal female. And I always wonder: What would the narrative voice of his mother be, and would she see herself as this suffering and much-abused person or would she see herself as triumphant? And so it's doing Bragg an injustice, but there is a theme in some of these memoirs celebrating a wonderfully nurturing mother, written by sons, which is--is deeply conservative and really pr--shows you women, you know, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
LAMB: You point in that book that his high school education was so poor, he never--he--he'd never have made it into a good college or a strong journalism school, so it was athletics and his passion for it that opened the way up.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: The reason I bring this up is that here's a man who got to The New York Times, got a Pulitzer Prize...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yeah.
LAMB: ...and has written a well-known...
PROF. KER CONWAY: A wonderful memoir.
LAMB: You--you've been up there in the Northeast...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...running a college called Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, for 10 years.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: How did you get there?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Well, I came to Harvard Graduate School, determined to study American history. I grew up in Australia, wanted to understand my native country, which has a similar history to the United States; a white settler population occupying a continent, developing a unique and very idiosyncratic culture, the white population convinced it was theirs, although they were displacing native population. And in the Australia of my growing up--it's different today, but in my growing up, we studied only British history, British and European history. We didn't study our own country. It was thought of as just totally derivative from the United Kingdom. And I knew it was different because I had grown up in this very remote outback, with the whole itinerant agricultural laborer population, very, very different experience; closer to Texas, in many ways, than something British.
And I was fascinated by the way Americans wrote the history of their country. So I wanted to study American history, originally thinking I'd go back to Australia and become a new kind of historian there. While I was at Harvard, I met and married John Conway, who's a Canadian, and we went, instead, to Canada, to Ontario, where he was taking part in founding a new Canadian university. And I taught at the University of Toronto. I continued working, both teaching and writing American history, and particularly, the history of American women and the history of higher eduction.
And in the course of doing that, I became convinced that the great difference between Australia and the United States or the United Kingdom and the United States was the very strong women's institutions that this culture developed in the 19th century--philanthropic ones, social service ones, schools, colleges and so forth; universities--Bryn Mawr has a graduate school. And so I was very interested in how those institution--institutions were founded and what impact they'd had on women's position in American society.
At the same time, at the University of Toronto, since I've never been able to keep my hands out of politics, I guess I got involved in a variety of political fights at the University of Toronto, including one about equitable treatment of women. I had the usual experience of women academics of being passed over for promotion, while all my male colleagues were promoted. And I discovered, at the same time, that I'd been paid much less than they, although I worked every bit as hard and had published, in a scholarly sense, and taught just as much and served the university in a variety of administrative capacities. So I got really mad. And I had the decision reversed and had my compensation corrected.
And then I got to thinking, `Well, it was easy for me to have that fight. I'm happily married. I've got a husband who'd support me. Wouldn't hurt me too much if I had to leave and go find another job. I'd easily find one.' But then I thought about the women who were single mothers or who were caring for elderly parents and couldn't really stand up and fight on their own. So I thought I'd call a meeting of all the women faculty at the university and talk about my experience and see if theirs were similar and find out what we wanted to do about it. I called the meeting, just about everybody came, and they told me stories way, way worse than--than my own. And so we tried to get the faculty association, which was male-led, to help us work with the administration to correct this problem. But they said, `Oh, there's no discrimination against women here. All the differences are differences in performance.'
So the University of Toronto, where I was, was a publicly funded institution. And the Legislature happened to be holding hearings on its upcoming budgets. So we went and put our names down at the legis--to speak at the legislative hearing and told our story. And the university's estimates were not adopted, and they were told that they wouldn't be until the situation was corrected. So all of a sudden, I had gotten myself in a fight with larger implications than I usually mixed--got mixed up in.
And the long and the short of it was that when I--when there was a new administration at the university, I was asked to become one of the university's vice presidents and I started out, having never been so much as a department chairman, being involved in the administration of a very large Canadian university. So I was somebody who had studied the history of higher education and women's education in the United States and had major academic administrative responsibility. And so that led to my being invited to be a candidate for the Smith presidency and I didn't originally intend to take it, if offered, but then I went to visit the campus and met this wonderful population of women students, and I was hooked. So that's how I got there.
LAMB: Is it still all women's?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, indeed. It is.
LAMB: Now they--I can't make the best connection, because I didn't bring the book with me but Arthur Sla--Sla--Schlesinger...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...has written about Smith in his little book that discusses multiculturalism and political correctness. And he says at Smith, there is some kind of a code, and I wanted to ask you whether this came before or after you were there, where there were--put labels and--and be critical of people for--they call it ableism and lookism and heterosexism. Are you familiar with those...
PROF. KER CONWAY: I know what those...
LAMB: ...terms?
PROF. KER CONWAY: ...words mean, but I--I--I'm not familiar with this at Smith, no.
LAMB: And the idea was that people were asked to be very careful about the way they talked about other people and using the language that you do, you know, if somebody is not particularly good-looking or all that. Is--is it a--is Smith a politically correct place in the--in...
PROF. KER CONWAY: You know, I've managed to live all my life in the academic world and never run into political correctness. I see it today in many applications to the foundations on whose boards I serve, which will be couched in language that refers to the differently abled and things like that. But I have never encountered it in the academic world. I think that there is, at Smith, a very strong feminist concern with making sure that women are not called girls, that they are spoken about very respectfully. And certainly anyone who arrives on campus and talks condescendingly about women will be hissed and called to account for it. But this other obsession with using totally neutral language, I--I've never encountered. Could be that there is a--a--a--a group of the student body at Smith who has these concerns, but if so, I've never met them.
LAMB: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is one of your subjects in your book under the heading of--Chapter 5 is Feminist Plots.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: What's that chapter about, and what was she about?
PROF. KER CONWAY: The chapter is about the way in which women who were among the founders of the feminist movement in the United States and in the United Kingdom tell their life histories, because after all, these are all political activists of the most extreme kind, quite far out on the spectrum of behavior in their generation. So one wouldn't think that they would be able to tell their life histories as romances. And what interests me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton is that she moves between talking about her life in romantic terms and talking about it in straight-out political terms. And so it produces a very strange and uneven kind of narrative.
LAMB: When did she live?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a--a--an early 19th century American educated in very demanding secondary school but tremendously troubled by the fact that her brother could go away to Union College, but there's no college for women that she can attend. And she's infuriated by that and even more troubled by that when the brother dies very young and Stanton tries to take his place in her father's esteem. Her father is a very prominent, well-known and successful lawyer a--in--up in New York state. And she comes to realize that no matter what she achieves it won't be satisfying to her father because it's being achieved by a female child.
And she marries a member of the abolitionist movement whom she meets at the house of a--an uncle and cousin against the family's will, which is pretty feisty for a woman in the 1830s and '40s. And the--the couple go on their honeymoon to England, and she goes to the Anti-Slavery Convention of 1844 in London with her husband and finds, to her astonishment, that the women members of the American delegation were--were not to be seated at the convention and not allowed to speak, although the abolition movement in the United States is female-led in a very striking degree.
So that put Stanton in contact with a lot of women who were very politically active and concerned in the abolition movement, and it gives her an opportunity to discuss the political disabilities under which women live in the United States and in the United Kingdom. And that makes her vow, along with some of her abolitionist friends, that one day they'll call a national convention of women to discuss women's rights. And that time is, of course, postponed a little in Stanton's life by the fact that she starts a family, lives in Boston with her husband.
But eventually, she and Lucretia Mott, the great Quaker leader of the abolitionist movement, do get together, and they do call a--a women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, which is a well-known historical moment in feminist history, in which they write a women's declaration of independence, which Stanton mainly drafted. And it's a claim not just for political rights for women but for economic rights for women also. And that launches her on a career as a--a women's rights speaker and polemicist, and that shapes her life.
But she tells the first part of her life as though she were a romantic heroine, changes tone to talk about the unhappiness of her marriage and the joys she has in fighting for women's rights. But then the closing chapters of her memoir revert to the romantic mode. She's just back from a tour as a public speaker delivering a series of lectures on the inequities of marriage, and then she shifts gears within a page and starts describing in very romantic terms the wedding of her daughter, which she describes as though she were the most saccharine Victorian writer. So she's a woman who switches style and tone and mood depicting a person who's having trouble telling her life story because it doesn't fit the categories of the world around her.
LAMB: Do you--do you worry more about writing or about the story?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I worry about both. I worry about both. You--you can always tell when the narrator is having trouble by what happens to the style and the structure of the plot. And the story is really only well-told if it's well-written. It can be very striking, but if it's--if it's told ineptly, it doesn't--doesn't grab your attention.
LAMB: Do you write at any special time of the day?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, I write between 5 in the morning and 8:00. Given all the other things I do in my life, the phone starts going around 8:30, and I'm probably on the run the rest of the day. So I get up, start writing at 5, finish at 8. Whenever I get home at night, I print out what I've done in the morning, start to edit it, and that means that I can put those changes in in the morning and get straight back into the story, no matter what's intervened in the daytime.
LAMB: Does it matter how you feel at that hour of the morning how you write?
PROF. KER CONWAY: No, you just gotta make yourself get up and sit down and away you go.
LAMB: Are you fast?
PROF. KER CONWAY: No, I don't think so. I'm a very painstaking writer, probably rewrite every sentence five or six times.
LAMB: How long did it take you to write this book?
PROF. KER CONWAY: About nine months.
LAMB: And how long did it take you to read all the books you had to read, or had you read them?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I'd read most of them. The only--the ones I hadn't read were the 19th century men's memoirs. I--I did that sort of while I was going along. I did that dur--over a summer. And I don't have a very heavy meeting schedule in the summer. So...
LAMB: And how many books have you written?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I've written five and published also a number of anthologies.
LAMB: And "The Road to Coorain" was what book?
PROF. KER CONWAY: It's number three. The others were history books and are not--not aimed at a general reader. "The Road from Coorain" is the--the first one really aimed at a--at a general readership.
LAMB: How many of these did you sell? Do you remember?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Oh, gosh, it's still going strong. I think it's around 500,000 or 600,000 in this country at the moment.
LAMB: And what is it that people say to you that means the most?
PROF. KER CONWAY: The thing that moves me the most is to get a letter from a young woman who says, wherever she may be in the world, `You've told my story, and now I know how to tackle my life,' or from women of any age who say, `Once I read that book, I got so much insight on my own relationships and my own life that I'm going to be able to live it differently.'
LAMB: You close this book on memoir by talking about your father and something you have in common with him.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. Yes. I--my father died when I was 10. The death and its effect on our family is described in--in "The Road from Coorain." The r--circumstances of his death were so troublesome that for most of my life I believed that he may have committed suicide. He was found drowned in a--a large dam on our property. And at the time, he was deeply depressed, and so we all thought that he must have done that deliberately because we had no inkling that he had any illness of any kind.
But a few years back, I began to discover the--to suffer from a--a condition called atrial fibrillation, which is an--a kind of electronic set of signals in the heart that go wrong and tell it to beat fast and--and to--to beat--it's pumping in rather than pumping out. And it's a condition that's well-treatable medically today but wasn't so easy 50 years ago when my father died.
And lo and behold, my brother has become an amateur family historian, and he found my father's medical records. My father was a--a veteran of the 1914-'18 war and was badly injured, and so he received a--a military pension. And so all his medical records were with the--the Australian war commission. And lo and behold, my brother found the record of--of the same problem. And, of course, if it's not treated, it can cause you to have a stroke or have a heart s--spasm, which turns into chaos and is a real heart attack. So it looks as though my father may have had a--a death from natural circumstances, which really changes the way I look at the relationship to him in my early childhood.
LAMB: Does it make you worry about your own heart?
PROF. KER CONWAY: No, 'cause it's very well-treated these days. They didn't have the same kind of medication and ability to deal with quirky nerves in the heart at h--at--at--in his time.
LAMB: How--how many years ago did your mother die?
PROF. KER CONWAY: My mother died in 1977, so 21 years ago.
LAMB: So she knew about you being president of Smith College.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, she did.
LAMB: What do you think if she saw you today, a well--you know, you're an author and people buy your books, and you're on six boards and teaching at MIT...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Sh--she'd be--she'd be just as disapproving as she always was. I think it's a very ambiguous experience for a woman who--who knows she's right and has not been able to get a good education herself to watch her daughter receive an absolutely first-rate one. On the one hand, you want to give it to the child, and on the other, it's just really so hard to bear that they have it and you don't. And she did not approve of how I lived my life, was not impressed with me becoming president of Smith. I think she just couldn't bear it. And I've now, as a much older person, watched so many other families bring the first child to college when they didn't go. And--and I can see how ambiguous that experience is.
LAMB: And how old were you when you lost your brother?
PROF. KER CONWAY: I was 13.
LAMB: And is your other brother still alive?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, he is. He's the person who found my father's medical records.
LAMB: Oh, that's right. You write about a person in here who was a chief executive officer who--who wrote a book, very successful book. And I want to combine you talking about him, Lee Iacocca...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...and what you see as you serve on these boards about someone like him who's in the chief executive spot. And--and do you--and do--do any of the companies that you serve on have a woman as their chief executive officer?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Ah-ha, wonderful questions, all of them. Lee Iacocca first. He is a person I think, you know, a--absolutely encapsulated in everybody's mind as the person who rescued a failing Chrysler Corporation. And I was interested in his memoir because his is the s--the story of somebody who's a salesman, although he starts out life as an engineer and is given the opportunity to work in the engineering side of the Ford Motor Company. He says, `Engineering is really dull, and it's not really where the action is in the automobile industry; it's in marketing.' And he wants to become an absolutely first-rate marketer.
And so the early story of his life is the successful boy from an immigrant family who makes his way through college and gets a first-rate education, making his way in a corporate world. And Iacocca's way carries him right up to being president of the national division of the Ford Motor Company, and eventually, it gets him in second place to Henry Ford II.
And all through this narrative, he has always had in his own mind that he can make anything happen. And the story is narrated in terms of one success after another, one bright idea after another, the group of talented people he drew around him who he was able to guide as a--as a leader and be successful in any enterprise they undertake. And he's just never allowed for the fact that he's not really in control of his own destiny and the person who is in control of that top spot at the F--at the Ford Motor Company is Henry Ford II. And so he's utterly devastated when Henry Ford fires him, and you would think that that would make a man reflect on causation in his life and look around a little at--at all the circumstances in his life that he can't control.
And, of course, he doesn't; he simply goes to the Chrysler Corporation expecting to be able to do the same thing. And once again, he attracts a great pool of talented people around him, expects to succeed. And, of course, he can't because the energy crisis of the early '70s comes along, and the market for automobiles collapses, and his company is really not able to manage financially and can't even meet its--its loan payments. And so he has to beg the support of the--the US Treasury, and he goes off to Washington to plead for it and again doesn't see himself as somebody who's caught in this very complex set of events and circumstances he doesn't control. He's just impatient that he can't persuade them to do what he wants as fast as he'd like.
So at the end of his story, when he has finally, through the help of the US Treasury and the bailout of that loan, being able to revive the fortunes of the Chrysler Corporation, he's still thinking about the next phase in his destiny, and he--which he intends to make, and his closing chapter sounds very much like the early stages of a presidential campaign. And, in fact, his candidacy was muted for a little while in--in the period after his great success at Chrysler.
So his--his story to me is a fascinating one, a very intelligent man who simply is never able to look around and see what complex network of--of causation he's enmeshed in in which he can have some influence. But he really has to recognize some of the determining forces as well. What...
LAMB: Let me just ask you this. It turned out to be one of the largest-selling hardback...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...non-fiction books in history, two million plus.
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: Why do you think it sold so...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Oh, because it--it's told in the conventional mode of the American success story, and every American wants to believe that through hard work and talent and industry, you can make it to the absolute pinnacle of success. And nobody really wants to admit, in a country devoted to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that sometimes you can't control circumstances and you run up against causal forces in your life that you are absolutely not able to shift. So it's the kind of story every loves to read.
LAMB: The other questions: On the boards you serve--on the six boards...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...are there any other women that serve on those boards?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes, on several of them, there are other women. Some of them, there--there are two other women. So that's a pattern which is changing. W...
LAMB: And how about--are there any top officers?
PROF. KER CONWAY: In some of them, indeed, there are, executive vice presidents. Few at the moment, but many more on the way.
LAMB: So what have you noticed about the CEOs of the companies that you...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Well, to...
LAMB: ...boards you serve on?
PROF. KER CONWAY: ...to me, the most striking thing about observing those organizations and the people who run them is that to be a good chief executive you really have to be what I would describe as an androgynous personality. You have to have tremendous drive and ambition, great strategic sense and very, very high intelligence.
LAMB: Do they read?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. They read...
LAMB: Do they read your books?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. But the other thing that's important about them is they have to be very finely attuned to people, have enormous empathy, be able to enter imaginatively into what it's like to be another person and to be able to call out the best in the talented people around them. These are none of the organizations that are run on a kind of military command and control mode; they are run by somebody who can really call out the energy and talents of those around them and be extremely sensitive to every nuance of every personality. And I think that's not the stereotype of the standard chief executive officer, but all the successful ones I know have those qualities.
LAMB: What would they say about your performance on the boards, do you think? What--how would they describe what you're--what you're doing for these boards?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Oh, I think they'd say that I'm a quick study and that I think well about strategic issues and that I'm somebody who is enormously interested in the business, whatever it is, and that I'm a strong representative of--of the stockholders.
LAMB: This cover has what on it?
PROF. KER CONWAY: It has two figures from classical mythology, male and female, and they're meant to be shown merging together because the concluding chapters of "When Memory Speaks" talk about the way in which male and female narratives are becoming closer and closer as we get toward the present.
LAMB: I have l--very little time left. Let me ask you about the Kathryn Harris...
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: ...memoir, "The Kiss."
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes.
LAMB: What was it about, and--and why did you choose it?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Kathryn Harrison's memoir, "The Kiss," is about the experience of an incestuous relationship with her father. And it's called "The Kiss" because she frames the moment that she fell under the spell of this relationship with an erotic kiss from her father and ends the story with her ability to end the relationship by a kiss of farewell to her grandfather, who's the good male in her life. And it's a very mechanical story, and it's really told like a fairy tale, as though she's under a spell and has no willpower or moral ing--moral reasoning capacity of her own. And I...
LAMB: Did it work? Did it sell?
PROF. KER CONWAY: It certainly sold because it's very sensational material. But as a memoir, it's very unsatisfactory because it doesn't tell you anything about Harrison's life and times. There were no strong characters except this father who is, himself, really just his genitalia and his eyes and his hands; he's--he's hardly a person.
LAMB: And one last one. The--Jean-Dominique--Is it?--Bauby?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Bauby, yes.
LAMB: What's that about?
PROF. KER CONWAY: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a--a--a memoir written by a man who was totally paralyzed by a stroke. It's a stroke in the brain stem, so the--the rational capacity of the brain is in fine shape, but the motor part of the body is--is immobilized. And Bauby can blink only one eyel--eyelid, and that's his power of movement. And he manages to dictate the memoir to a friend who counts the number of blinks of his eye to signify a letter in the alphabet. And it's a story of what it's like to be imprisoned in what--a body that he describes as like a diving bell, can't move it except by some other people moving him around. And the butterfly is the traditional image for the soul in French poetry, and Bauby, of course, is French. And it's the image for the power of his mind and intellect.
LAMB: Can you pick one of these in here that you write about that you would hand to somebody and say, `This is a good place to start'?
PROF. KER CONWAY: Yes. I would certainly give them James Merrill, and I would give them Virginia Woolf's "Moments of Being." Those are the perfect places to start.
LAMB: Our guest has been Jill Ker Conway--you can see there on the screen, the copy of her book called "When Memory Speaks." Thank you very much for joining us.
PROF. KER CONWAY: It's been wonderful to be here.
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But behind her proper façade lay the mind and heart of a blue-collar farm woman — and a revolutionary. She spent her early years on a windy, desolate sheep ranch in New South Wales. There was always hard work to do, and the vastness and desolation made all human ambition seem foolish.
She went to no formal school; she took correspondence courses. She learned on the ranch to speak plainly, work hard, and believe in herself, and in a quiet way she excelled.
But it was a painful childhood, too. Both her father and brother died young, and her mother chastised Jill for crying when her father drowned. Mother and daughter were never close, Jill finding her mother narrow and sometimes cruel, her mother fretting that Jill cared far too much for book learning and too little for social convention.
Jill was only 10 at the death of her beloved father, William Ker. She would always remember him telling her: “Do something, Jill. Don’t just put in time on this earth.”
After William’s drowning death, the family moved to Sydney, where Jill enrolled in much better schools. At that time, girls were expected to be modest, to hang back and only accept tasks and challenges forced upon them. Jill saw no reason to act that way. She was always on guard, fearing to be thought trivial, and she competed hard with the boys at school.
In the 1950’s in Sydney, she was treated as a curiosity or a disgrace by many male scholars, who couldn’t believe that a woman could be a genuine intellectual, or would want to be. She took honors courses at the University of Sydney, graduated first in her class and tried to ignore the men who treated her intellect, and breadth of interests, as unfeminine.
She planned to practice law or go into the Department of External Affairs, the Australian Foreign Service. But the better law firms spurned her interest and her Foreign Service application was rejected. Years later, she managed to see some of the reports on her candidacy. “Too good-looking,” said one report. Another said, “Too intellectually aggressive” and a third said, “She’d never do for diplomacy.”
What about studying history? History was an enormous book, an infinite account. Surely, it could bear to have some small portion written by a diligent female Australian. She traveled in Europe for a year, returned to the University of Sydney for graduate work in American history, and then in 1960, left Australia for graduate school at Harvard with a sense that she was exiled from Australia, escaping her mother, escaping stifling social convention.
She’d been told by Australian travelers: “Don’t trust New Yorkers!’ She assumed that outgoing strangers, like cheap, gaudy emotions, were to be avoided. And then, in September 1960, she arrived in New York, at what was then called Idlewild Airport, in the midst of Hurricane Donna. Great gusts of wind. Thick, pounding rain. The inside of the airport a cheerful madhouse. Travelers were not just wet, but soaked through. Luggage and taxis were nowhere to be found.
At 2:00 a.m. the airport was humming with life, and Jill started to make sense of the chaos. All roads to the airport were flooded, so neither the ground crew nor buses, taxis or cars, could reach the airport terminal. Jill’s desire for privacy was ignored, her Australian sense of decorum overcome by the crowd’s high spirits.
She began talking to strangers, and confessed to one that if she arrived at night, she didn’t see how she could get into her dormitory — International House at Columbia University. Oh, there’ll be a night watchman, a thoughtful Yale grad student promised.
Suddenly, through sheets of rain, an avalanche of suitcases arrived, and Jill found hers, and then a bus which finally chugged into the East Side terminal, where taxis were waiting.
At International House, the dignified night watchman was glad to see her, and said “I’ve been listening to the radio, wondering how you were doing in this storm after coming all the way from Australia.”
The next morning, on Amsterdam Avenue, a little bleary from the previous night’s adventure, she hailed a cab, figuring she’d go to Fifth Avenue and ogle the clothes at some of the upscale shops.
The cab was a rattletrap machine, the driver a husky man in a windbreaker. Where ya from?” the cabbie asked, and was delighted when she said “Australia.” When she asked him to stop at an American Express branch, he asked “Is it your first day in the city?”
She admitted it was.
He turned off the meter and said, “I’m going to show you Manhattan.” The driver’s name was Frank and he’d been in Sydney, Australia several times during World War Two and had been treated very well by the Aussies. Now, he wanted to pay it back.
They roamed the city. He drove her to Battery Park where they looked at the Statue of Liberty, then to the Fulton Street Fish Market. They had coffee together in Greenwich Village, strolled through Washington Square, admired the Art Deco glory of the Chrysler Building, saw Sutton Place because Marilyn Monroe lived there, and wound through Central Park. Frank was fond of all these places but in a streetwise way, and what connected the series of stories he told about the city was irony.
That cabbie’s generosity forever changed her impression of Americans.
And in much of Conway’s writing is the sense that we trust in research, intellect, logic and the wisdom of those who came before — but that there’s something mocking in the way things turn out.
Experience predicts certain outcomes — but life is not obedient. | ||
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Despite initial struggles, Conway excelled at Abbotsleigh, an all-girls school in Sydney
Conway graduated with honors from the University of Sydney with a degree in History
Conway not only taught at the University of Toronto, but also helped develop one of the first women's history courses
Conway's tenure as president of Smith College was marked by her dedication to enhancing women's education and promoting programs in traditionally male-dominated fields
Conway's acclaimed memoirs and scholarly works on women's history have solidified her as a respected figure in the literary world and an influential voice in feminist discourse | ||||
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Jill Ker Conway (9 October 1934 – 1 June 2018) was an Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she also was Smith College's first woman president (1975–1985) and most recently served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[1] She was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
Biography
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Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, in the outback of Australia. Together with her two brothers, Ker Conway was raised in near-total isolation on a family-owned 73 square kilometres (18,000 acres) tract of land called Coorain (the Aboriginal word for "windy place"), which eventually grew to encompass 129 square kilometres (32,000 acres). On Coorain, she lived a lonely life, and grew up without playmates except for her brothers. In her early years, she was schooled entirely by her mother, with the aid of correspondence class material for her primary school and early grade school education.[2]
Ker Conway spent her youth working the sheep station; by age seven, she was an important member of the workforce, helping with such activities as herding and tending the sheep, checking the perimeter fences and transporting heavy farm supplies. The farm prospered until it was crippled by a drought that lasted seven years. This and her father's worsening health put an increasing burden on her shoulders. When she was eleven, her father drowned in a diving accident while trying to extend the farm's water piping.
Initially Jill Ker Conway's mother, a nurse by profession, refused to leave Coorain. But after three more years of drought, she was compelled to move Jill and her brothers to Sydney, where the children attended school.
Ker Conway found the local state school a rough environment. The British manners and accent ingrained by her parents clashed with her peers' Australian habits, provoking taunts and jeers. This resulted in her mother enrolling her at Abbotsleigh, a private girls school, where Ker Conway found intellectual challenge and social acceptance. After finishing her education at Abbotsleigh, she enrolled at the University of Sydney, where she studied History and English and graduated with honours in 1958. Upon graduation, Ker Conway sought a trainee post in the Department of External Affairs, but the all-male committee turned down her application.
After this setback, she travelled through Europe with her now emotionally volatile mother. In 1960, she decided to strike out on her own and move to the United States. At age 25, she was accepted into the history program of Harvard University's Radcliffe College,[3] where she devoted her studies to women's history, not yet an established historical discipline, and wrote her dissertation on Jane Addams and the establishment of Hull House.[4] Her interest in Addams and Hull House was sparked by her neighbor and friend, former Librarian of Congress, Archibald Macleish.[5] At Harvard, she also assisted a Canadian professor, John Conway, who was her husband from 1962 until his death in 1995. Ker Conway received her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969 and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975. Her book True North details her life in Toronto.
From 1975 to 1985, Ker Conway was the president of Smith College. After 1985, she was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received thirty-eight honorary degrees and awards from North American and Australian colleges, universities and women's organizations.[3]
Throughout her career, Ker Conway served as director on a variety of corporate boards. These include stints of more than a decade on the boards of Nike, Colgate-Palmolive, and Merrill Lynch.[6] Ker Conway was also the first female Chairman of Lendlease.[7]
After 2011, Ker Conway served as the Board Chair of Community Solutions.[8] It is a non-profit organization with a focus on homelessness and related issues, based in New York City.
Conway died on 1 June 2018 at her home in Boston at the age of 83.[9]
President of Smith College
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In 1975, Ker Conway became the first female president of Smith College, the largest women's college in the United States. Located in Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith, a private liberal arts college, is the only women's college in the U.S. to grant its own degrees in engineering.
Ker Conway launched the Ada Comstock Scholars program, initially proposed by her predecessor Thomas Mendenhall. This program allows non-traditional students, many with work and family obligations, to study full or part-time, depending on their family and work schedules. These women can take classes for a bachelor's degree over a longer period of time. Conway House, dedicated in 2006, a residence for Ada Comstock Scholars was named in honor of Ker Conway.
One of Ker Conway's more notable accomplishments is a program she initiated to help Ada Comstock Scholars on welfare. At the time, many students who were also welfare mothers were not pursuing higher education, as accepting a scholarship would cause them to lose their welfare benefits. The mothers were forced to choose between supporting their children or furthering their education. By not giving them scholarships but paying their rent instead, Ker Conway circumvented the state's system. She also gave the students access to an account at local stores, access to physicians and so on. ABC's Good Morning America profiled graduates of the program, giving it national exposure. Eventually the state of Massachusetts, convinced about the importance of the program, changed its welfare system so that scholarship students wouldn't lose their benefits.[10]
She also led the creation of the Smith Management Program (now called Smith Executive Education) and the Project on Women and Social Change. She worked to expand the curriculum leading to the development of programs in women's studies, comparative literature, and engineering. Conway took a keen interest in fundraising and under her presidency the endowment nearly tripled from $82 million to $222 million. These efforts enabled several large-scale projects including the construction of the Ainsworth Gymnasium, and expansion of the Neilson Library. The Career Development Office was also expanded under her tenure to better educate alumnae about career opportunities and graduate training.
In 1975, Jill Ker Conway was named by Time as a Woman of the Year.[11]
The Road from Coorain
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Ker Conway started writing her first memoir after leaving Smith College, during her period at MIT. The Road from Coorain was published in 1989 (ISBN 0-394-57456-7) and details her early life, from Coorain in Australia to Harvard in the United States.
The book begins with her early childhood at the remote sheep station Coorain near Mossgiel, New South Wales. Ker Conway writes about her teenage years in Sydney and especially her education at the University of Sydney, where university studies were open to women but the culture was focused heavily on the men. She describes her intellectual development and later her feelings when she realizes that there is a bias against women; based upon her sex, she is denied a traineeship at the Australian foreign service.
In 2001, Chapman Pictures produced a television film, The Road from Coorain, featuring Katherine Slattery as the grown-up Jill and Juliet Stevenson as her mother.
Awards and honors
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1960 Jill Ker Conway was a 1960 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar in History from the University of Sydney to Harvard University.
1975 In the first year of her presidency at Smith College, Conway was named a "woman of the year", one of a small group of notable women selected for that award by Time magazine.[12]
1989 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Road from Coorain
Ker Conway was appointed a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia on 10 June 2013 for her eminent service to the community, particularly women, as an author, academic and through leadership roles with corporations, foundations, universities and philanthropic groups.[13] On 12 June, she was removed as a 'Companion' and invested as an 'Honorary Companion' of the Order of Australia, because she no longer held Australian citizenship.[14]
On July 10, 2013, she received a 2012 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama.[15]
Legacy
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In 2017 the John and Jill Ker Conway residence for veterans was opened in Washington DC.[16]
Selected bibliography
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Books
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Conway, Jill (1977). Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Conway, Jill; Kealey, Linda; Schulte, Janet E. (1982). The Female Experience in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 9780691005997.
Conway, Jill (1987). Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Ideas about Equality. Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society. ISBN 9780912296890.
Conway, Jill; Scott, Joan W.; Bourque, Susan C. (1989). Learning about Women: Gender, Politics and Power. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472063987.
Conway, Jill (1989). The Road from Coorain (1st ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House. ISBN 9780749303600.
Reprinted as: Conway, Jill (1992). The Road from Coorain (2nd ed.). London: Minerva. ISBN 9780749398941.
Conway, Jill (1992). Written by Herself: An Anthology. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679736332.
Conway, Jill; Bourque, Susan C. (1995). The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472083282.
Conway, Jill (1995). True North: A Memoir. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679744610.
Conway, Jill (1992). Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women. An Anthology. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679736332.
Conway, Jill (1992). Written by Herself: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States, volume 2: an anthology. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679751090.
Conway, Jill (1998). When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780679766452.
Conway, Jill (1999). In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679781530.
Conway, Jill; Kennan, Elizabeth; Munnings, Clare (2001). Overnight Float. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780142000113.
Conway, Jill; Marx, Leo; Keniston, Kenneth (1999). Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781558492219.
Conway, Jill (2001). A Woman's Education. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780679744627.
Conway, Jill (Author); Millis, Lokken (Illustrator) (2006). Felipe the Flamingo. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 9781555915476.
Chapters in books
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Conway, Jill (1998), "Points of departure", in Zinsser, William (ed.), Inventing the truth: the art and craft of memoir, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 41–60, ISBN 9780395901502
Conway, Jill (2001), "Foreword", in Freeman, Sue J.M.; Bourque, Susan C.; Shelton, Christine M. (eds.), Women on power: leadership redefined, Boston: Northeastern University Press, ISBN 9781555534783
Journal articles
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Ker, Jill (1960). "Merchants and merinos". Royal Australian Historical Society Journal. 46 (4). Royal Australian Historical Society: 206–233.
Conway, Jill (Winter 1971–1972). "Women reformers and American culture, 1870-1930". Journal of Social History. 5 (2): 164–177. doi:10.1353/jsh/5.2.164. Pdf.[dead link]
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The service for the Australian-born Conway, who became the college's first woman president at the age of 40 in 1975, begins at 4 p.m. in Helen Hills Hills Chapel, 123 Elm St.
Conway, who held a doctorate in history from Harvard University, was regarded as an innovator and successful fund-raiser during her years at Smith, and in retirement became a best-selling author, member of Nike's board of trustees where she chaired the committee on corporate responsibility that she suggested, and worked to address homelessness, particularly among veterans.
Her husband, John J. Conway, whom she had met at Harvard, served in the Canadian infantry in World War II, and had his right hand blown off by a grenade. He died in 1995.
In her 1989 memoir, "The Road From Coorain," the first of a trio, Conway wrote about growing up on a 32,000 sheep farm in Australia, going onto university where she study American women reformers from the Progressive Era like Jane Addams, and then entering a world where women were not really expected to stay long-term in the workforce.
The PBS program "Masterpiece Theater" used "The Road From Coorain" as the basis for a film in 2002.
Conway, who was named one of Time Magazine's Women of the Year in 1975, dedicated much of her career to creating programs and courses to help women advance and to help women - and society - expand perceptions of women's capabilities.
She came to Smith from the University of Toronto, where she served as that university's first female vice-president and successfully lobbied for equality in terms of pay and tenure.
Susan C. Bourque, a former provost and dean of the faculty at Smith, told an interviewer that Conway's appointment at the women's college at the time "absolutely electrified the campus."
"Here was this vibrant young woman, enormously attractive, who had just been appointed as the first woman in Smith's history. You could just feel the new history that had come," Bourque said. | ||||
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Jill Kathryn Ker was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, a small town 75 miles from her parents' sheep station, on October 9, 1934. She earned her B.A. and a university medal at the University of Sydney in 1958 and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. Her unpublished but widely-cited dissertation, "The First Generation of American Women Graduates," an intellectual history of Jane Addams and other progressive women reformers, almost single-handedly rekindled scholarly interest in women's contributions to Progressive Era America.
While attending Harvard University Jill Ker met and married John Conway, a history professor in whose course she was a teaching assistant. She followed him to Toronto, where he became one of the founders of York University and she joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. There she lectured on American history while completing her dissertation. Jill Conway rose to the rank of associate professor in 1972. From 1973 to 1975 she served as the first woman vice president for internal affairs at the University of Toronto.
In the mid-1970s, Toronto, like other major universities, was struck with student rebellions, giving Conway an opportunity to demonstrate her cool and unflappable administrative style. In 1975 she was appointed the first woman president of Smith College, the largest privately-endowed college for women in the United States. For this achievement, Time magazine named her one of its 12 "Women of the Year." Conway's appointment heralded a change in leadership of the so-called Seven Sisters Colleges, and as a result of this breakthrough all of them became headed by women by the early 1980s.
Initially, Conway found herself at the helm of a prestigious but flagging educational institution. In the early 1970s, Smith, like the other Seven Sisters, suffered a decline in status as bright women flocked to the newly coeducational Ivy League universities. Conway helped to restore Smith's luster as the premier women's college in the United States. A superb fund-raiser, she increased the endowment from $82 million to $220 million. To accomplish this, Conway became a peripatetic president, criss-crossing the country to solicit alumnae, foundation, and corporate support. Her executive abilities were well recognized, as she served as director of IBM World Trade Americas/Far East Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and on the board of overseers of Harvard University. Despite a hectic administrative schedule Conway maintained her commitment to teaching and scholarship. She taught a course on the "Social and Intellectual Context of Feminist Ideologies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America." In 1982 she published The Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America.
In the first portion of her presidency, Conway changed the college from a genteel institution which eschewed feminist ideals into a women's college that respected and reflected feminist values. Through a strong financial aid program, Smith for the first time admitted older, working women and welfare recipients as Ada Comstock scholars. Conway expanded the career development office and took pride in promoting the "old girl" network among alumnae. She endorsed the expansion of athletic facilities, enabling Smith to become the first women's college to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Conway articulated a concern that Smith tenure more women faculty, and she frequently publicized the plight of women scholars and the value of women's institutions in educational journals. While not in favor of a women's studies program at Smith per se, Conway did encourage the development of the Smith College Project on Women and Social Change funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Out of her presidential budget she helped launch The Society of Scholars Studying Women's Higher Educational History, a group of researchers studying women's intellectual history.
Some highly publicized conflicts erupted in the closing years of Conway's presidency. In 1983, following student and faculty protests, Conway had to inform the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, that she could not guarantee that Kirkpatrick would receive her honorary degree and be heard as the commencement speaker without incident. The ambassador declined the offer to speak and was given her degree by the Smith trustees in a private ceremony. When newly unionized food-service workers tried to organize Smith's Davis Student Center acrimony developed between the workers and the administration. The unionized workers claimed they were being unfairly treated by a "paternalistic and male dominated" management. The dispute was quietly settled.
While funding for privately endowed, small, liberal arts colleges diminished throughout the early 1980s, Conway's capable leadership allowed Smith College to survive and grow. In an era that some term "post-feminist," Conway's contributions to women's higher education and her sponsorship of separate women's institutions made her an important spokeswoman for contemporary feminism. By the end of her presidency Conway was perturbed by a new generation of women students, less overtly feminist but strongly career-oriented. According to her, this change in the attitudes of the Smith student body was "the only disappointment in a decade." She called for women students to retain an interest in service to society and not to embrace unthinkingly high-earning professions. In this she remained faithful to the ideals of the social feminists of the Progressive generation whose careers she so well illuminated in her pioneering research. Conway also served as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In March of 1996, she succeeded to vice-chairman of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and in February of 1997, Conway was made a member on the Board of Trustees at Adelphi University in New York.
Further Reading
Jill Conway is listed in Canadian Who's Who (1984) and in Who's Who of American Women, 14th edition (1985-1986). Conway is discussed in "Women of the Year: Great Changes, New Chances, Touch Choices," Time (January 5, 1976); Elizabeth Stone, "What Can an All Women's College Do for Women," Ms (1979); and Hal Langur, "Jill Conway," Daily Hampshire Gazette (June 27, 1985). | |||||
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] | 2018-08-05T00:00:00 | Just before Mr Gums and I set off for our Arnhem Land holiday in early July, I came across an obituary for the Australian-born academic, educator and writer Jill Ker Conway (1934-2018). She had died on June 1, but I hadn't heard. Why not? Her first memoir, The road from Coorain, was a best-seller, and… | en | https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/8c3588ce3b1916fc8408adba735c6f2541d3e4cb0cbfbbb52cad346cb33a4360?s=32 | Whispering Gums | https://whisperinggums.com/2018/08/05/vale-jill-ker-conway/ | Just before Mr Gums and I set off for our Arnhem Land holiday in early July, I came across an obituary for the Australian-born academic, educator and writer Jill Ker Conway (1934-2018). She had died on June 1, but I hadn’t heard. Why not? Her first memoir, The road from Coorain, was a best-seller, and I think her second one, True north, was also well received. I’ve read, and enjoyed, them both, but long, long before blogging. Her final memoir, A woman’s education, a slimmer volume, is on my TBR.
Those who know Jill Ker Conway will know why her passing didn’t make big news here. It’s because she made her name in the USA … added to which she was a woman. Or, am I being too paranoid?
So, who was Jill Ker Conway? Well, for a start she was born on a sheep station her parents named Coorain (Aboriginal for “windy place”) in outback New South Wales. Although more often hot, dry and dusty than not, Ker Conway loved it, as she shares in her first memoir.
Now, though, I’ll quickly summarise her career. She was, says Wikipedia, “an Australian-American scholar and author”. She was “well-known” for her autobiographies/memoirs, particularly for The Road from Coorain, but she also made history by becoming the prestigious Smith College‘s first woman president (1975-1985). She made history, of course, because she was its first woman president, but it’s fascinating to me that she was also Australian. She was 40 when appointed to this role, and in her first year was named Time magazine’s “woman of the year”. That’s impressive.
She was, later, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004, she was named a Women’s History Month Honoree by the National Women’s History Project, and in 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. She was, in other words, a bit of a mover-and-shaker!
I have, though, exaggerated the lack of news of her death here. There were some reports, including two in The Sydney Morning Herald. To give you a sense of how she was viewed, here are some of the titles of her obituaries:
Jill Ker Conway, 83, Feminist Author and Smith President, Dies (New York Times)
Jill Ker Conway, trailblazing historian and Smith College president, dies at 83 (Washington Post)
Jill Ker Conway, chairman and trailblazer, dies at 83 (The Sydney Morning Herald Business section)
Jill Ker Conway: author, historian and Smith College president (The Sydney Morning Herald National section)
Did you notice the odd one out? Yes, the SMH Business section report which identifies her as “chairman and trailblazer”. Chairman? Apparently, in addition to being an educator, academic, author and historian, she was a “business woman”. She was, in fact, “the first female chairman of global property group, Lendlease”. The Sydney Morning Herald says of her business career:
Dr Conway served on the boards of businesses including Merrill Lynch, Nike, Colgate-Palmolive and Lendlease. She was also a former chairman of the American Antiquarian Society.
In 2000 she was appointed as chair of Lendlease at a time when the company needed a firm hand.
Interesting woman eh? For an excellent obituary, do read the SMH National Section one.
She was also one of that wave of Australian intellectuals who left our shores in the 1960s and never really returned, mostly because of the stultifying academic lives they found here. Others included Germaine Greer (1939-), Robert Hughes (1938-2012), Clive James (1939-), not to mention writers like Randolph Stow (1935-2010). They went to England, while Ker Conway made the USA her home.
Ker Conway chronicles exactly why she left Australia in her first two autobiographies/memoirs. It was because she was regularly overlooked for significant jobs – or any job – in favour of men, and because she could not find the sort of intellectual enquiry she sought. Here she is, near the end of The road from Coorain, describing Sydney’s academic circles around 1959, and the group she thought most interesting because they were “iconoclasts, cultural rebels, and radical critics of Australian society”:
When I rejected the inevitable sexual advances, I was looked at with pained tolerance, told to overcome my father fixation, and urged to become less bourgeois. It was a bore to have to spend my time with this group rebuffing people’s sexual propositions when what I really wanted to do was explore new ideas and to clarify my thoughts by explaining them to others. I didn’t know then that I was encountering the standard Australian left view of women, but I could see that the so-called sexual revolution had asymmetrical results.
By the end of True north, she had her Harvard degree in history, and was living with her husband in Toronto when the Smith College job came up. She writes:
I’d been pushed out of Australia by family circumstances [all chronicled in the first memoir], the experience of discrimination, frustration with the culture I was born in. Nothing was pushing me out of this wonderful setting but a cause, and the hope to serve it.
And what was that cause? Well, as she also writes in True north, her main consideration when choosing whether or not to accept Smith College’s offer was “where my work would have the greatest impact on women’s education”. That “impact”, she explains, was not just about numbers. It was about proving that a woman’s institution was not only valid but valid and relevant in a modern world, and about the potential for making it “an intellectual centre for research on women’s lives and women’s issues, research that could have influence far beyond Smith’s lyrical New England campus”. She was there for 10 years, and made her mark.
Ker Conway was, then, a significant woman whose achievements I’ve only touched on. Check the Wikipedia article linked above for more, including a list of her books. Meanwhile, I’m ending with her final words in The road from Coorain, as she’s departing Australia:
Where I wondered would by bones come to rest? It pained me to think of them not fertilising Australian soil. Then I comforted myself with the notion that wherever on the earth was my final resting place, my body would return to the restless red dust of the western plains. I could see how it would blow about and get in people’s eyes, and I was content with that.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s (National section) obituary concludes:
Her love for her two worlds was reflected in her final wishes. Half her ashes will rest in a small private cemetery with John’s, near their beloved house and garden in Massachusetts. The other half are to be scattered by the big tree beside the roadway into the house at Coorain.
How good is that? | ||||
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“In a labor-scarce society with a shortage of human energy, there is no room for social conventions about women’s work,” Jill Ker Conway, who grew up in just such a place, once noted. “The work had to be done. It never crossed anyone’s mind that you didn’t work up to your competence.”
By the time she made that observation, in 1975 and thousands of miles from her birthplace, Dr. Conway had proved the point. She had just become the first woman to be named president of Smith College, the prestigious women’s institution in Northampton, Mass.
And she was still early in a career filled with accomplishments. After a decade leading Smith, she wrote three acclaimed memoirs, among other books, and championed feminist causes and ideas. In 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Dr. Conway died on Friday at her home in Boston, Smith College announced. She was 83. No cause was given.
Kathleen McCartney, Smith’s current president, said in a telephone interview that she was struck not only by what Dr. Conway did for the college, but also by her multiple roles as feminist, author, scholar and woman of influence on the boards of companies like Nike and nonprofits like the Kellogg Foundation.
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The Road from Coorain is a 1989 memoir by Jill Ker Conway.
The Road from Coorain was the first in Conway's trilogy of memoirs. True North (1994) is the story of her immigration to America in pursuit of intellectual fulfilment and a Harvard PhD in history. A Woman's Education (2001) tells the story of her move from history professor at the University of Toronto to the Presidency of Smith College.[1]
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The book begins on the sheep station in the western grasslands of New South Wales, Australia, where Conway was born, 30,000 acres of grazing land that her parents settled in 1929. A severe drought and her father's death drove the family to Sydney, where Conway's struggle to get an education and make something of herself began.[2][3][4]
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Born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934, Dr. Conway resided in a house called "Coorain," the aboriginal word for "windy place" in the Australian outback until the death of her father. The beautiful, but harsh outback and the struggle of her family, particularly her mother, would be a crucial factor in shaping her life as was the death of her older brother shortly after her family left the outback.
It was in Sydney, where she moved with her mother and her remaining brother, that she would have her first taste of patriarchy's cold shoulder. She would be denied acceptance to the Foreign Service because she was "too intellectually aggressive" and "too good looking." In other words: because she was a woman. This experience, along with the lifelong struggle of her mother for access to a formal education, would permeate her writing in the coming years.
En 1958, Jill Ker Conway quitte l'Université de Sydney avec un baccalauréat en poche. Elle part s'établir aux Ãtats-Unis en 1960, où elle s'inscrit à l'Université Harvard. Elle y rencontre celui qui allait devenir son mari. John Conway, professeur d'histoire britannique et héro de guerre canadien.
Après avoir obtenu un doctorat de l'Université de Harvard, elle s'installe à Toronto et enseigne à l'Université de Toronto de 1964-1975. Elle a été vice-présidente de cet établissement de 1973 à 1975.
In 1958, she graduated from the University of Sydney, and moved to the United States in 1960. It was there, while she pursued her studies at Harvard, that she would meet her future husband and soul mate, a professor of British History and Canadian war hero named John Conway. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1969 and shortly thereafter they moved to Toronto, where she taught at the University of Toronto from 1964-1975, serving as Vice President from 1973-1975.
It was in her writing that Dr. Conway found "the voice," both her own voice and a voice for countless other women. Her writing is lucid and direct, charged with a heartfelt passion that questions the status quo.
Dr. Conway has written prolifically about the remnants of British post-colonialism in Australian literature. Her first book, The Road from Coorain, is an autobiographical account of her journey from the rural Australian outback to the urban metropolises in both Australia and the United States, and tells of a stifling academic environment that paid scarce attention to Australian literature.
Dr. Conway went on to write True North, a continuation of her life's story that traces her journey from Harvard to her marriage and to her presidency of Smith College in 1975. She documents her years as the first female president in the College's 100-year history in A womanâs Education. Smith, the US's largest liberal arts college for women, was Dr. Conway's home for ten years. During those years, she helped, redefine and redesign the institution, spearheading, among other things, innovative program to help students both academically and financially. The experience reinforced a lifelong commitment to educational policy and the women's education internationally.
Insatisfaite des compromis auxquels devaient consentir les étudiants dans le besoin, elle décide de mettre en place un nouveau système qui permet de leur redistribuer les bourses d'études sous forme de remboursement de loyer et de produits alimentaires ou d'assistance médicale.
Ms Conway has edited three anthologies of women's autobiography from around the world, the most recent being In Her Own Words. Her latest books include a mystery novel written in collaboration with Elizabeth Kennan under the pseudonym, Clare Munnings, titled Overnight Float.
In addition to her scholastic and literary ambitions, Dr. Conway also served on the board of directors for numerous corporations and public institutions and lent her talents to promotion, fundraising and advancement work. At Nike, for example, she frequently visits factories in Southeast Asia to ensure equitable treatment of factory workers employed in making Nike products. She has also spearheaded support for a Nike sponsored literacy program that provides workers with access to middle- and high-school educations. She has been on the board of Merrill Lynch and Co., Colgate Palmolive Co., as well as Lend Lease Corporation where she was Chair from 2000 to 2003. Throughout she looked to increase her understanding of the world and how she could apply it to her work on behalf of those in need.
Dr. Conway has exemplified the values of honesty and integrity, telling her story in her own words and ensuring that fairness and equitability prevail in whatever spheres she can influence, and for this she should be recognized.
Mr. Chancellor, on behalf of Senate and the Board of Governors, it is my privilege and an honour to present to you Dr. Jill Ker Conway, so that you may confer upon her the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. | ||||||
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For almost 150 years, Smith has stood as a beacon for knowledge, equality, and progress—while at the same time upholding unique traditions that have come to define the Smith experience. A college rich in history, Smith has long been nurturing leaders, supporting passions, and empowering its students to change the world.
Who We Are
Smith College educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. A college of and for the world, Smith links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, thereby developing engaged global citizens and leaders to address society’s challenges.
Smith College is a distinguished liberal arts college committed to providing the highest quality undergraduate education for women to enable them to develop their intellects and talents and to participate effectively and fully in society.
The college began more than 140 years ago in the mind and conscience of a New England woman. The sum of money used to buy the first land (on what had traditionally been the ancestral homelands of the Nonotuck people), erect the first buildings and begin the endowment was the bequest of Sophia Smith. When she inherited a large fortune at age 65, Sophia Smith decided, after much deliberation and advice, that leaving her inheritance to found a women’s college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed so eloquently in her will:
“I hereby make the following provisions for the establishment and maintenance of an Institution for the higher education of young women, with the design to furnish for my own sex means and facilities for education equal to those which are afforded now in our colleges to young men.”
Smith has changed much since its founding in 1871. But throughout its history there have been certain enduring constants: an uncompromising defense of academic and intellectual freedom, an attention to the relation between college education and the larger public issues of world order and human dignity, and a concern for the rights and privileges of women.
Today the college continues to benefit from a dynamic relationship between innovation and tradition. And while Smith’s basic curriculum of the humanities, arts and sciences still flourishes, the college continues to respond to the new intellectual needs of today’s women—offering majors or interdepartmental programs in engineering, the study of women and gender, neuroscience, film and media studies, Middle East studies, statistical and data sciences and other emerging fields. Were Sophia Smith to revisit Northampton, she would no doubt find her vision realized, as students at her college prepare themselves for exemplary lives of service and leadership.
Knowledge: Smith is a community dedicated to learning, teaching, scholarship, discovery, creativity and critical thought.
Community: Smith is committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and accessible educational community founded on the free and open exchange of ideas.
Curiosity: Smith educates women to understand the complexity of human experience and world cultures through engagement with humanistic, social and scientific ideas.
Responsibility: Smith creates global citizens, committed to participating in the communities in which they live and to stewarding the resources that sustain them.
Generosity: Smith was founded by a gift from Sophia Smith, the generosity of whom is represented today by the contributions of countless members of the Smith community.
About Our Founder
Born just a few miles from Northampton in 1796, Sophia Smith was given a meager education—like many girls of her era—but was an avid reader and believed in the power of educating women. Her last will and testament reads: “It is my opinion that by the education of women, what are called their ‘wrongs’ will be redressed, their wages adjusted, their weight of influence in reforming the evils of society will be greatly increased, as teachers, as writers, as mothers, as members of society, their power for good will be incalculably enlarged...”
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Presidents
2023–Present
Sarah Willie-LeBreton is the 12th president of Smith College. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Haverford College in 1986, and an M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) from Northwestern University, all in sociology. After having taught at Colby College (1991–1995) and Bard College (1995–1997) in tenure-track appointments, she was tenured at Swarthmore where she served as coordinator of the Black Studies Program and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for a total of seventeen years. She was appointed as provost and dean of the faculty at Swarthmore in 2018 and served in that role until 2023.
An accomplished administrator, scholar, and sociologist who studies social inequality and race and ethnicity, Willie-LeBreton is known for her commitment to the liberal arts, strengthening community, and energizing the work of equity and inclusion. She is the author of several dozen articles, essays, reviews, and op-ed columns. Her first book, Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race, examines how the experiences of Black college alumni of a predominantly white institution (PWI) were distinct from those who attended a comparative HBCU from the waning days of the civil rights movement through the country’s political turn to the right under the Reagan presidency. Her second book, Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy, is a collection of essays to which she has contributed and which she edited. It focuses on the challenges faced by faculty who were previously underrepresented on campuses, including people of color, queer people, neurodivergent people, and people who immigrated to the U.S. It explores their experiences as they become participants in dominant spaces within the American Academy.
Willie-LeBreton considers herself an applied sociologist, and she has worked with a broad range of groups and organizations to understand social dynamics and develop strategies to move toward organizational self-awareness, transformation, compassion, and inclusivity. She is a member of and has been active in the Eastern Sociological Society, Sociologists for Women in Society, the Association of Black Sociologists, and the American Sociological Association (ASA). For several years, she reviewed sociology and affiliated departments as a member of the ASA’s Departmental Resources Group. Her board service has included the Executive Office and Budget of the ASA, Pendle Hill Quaker Center, Haverford College, Benchmark School, the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, and she sits on the advisory board of IIG (Integrated Impact Group) which offers consulting for the educational sector.
2013–23
Smith’s 11th president, Kathleen McCartney, took office in 2013. McCartney, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), is an internationally recognized authority on child development and early education. The first in her family to go to college, she graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a bachelor of science in psychology and later earned a doctorate in psychology from Yale University. A signature accomplishment of her tenure at HGSE was the creation of a three-year doctorate in educational leadership developed in collaboration with the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.
After assuming the presidency, McCartney led a strategic planning effort that resulted in important new academic and co-curricular programs that expand opportunities for women. She forged partnerships with leading organizations, including the Harvard/MIT online education platform known as edX; the MassMutual Life Insurance Company, a supporter of data science initiatives; and the Posse Foundation. Under her leadership, Smith engaged noted architectural designer Maya Lin to re-envision its historic Neilson Library, in the context of its renowned Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus, and to create a modern intellectual learning common. The $110 million project opened its doors in 2021. Women for the World: The Campaign for Smith, which McCartney led to its culmination in 2016, raised $486 million, setting a record for the largest and most successful campaign ever undertaken by a women’s college. Notably, the campaign raised close to $130 million for financial aid, including 103 new endowed scholarships. McCartney’s presidency made increasing access for every student who wants to study at Smith a central focus. In October 2021, McCartney announced that the college will eliminate loans from its undergraduate financial aid packages, beginning in fall 2022, replacing them with college grants.
2002–13
A widely respected scholar of Victorian literature, Carol T. Christ took up her duties as Smith’s 10th president in June 2002. In her first years at Smith, Christ launched an energetic program of outreach, innovation and long-range planning, including capital planning. She encouraged the development of coursework emphasizing fluency in American cultures and the diversity of experience of American ethnic groups and launched a review, conducted by members of the Smith faculty and outside scholars, to determine the distinctive intellectual traditions of the Smith curriculum and areas on which to build. Issued in 2007, The Smith Design for Learning: A Plan to Reimagine a Liberal Arts Education builds upon Smith’s history of pedagogical innovation, identifying priority areas—among them, international studies, environmental sustainability, and community engagement—for significant investment over the coming decade.
In the area of capital planning, a number of major building projects came to fruition during Christ’s tenure: the renovation and expansion of the Brown Fine Arts Center; a dramatic new campus center; a renovated Lyman Conservatory; the impressive Olin Fitness Center; new homes for the Poetry Center and the Mwangi Cultural Center; the renovation of Lilly Hall, home of the college’s School for Social Work; and the construction of Conway House, an apartment building for Ada Comstock Scholars with children. Ford Hall, a state-of-the-art, sustainably designed classroom and laboratory facility named in recognition of its lead donor, the Ford Motor Company Fund, opened in fall 2009; it serves as home to the college’s pioneering Picker Engineering Program as well as the departments of molecular biology, chemistry, biochemistry and computer science. Under Christ’s leadership, Smith made significant commitments to environmental sustainability in its curriculum and campus operations, including the construction of a co-generation facility for power and heat and the dedication of the MacLeish Field Station, a 200-acre woodland tract in Whately, Mass., for environmental education and research.
1995–2001
In December 1994 Ruth Simmons was chosen as Smith’s ninth president. With a long and distinguished career in higher education behind her, Simmons was the first African-American woman to head any top-ranked American college or university. Simmons galvanized the campus through an ambitious campus-wide self-study process that resulted in a number of landmark initiatives, including Praxis, a program that allows every Smith student the opportunity to elect an internship funded by the college; an engineering program, the first at a women’s college; programs in the humanities that include the establishment of a poetry center and a peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing scholarly works by and about women of color; and curricular innovations that include intensive seminars for first-year students and programs to encourage students’ speaking and writing skills.
A number of building projects were launched during Simmons’ administration; most significant was the Brown Fine Arts Center, a $35-million expansion and renovation of the Smith College Museum of Art, art department and art library. Ground was broken in 2002 for a campus center, and renovation and expansion of the Lyman Conservatory was completed in 2003.
Simmons left Smith in June 2001, assuming the presidency of Brown University. John M. Connolly, Smith’s first provost, served as acting president for one year, skillfully guiding the college through the trauma of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath.
1985–95
The college that President Conway left to her successor was in some ways very different from the college served by Presidents Seelye, Burton and Neilson. When Mary Maples Dunn came to Smith in 1985 after many years as a professor of history and then as dean of Bryn Mawr College, Smith’s student body had diversified. During its early decades the student body had been overwhelmingly Protestant, but by the 1970s, Roman Catholic and Jewish college chaplains served alongside the Protestant chaplain, reflecting the students' religious and ethnic variety. All racial, ethnic and religious groups are now well represented on campus, evidence of Smith’s continuing moral and intellectual commitment to diversity.
In her decade as president, Mary Maples Dunn led the college through exciting and challenging times. During her tenure, the college raised more than $300 million, constructed two major buildings and renovated many more, enhanced communication on and off campus, attracted record numbers of applicants (while holding the quality of those applicants steady) and doubled the value of its endowment. Computer technology transformed the way Smith conducted its business. And the curriculum became broader in scope, with five new majors and increased course offerings in non-Western and neglected American cultures.
1975–85
In the late 1960s and early 1970s another important movement—the women’s movement—was gathering momentum. This was to have a profound effect on American society and to confirm the original purpose of Smith College. The college began its second century in 1975 by inaugurating its first woman president, Jill Ker Conway, who came to Smith from Australia by way of Harvard and the University of Toronto. She was a charismatic and energetic leader with a vision for women's education, and her administration was marked by three major accomplishments: a large-scale renovation and expansion of Neilson Library, evidence of Smith’s undiminished concern for the heart of the liberal arts; the rapid growth of the Ada Comstock Scholars Program, through which women beyond the traditional college age could earn a Smith degree; and exceptionally successful fund-raising efforts. Also during President Conway’s administration, the Career Development Office was expanded to better counsel Smith students and alumnae about career opportunities and graduate training for women. Recognizing the rapidly growing emphasis on fitness and athletics for women, Smith built the Ainsworth Gymnasium and broke ground for new indoor and outdoor track and tennis facilities. President Conway’s contributions underscored her commitment to women’s colleges and a liberal arts education in today's society. Since leaving Smith, Conway has written an acclaimed series of memoirs; her 2001 book, A Woman's Education, concerns her Smith years.
1959–75
When Thomas Corwin Mendenhall came from Yale in 1959 to become Smith’s sixth president, both the college and the country at large were enjoying peace and prosperity. During the 1960s, social and cultural changes stirred the college profoundly, and a series of powerful movements influenced the larger society and the academic world alike. In response to the needs of increasingly independent and ambitious students, the curriculum was thoroughly revised. College-wide requirements were set aside and independent study encouraged. The college made more varied educational experiences available to Smith undergraduates by extending cooperation with its neighbors—Amherst, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke colleges and the University of Massachusetts. And Smith joined other private colleges in the Northeast to develop the Twelve College Exchange Program. The college added buildings with the most modern facilities for the study of the natural sciences, performing arts and fine arts. The new Fine Arts Center included the Smith College Museum of Art, now one of the most distinguished college museums in the country.
The 1960s saw the civil rights movement, the students’ rights movement and the anti-war movement take root and grow at many of the country’s universities and colleges, including Smith. Thanks to these movements and to the wisdom, tact and humor of President Mendenhall, the college emerged from the 1960s with a more precise awareness of student needs and an active, practical sense of social responsibility.
Meanwhile, life in the college houses was changing. The old rules governing late evenings out and male visitors were relaxed, then abandoned. Not surprisingly, when Vassar began to accept men, and Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth to accept women as candidates for degrees, some members of the college community wondered whether Smith should also become coeducational. In 1971, a committee of trustees, faculty, administration, students and alumnae studied the question in detail. The committee concluded that admitting men as candidates for the Smith degree would detract from the founding purpose of the college, the best possible education for women.
1949–59
Benjamin Fletcher Wright came from Harvard to become Smith’s fifth president in 1949. The college had by then resumed its regular calendar and completed several much-needed building projects, including a new heating plant and a student recreation center named for retiring President Davis. The most memorable achievements of President Wright’s administration were the strengthening of Smith's financial position and the defense of academic freedom during the 1950s.
In 1950, the $7 Million Fund Drive was triumphantly completed, enabling the college to improve facilities and increase faculty salaries. In 1955, the Helen Hills Hills Chapel was completed, giving Smith its own place of worship. The early 1950s were not, though, easy years for colleges; McCarthyism bred a widespread suspicion of any writing or teaching that might seem left of center. In defending his faculty members' right to political and intellectual independence, President Wright showed great courage and statesmanship. Complementing his achievements was the financial and moral support of Smith’s Alumnae Association, by now the most devoted and active group of its kind in the country. Before President Wright’s term ended, the college received a large gift for constructing a new faculty office and classroom building to be named for him.
1940–49
President Neilson retired in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, and for one year Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, an alumna trustee, served as acting president. Herbert Davis took office as Smith’s fourth president in 1940 and reaffirmed the contributions that a liberal arts college could make to a troubled world. Already during World War I a group of Smith alumnae had gone to France to do relief work in the town of Grécourt; a replica of Grécourt’s chateau gates is now emblematic of the college.
Soon after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, the college agreed to provide facilities on its campus for the first Officers’ Training Unit of the Women’s Reserve, or WAVES. The college added a summer term from 1942 to 1945 so some students could graduate more quickly and go on to government, hospital or military service. Though physically isolated by travel restrictions, the college retained its cosmopolitan character as refugees came to lecture, teach and study. And foreign films were shown regularly in Sage Hall—a practice that would give generations of students their sensitivity both to other cultures and to an important new art. President Davis' administration was marked by intensified academic life, reflecting his belief that serious study was a way of confronting the global threat to civilization.
1917–39
When William Allan Neilson became president in 1917, Smith was already one of the largest women’s colleges in the world. President Neilson shrewdly developed the advantages of large academic institutions while maintaining the benefits of a small one. Under his leadership, the size of the faculty continued to increase while the number of students remained at about 2,000. The curriculum was revised to provide a pattern still followed in many American colleges—a broad foundation in various fields of knowledge, later complemented by the more intensive study of a major subject. The college expanded honors programs and initiated interdepartmental majors in science, landscape architecture and theatre. The School for Social Work, a coeducational graduate program, was founded. And more college houses were built, mainly in the Georgian complex called “the Quad,” so that every student could live on campus.
Not only did President Neilson help make Smith one of the leading colleges in the United States, whether for men or women, but he also developed it into an institution of international distinction and concerns. President Neilson, himself a Scotsman, married to a well-educated German woman, transformed the college from a high-minded but provincial community in the hinterland of Massachusetts into a cosmopolitan center constantly animated by ideas from abroad. Between the two world wars, he brought many important exiled or endangered foreign teachers, scholars, lecturers and artists to the college. Meanwhile, as long as peace lasted, Smith students went to study in France, Italy and Spain on the Junior Year Abroad Program instituted by the college in 1924.
1910–17
Smith’s second president, Marion LeRoy Burton, took office in 1910. President Burton, a graduate of Yale Divinity School, was a gifted public speaker with an especially acute business sense. He used these talents to help the college raise the amazing sum of $1,000,000—a huge endowment campaign for any college at that time. With the college’s increased endowment, President Burton was able to increase faculty salaries substantially and improve the faculty-to-student ratio. President Burton's fund drive also invigorated the alumnae, bringing them closer to the college than ever before and increasing their representation on the board of trustees.
Along with improving the financial state and business methods of the college, President Burton also contributed to a revision of the curriculum and initiated college honors programs to recognize outstanding students. He also helped to organize a cooperative admission system among Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Vassar, the finest women’s colleges of the day. President Burton’s accomplishments are commemorated today by Burton Hall, the science building that his fund drive helped to finance.
1873–1910
Smith College opened in the fall of 1875 with 14 students and six faculty under the presidency of Laurenus Clark Seelye. Its small campus was planned to make the college part of what John M. Greene called “the real practical life” of a New England town, rather than a sequestered academic preserve. College Hall, the Victorian Gothic administrative and classroom building, dominated the head of Northampton’s Main Street. For study and worship, students used the town’s well-endowed public library and various churches. Instead of a dormitory, students lived in a “cottage,” where life was more familial than institutional. Thus began the "house" system that, with some modifications, the college still employs today. The main lines of Smith’s founding educational policy, laid down in President Seelye’s inaugural address, remain valid today: then as now, the standards for admission were as high as those of the best colleges for men; then as now, a truly liberal education was fostered by a broad curriculum of the humanities, the fine arts and the natural and social sciences.
During the 35 years of President Seelye’s administration, the college prospered mightily. Its assets grew from Sophia Smith’s original bequest of about $400,000 to more than $3,000,000; its faculty to 122; its student body to 1,635; its buildings to 35. These buildings included Alumnae Gymnasium, site of the first women’s basketball game, and William Allan Neilson Library, one of the best-stocked undergraduate libraries in the country.
Traditionally Smith
There are certain traditions that instantly unite Smithies of nearly any class year. Mountain Day, Ivy Day, Friday teas—these call to mind memories of community and celebration, and have been a part of Smith’s history for the better part of 150 years. Newer traditions, like Julia Child Day and Otelia Cromwell Day, have quickly taken root and have become beloved Smith experiences in their own right.
Commencement Traditions More Smith Traditions
Some Notable Alums
Famous chefs, Pulitzer Prize winners, political columnists, environmental researchers, film directors, venture capitalists, physicists, poets, playwrights, CEOs—Smithies apply their learning throughout their lives in thousands of professions and communities.
Gloria Steinem ’56
Noted feminist activist
Kimberly Drew ’12
Writer and art influencer
Julia Child ’34
Cookbook author and TV host
Garrett Bradley ’07
Artist and filmmaker
Smithies Create
In 2009, Tenaya Darlington ’94, aka Madame Fromage, started a cheese blog. From that seed, she grew a network of cheesemakers and enthusiasts who encouraged her to write, travel, and (of course) eat. Her new book, Madame Fromage’s Adventures in Cheese, is the result of years of research and exploration.
Meet Some Other Creative Alums Explore Our Notable Alums and "Firsts"
Commencement History
Key
DD = Doctor of Divinity
DFA = Doctor of Fine Arts
LTD = Doctor of Letters
LHD = Doctor of Humane Letters
LLD = Doctor of Laws
MUS = Doctor of Music
SCD = Doctor of Science
Recipients
Berenice Abbott DFA 1973
Jane Addams LLD 1910
Stella Adler DFA 1987
Gwen Agna LHD 2020
Dorothy Ainsworth 1916 SCD 1956
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove SCD 1995
Madeleine Korbel Albright LLD 2003
Elizabeth Alexander DFA 2019
Jane Alexander DFA 1999
Florence Ellinwood Allen LLD 1925
Hope Emily Allen LHD 1946
Christiane Amanpour LHD 2008
Marian Anderson MUS 1944
Mary Anderson LLD 1941
Maya Angelou LTD 1975
Gladys Anslow 1914 SCD 1950
Hannah Arendt LLD 1966
Margaret Arnstein 1925 SCD 1950
Helen Atwater 1897 SCD 1943
Margaret Atwood LTD 1982
Tammy Baldwin '84 LLD 2009
Mahzarin Banaji SCD 2015
Ana Marie Barrenechea LTD 1967
Nita Barrow LLD 1991
Leona Baumgartner SCD 1956
Rose Fairbank Beals 1895 SCD 1934
Mary Beard LLD 1945
Alison Bechdel DFA 2016
Bodil Begtrup LLD 1949
M. Kathleen Bell 1944 AM 1959
Sally Benson SCD 2015
Mary Lathrap Benton LHD 1914
Charlotte Bequignon-Lagarde LLD 1949
Mildred Jeanmaire Berendsen 1949 LHD 1991
Mary Berry LLD 1990
Ela Bhatt LHD 2014
Deborah Bial LHD 2021
Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan LLD 2010
Elizabeth Bishop LTD 1968
Barbara Black LLD 1988
Albert F. Blakeslee SCD 1952
Elizabeth Blanchard AM 1888
Sarah Gibson Blanding LLD 1949
Frances Bradshaw Blanshard 1916 LLD 1946
Charles Blitzer LLD 1989
Mabel Thorp Boardman LLD 1916
Jean Sutherland Boggs LLD 1975
Nadia Boulanger DFA 1958
Helen Childs Boyden 1904 LHD 1934
Muriel Clara Bradbrook LLD 1965
Anna Branch 1897 AM 1934
Germaine Bree LTD 1960
Vivion Lenon Brewer 1921 LHD 1961
Hari Brissimi 1948 LLD 2005
Roslyn Brock LHD 2016
Anita Brookner LTD 1989
Gwendolyn Brooks LTD 1997
Adelaide Brown 1888 SCD 1939
Ann Winkelman Brown 1959 LLD 2000
Nina Browne 1882 LTD 1930
Elizabeth T. Bunce 1937 SCD 1971
Mary Bunting-Smith LLD 1960
Eleanor Margaret Peachy Burbidge SCD 1963
Barbara Pierce Bush 1947 LHD 1989
Helen Caldicott LLD 1990
Sarah Caldwell DFA 1974
Mary Calkins 1885 LLD 1910
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Jill Ker Conway was born Jill Ker on October 9, 1934, in New South Wales, Australia. She grew up in the Australian Outback with her family—her parents and two brothers. The family owned a large expanse of land they called Coorain.
Coorain is an Aboriginal (Native Australian) word that means "windy place." Ker Conway used this name in the title of the book The Road from Coorain (1989).
Because of their remote location, the Ker family was isolated from other families. Jill Ker Conway was educated at home using educational materials sent to them by mail. In her childhood, Ker helped tend sheep in Coorain.
Sadly, the farm was hit hard by drought. In an attempt to improve the farm's water system, Ker's father tragically drowned. Though her mother initially wanted to stay on the farm, she eventually took the children to Sydney. There, Jill Ker Conway attended public school for the first time. She had difficulty fitting in and was bullied by her peers. Thankfully, she soon switched to a private school called Abbotsleigh, where she flourished.
After graduating from Abbotsleigh, Ker Conway attended the University of Sydney. She studied both English and History, receiving her bachelor's in 1958.
Jill Ker Conway: Family and Career
After receiving her bachelor's degree, Ker Conway spent two years traveling. In 1960, she moved to the US, where she attended Harvard University. While studying history there, Ker Conway met professor John Conway; they fell in love and then married in 1962. In 1969 Jill Ker Conway earned her Ph.D. from Harvard.
Before even finishing her Ph.D., Jill Ker Conway had taken a teaching position at the University of Toronto. She worked there in the history department from 1964-1975. During this time, she helped develop a course of study focused on women's history, which would spread across North America.
From 1975-1985, Jill Ker Conway served as the president of the all-women's Smith College—the first woman ever to hold that position. During her time as the college's president, Ker Conway wrote nonfiction books and articles about feminism and women's history. Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History (1977) was the first of these works. She also started programs to support non-traditional students and those on welfare- and expanded the college's curriculum to include engineering, women's studies, and comparative literature.
In 1975, the first year that Ker Conway served as the president of Smith College, Time magazine named her woman of the year. This honored her work to further the accessibility of higher education to more women and the effort she put in to help develop a curriculum for Women's Studies.
After leaving her position at Smith College, Jill Ker Conway held a variety of other jobs, including serving on several corporate boards as well as teaching as visiting professor at MIT. It was during her time at MIT that Jill Ker Conway wrote and published her first memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989). It covers her life from her time living on her family's Australian sheep farm all the way through her studies at Harvard, and it remains her most famous book. Ker Conway later continued her memoirs with True North (1995) and A Woman's Education (2001).
The National Women's History Project made Jill Ker Conway a Women's History Month Honoree in 2004.
Jill Ker Conway: Cause of Death
Nearing the end of her life, Jill Ker Conway was the board chair of a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit was based in New York City and worked to address homelessness. On June 1, 2018, Jill Ker Conway died at home in Boston, Massachusetts. She was 83 years old. Ker Conway is remembered as a beloved feminist writer and Smith College president.
Jill Ker Conway: Books
Jill Ker Conway's most well-known books are her memoirs, The Road from Coorain (1989), True North (1995), and A Woman's Education (2001). In addition to these books, though, Ker Conway has written many other works of nonfiction—mostly focused on feminist issues—as well as a children's book and scholarly articles.
Nonfiction Books
Jill Ker Conway's most well-known works are her nonfiction books. These include memoirs as well as women's history books.
Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History (1977)
Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History was author Jill Ker Conway's first published book. It addresses feminist topics through history—a common theme in many of her works.
The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain is Jill Ker Conway's first and most famous memoir. It begins during her childhood working on her family's sheep farm in a remote part of Australia. The book follows her through her early education and bachelor's degree at the University of Sydney, discussing the bias against women that she faced along the way.
True North: A Memoir
Ker Conway's second memoir, True North, picks up where The Road from Coorain left off. It covers her move to North America and her relationship with John Conway. As with The Road from Coorain, it incorporates feminist themes that were important throughout Ker Conway's life.
Other nonfiction books by Jill Ker Conway include Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Ideas about Equality (1987), Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women (1992), Written by Herself: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States, Volume 2 (1992), When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography (1998), In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1999), and A Woman's Education.
Other Works
In addition to her nonfiction books, Jill Ker Conway wrote a children's book called Felipe the Flamingo. She has also written a few scholarly journal articles. These include "Merchants and Merinos" (1960), which was published in the 1960 issue of Royal Australian Historical Society Journal in 1960, and "Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870-1930," which was published in the winter 1971-1972 issue of Journal of Social History.
Jill Ker Conway: Quotes
Men and women were treated very differently as Jill Ker Conway was growing up. This quote from The Road from Coorain describes an important moment of reflection in her childhood when she began to really think about women's issues.
Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life." (The Road from Coorain, ch 8)
The following quote from True North relays Ker Conway's thoughts on the different kinds of friendships that she had throughout her life. While some friendships exist only while certain circumstances are maintained, she found others that lasted longer because they were based on more than circumstance. Ker Conway made a few big moves in her life which informed her observations of friendship.
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life." (True North, ch 8)
The quote below from The Road from Coorain is about Ker Conway's mother. Jill Ker Conway explains that because of limitations on and expectations of women at the time, her mother was changed from a strong and rebellious person into a settled, sedated version of herself. This observation would further fuel Ker Conway's focus on feminism.
I would place beside her in my mind's eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I'd known as a child. I was living with a tragic deterioration brought about because there was now no creative expression for this woman's talents. [...] No one had directly willed her decline. It was the outcome of many impersonal forces, which had combined to emphasize her vulnerabilities. The medical fashion of the day decreed that troubled middle-aged women be given tranquilizers and sedatives. She, once a rebel, had acquiesced in settling down to live the life of an affluent woman." (The Road from Coorain, ch 8)
Jill Ker Conway - Key takeaways
Jill Ker Conway was born on October 9, 1934, in New South Wales, Australia.
Ker Conway is most famous for her memoirs The Road from Coorain (1989), True North (1995), and A Woman's Education (2001).
In addition to her memoirs, Ker Conway has written several nonfiction works focused on feminism and women's history.
Jill Ker Conway also worked as a professor, the first woman president of Smith College, and on the board of various corporations.
Ker Conway died at her home in 2018 at the age of 83. | |||||
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"In a labour-scarce society with a shortage of human energy, there is no room for social conventions about women's work," Jill Ker Conway, who grew up in just such a place, once noted. "The work had to be done. It never crossed anyone's mind that you didn't work up to your competence."
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Dr. Conway has received 16 honorary doctorates from American and Canadian universities. She is a director of Merrill Lynch & Co., Colgate-Palmolive Co. Inc. and Nike Inc. and serves as chair of Lend Lease, an Australian-based property and financial services group. She is also visiting professor in the Science, Technology and Society Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today we're going to remember Jill Ker Conway, who influenced many women as a feminist, memoirist, women's history scholar and the first woman president of Smith College, one of the largest women's colleges in the world. She served in that position from 1975 to 85. Conaway died June 1 at the age of 83. We'll hear excerpts of my three interviews with her recorded between 1989 and 1998. We talked about establishing her career at a time when many doors were closed to women, how she became a feminist, how she married historian John Conway in spite of the fact she had always thought marriage would be the wrong choice for her and how she later dealt with his depression and then his death.
Our first interview was recorded in 1989 after the publication of her first memoir, which became a best-seller and a touchstone book for many women. Titled "The Road To Coorain" (ph), it covered her childhood growing up on a remote sheep farm, which her parents ran in the Australian outback where she was physically and intellectually cut off from the world. The book ends with her decision to leave Australia in 1960 when she was 25 to attend graduate school at Harvard, hoping to find more opportunities for women in the U.S. than she'd found in Australia.
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GROSS: So you grew up in a very isolated setting.
JILL KER CONWAY: Totally - our next-door neighbors were, oh, about 50 miles away on one side...
GROSS: Oh, boy.
CONWAY: ...And about 20 miles another and 10 or 12 in another direction.
GROSS: Your first schooling was through a correspondence course.
CONWAY: Yes, it was - my mother thought I could do two years in one, and she told the correspondence school that, but they thought there were two children on the place, so they sent the first lesson of the first grade and the first lesson of the second grade and continued in installments all the way through the year. It wasn't - it wasn't clear to me that it was work of a different degree of difficulty. So we didn't know until the end of the year.
GROSS: I love what you say about studying alone in isolation, that you were introduced to study as a leisure time activity. It sounds like you never really grew to dislike education in the way that so many children who go to schools do.
CONWAY: For me, it was sheer pleasure. I was doing hard, physical labor on the sheep station. And I worked at that four days a week, and on the fifth day, on Friday, I got to sit down and do my school. And it was such a treat because I had been given my own pot of tea, and Friday was a baking day, so there would be great smells of fresh-baked scones and cookies coming from the kitchen. And I felt totally indulged, and I've never felt about learning any other way.
GROSS: Were you sure that you would go to college?
CONWAY: It was very clear in my family because my mother was such a feminist that I would. And interestingly, the stereotypes of our gender worked in my favor in my family because it was expected that my brothers would probably not go to university and would - since our father was a rancher that they would take up life on the land, too. And that meant that they would begin that right after school.
GROSS: You went to the University of Sydney first, yes?
CONWAY: Yes, I did.
GROSS: And then you thought about what to do next. You decided you didn't want to go to school in England because you'd feel like a colonial there. You applied to Harvard and started living in the United States. Did you find that there were more opportunities for women?
CONWAY: Oh, goodness, yes. Well, I arrived at the Harvard graduate school. I lived in the graduate residence where there were several hundred other women all getting Ph.D.s and all enormously bright and interesting people drawn from all over the world. And I found the director of my graduate studies who told his students that the contribution of women to American intellectual life was as important as men's and handed out lists of women whose lives needed to be studied and whose intellectual histories needed to be written and so forth. And that was just a new world for me.
GROSS: What set you in the direction of being a college administrator, first a vice president at the University of Toronto, then the first woman president at Smith?
CONWAY: Well, I was born at the right time. I was - just finished my Ph.D. and beginning life as a professional historian just at the point when there was an enormous expansion of higher education in the United States and Canada. I went to Canada with my husband who was taking part in planning and building a new university in Toronto. And myself - I joined the history department the University of Toronto in the process.
I suddenly discovered one day that although I had joined the history department at the University of Toronto with a group of young men all trained in American doctoral programs like me, I was the only one who wasn't being promoted, and I found that I was also quite severely discriminated against in my salary. And so I just got in a rage, went and confronted the department chairman and the dean with this information, and they very quickly rectified the situation. But when I was finished, I realized that there were loads of other women faculty who were in much more jeopardy protesting such things than I. So I began organizing the women faculty, and before I knew it, I was in a leadership role that I just stumbled into. And very shortly thereafter, there was a change in the university administration and I sort of had to put up or shut up, and so I accepted a position as one of the university vice presidents. And so I sort of backed into it and then found out I really loved it.
GROSS: The interview with Jill Ker Conway that we just heard was recorded in 1989 after the publication of her first memoir, "The Road To Coorain." We're going to continue our remembrance of her with the interview we recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about setting out for Harvard alone, leaving behind her suffocating family and a culture hostile to aspiring women. For the first time, she found friends she could talk to without censoring her words or emotions. And she found her niche as a scholar of women's history. To her surprise, she fell in love with and married the historian John Conway, even though she'd always thought that marriage was not for her.
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CONWAY: I was such an anomalous person in my native Australia, and I think it would have been very difficult for me to fit into a conventional Australian marriage. John Conway was already a professional scholar. He wasn't somebody who wanted a wife to make a comfortable domestic environment for him. He wanted a partner in sort of major intellectual tasks, and that was a relationship that I thought I could handle. I wasn't absolutely certain that I could ever settle into being the helping wife who's always typing her husband's manuscripts and managing somehow or another to create the right environment for somebody else to blossom in.
GROSS: Early on into your marriage, you realized that you both had a lot of mood swings. You had always had depressions, and you realized he had very serious depressions, too. And you write about during some of those depressions he'd become almost unrecognizable, quote, "as though a stranger had replaced my sensitive and loving husband with someone obsessed by demons of rage, tormented by suspicion." It must have been very unsettling, especially early on when you saw changes like that and wondered, you know, who he was becoming.
CONWAY: Well, you know, I had grown up with a neurotic family, and the thing that I think that gave me was the capacity to live through other people's moods and keep my own balance. I wouldn't recommend that as a good training for anyone, but it turned out to stand me in very good stead. And my husband was so open and direct about facing the problems he had to deal with very deep mood swings that when he came out of them, we would always be able to analyze what had happened. And I gradually learned that at those points, I just had to wait for him to reappear as his usual, positive and constructive self. But, you know, we all manage to live with somebody with acute physical ailments, and those problems of emotional swings are no different.
GROSS: He had shock treatments during one bout of depression. What were the effects of that?
CONWAY: Well, I think that is - as I say in the book, I think of electric shock therapy as the ultimate example of the engineering mentality and the sort of idea of the technological fix. It damages people's memory. And for someone who was a professional scholar, it had a devastating effect because a lifetime of learning was lost. He couldn't recall it.
GROSS: Did he lose that memory permanently?
CONWAY: Not permanently, but for a very substantial period of time.
GROSS: Like, years? Or...
CONWAY: Yes. Yes, indeed.
GROSS: We're listening to my 1994 interview with Jill Ker Conway, feminist, memoirist and the first woman president of Smith College. She died June 1. We'll hear more of that interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF GEORGE SHEARING'S "THINKING OF YOU")
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. We're continuing our remembrance of Jill Ker Conway, a feminist, memoirist and the first woman to serve as president of Smith College. She died June 1. Let's get back to the interview I recorded with her in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about leaving Australia, where she grew up on a sheep ranch in the Outback, and moving to the U.S. to attend graduate school and launch her academic career. In 1964, she took a teaching position at the University of Toronto.
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GROSS: When you were at the University of Toronto, you became something of an activist. You started organizing women on campus around women's issues such as equal pay. You went in and basically demanded to know why you weren't being given a promotion.
CONWAY: Yes. That's right. You know, my experience fits exactly with the social science textbooks. Women are supposed to experience their first serious discrimination seven years after initial employment, and mine came in six and a half years. So I was right on schedule. And when I did call a meeting of women faculty at the university, I discovered that it wasn't just a question of discrimination in pay within rank, but very differential rates of promotion and access to research, support and so forth.
GROSS: Well, you went on to be appointed the first woman vice president at the University of Toronto, but after you got that position, you figured you were probably a disappointment to the feminist proponents of women's studies on campus. Why did you oppose women's studies programs?
CONWAY: Well, it's a basic difference in strategy and what one thinks will be an effective mechanism for changing institutions. I thought that the most important thing was to transform the program of instruction of conventional departments and schools. I mean, I wanted the law school to study the legal treatment of domestic violence, or the school of architecture to study transportation and how the way it's scheduled in a city affects how women can move around. You know, just when poor mothers need to collect their children from school is just when the bus schedule is at its least helpful and so forth. Or, I wanted the medical school to spend more time researching heart disease in women.
We didn't know about the frequency of breast cancer back in those days. And I thought those things were as important for the university to become committed to as creating a separate academic program which would study women's experience in a cross-disciplinary way. I believe that working in those professional schools might have more immediate impact on the lives of a great many women.
GROSS: One of the things that a lot of professional women have had to deal with is balancing being a mother and being a professional. You weren't able to have children. You had hoped to have children, but a medical problem prevented that. And I wonder how you coped with that at different stages of your life.
CONWAY: Well, I found it a most absolutely devastating experience at the time. But, you know, another part of growing up in life is learning that not everything is always going to work out the way you hoped it would and that one has to adjust and find the creative response to whatever constraints your experience in life. That was something I had to do about not having my own biological family. We simply acquired a surrogate family of many other young people who were not our biological children.
GROSS: Seems like so many things that happened to you in your life just led you to become more and more independent.
CONWAY: (Laughter). Well, I suppose that's one way of...
GROSS: Becoming independent, right?
CONWAY: (Laughter). Yes.
GROSS: (Laughter). I want to talk some more about how you planned a relationship of equality with your husband. I'm talking, for instance, about how you decided to divide up your money. I mean, you had an arrangement planned for that, at least early on in the marriage. You want to describe that?
CONWAY: Yes. You know, it's always interested me, so many families where there were young children, and a very highly educated wife would say to me, Janie can't afford to work. By the time we replaced her work in the house and bought the clothes that she'll need to have a professional life, she won't be earning any money. And I was always fascinated that it was assumed that the woman alone was responsible for replacing her domestic labor.
My husband and I made an agreement early in our married life that we would figure out what it cost us to run our household, including the domestic help, and then we would each contribute to that household budget proportionately to what we earned. So my husband was supporting far more of the cost of replacing my domestic labor than I was, and we each had our own disposable income after that to do whatever we wanted with.
GROSS: Now, what was the logic in your relationship of keeping your income separate, as opposed to just putting it in one big joint account?
CONWAY: We both felt very strongly that we should be able to plan anything that related to our professional lives, travel, even vacations, using our own resources. The fact that we were married and shared a common dwelling and a partnership in life didn't mean that we ceased to be individuals in other ways.
GROSS: Did that continue to work for you?
CONWAY: It always has.
GROSS: So you're still doing it that way?
CONWAY: Yes, indeed.
GROSS: Now, let me ask you this. When you had a best-seller and I imagine you made a, you know, fair amount of money, did you feel guilty keeping most of that in your account, not, you know, splitting it up or anything?
CONWAY: Not at all. I mean, it's always been part of our married life that what you earn outside what's required to maintain your joint household is yours.
GROSS: You know, something else that a lot of people find very intriguing, such as myself, is that you had this, like, 10-year plan...
CONWAY: (Laughter) Yes.
GROSS: ...With your husband. Explain how that works.
CONWAY: Well, we agreed very early on that every 10 years, the other person would get to say where you lived so that one person's career would always be primary, but we would take turns. We didn't want to have a commuting marriage, which was the other solution people tried to adopt. But we both really cherished the experience of living together and didn't like being parted, and so we solved the problem that way. And we have been married for a little more than 30 years now, and we're just coming up to the beginning of another 10-year period of mine. I'm thinking about what we're going to do.
GROSS: So does this mean you have to move?
CONWAY: No.
GROSS: I mean, can you just say, let's stay where we are this time?
CONWAY: If you're like what you're doing, you can stay where you are.
GROSS: Your husband's 18 years older, and I think that 18 years is a lot bigger a gap as you get older. And I'm wondering if that's been affecting the relationship at all or if that's something that's been weighing on you at all as you watch your husband get older.
CONWAY: If you live with somebody who's almost a generation older than you, it can work in two ways. That difference can be stressed, or it can be very easily bridged. My husband is chronologically 18 years older than I am, but in a lot of ways, he's psychologically a good deal younger. He's much more naive and, in many ways, much more open to experience and much more spontaneous so that, in fact, his chronological age is a lot more advanced than his psychological age. And I'm the reverse. So he's a very youthful 78-year-old, and I'm probably quite a mature 60-year-old. I can imagine that it would be very difficult living with someone whose energies were really terribly depleted and obviously declining so that one's life experience became very different. I think it's really very interesting to live very close to somebody who's having to struggle to come to terms with the issues of their own mortality and so forth - a valuable experience, which I'm glad to have had.
GROSS: You must worry about losing him.
CONWAY: Of course I do. Everybody shouldn't be worried about that every day of their life, though. I mean, we all live poised on the brink of eternity.
GROSS: Jill Ker Conway recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North." The year after that interview was recorded, her husband, who was 18 years older than she was, died suddenly after suffering a stroke. Jill Ker Conway died June 1 at the age of 83. We'll continue our remembrance after a break. Also, our rock critic Ken Tucker will review the debut album by Lindsey Jordan, who's just one year out of high school. And Justin Chang will review the new sequel to the animated film "The Incredibles." I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF RALPH TOWNER'S "GLORIA'S STEP")
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're remembering feminist, memoirist and the first woman president of Smith College, Jill Ker Conway. She died June 1 at the age of 83. Let's get back to the interview we recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about her life after leaving Australia, where she grew up on a sheep farm in the remote Outback, physically and intellectually cut off from the world. In 1960, at age 25, she moved to America to attend graduate school at Harvard. She wrote her thesis on women's memoirs and eventually wrote three memoirs of her own. It's a literary form she had strong opinions about.
(SOUNDITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
GROSS: I want to ask you about writing memoirs. You know, there's that whole idea that the writer is ultimately a traitor, that if you're writing personally, you're betraying the people who are closest to you because you're writing about them, too.
CONWAY: Yeah.
GROSS: And I'd love to know how far you feel comfortable going in your own memoirs when it comes to the lives of other people - your mother, who - you write about all the problems you've had and...
CONWAY: Well, I don't think my mother is diminished by depicting the tragedy of her life because I start out in "The Road From Coorain" showing people this absolutely wonderfully powerful, rich joyful, creative woman. And to chronicle her deterioration as a result of a society that had no place for an older woman and taught a widow to think of her life as over doesn't seem to me to diminish her, it just really emphasizes the tragedy of her life. And other people, people who are living, I always show what I've written about them. And if they don't like it or didn't, I would either leave it out or change it or find some other way to say what I wanted to say. In fact, nobody has ever asked me to change anything.
GROSS: You must really believe in the memoir as an important form.
CONWAY: Yes, I do. I think that it is, in many ways, the form of narrative that is most gripping to contemporary readers. I think we read it the way 19th century people read Dickens or Hardy or somebody like that. And I think it's because it's in writing memoirs that we are obliged to say what the total constellation of all our roles means to us. And that's the real dilemma of the modern consciousness. We have this sense of an inner core of being which is us, which looks out and comments on life and experience - and which is part of, but not subsumed by all the roles that we play.
I think modern moral philosophers think that you really can't judge a life without looking at the total sum of all the roles that are intertwined within it and trying to interpret what they all add up to. And I think that's the aspect of the modern consciousness that really resonates when we read a memoir. We want to see somebody else telling us what it's all added up to because we want to be able to do that for ourselves.
GROSS: Have there been any liabilities for you to become a more public person, which is what you've become since writing your memoirs? Because I think a lot of women and a lot of men in positions of authority, like you were as the head of a college, would try very hard to not let the people who they work with know a lot of personal things about them. For a lot of people, that's a strategy for maintaining a certain dignity and respect and power within an organization.
CONWAY: Well, you know, if you tell the story of your life, it is no more fanciful and no more interesting to people than all the fantasies they have about you. So you might just as well have your say on the record, too.
GROSS: That interview with Jill Ker Conway was recorded in 1994, after the publication of her second memoir, "True North." We recorded our third and final interview in 1998, after the publication of her book about memoirs and autobiographies titled "When Memory Speaks." I asked her a question she asks in that book, why do so many people write their life stories?
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CONWAY: Well, I think it is part of the development in our culture which says that there's really no central point of view from which to look at the world today so that everybody's story is relevant in some way. And so now, we have memoirs written by very young people. Once upon a time, you only wrote toward the end of your life. They're written by people of every ethnic and class background and every sexual orientation, whereas once upon a time, that terrible experience of poverty would have been fictionalized by a Dickens. Or the absolutely appalling experience of incest would have been turned into a novel. Now, we have lost most of those senses of what it's appropriate to talk about in the first person, and so much that was previously fiction is now presented as a memoir.
GROSS: I think, you know, memoirs tend to have a certain coherence and shapeliness that real life lacks.
CONWAY: Absolutely.
GROSS: Real life is usually, you know, very much a muddle...
CONWAY: Yes.
GROSS: ...Particularly, as you're going from one experience to another and, you know, it doesn't have that coherence that a narrative has in book form. And I'm wondering, you know, you've written two memoirs. Did your life take on a shapeliness in book form that it didn't seem to have in real life? What was the difference between your life in that shapely form of the book and your life as it felt like as you lived the parts that you later wrote about?
CONWAY: Well, I think the important thing to remember is that in shaping that narrative, drawing that out of the ebb and flow of very different kinds of experience, you choose the things that seem meaningful to you at the time you're writing. And naturally, what you put into the narrative is shaped by what are important issues to you at the moment of composing that life plot and describing it. So I think if I look back at "The Road From Coorain", at the point at which I wrote it, the relationship with my mother, who had recently died, and the reasons why I left Australia were absolutely compelling to me.
And so the narrative of my life takes its form around those issues. And, of course, since I'm a strong feminist, I also wanted the narrative to drive home the point that I'm writing about two generations of Australian women who couldn't contribute what they might have to their society because of their being female. Were I to write that story today, you know, I've come to a much different understanding of my mother, partly from being widowed myself. And the things that drove me out of Australia seem less important to me, and I would probably construct the narrative quite differently.
But that doesn't mean to say that it wasn't true at the time I wrote it. And if I think about the second volume of my memoirs, "True North," one of the things that I wanted to convey as clearly as I could was that it's possible for a professional woman to form a very deep and powerful marriage relationship and yet retain a bounded identity and a strong professional self and not experience those two things as in conflict. And I'm still close enough to that experience that I'd want to tell that story the same way.
GROSS: You would tell that story the same way.
CONWAY: Yes. Yes, indeed.
GROSS: Now, how...
CONWAY: You know, if I were in another life phase completely and struggling with other issues of meaning in my life, I might tell that one differently, too. But I'm not at the moment. I'm in the same life stage that I was when I was writing that.
GROSS: Your husband passed away since we last...
CONWAY: Yes.
GROSS: ...Spoke. And I was very...
CONWAY: That's right.
GROSS: ...Sorry to read about that. You just mentioned that you would tell your mother's story differently now, having experienced losing your husband, as she had lost hers. What would be different in how you told her story now based on what you've experienced?
CONWAY: Well, you know, at the time, before I'd had this experience, I attributed her excessive and overwhelming lifetime of grief as incomprehensible to me. I couldn't understand how she did not have the energy and drive, as a powerful and very strong woman, to get herself together and take up life again. Having lost my own husband, I can see what a temptation that is, although it's not one I've succumbed to. I understand how it might happen.
GROSS: Do you plan on writing another memoir?
CONWAY: One day, I will. But you have to be in another stage of life from the one you're writing about in order to know what's significant. You know, we fuss a lot about experiences, which, at the time, seem important, and with hindsight, seem not so important. And we often overlook, at the time, something that's very significant and shaping, so you have to be in another stage of life to know what the shape of your previous one was.
GROSS: I think, also, when we're in a certain - when we're in the stage of life that we're talking or writing about, we're much more defensive about the actions that we took.
CONWAY: (Laughter) That's right.
GROSS: ...Much more involved in justifying what we've done.
CONWAY: That's right. I mean, that's why the memoirs of statesmen written right after they lose office are so terrible because...
GROSS: Yes, right?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSS: Well, Jill Ker Conway, thank you very much for talking with us.
CONWAY: It's a great pleasure, Terry. Thank you.
GROSS: Jill Ker Conway, recorded in 1998 after the publication of her book about memoirs, called "When Memory Speaks." In 2002, she wrote her third memoir, titled "A Woman's Education," about serving as the first woman president of Smith College. She died June 1 at the age of 83. I'm grateful for the opportunities I had to speak with her.
(SOUNDBITE OF MICHEL REIS' "REPERCUSSIONS")
GROSS: After a break, our rock critic Ken Tucker will review the debut album by Lindsey Jordan, who's just one year out of high school. She records under the name Snail Mail. This is FRESH AIR.
[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states the title of Jill Ker Conway's 1989 memoir as The Road to Coorain. It is The Road from Coorain.]
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With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. And is soon at Harvard, a graduate student in history experiencing both exhilaration and culture shock; discovering among friends of many backgrounds an easier sociability than she has ever known; delighting in classes that seem charged with energy, and in the perception that ideas were being taken seriously - yet still feeling like an extraterrestrial on the American planet. We see her joining with five other women to form a household that becomes an "almost magical, " hilarious, and harmonious community - the community that functions as her family when she meets the Harvard professor and housemaster who will become her husband, John Conway, himself a historian, Canadian born and bred, decorated for heroism in World War II - the complex man whose mind and spirit complement her own. We see them marrying and learning to live together - during a year at Oxford, in Rome, and as they settle into the new world of Canadian university life - happy with each other, while coping, not always well, with her classically obsessive thesis writing, her as-yet-unresolved conflict with her mother, his periodic bouts of depression, and her realization that even though John's integrity, courage, and devotion to humanistic learning have become the compass point - the true north - bywhich she steers, there will be times when she has to navigate alone. We witness the moment of her spiritual arrival on this continent and her discovery of her warrior self - fighting for equity in her own career and for other women. This is how a most private woman found for hers.
Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te lls the profound story of the challenges that confronted Conway, as she sought to establish her public self.
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The opening pages of Road From Coorain paint some of the most lyrical, vivid and haunting descriptions of the Australian bush, portraying a visceral link to the land decades after the author had left it.
When it was published in 1989, Jill Ker Conway was already celebrated in North America for her ground-breaking achievements – a Vice President at the University of Toronto and then for a decade the first woman President of prestigious Smith College in Massachusetts, the alma mater of Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, even Nancy Reagan. After Smith, she had joined the boards of number of multi-nationals. But it was the best-selling Road From Coorain that reminded us that this remarkable woman was Australian and that she had an extraordinary story to tell.
Jill Ker was the only daughter and the third and youngest child of William Innes Ker and Evelyn A’darmes. Her father, survived gassing at Ypres and, in 1929, after a stint managing a prosperous property, drew a soldier’s settlement – Coorain (“windy place”), 30,000-hectares at Hillston, between Ivanhoe and Hay on the western plains of New South Wales. A vast plain – windy, desolate, vast and sparse - “under the weight of that enormous sky”.
Jill’s mother, the complex, tortured heroine of Coorain, had grown up comfortably in a Queensland country town and become the matron of a provincial hospital before her marriage. Jill shares her memories of long night drives home from distant parties “my father’s beautiful tenor voice singing the popular songs of the moment until the lights of our car shone on the windows of Coorain”. As her brothers went off to boarding school, Jill was taught by Blackfriars’ Correspondence School and rode about Coorain with her father, playing a part in mustering, dipping, crutching, and lambing.
1940 marked the beginning of a long drought and then, when she was 10, while trying to fix a broken pipe in one of the dams, William Ker drowned. His steely widow was undaunted – there were to be no tears. Evelyn was determined not to leave or lose Coorain and fought the elements, and all expectations. Eventually, she appointed a manager and moved to Sydney. Jill’s account of that journey by train to the city is memorably movingly magnificent.
After the cultural shock of State schools, Jill was enrolled at Abbotsleigh on Sydney’s North Shore. Modelled on the British system, students were hatted and gloved (and not just stockinged but blue-stockinged), taught the importance of deportment and enunciation – and, happily, much else. Abbotsleigh’s redoubtable headmistress, Miss Gordon Everett, inspired her “gels”, Jill among them.
She thrived, emerging not just a beauty but brilliant, and gained entry to Sydney University. She won the University Medal in History but the cathartic event was to be rejected by the Department of Foreign Affairs, while her fellow, male medallist and male runner-up were accepted. Stung by comments like “too aggressively intellectual”, “too good-looking”, and “will be married within a year”, she was taken to Britain by Evelyn and even enrolled at a fashion a modelling school.
On her return, she joined the staff of Sydney University, and found herself teaching American history. This turned her gaze across the Pacific and she was accepted as a PhD student at Harvard. But the catalyst was really her relationship with Evelyn, whose heroic resolve had been fractured by another tragedy – the death of Jill’s brother, Robert, in a car accident.
She had grown bitter and combative and her possessiveness of Jill grew oppressive – “her consolation for her past tragedies, weighed on me like the Ancient Mariner’s albatross”. And so in 1960, Jill set off for Harvard – and Australia lost a star. On this note of uncertainty, and promise, Road from Coorain ended.
Almost immediately, Conway found the world she was meant to find. And, as a teaching assistant, she met and fell in love with Canadian John Conway, a wildly popular professor of history, a bachelor and veteran of the Second World War who had lost his right hand in a charge against a German pillbox in the Italian campaign.
Conway described him as “a totally and spontaneously liberated man”. They also shared a Catholic faith (Jill having converted soon after arriving in the US). They married in 1962. After a sabbatical, they moved to Canada where John joined the staff of York University while Jill became a lecturer at the University of Toronto.
She rose, ineffably, to become Vice President of Internal Affairs, proving to be a deft and innovative administrator. As she recounts in True North (1994), the second volume of her memoirs, she combined being a campus wife with a campaigner for reform. “I would find myself making up shopping lists with one part of my mind (rib roast, new potatoes, Boston lettuce), while the other functioned apparently smoothly to deliver the lecture of the moment on the causes of the Civil War.” She also battled privately with John’s bouts of manic depression and the profound sadness of not being able to have children.
Jill and John had promised to accommodate each other’s careers, taking turns decade by decade. In 1975, Conway was appointed President of Smith, one of perhaps the most illustrious – certainly the largest – liberal arts institution for women; one of the Seven Sisters. She was famous. Time magazine named her one of its Women of the Year. Of course, she had to deal with Smith’s largely male Old Guard. They even dubbed themselves “the Dinosaurs”. But how thrilling her first convocation must have been – as 2200 young women chanted “Jill, Jill, Jill” drumming the floor as they cheered.
As the last of her memoirs, A Woman’s Education (2011) relates, she did not disappoint. She built a new sports centre and introduced rugby. Smith’s endowment nearly tripled in her time and she extended an existing programme for older women whose education had been interrupted or stalled.
The year 1985 heralded another change. Jill and John settled in Conway, Massachusetts, and while John retired, Jill joined the boards of Merrill Lynch, Nike, Colgate-Palmolive and Lendlease. Nike was a good example of her approach. Before agreeing to join, she insisted on a campaign to stimulate interest in sport for girls; she chaired a corporate social responsibility committee and regularly visited Nike plants and suppliers in Asia to check the working conditions of the mainly female workforce.
It was her fury at the fabricated portrayal of rural Australia, in the blockbusting Crocodile Dundee and Thorn Birds, especially its men (whom, unlike some other feminists, she never loathed) that led her to pen Road From Coorain. She also saw it, and its sequels, as a life lesson for other young women. Coorain was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for 54 weeks and entered the canon of Australian biography.
Conway returned home at least every two or three years and, with her slight soft East Coast burr, she was never reluctant to express – shrewdly but never shrilly; bluntly but never bitterly – her views on Australia. Expats were not allowed to be critical – chippy commentators called her “Mother Superior”. But she persevered.
John died in 1995. She remained in Massachusetts and kept extraordinarily active. Housing for homeless veterans became a passionate cause. Well into her 70s, she was still swimming, kayaking, a visiting professor at MIT, and on the Board of Nike.
She garnered some three dozen honorary degrees and received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama. In 2013, she was named an honorary AC (honorary because she became a US citizen in 1982, determined to vote against Ronald Reagan). She saw her AC as “a source of joy, pride, and gratitude, a glorious coda to a long life with deep roots in this country” and rejoiced in the country of her childhood “the vast horizon, symbol of the smallness of mankind, is still there. So is the dazzling night sky, the scent of eucalyptus, the sound of galahs at sunset, and the ubiquitous dust, always a reminder of mortality.”
Her love for her two worlds was reflected in her final wishes. Half her ashes will rest in a small private cemetery with John’s, near their beloved house and garden in Massachusetts. The other half are to be scattered by the big tree beside the roadway into the house at Coorain.
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With no children besides her two older brothers within a hundred miles, she relies on her imagination and books for company. Helping out with the ranch work, she learns self-sufficiency and a practical grasp of what’s needed in the world. It is this combination of imagination and practicality that sends her into the world in search of education and greater understanding, a journey that will make her president of Smith College one day.
On this reading, I found myself fascinated with her parents in a way I hadn’t been before. She describes them as risk-takers, purchasing the land in 1929, not knowing that the drought was not seasonal but would become “legendary”, not knowing that the Depression was about to start in a few months. The ranch was her father’s dream, but the places he’d worked after returning from the horrors of the Great War were in a part of the country with a more forgiving landscape.
Her mother had grown up in a lush country town and enjoyed her career as a nurse, actually running her own country hospital. Yet she gave all this up to go with her new husband to the new home they named Coorain, an aboriginal word meaning “windy place”.
My father, being a westerner, born into that profound peace and silence, felt the need for it like an addiction to a powerful drug. Here, pressed into the earth by the weight of that enormous sky, there is real peace. To those who know it, the annihilation of the self, subsumed into the vast emptiness of nature, is akin to a religious experience. We children grew up to know it and seek it as our father before us. What was social and sensory deprivation for the stranger was the earth and sky that made us what we were. For my mother, the emptiness was disorienting, and the loneliness and silence a daily torment of existential dread.
Had she known how to tell directions she would have walked her way to human voices.
Despite all that, her mother is a figure of strength in Conway’s childhood, facing each new setback with courage and action. Her mother encourages Conway to read by asking her to read aloud while her mother works at daily chores, made more onerous by the lack of electricity and running water. Cooking is done on a wood stove even in the brutal heat of summer. Her mother has to be ready to treat snakebite or help fight bushfires.
But three years after the death of Conway’s father, she and her mother move to Sydney, leaving a good manager to run the ranch. There, her mother’s drive has no outlet and she becomes more and more controlling. Weighed down by grief and anger—she sometimes rages at strange men for daring to be alive when her beloved husband is dead—she begins drinking and her moods become unpredictable. Conway takes refuge in her schooling.
No matter where she travels, Conway never loses her love of her native landscape, though as she learns more, she becomes more critical about the treatment of aboriginal peoples and the ambiguous morality of land ownership.
It’s a fascinating story of an earlier time, a place and a culture foreign to me, and yet Conway’s experience was like mine in so many ways. My book club all raved about the book, finding Conway’s prose beautiful to read and her life inspirational. We want more of this, they said.
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] | 2018-06-07T04:57:16+00:00 | Jill Ker Conway, former president of Smith College and a trustee of the Kresge Foundation from September 1988 to June 2001, died this week at the age of 83. Conway, a native of Australia who moved to the United States in 1960, wrote three acclaimed memoirs, among other books, and championed feminist causes and ideas. In … Continue reading Foundation mourns passing of former trustee Jill Ker Conway | en | Kresge Foundation | https://kresge.org/news-views/foundation-mourns-passing-of-former-trustee-jill-ker-conway/ | Jill Ker Conway, former president of Smith College and a trustee of the Kresge Foundation from September 1988 to June 2001, died this week at the age of 83. Conway, a native of Australia who moved to the United States in 1960, wrote three acclaimed memoirs, among other books, and championed feminist causes and ideas. In 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson issued the following statement on behalf of the foundation:
Jill Ker Conway brought tremendous intelligence and compassion to her role as a Kresge trustee, making an indelible impression on the foundation, its history and its mission.
As president of Smith College in the 1970s and ‘80s, she often interacted with the foundation. Her extensive financial and administrative experience combined with an inquisitive nature caught the attention of Kresge trustees, who invited her to join the board in 1988. Until her retirement in 2001, she served both as a trustee and as board chair, the second woman to do so in Kresge’s history.
Though she had left the board by the time Kresge began its transformation to a strategic philanthropy, she fully supported the idea of transitioning from supporting bricks-and-mortar projects to focusing on cities and people.
Her accomplishments in the finance, academic and literary worlds show her brilliance, thoughtfulness and dedication to service, and she will be missed. On behalf of the foundation, our hearts go out to her family. | |||||
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] | 2018-06-14T00:00:00 | The women's history scholar, who died June 1, grew up on a remote Australian sheep farm and later went on to write three memoirs, including True North. Conway spoke to Fresh Air in 1989, '94 and '98. | en | NPR | https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619953256/remembering-jill-ker-conway-the-first-female-president-of-smith-college | TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today we're going to remember Jill Ker Conway, who influenced many women as a feminist, memoirist, women's history scholar and the first woman president of Smith College, one of the largest women's colleges in the world. She served in that position from 1975 to 85. Conaway died June 1 at the age of 83. We'll hear excerpts of my three interviews with her recorded between 1989 and 1998. We talked about establishing her career at a time when many doors were closed to women, how she became a feminist, how she married historian John Conway in spite of the fact she had always thought marriage would be the wrong choice for her and how she later dealt with his depression and then his death.
Our first interview was recorded in 1989 after the publication of her first memoir, which became a best-seller and a touchstone book for many women. Titled "The Road To Coorain" (ph), it covered her childhood growing up on a remote sheep farm, which her parents ran in the Australian outback where she was physically and intellectually cut off from the world. The book ends with her decision to leave Australia in 1960 when she was 25 to attend graduate school at Harvard, hoping to find more opportunities for women in the U.S. than she'd found in Australia.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
GROSS: So you grew up in a very isolated setting.
JILL KER CONWAY: Totally - our next-door neighbors were, oh, about 50 miles away on one side...
GROSS: Oh, boy.
CONWAY: ...And about 20 miles another and 10 or 12 in another direction.
GROSS: Your first schooling was through a correspondence course.
CONWAY: Yes, it was - my mother thought I could do two years in one, and she told the correspondence school that, but they thought there were two children on the place, so they sent the first lesson of the first grade and the first lesson of the second grade and continued in installments all the way through the year. It wasn't - it wasn't clear to me that it was work of a different degree of difficulty. So we didn't know until the end of the year.
GROSS: I love what you say about studying alone in isolation, that you were introduced to study as a leisure time activity. It sounds like you never really grew to dislike education in the way that so many children who go to schools do.
CONWAY: For me, it was sheer pleasure. I was doing hard, physical labor on the sheep station. And I worked at that four days a week, and on the fifth day, on Friday, I got to sit down and do my school. And it was such a treat because I had been given my own pot of tea, and Friday was a baking day, so there would be great smells of fresh-baked scones and cookies coming from the kitchen. And I felt totally indulged, and I've never felt about learning any other way.
GROSS: Were you sure that you would go to college?
CONWAY: It was very clear in my family because my mother was such a feminist that I would. And interestingly, the stereotypes of our gender worked in my favor in my family because it was expected that my brothers would probably not go to university and would - since our father was a rancher that they would take up life on the land, too. And that meant that they would begin that right after school.
GROSS: You went to the University of Sydney first, yes?
CONWAY: Yes, I did.
GROSS: And then you thought about what to do next. You decided you didn't want to go to school in England because you'd feel like a colonial there. You applied to Harvard and started living in the United States. Did you find that there were more opportunities for women?
CONWAY: Oh, goodness, yes. Well, I arrived at the Harvard graduate school. I lived in the graduate residence where there were several hundred other women all getting Ph.D.s and all enormously bright and interesting people drawn from all over the world. And I found the director of my graduate studies who told his students that the contribution of women to American intellectual life was as important as men's and handed out lists of women whose lives needed to be studied and whose intellectual histories needed to be written and so forth. And that was just a new world for me.
GROSS: What set you in the direction of being a college administrator, first a vice president at the University of Toronto, then the first woman president at Smith?
CONWAY: Well, I was born at the right time. I was - just finished my Ph.D. and beginning life as a professional historian just at the point when there was an enormous expansion of higher education in the United States and Canada. I went to Canada with my husband who was taking part in planning and building a new university in Toronto. And myself - I joined the history department the University of Toronto in the process.
I suddenly discovered one day that although I had joined the history department at the University of Toronto with a group of young men all trained in American doctoral programs like me, I was the only one who wasn't being promoted, and I found that I was also quite severely discriminated against in my salary. And so I just got in a rage, went and confronted the department chairman and the dean with this information, and they very quickly rectified the situation. But when I was finished, I realized that there were loads of other women faculty who were in much more jeopardy protesting such things than I. So I began organizing the women faculty, and before I knew it, I was in a leadership role that I just stumbled into. And very shortly thereafter, there was a change in the university administration and I sort of had to put up or shut up, and so I accepted a position as one of the university vice presidents. And so I sort of backed into it and then found out I really loved it.
GROSS: The interview with Jill Ker Conway that we just heard was recorded in 1989 after the publication of her first memoir, "The Road To Coorain." We're going to continue our remembrance of her with the interview we recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about setting out for Harvard alone, leaving behind her suffocating family and a culture hostile to aspiring women. For the first time, she found friends she could talk to without censoring her words or emotions. And she found her niche as a scholar of women's history. To her surprise, she fell in love with and married the historian John Conway, even though she'd always thought that marriage was not for her.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
CONWAY: I was such an anomalous person in my native Australia, and I think it would have been very difficult for me to fit into a conventional Australian marriage. John Conway was already a professional scholar. He wasn't somebody who wanted a wife to make a comfortable domestic environment for him. He wanted a partner in sort of major intellectual tasks, and that was a relationship that I thought I could handle. I wasn't absolutely certain that I could ever settle into being the helping wife who's always typing her husband's manuscripts and managing somehow or another to create the right environment for somebody else to blossom in.
GROSS: Early on into your marriage, you realized that you both had a lot of mood swings. You had always had depressions, and you realized he had very serious depressions, too. And you write about during some of those depressions he'd become almost unrecognizable, quote, "as though a stranger had replaced my sensitive and loving husband with someone obsessed by demons of rage, tormented by suspicion." It must have been very unsettling, especially early on when you saw changes like that and wondered, you know, who he was becoming.
CONWAY: Well, you know, I had grown up with a neurotic family, and the thing that I think that gave me was the capacity to live through other people's moods and keep my own balance. I wouldn't recommend that as a good training for anyone, but it turned out to stand me in very good stead. And my husband was so open and direct about facing the problems he had to deal with very deep mood swings that when he came out of them, we would always be able to analyze what had happened. And I gradually learned that at those points, I just had to wait for him to reappear as his usual, positive and constructive self. But, you know, we all manage to live with somebody with acute physical ailments, and those problems of emotional swings are no different.
GROSS: He had shock treatments during one bout of depression. What were the effects of that?
CONWAY: Well, I think that is - as I say in the book, I think of electric shock therapy as the ultimate example of the engineering mentality and the sort of idea of the technological fix. It damages people's memory. And for someone who was a professional scholar, it had a devastating effect because a lifetime of learning was lost. He couldn't recall it.
GROSS: Did he lose that memory permanently?
CONWAY: Not permanently, but for a very substantial period of time.
GROSS: Like, years? Or...
CONWAY: Yes. Yes, indeed.
GROSS: We're listening to my 1994 interview with Jill Ker Conway, feminist, memoirist and the first woman president of Smith College. She died June 1. We'll hear more of that interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. We're continuing our remembrance of Jill Ker Conway, a feminist, memoirist and the first woman to serve as president of Smith College. She died June 1. Let's get back to the interview I recorded with her in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about leaving Australia, where she grew up on a sheep ranch in the Outback, and moving to the U.S. to attend graduate school and launch her academic career. In 1964, she took a teaching position at the University of Toronto.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)
GROSS: When you were at the University of Toronto, you became something of an activist. You started organizing women on campus around women's issues such as equal pay. You went in and basically demanded to know why you weren't being given a promotion.
CONWAY: Yes. That's right. You know, my experience fits exactly with the social science textbooks. Women are supposed to experience their first serious discrimination seven years after initial employment, and mine came in six and a half years. So I was right on schedule. And when I did call a meeting of women faculty at the university, I discovered that it wasn't just a question of discrimination in pay within rank, but very differential rates of promotion and access to research, support and so forth.
GROSS: Well, you went on to be appointed the first woman vice president at the University of Toronto, but after you got that position, you figured you were probably a disappointment to the feminist proponents of women's studies on campus. Why did you oppose women's studies programs?
CONWAY: Well, it's a basic difference in strategy and what one thinks will be an effective mechanism for changing institutions. I thought that the most important thing was to transform the program of instruction of conventional departments and schools. I mean, I wanted the law school to study the legal treatment of domestic violence, or the school of architecture to study transportation and how the way it's scheduled in a city affects how women can move around. You know, just when poor mothers need to collect their children from school is just when the bus schedule is at its least helpful and so forth. Or, I wanted the medical school to spend more time researching heart disease in women.
We didn't know about the frequency of breast cancer back in those days. And I thought those things were as important for the university to become committed to as creating a separate academic program which would study women's experience in a cross-disciplinary way. I believe that working in those professional schools might have more immediate impact on the lives of a great many women.
GROSS: One of the things that a lot of professional women have had to deal with is balancing being a mother and being a professional. You weren't able to have children. You had hoped to have children, but a medical problem prevented that. And I wonder how you coped with that at different stages of your life.
CONWAY: Well, I found it a most absolutely devastating experience at the time. But, you know, another part of growing up in life is learning that not everything is always going to work out the way you hoped it would and that one has to adjust and find the creative response to whatever constraints your experience in life. That was something I had to do about not having my own biological family. We simply acquired a surrogate family of many other young people who were not our biological children.
GROSS: Seems like so many things that happened to you in your life just led you to become more and more independent.
CONWAY: (Laughter). Well, I suppose that's one way of...
GROSS: Becoming independent, right?
CONWAY: (Laughter). Yes.
GROSS: (Laughter). I want to talk some more about how you planned a relationship of equality with your husband. I'm talking, for instance, about how you decided to divide up your money. I mean, you had an arrangement planned for that, at least early on in the marriage. You want to describe that?
CONWAY: Yes. You know, it's always interested me, so many families where there were young children, and a very highly educated wife would say to me, Janie can't afford to work. By the time we replaced her work in the house and bought the clothes that she'll need to have a professional life, she won't be earning any money. And I was always fascinated that it was assumed that the woman alone was responsible for replacing her domestic labor.
My husband and I made an agreement early in our married life that we would figure out what it cost us to run our household, including the domestic help, and then we would each contribute to that household budget proportionately to what we earned. So my husband was supporting far more of the cost of replacing my domestic labor than I was, and we each had our own disposable income after that to do whatever we wanted with.
GROSS: Now, what was the logic in your relationship of keeping your income separate, as opposed to just putting it in one big joint account?
CONWAY: We both felt very strongly that we should be able to plan anything that related to our professional lives, travel, even vacations, using our own resources. The fact that we were married and shared a common dwelling and a partnership in life didn't mean that we ceased to be individuals in other ways.
GROSS: Did that continue to work for you?
CONWAY: It always has.
GROSS: So you're still doing it that way?
CONWAY: Yes, indeed.
GROSS: Now, let me ask you this. When you had a best-seller and I imagine you made a, you know, fair amount of money, did you feel guilty keeping most of that in your account, not, you know, splitting it up or anything?
CONWAY: Not at all. I mean, it's always been part of our married life that what you earn outside what's required to maintain your joint household is yours.
GROSS: You know, something else that a lot of people find very intriguing, such as myself, is that you had this, like, 10-year plan...
CONWAY: (Laughter) Yes.
GROSS: ...With your husband. Explain how that works.
CONWAY: Well, we agreed very early on that every 10 years, the other person would get to say where you lived so that one person's career would always be primary, but we would take turns. We didn't want to have a commuting marriage, which was the other solution people tried to adopt. But we both really cherished the experience of living together and didn't like being parted, and so we solved the problem that way. And we have been married for a little more than 30 years now, and we're just coming up to the beginning of another 10-year period of mine. I'm thinking about what we're going to do.
GROSS: So does this mean you have to move?
CONWAY: No.
GROSS: I mean, can you just say, let's stay where we are this time?
CONWAY: If you're like what you're doing, you can stay where you are.
GROSS: Your husband's 18 years older, and I think that 18 years is a lot bigger a gap as you get older. And I'm wondering if that's been affecting the relationship at all or if that's something that's been weighing on you at all as you watch your husband get older.
CONWAY: If you live with somebody who's almost a generation older than you, it can work in two ways. That difference can be stressed, or it can be very easily bridged. My husband is chronologically 18 years older than I am, but in a lot of ways, he's psychologically a good deal younger. He's much more naive and, in many ways, much more open to experience and much more spontaneous so that, in fact, his chronological age is a lot more advanced than his psychological age. And I'm the reverse. So he's a very youthful 78-year-old, and I'm probably quite a mature 60-year-old. I can imagine that it would be very difficult living with someone whose energies were really terribly depleted and obviously declining so that one's life experience became very different. I think it's really very interesting to live very close to somebody who's having to struggle to come to terms with the issues of their own mortality and so forth - a valuable experience, which I'm glad to have had.
GROSS: You must worry about losing him.
CONWAY: Of course I do. Everybody shouldn't be worried about that every day of their life, though. I mean, we all live poised on the brink of eternity.
GROSS: Jill Ker Conway recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North." The year after that interview was recorded, her husband, who was 18 years older than she was, died suddenly after suffering a stroke. Jill Ker Conway died June 1 at the age of 83. We'll continue our remembrance after a break. Also, our rock critic Ken Tucker will review the debut album by Lindsey Jordan, who's just one year out of high school. And Justin Chang will review the new sequel to the animated film "The Incredibles." I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're remembering feminist, memoirist and the first woman president of Smith College, Jill Ker Conway. She died June 1 at the age of 83. Let's get back to the interview we recorded in 1994 after the publication of her second memoir, "True North," about her life after leaving Australia, where she grew up on a sheep farm in the remote Outback, physically and intellectually cut off from the world. In 1960, at age 25, she moved to America to attend graduate school at Harvard. She wrote her thesis on women's memoirs and eventually wrote three memoirs of her own. It's a literary form she had strong opinions about.
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GROSS: I want to ask you about writing memoirs. You know, there's that whole idea that the writer is ultimately a traitor, that if you're writing personally, you're betraying the people who are closest to you because you're writing about them, too.
CONWAY: Yeah.
GROSS: And I'd love to know how far you feel comfortable going in your own memoirs when it comes to the lives of other people - your mother, who - you write about all the problems you've had and...
CONWAY: Well, I don't think my mother is diminished by depicting the tragedy of her life because I start out in "The Road From Coorain" showing people this absolutely wonderfully powerful, rich joyful, creative woman. And to chronicle her deterioration as a result of a society that had no place for an older woman and taught a widow to think of her life as over doesn't seem to me to diminish her, it just really emphasizes the tragedy of her life. And other people, people who are living, I always show what I've written about them. And if they don't like it or didn't, I would either leave it out or change it or find some other way to say what I wanted to say. In fact, nobody has ever asked me to change anything.
GROSS: You must really believe in the memoir as an important form.
CONWAY: Yes, I do. I think that it is, in many ways, the form of narrative that is most gripping to contemporary readers. I think we read it the way 19th century people read Dickens or Hardy or somebody like that. And I think it's because it's in writing memoirs that we are obliged to say what the total constellation of all our roles means to us. And that's the real dilemma of the modern consciousness. We have this sense of an inner core of being which is us, which looks out and comments on life and experience - and which is part of, but not subsumed by all the roles that we play.
I think modern moral philosophers think that you really can't judge a life without looking at the total sum of all the roles that are intertwined within it and trying to interpret what they all add up to. And I think that's the aspect of the modern consciousness that really resonates when we read a memoir. We want to see somebody else telling us what it's all added up to because we want to be able to do that for ourselves.
GROSS: Have there been any liabilities for you to become a more public person, which is what you've become since writing your memoirs? Because I think a lot of women and a lot of men in positions of authority, like you were as the head of a college, would try very hard to not let the people who they work with know a lot of personal things about them. For a lot of people, that's a strategy for maintaining a certain dignity and respect and power within an organization.
CONWAY: Well, you know, if you tell the story of your life, it is no more fanciful and no more interesting to people than all the fantasies they have about you. So you might just as well have your say on the record, too.
GROSS: That interview with Jill Ker Conway was recorded in 1994, after the publication of her second memoir, "True North." We recorded our third and final interview in 1998, after the publication of her book about memoirs and autobiographies titled "When Memory Speaks." I asked her a question she asks in that book, why do so many people write their life stories?
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CONWAY: Well, I think it is part of the development in our culture which says that there's really no central point of view from which to look at the world today so that everybody's story is relevant in some way. And so now, we have memoirs written by very young people. Once upon a time, you only wrote toward the end of your life. They're written by people of every ethnic and class background and every sexual orientation, whereas once upon a time, that terrible experience of poverty would have been fictionalized by a Dickens. Or the absolutely appalling experience of incest would have been turned into a novel. Now, we have lost most of those senses of what it's appropriate to talk about in the first person, and so much that was previously fiction is now presented as a memoir.
GROSS: I think, you know, memoirs tend to have a certain coherence and shapeliness that real life lacks.
CONWAY: Absolutely.
GROSS: Real life is usually, you know, very much a muddle...
CONWAY: Yes.
GROSS: ...Particularly, as you're going from one experience to another and, you know, it doesn't have that coherence that a narrative has in book form. And I'm wondering, you know, you've written two memoirs. Did your life take on a shapeliness in book form that it didn't seem to have in real life? What was the difference between your life in that shapely form of the book and your life as it felt like as you lived the parts that you later wrote about?
CONWAY: Well, I think the important thing to remember is that in shaping that narrative, drawing that out of the ebb and flow of very different kinds of experience, you choose the things that seem meaningful to you at the time you're writing. And naturally, what you put into the narrative is shaped by what are important issues to you at the moment of composing that life plot and describing it. So I think if I look back at "The Road From Coorain", at the point at which I wrote it, the relationship with my mother, who had recently died, and the reasons why I left Australia were absolutely compelling to me.
And so the narrative of my life takes its form around those issues. And, of course, since I'm a strong feminist, I also wanted the narrative to drive home the point that I'm writing about two generations of Australian women who couldn't contribute what they might have to their society because of their being female. Were I to write that story today, you know, I've come to a much different understanding of my mother, partly from being widowed myself. And the things that drove me out of Australia seem less important to me, and I would probably construct the narrative quite differently.
But that doesn't mean to say that it wasn't true at the time I wrote it. And if I think about the second volume of my memoirs, "True North," one of the things that I wanted to convey as clearly as I could was that it's possible for a professional woman to form a very deep and powerful marriage relationship and yet retain a bounded identity and a strong professional self and not experience those two things as in conflict. And I'm still close enough to that experience that I'd want to tell that story the same way.
GROSS: You would tell that story the same way.
CONWAY: Yes. Yes, indeed.
GROSS: Now, how...
CONWAY: You know, if I were in another life phase completely and struggling with other issues of meaning in my life, I might tell that one differently, too. But I'm not at the moment. I'm in the same life stage that I was when I was writing that.
GROSS: Your husband passed away since we last...
CONWAY: Yes.
GROSS: ...Spoke. And I was very...
CONWAY: That's right.
GROSS: ...Sorry to read about that. You just mentioned that you would tell your mother's story differently now, having experienced losing your husband, as she had lost hers. What would be different in how you told her story now based on what you've experienced?
CONWAY: Well, you know, at the time, before I'd had this experience, I attributed her excessive and overwhelming lifetime of grief as incomprehensible to me. I couldn't understand how she did not have the energy and drive, as a powerful and very strong woman, to get herself together and take up life again. Having lost my own husband, I can see what a temptation that is, although it's not one I've succumbed to. I understand how it might happen.
GROSS: Do you plan on writing another memoir?
CONWAY: One day, I will. But you have to be in another stage of life from the one you're writing about in order to know what's significant. You know, we fuss a lot about experiences, which, at the time, seem important, and with hindsight, seem not so important. And we often overlook, at the time, something that's very significant and shaping, so you have to be in another stage of life to know what the shape of your previous one was.
GROSS: I think, also, when we're in a certain - when we're in the stage of life that we're talking or writing about, we're much more defensive about the actions that we took.
CONWAY: (Laughter) That's right.
GROSS: ...Much more involved in justifying what we've done.
CONWAY: That's right. I mean, that's why the memoirs of statesmen written right after they lose office are so terrible because...
GROSS: Yes, right?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSS: Well, Jill Ker Conway, thank you very much for talking with us.
CONWAY: It's a great pleasure, Terry. Thank you.
GROSS: Jill Ker Conway, recorded in 1998 after the publication of her book about memoirs, called "When Memory Speaks." In 2002, she wrote her third memoir, titled "A Woman's Education," about serving as the first woman president of Smith College. She died June 1 at the age of 83. I'm grateful for the opportunities I had to speak with her.
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GROSS: After a break, our rock critic Ken Tucker will review the debut album by Lindsey Jordan, who's just one year out of high school. She records under the name Snail Mail. This is FRESH AIR.
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An historian of American feminism and the first female vice president of the University of Toronto, Conway was little known outside academic circles until her appointment as the president of Smith College in 1975. Following the successes of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement had made important strides, as formerly all-male Ivy League institutions and male liberal arts institutions had either begun to admit women or were in the process of doing so. Where would that leave women’s colleges -- and the storied women’s liberal arts college Smith, in particular? What role might they play? Surely, their survival dictated going coed.
The appointment of a woman -- the first in the Smith’s history and a feminist at that -- almost 100 years to the day after the college admitted its first students, challenged that easy assumption and made national headlines. Time magazine would name Conway, together with Barbara Bush, a “Woman of the Year.”
Conway insisted that men and women should have equal access to any education and career, given their equal intellectual gifts and the strength of women’s bodies. Her argument was not just moral but also pragmatic: our society could not afford to squander the minds and skills of half its members. Smith College should support women at all stages of their lives. Further, it was not enough that a woman received an education equal to that of any man. The institution must undertake in the curriculum to address the existential questions that women encounter when social expectations deprive them of opportunity or push them in directions at odds with realizing their full potential.
Smith’s students and alumnae greeted her appointment with unalloyed joy. But Smith’s senior, mostly male, faculty members did not. They were comfortable teaching the canon, and the only acceptable change for many would have been to go coed. They made things quite difficult for Conway. But over the course of a decade, with the support of a handful of mostly junior faculty (the leader of whom, Susan Bourque, would many years later become Smith’s provost), foundations, her board and various allies in the Five Colleges (including her close friend, Mount Holyoke’s president Elizabeth Kennan), she outflanked the old guard. When she decided to leave Smith in 1985, she left a profoundly changed institution.
As with the other big decisions she took, relinquishing the presidency of Smith was a considered step, followed by a leap into the unknown. She wrote that she did not want to land in an academic program or department. Studying other people’s texts no longer satisfied her; she wanted to write her own. And that is what she did, both figuratively and literally.
Figuratively, she seemed determined to explore the range of careers that opened up to her as a result of her presidency of Smith -- a reaction, perhaps, to her early experience of being closed out of governmental and other nonacademic careers in her native Australia. She became a businesswoman. She explored corporate governance, serving nearly 30 years each on the boards of Nike and Merrill-Lynch. She also founded a nonprofit and served on many nonprofit and educational boards.
Literally, she wrote text. After leaving Smith, she would produce three beautifully written memoirs that sketched the details of her first 50 years. Those works amplified her fame. The first, the bestselling Road from Coorain, told the story of her early childhood on a remote farm in the Australian outback, growing up homeschooled in virtual isolation. She was sent to boarding school at age 10 after the sudden, unexpected death of her father. She blazed through undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney.
The second, True North, details the phase of her life that begins with her decision to move to the United States: “I’d arrived at the choice by exhausting all the possibilities of interesting careers in Australia discovering, one by one, that they were not open to women.” She would ultimately receive her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University for her work on feminism in American history. There, she and John Conway, charismatic Harvard professor and decorated Canadian war veteran, fell passionately in love. Over family objections about the age disparity between them, they married and moved to Toronto. Jill Conway taught at the University of Toronto, where she quickly became professor, then dean, then first female vice president of the university.
Her third memoir, A Woman’s Education, sketches the decade beginning with her 40th birthday in 1975, when the couple returned to Massachusetts so that she could assume the presidency of Smith.
Her memoirs brought her even more fame. Deservedly.
They are well worth rereading today, and not just because of the beauty of the writing and the subtlety of Conway’s thought. She did more than write her own text. In fact, after writing her first two memoirs, she wrote When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography, a book about the literal act of writing one’s own text. In that book, she explores why autobiography is the most popular form of fiction for modern readers, and how society and culture context shape not just options but also how one thinks of those options and one’s life. She examines how that plays out differently for men and for women of different races, writing in different times and societies, and notes, “So we should read feminist memoirs as conscious acts of rebellion.”
Reading any of Conway’s memoirs, especially A Women’s Education, as an act of rebellion has much to say about higher education today. Her insistence that Smith truly welcome all women and honestly prepare them for the world they would encounter outside the college challenges all educators to think through how that translates for our own students, and her experiences changing Smith offer us a model for institutional change. She reminds us that the marginalization of women or any group, and the closure of careers to them, harms everyone. Lastly, her writing teaches us that power resides not just in what you say, but how you say it.
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An acclaimed scholar and author who served from 1975 to 1985 as president of Smith College, Conway died in June at her home in Boston. She was 83.
Conway was the first woman to serve as president of Smith.
Kathleen McCartney, Smith’s president since 2013, described Conway as a “groundbreaking and gracious” president who was also a good friend and mentor. Referencing A Woman’s Education, Conway’s 2001 memoir of her time at Smith, McCartney credited her predecessor with “doing the hard work.”
From her, I learned to work over, under, around and through to advance women’s position in the world.
“Jill Ker Conway came to Smith at a time when gender roles were being transformed — and there were people here who tried to stand in her way,” McCartney said. “But at a time when the academy didn’t see women as college presidents — or as leaders at all — she demonstrated a leadership that was innovative and effective. From her, I learned to work over, under, around and through to advance women’s position in the world.”
Raised in Australia, Conway came to the United States in 1960 for graduate study at Harvard, and was just 39 years old when she accepted the Smith presidency in 1974. A specialist in the history of women reformers in the United States, Conway began her presidency at a time when women’s rights and ascension into the professions were reshaping society. A longtime supporter of women’s education and of the liberal arts, Conway built her presidency toward fostering “research and the creation of new knowledge,” as she said in her inauguration address, “around matters of central importance in women’s lives.”
As Smith’s president, Conway led the development of many groundbreaking programs, projects and academic departments, including the Ada Comstock Scholars Program, an innovative, life-changing and highly regarded program for students beyond the traditional age. She also spearheaded creation of the Smith Management Program (now called Smith Executive Education); the Project on Women and Social Change; and academic programs in women’s studies, comparative literature and engineering.
Conway was an extraordinarily effective fundraiser, enthusiastically embraced by Smith’s board of trustees and popular with donors; she also made it a priority to understand and improve Smith’s endowment spending. The endowment nearly tripled during her presidency, growing from $82 million to $222 million. As a result, Smith was able to undertake several important capital projects during her tenure, including a large-scale renovation and expansion of Neilson Library. An enthusiastic athlete and sports fan who loved to cheer for Smith student-athletes, Conway recognized the rapidly growing emphasis on fitness and athletics for women in the wake of Title IX, and she oversaw the construction of Ainsworth Gymnasium and the early creation of new indoor and outdoor track and tennis facilities. She also expanded the Career Development Office to better counsel Smith students and alumnae about career opportunities and graduate training for women.
In the first year of her presidency, Time magazine named Conway a “woman of the year.”
Conway’s presidency was not always easy. As she wrote in A Woman’s Education — the 2001 book published as the third in her best-selling trilogy of memoirs — she arrived at Smith to find an entrenched faculty (most of whom were men) resistant to change and focused on battles around politics, sex and coeducation.
Nevertheless, she persisted, and in this highly charged setting, Conway found a way to succeed. She found support from a strong group of young women faculty, who “helped find [her] feet politically,” and who also helped carry the water on the movement for curricular change. Smith students welcomed the new courses that Smith’s faculty were developing, and alumnae were eager to help their alma mater’s first woman leader.
Conway was an early and outspoken advocate for keeping college affordable, and in 2013 Smith raised more than $1 million from alumnae, and an additional $2 million from Joan Fletcher Lane ’49, toward the Jill Ker Conway Challenge. In 2016, Smith established the Jill Ker Conway Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, a state-of-the-art innovation lab where students develop the tools to think expansively and create innovative solutions to real-world challenges. In 2006, Smith dedicated Conway House, the college’s first residence for Ada Comstock Scholars and their families.
Conway maintained a deep connection to Smith even after she retired from the presidency in 1985. She lived in nearby Conway, Mass., with her husband, John, whom she had met at while she was a graduate student at Harvard and who died in 1995.
After retiring from the Smith presidency in 1985, Conway vowed to “divide her life into thirds,” she wrote in A Woman’s Education. One third of her remaining life would be dedicated to becoming a writer: Her three memoirs — The Road From Coorain, True North andA Woman’s Education — were critically praised, and all were best sellers, focusing, as Conway said, on “what women were not supposed to acknowledge–ambition, love of adventure, the quest for intellectual power, physical courage and endurance, risk taking, the negative aspects of mother/daughter relations always so relentlessly sentimentalized.”
Conway dedicated another third of this portion of her life to thinking about and advocating for environmental issues — not from the ecofeminist perspective that was popular at the time, but as a visiting professor in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology and Society , an appointment she held until 2011. She edited the 2000 book Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment.
In 2013, President Obama honored her with the National Humanities Medal.
She also cared deeply about issues of homelessness, particularly among veterans. In 2016, Community Solutions honored her leadership on this issue by dedicating the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence, a 124-unit, mixed income apartment building in Washington, D.C., for chronically homeless veterans and low-income residents.
The final third of her life Conway dedicated to “helping to govern institutions [she] wasn’t responsible for running.” She served on a number of educational, corporate and not-for-profit boards, including Merrill Lynch, Nike, Kresge, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Community Solutions and Colgate-Palmolive. She also served as the managing director of Lend Lease Corporation Limited, and was widely recognized for her contributions as a historian and as a trailblazing educator. Her penetrating questions, strategic insights, knowledge of global markets and commitment to the social good strengthened each organization and deepened its commitment to corporate responsibility.
In 2013, President Obama honored her with the National Humanities Medal. That same year, she was named a Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest civic honor awarded by that country. She also received more than three dozen honorary degrees and awards from North American and Australian colleges, universities and women’s organizations. In 2004, Conway was named a Women’s History Month honoree by the National Women’s History Project.
A graduate of the University of Sydney, Conway received her doctoral degree from Harvard in 1969, and began her academic career at the University of Toronto as a professor of U.S. social and intellectual history. She rose through the administrative ranks to serve as the university’s vice president for internal affairs before coming to Smith.
Conway was predeceased by her husband of 33 years, John J. Conway, and she is survived by two generations of nieces and nephews and other family members in the U.S., Australia and Canada. | |||||
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Jill Ker Conway was born Jill Ker on October 9, 1934, in New South Wales, Australia. She grew up in the Australian Outback with her family—her parents and two brothers. The family owned a large expanse of land they called Coorain.
Coorain is an Aboriginal (Native Australian) word that means "windy place." Ker Conway used this name in the title of the book The Road from Coorain (1989).
Because of their remote location, the Ker family was isolated from other families. Jill Ker Conway was educated at home using educational materials sent to them by mail. In her childhood, Ker helped tend sheep in Coorain.
Sadly, the farm was hit hard by drought. In an attempt to improve the farm's water system, Ker's father tragically drowned. Though her mother initially wanted to stay on the farm, she eventually took the children to Sydney. There, Jill Ker Conway attended public school for the first time. She had difficulty fitting in and was bullied by her peers. Thankfully, she soon switched to a private school called Abbotsleigh, where she flourished.
After graduating from Abbotsleigh, Ker Conway attended the University of Sydney. She studied both English and History, receiving her bachelor's in 1958.
Jill Ker Conway: Family and Career
After receiving her bachelor's degree, Ker Conway spent two years traveling. In 1960, she moved to the US, where she attended Harvard University. While studying history there, Ker Conway met professor John Conway; they fell in love and then married in 1962. In 1969 Jill Ker Conway earned her Ph.D. from Harvard.
Before even finishing her Ph.D., Jill Ker Conway had taken a teaching position at the University of Toronto. She worked there in the history department from 1964-1975. During this time, she helped develop a course of study focused on women's history, which would spread across North America.
From 1975-1985, Jill Ker Conway served as the president of the all-women's Smith College—the first woman ever to hold that position. During her time as the college's president, Ker Conway wrote nonfiction books and articles about feminism and women's history. Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History (1977) was the first of these works. She also started programs to support non-traditional students and those on welfare- and expanded the college's curriculum to include engineering, women's studies, and comparative literature.
In 1975, the first year that Ker Conway served as the president of Smith College, Time magazine named her woman of the year. This honored her work to further the accessibility of higher education to more women and the effort she put in to help develop a curriculum for Women's Studies.
After leaving her position at Smith College, Jill Ker Conway held a variety of other jobs, including serving on several corporate boards as well as teaching as visiting professor at MIT. It was during her time at MIT that Jill Ker Conway wrote and published her first memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989). It covers her life from her time living on her family's Australian sheep farm all the way through her studies at Harvard, and it remains her most famous book. Ker Conway later continued her memoirs with True North (1995) and A Woman's Education (2001).
The National Women's History Project made Jill Ker Conway a Women's History Month Honoree in 2004.
Jill Ker Conway: Cause of Death
Nearing the end of her life, Jill Ker Conway was the board chair of a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit was based in New York City and worked to address homelessness. On June 1, 2018, Jill Ker Conway died at home in Boston, Massachusetts. She was 83 years old. Ker Conway is remembered as a beloved feminist writer and Smith College president.
Jill Ker Conway: Books
Jill Ker Conway's most well-known books are her memoirs, The Road from Coorain (1989), True North (1995), and A Woman's Education (2001). In addition to these books, though, Ker Conway has written many other works of nonfiction—mostly focused on feminist issues—as well as a children's book and scholarly articles.
Nonfiction Books
Jill Ker Conway's most well-known works are her nonfiction books. These include memoirs as well as women's history books.
Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History (1977)
Modern Feminism: An Intellectual History was author Jill Ker Conway's first published book. It addresses feminist topics through history—a common theme in many of her works.
The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain is Jill Ker Conway's first and most famous memoir. It begins during her childhood working on her family's sheep farm in a remote part of Australia. The book follows her through her early education and bachelor's degree at the University of Sydney, discussing the bias against women that she faced along the way.
True North: A Memoir
Ker Conway's second memoir, True North, picks up where The Road from Coorain left off. It covers her move to North America and her relationship with John Conway. As with The Road from Coorain, it incorporates feminist themes that were important throughout Ker Conway's life.
Other nonfiction books by Jill Ker Conway include Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Ideas about Equality (1987), Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women (1992), Written by Herself: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States, Volume 2 (1992), When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography (1998), In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1999), and A Woman's Education.
Other Works
In addition to her nonfiction books, Jill Ker Conway wrote a children's book called Felipe the Flamingo. She has also written a few scholarly journal articles. These include "Merchants and Merinos" (1960), which was published in the 1960 issue of Royal Australian Historical Society Journal in 1960, and "Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870-1930," which was published in the winter 1971-1972 issue of Journal of Social History.
Jill Ker Conway: Quotes
Men and women were treated very differently as Jill Ker Conway was growing up. This quote from The Road from Coorain describes an important moment of reflection in her childhood when she began to really think about women's issues.
Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life." (The Road from Coorain, ch 8)
The following quote from True North relays Ker Conway's thoughts on the different kinds of friendships that she had throughout her life. While some friendships exist only while certain circumstances are maintained, she found others that lasted longer because they were based on more than circumstance. Ker Conway made a few big moves in her life which informed her observations of friendship.
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life." (True North, ch 8)
The quote below from The Road from Coorain is about Ker Conway's mother. Jill Ker Conway explains that because of limitations on and expectations of women at the time, her mother was changed from a strong and rebellious person into a settled, sedated version of herself. This observation would further fuel Ker Conway's focus on feminism.
I would place beside her in my mind's eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I'd known as a child. I was living with a tragic deterioration brought about because there was now no creative expression for this woman's talents. [...] No one had directly willed her decline. It was the outcome of many impersonal forces, which had combined to emphasize her vulnerabilities. The medical fashion of the day decreed that troubled middle-aged women be given tranquilizers and sedatives. She, once a rebel, had acquiesced in settling down to live the life of an affluent woman." (The Road from Coorain, ch 8)
Jill Ker Conway - Key takeaways
Jill Ker Conway was born on October 9, 1934, in New South Wales, Australia.
Ker Conway is most famous for her memoirs The Road from Coorain (1989), True North (1995), and A Woman's Education (2001).
In addition to her memoirs, Ker Conway has written several nonfiction works focused on feminism and women's history.
Jill Ker Conway also worked as a professor, the first woman president of Smith College, and on the board of various corporations.
Ker Conway died at her home in 2018 at the age of 83. | |||||
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Jill Kathryn Ker was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, a small town 75 miles from her parents' sheep station, on October 9, 1934. She earned her B.A. and a university medal at the University of Sydney in 1958 and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. Her unpublished but widely-cited dissertation, "The First Generation of American Women Graduates," an intellectual history of Jane Addams and other progressive women reformers, almost single-handedly rekindled scholarly interest in women's contributions to Progressive Era America.
While attending Harvard University Jill Ker met and married John Conway, a history professor in whose course she was a teaching assistant. She followed him to Toronto, where he became one of the founders of York University and she joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. There she lectured on American history while completing her dissertation. Jill Conway rose to the rank of associate professor in 1972. From 1973 to 1975 she served as the first woman vice president for internal affairs at the University of Toronto.
In the mid-1970s, Toronto, like other major universities, was struck with student rebellions, giving Conway an opportunity to demonstrate her cool and unflappable administrative style. In 1975 she was appointed the first woman president of Smith College, the largest privately-endowed college for women in the United States. For this achievement, Time magazine named her one of its 12 "Women of the Year." Conway's appointment heralded a change in leadership of the so-called Seven Sisters Colleges, and as a result of this breakthrough all of them became headed by women by the early 1980s.
Initially, Conway found herself at the helm of a prestigious but flagging educational institution. In the early 1970s, Smith, like the other Seven Sisters, suffered a decline in status as bright women flocked to the newly coeducational Ivy League universities. Conway helped to restore Smith's luster as the premier women's college in the United States. A superb fund-raiser, she increased the endowment from $82 million to $220 million. To accomplish this, Conway became a peripatetic president, criss-crossing the country to solicit alumnae, foundation, and corporate support. Her executive abilities were well recognized, as she served as director of IBM World Trade Americas/Far East Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and on the board of overseers of Harvard University. Despite a hectic administrative schedule Conway maintained her commitment to teaching and scholarship. She taught a course on the "Social and Intellectual Context of Feminist Ideologies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America." In 1982 she published The Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America.
In the first portion of her presidency, Conway changed the college from a genteel institution which eschewed feminist ideals into a women's college that respected and reflected feminist values. Through a strong financial aid program, Smith for the first time admitted older, working women and welfare recipients as Ada Comstock scholars. Conway expanded the career development office and took pride in promoting the "old girl" network among alumnae. She endorsed the expansion of athletic facilities, enabling Smith to become the first women's college to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Conway articulated a concern that Smith tenure more women faculty, and she frequently publicized the plight of women scholars and the value of women's institutions in educational journals. While not in favor of a women's studies program at Smith per se, Conway did encourage the development of the Smith College Project on Women and Social Change funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Out of her presidential budget she helped launch The Society of Scholars Studying Women's Higher Educational History, a group of researchers studying women's intellectual history.
Some highly publicized conflicts erupted in the closing years of Conway's presidency. In 1983, following student and faculty protests, Conway had to inform the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, that she could not guarantee that Kirkpatrick would receive her honorary degree and be heard as the commencement speaker without incident. The ambassador declined the offer to speak and was given her degree by the Smith trustees in a private ceremony. When newly unionized food-service workers tried to organize Smith's Davis Student Center acrimony developed between the workers and the administration. The unionized workers claimed they were being unfairly treated by a "paternalistic and male dominated" management. The dispute was quietly settled.
While funding for privately endowed, small, liberal arts colleges diminished throughout the early 1980s, Conway's capable leadership allowed Smith College to survive and grow. In an era that some term "post-feminist," Conway's contributions to women's higher education and her sponsorship of separate women's institutions made her an important spokeswoman for contemporary feminism. By the end of her presidency Conway was perturbed by a new generation of women students, less overtly feminist but strongly career-oriented. According to her, this change in the attitudes of the Smith student body was "the only disappointment in a decade." She called for women students to retain an interest in service to society and not to embrace unthinkingly high-earning professions. In this she remained faithful to the ideals of the social feminists of the Progressive generation whose careers she so well illuminated in her pioneering research. Conway also served as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In March of 1996, she succeeded to vice-chairman of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and in February of 1997, Conway was made a member on the Board of Trustees at Adelphi University in New York.
Further Reading
Jill Conway is listed in Canadian Who's Who (1984) and in Who's Who of American Women, 14th edition (1985-1986). Conway is discussed in "Women of the Year: Great Changes, New Chances, Touch Choices," Time (January 5, 1976); Elizabeth Stone, "What Can an All Women's College Do for Women," Ms (1979); and Hal Langur, "Jill Conway," Daily Hampshire Gazette (June 27, 1985). | |||||
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She helped establish U of T’s first history course focused on women, she was instrumental in the first major battle for pay equity for the university’s female faculty, and she was U of T’s first female vice-president.
Conway went on to become the first female president of Smith College in Massachusetts, and she wrote – in addition to her academic publications – a successful three-part autobiography. The first volume about her early life in Australia, The Road from Coorain, was a bestseller and was made into a movie.
Conway died on June 1 at her home in Boston, at the age of 83.
“She was a trailblazer,” says Nicholas Terpstra, a professor of history at U of T who is a past chair of the history department. When Conway arrived in the mid-1960s, “this was a very, very traditional kind of institution, and it needed people who could show a different way of doing things,” he says.
Her creation, along with colleague Natalie Zemon Davis, of the first U of T course on the history of women, was “absolutely a watershed moment” for the department, Terpstra says. Up to then, the women’s viewpoint had been essentially “written out of the [historical] canon.”
Conway and Davis planned an undergraduate course covering several hundred years of history to the present, and scoured rare book libraries for historical accounts written by women. “Every document had to show a woman speaking about her time,” Conway wrote in the second volume of her autobiography, True North. The idea was to present an alternative to the traditional historical perspective where women’s lives were “a simple addition to the male narrative,” she wrote.
The first session of the course, in the fall of 1971, was a major event on campus. It had to be moved to a larger lecture hall because 200 students showed up, double what was expected. The reading list took on a life of its own, and was widely circulated and used by many other academics as source material for courses across North America.
Linda Kealey, a former student of Conway’s who is now a professor emerita of history at the University of New Brunswick, says “everybody was pretty hyped up and excited” about the new course, which proved there was a treasure trove of material written by women. Kealey, who took the course in 1972, still has a copy of the syllabus.
As a mentor, Conway (pictured right in 1977) was “very warm and encouraging of young women in particular, but she also encouraged young men,” Kealey says. She prodded female students to take risks and step out of their comfort zones, an especially important role when there were so few women faculty.
Conway also became an advocate for pay equity at the university, after a successful confrontation with the history department over a delay in her own promotion to associate professor – long after male faculty with the same qualifications had received promotions and pay increases. She later convened a meeting of female faculty, and the group analyzed salary data to present clear evidence of discrimination to the university.
When she became U of T’s vice-president of internal affairs in 1973, Conway was able to put in place the changes she had worked toward as a faculty member. She implemented a pay equity program, and to make sure the issue was dealt with fairly she used a rigorous system that compared the pay of female faculty to male counterparts who had similar academic and publishing experience. Conway was also instrumental in the creation of the first official on-campus daycare.
In her autobiography, Conway describes the pressures she faced as the first female senior administrator, and the unrealistic expectations some groups had for her. She noted that she was a disappointment to some feminists because she didn’t support the creation of a separate Women’s Studies program – she felt it was better to encourage academic work focusing on women within each department.
In addition to the heavy workload in her daily job, Conway was in great demand as a speaker. “Each time I talked to a wildly enthusiastic group of women…I came to see that the mere symbol of an office in a formerly male hierarchy assumed a meaning which went way beyond my personal identity,” she wrote.
Her colleague and long-time friend Zemon Davis says Conway was driven by altruism. “Jill was always interested in making things better for other people.” She had an impact because she had “an authority that came from her poise and her sense of confident worth,” Zemon Davis says. “She was firmly spoken but soft spoken [and] made her voice heard in an effective way.”
In addition, Conway was a “tall, beautiful, gracious woman,” with a great sense of humour, Davis says. “I thought of her as a lady, in the best sense of the word.”
Jill Kathryn Ker was born on Oct. 9, 1934 in Hillston, New South Wales, in southeastern Australia and grew up on a remote sheep station run by her parents. She was home-schooled by her mother and worked on the ranch with her father, but he died when she was 10. She and her two brothers and mother then moved to Sydney. She earned a degree from the University of Sydney, then decided to go to graduate school in the United States after being turned down for a job in the Australian foreign service.
Conway worked towards a PhD at Harvard, where she lived with a group of ambitious and brilliant women. Her graduate adviser was a key influence, she said in a 1989 radio interview, when he told his students that the contribution of women to intellectual life was as important as men’s. “[He] handed out lists of women whose lives needed to be studied and whose intellectual histories need to be written.…That was just a new world for me.”
It was at Harvard that she met her future husband, Canadian historian John Conway, who was 18 years older. When he took at job at the nascent York University in Toronto in 1964, she moved with him and got a position at U of T, initially teaching American history.
After a decade at U of T, ending with her stint as vice-president, Conway accepted the post of president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass., one of the most renowned women’s liberal arts colleges in the United States. She had been recommended for the position by her old friend Zemon Davis, who was a Smith alumna. Conway was intrigued with the job, because much of her academic work had focused on the history of women’s education in the United States.
As the first female president of Smith, Conway (pictured left in 1992) initially had to battle the patriarchal views of older male faculty. She worked tirelessly to raise money and build new facilities, and defended the role of an all-women college at a time when many were merging with male or co-ed institutions. “Women needed their own intellectual turf….on which to stand as they observed the world,” she wrote in the final volume of her autobiography, A Woman’s Education.
Conway streamlined the admission of older female students, and encouraged programs to help poor working mothers to attend. At the same time, she was supporting her husband, who fought mental illness and was hospitalized several times for the treatment of severe depression.
Conway’s public profile was so strong that she was named one of Time magazine’s dozen “Women of the Year” in 1975. In 2013 she was presented with a National Humanities Medal by U.S. president Barack Obama.
After leaving Smith in 1985, Conway became a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on environmental issues, and concentrated on writing books. She also served on a number of boards, some non-profit and some corporate, including Nike, Merrill Lynch and Colgate Palmolive. She was intent on ensuring these companies improved their corporate social responsibility, says Jim Williams, one of John Conway’s nephews who now lives in Halifax.
Conway was very supportive of members of the extended family and gave “wise counsel” when they needed personal advice, Williams says. “She was a person who was really oriented to problem-solving and helping wherever she could, to family members and the broader community,” he said. “She was masterful at making things happen.”
One issue that meant a lot to Conway and her husband – he had fought and been wounded in the Second World War – was the plight of homeless veterans. They supported the development of an apartment building in Washington, D.C., specifically for veterans. It opened in 2016 as the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence.
In writing her own autobiography, Conway strived to describe a complex woman’s experience, without sentimentality.
“I definitely wanted to create a counter-record to the soppy, sentimental notion of females,” she told the Globe and Mail in a 2002 interview. “I’m very much opposed to the school of psychology of women which argues that women don’t like taking risks, are not ambitious, are not interested in power, except for relational power.” She knew from her research, she said, that women are “huge risk takers, filled with ambition, [and] excited by danger.”
Conway’s husband John died in 1995. The couple did not have any children.
This fall an event to honour Jill Ker Conway will be held at U of T, and a memorial service will be held at Smith College. | ||||
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Tragedy struck when the ranch failed. Her father, a devout Catholic, died, as did one of her brothers, forcing her mother to move what remained of the family to Sydney. There Conway began her formal education and attended the Catholic Church. But the outback had already formed her. The vastness of nature, the comfort of solitude, and hard physical labor all molded her.
Intellectually self-confident and chastened by difficult experiences, she completed her education at the University of Sydney, graduating first in her class. However, she quickly realized she would not find employment commensurate with her ambition in Australia. This limitation, plus her desire to free herself from the grip of a psychologically dependent mother, led her to apply to Harvard University, where she would earn a doctoral degree in history. She claimed she studied history in order to understand the social forces which diminished her mother's life. It was these early years in Australia and her decision to leave that she chronicled in The Road from Coorain, one of the best loved memoirs of the 20th century.
True North, her second memoir, tells of her years at Harvard and her marriage to one of her professors, the historian John Conway. Although he was 18 years her senior, during their 33 years of marriage, which ended with his death in 1995, John Conway proved to be an immensely supportive partner, irrespective of his debilitating depression. In 1964, the Conways left Harvard for Toronto where she began teaching at the University of Toronto and subsequently was appointed its first woman vice president.
The last of her trio of memoirs, A Woman's Education: The Road from Coorain Leads to Smith College, is the story of her presidency of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, which began in 1975 when she was 40. She stayed 10 years. Academia's full intransigence to change was the background against which Conway attempted to institute a curriculum which would serve the contemporary needs of women students.
During her tenure, courses in women's studies, business and engineering were added; athletics was supported; non-traditional age students were enrolled; and financial aid was extended. What A Woman's Education makes clear is that Conway harnessed her personal ambition, intellectual acuity, and ability to take risks in order to advance the ambitions of other women. Her innate shyness allowed her to do all she did with humility.
After she left Smith, Conway was named a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute for Technology, served on the boards of Nike and Merrill Lynch, and continued to write about male and female autobiographies and how and why they differed. She expanded the field of life-writing by editing Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women and In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, and authoring When Memory Speaks.
If grit characterized Jill Ker Conway's personality, so too did graciousness toward others. Intellectual, tenacious and fearless, she nonetheless cared about individuals and treated all she met with respect. Over the course of her life she drew on various sources of inspiration. Her early life in the Australian outback gave her an appreciation of solitude and of the natural world. Her father's Catholicism impressed her, as did her reading of the Bible. The remoteness of her life with its absence of ecclesial authority allowed her to freely ask questions of meaning and to form an independent conscience.
Her advanced study of history, especially her doctoral dissertation on American female reformers like Jane Addams, was also a formative element in her life. She credited Catholic influences in giving her a sense of vocation. In her case this was to uncover the history of women as revealed in their autobiographical writings and to create an intellectual environment in which women could flourish and find their own vocations.
She took seriously the importance of women mystics, especially St. Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila. Believing as she did in the value of community, she derived encouragement from the achievements of women's religious communities; she rejoiced when her parish, St. Mark's in Conway, Massachusetts, a small, diverse mission church, was able to create a vibrant spiritual community largely independent of ecclesial direction. Her commitment to social issues expressed itself in her long-standing concern for homeless veterans, which resulted in the opening of the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
Conway died June 1 at age 83. Her funeral service was held at her much-loved St. Mark's. Unable to have children, her progeny were the multitude of women whom she inspired, pioneered opportunities for their education, and left a trove of writing to motivate them. An avowed feminist, her life was whole and integrated, liberated and realized; it was grounded both in grit and grace.
Fully alive, Jill Ker Conway in her living fulfilled her father's admonition, to "do something," and Irenaeus' claim that the one fully alive gives glory to God.
[Dana Greene's latest biography, Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War, is to be released in November from Oxford University Press.] | ||||
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Jill Ker Conway came to the United States from Sydney, Australia, in 1960. In 1975 she was named the first woman president of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her memoir, The Road from Coorain (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), tells the story of her growing up in Australia and why she decided to come to the United States to study at Harvard University. She is also the author of The Female Experience in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women (Garland, 1982). Dr. Conway is a graduate of the University of Sydney and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Natalie Zemon Davis is the is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita at Princeton University and serves as an adjunct professor of history and anthropology and professor of Medieval studies at the University of Toronto. She has also taught at Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Davis is the author of several books including The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) and Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds (Hill and Wang, 2006). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Joan Didion is a novelist and essayist. A native of Sacramento, California, she is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Her first book, the novel Run River, was published in 1963. Where I Was From (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) recounts the migration of her grandfather’s family “from the hardscrabble Adirondack frontier in the eighteenth century to the hardscrabble Sierra Nevada foothills in the nineteenth.” Didion is probably best known and most admired for The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A, Knopf, 2005), a wrenching memoir written after her husband’s death.
Marilynne Robinson was born in 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho. The town is the subject of her first novel, Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her next novel, Gilead, was published in 2004. She revisited that novel’s cast of characters in her 2008 novel, Home, which would win the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction). Robinson is also the author of nonfiction works including Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989) and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). Since 1991, Robinson has served on the faculty of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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Jill Ker grew up in Coorain, a remote grasslands locale where her parents ran a sheep ranch. After her father’s unexpected death, her mother moved the family to Sydney. Ker was educated at Abbotsleigh, a private girls’ school, and at the University of Sydney, where she took an honours degree in history in 1958. Two years later, after her rejection by the Australian foreign service on the basis of her sex, she immigrated to the United States for graduate work.
While earning her doctorate at Harvard University (Ph.D., 1969), she met and married John Conway. The Conways then moved to Toronto. There she taught 19th- and 20th-century American history at the University of Toronto, where she also became one of five vice presidents of the university. In 1975 Conway became the first woman president of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, a position she held for a decade. In 1985 she became a visiting scholar and professor in the Science, Technology, and Society program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | ||||
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The story opens in 1973 as Conway, unbeknownst to her, is first “looked over” as a prospective candidate by members of the Smith community, and continues as she assesses her passions and possibilities and agrees to the new challenge of heading the college in 1975. The jolt of energy she gets from being surrounded by several thousand young women enables her to take on the difficulties that arise in dealing with the diverse Smith constituencies—from the self-appointed protectors of the great male tradition of humanistic learning to the equally determined young feminists insisting on change. We see Conway juggling the needs and concerns of faculty, students, parents, trustees, and alumnae, and re-defining and redesigning aspects of the college to create programs in line with the new realities of women’s lives. We sense the urgency of her efforts to shape an institution that will attract students of the 1990s and beyond.
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-- Mary Maples Dunn, President Emerita, Smith College
"Jill Ker Conway continues the absorbing and beautifully crafted account of her life's journey with her experiences as president of Smith. As always, her autobiography is an excellent read for anyone who cares about interesting lives, thoughtfully described. This particular volume should appeal to anyone who has ever wondered what college and university presidents actually do, and why anyone would want such a job. Jill gives her own answers to these questions with candor, humor, and acute attentiveness to the multifaceted nature of the sometimes bizarre and apparently impenetrable office of the president."
-- Nannerl O. Keohane, President, Duke University
"Jill Conway gives the reader that rare glimpse of a whole person tacking historic events. Her language is clear and crisp, her observations astute, her understanding of history remarkable, even as she is making it, yet all this from a woman's point of view -- not only about success or failure, but the larger issues of living.... Ultimately, Jill Conway, like any great author, leaves us better off for our journey through A Woman's Education. Her deep respect for life, her careful, honest, open exploration of how we live our lives and her unrelenting belief in a set of values that have the power to take root in people and institutions makes us take stock of our own lives. She does this graciously, joyfully, and enjoyably."
-- F Baron Harvey III, CEO, The Enterprise Foundation
"A Woman's Education provides a rare insider's view of what it means and what it takes to be a college president, as well as a unique perspective on an institution many of us have come to know and love. It was the first thing I handed to Carol Christ, the moment after she was elected the new President of Smith College."
-- Shelly Lazarus, CEO, Oglesby & Mather, and Chair of the Smith College Trustees
Jill Ker Conway is the the first to have written of years as a college or university president. In this book, nonetheless, she has set a standard to which all in the future will have to conform. In diversly interesting English, with penetrating insight and memory, she has told of the problems and prospects of leading a much admired college. And of doing it very well. No one can think that they have a full understanding of women's rights, scholarly conflict, required personal commitment and true accomplishment who hasn't read these pages. And further, no one can know what enjoyment was missed. On education, not to say also personal biography, it is truly the book of the year.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
"To be president of Smith from 1975 to 1985 required guts and resilience; Conway met the challenge. Her compelling account of that roller-coaster ride prompts amazement. There is much to marvel at here; my favorite gem is her portrayal of the aging male conservative faculty defending their cozy turf."
-- Carolyn Heilbrun, author of Writing a Woman's Life
"This masterful story interweaves lives with institutional history and modern times. The backdrop is a renowned woman's college that was fated to be hidebound by tradition until it captured a president whose past dictated her future and that of the college. Challenged by the opportunity, she led courageous innovations and, amazingly agile in neutralizing foes, and intellectually honest, she chose to act on what mattered most to the long-term viability of the college. In the process, she captured the imagination and support of a disparate gang -- students, trustees, faculties, and administrators. It is a poignant tale of personal and professional courage that should be read because it is all so human and so profound. Lessons are there for the young and the old because she dares to tell the truth."
-- Margaret F. Mahoney, MEM Associates, Inc.
"As a Smith alumna and a fellow laborer in the groves of women's colleges, I found Jill Ker Conway's book both absorbing and touching....Her educational vision and personal courage stood her, and eventually the institution she served so well, in very good stead. A Woman's Education is an engaging personal study of a complicated period in the women's movement and in the development of selective women's colleges."
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In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.
She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents’ thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a “man’s job” of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband’s sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency.
We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free.
About The Road from Coorain
In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.
She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents’ thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a “man’s job” of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband’s sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency.
We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free. | |||
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She helped establish U of T’s first history course focused on women, she was instrumental in the first major battle for pay equity for the university’s female faculty, and she was U of T’s first female vice-president.
Conway went on to become the first female president of Smith College in Massachusetts, and she wrote – in addition to her academic publications – a successful three-part autobiography. The first volume about her early life in Australia, The Road from Coorain, was a bestseller and was made into a movie.
Conway died on June 1 at her home in Boston, at the age of 83.
“She was a trailblazer,” says Nicholas Terpstra, a professor of history at U of T who is a past chair of the history department. When Conway arrived in the mid-1960s, “this was a very, very traditional kind of institution, and it needed people who could show a different way of doing things,” he says.
Her creation, along with colleague Natalie Zemon Davis, of the first U of T course on the history of women, was “absolutely a watershed moment” for the department, Terpstra says. Up to then, the women’s viewpoint had been essentially “written out of the [historical] canon.”
Conway and Davis planned an undergraduate course covering several hundred years of history to the present, and scoured rare book libraries for historical accounts written by women. “Every document had to show a woman speaking about her time,” Conway wrote in the second volume of her autobiography, True North. The idea was to present an alternative to the traditional historical perspective where women’s lives were “a simple addition to the male narrative,” she wrote.
The first session of the course, in the fall of 1971, was a major event on campus. It had to be moved to a larger lecture hall because 200 students showed up, double what was expected. The reading list took on a life of its own, and was widely circulated and used by many other academics as source material for courses across North America.
Linda Kealey, a former student of Conway’s who is now a professor emerita of history at the University of New Brunswick, says “everybody was pretty hyped up and excited” about the new course, which proved there was a treasure trove of material written by women. Kealey, who took the course in 1972, still has a copy of the syllabus.
As a mentor, Conway (pictured right in 1977) was “very warm and encouraging of young women in particular, but she also encouraged young men,” Kealey says. She prodded female students to take risks and step out of their comfort zones, an especially important role when there were so few women faculty.
Conway also became an advocate for pay equity at the university, after a successful confrontation with the history department over a delay in her own promotion to associate professor – long after male faculty with the same qualifications had received promotions and pay increases. She later convened a meeting of female faculty, and the group analyzed salary data to present clear evidence of discrimination to the university.
When she became U of T’s vice-president of internal affairs in 1973, Conway was able to put in place the changes she had worked toward as a faculty member. She implemented a pay equity program, and to make sure the issue was dealt with fairly she used a rigorous system that compared the pay of female faculty to male counterparts who had similar academic and publishing experience. Conway was also instrumental in the creation of the first official on-campus daycare.
In her autobiography, Conway describes the pressures she faced as the first female senior administrator, and the unrealistic expectations some groups had for her. She noted that she was a disappointment to some feminists because she didn’t support the creation of a separate Women’s Studies program – she felt it was better to encourage academic work focusing on women within each department.
In addition to the heavy workload in her daily job, Conway was in great demand as a speaker. “Each time I talked to a wildly enthusiastic group of women…I came to see that the mere symbol of an office in a formerly male hierarchy assumed a meaning which went way beyond my personal identity,” she wrote.
Her colleague and long-time friend Zemon Davis says Conway was driven by altruism. “Jill was always interested in making things better for other people.” She had an impact because she had “an authority that came from her poise and her sense of confident worth,” Zemon Davis says. “She was firmly spoken but soft spoken [and] made her voice heard in an effective way.”
In addition, Conway was a “tall, beautiful, gracious woman,” with a great sense of humour, Davis says. “I thought of her as a lady, in the best sense of the word.”
Jill Kathryn Ker was born on Oct. 9, 1934 in Hillston, New South Wales, in southeastern Australia and grew up on a remote sheep station run by her parents. She was home-schooled by her mother and worked on the ranch with her father, but he died when she was 10. She and her two brothers and mother then moved to Sydney. She earned a degree from the University of Sydney, then decided to go to graduate school in the United States after being turned down for a job in the Australian foreign service.
Conway worked towards a PhD at Harvard, where she lived with a group of ambitious and brilliant women. Her graduate adviser was a key influence, she said in a 1989 radio interview, when he told his students that the contribution of women to intellectual life was as important as men’s. “[He] handed out lists of women whose lives needed to be studied and whose intellectual histories need to be written.…That was just a new world for me.”
It was at Harvard that she met her future husband, Canadian historian John Conway, who was 18 years older. When he took at job at the nascent York University in Toronto in 1964, she moved with him and got a position at U of T, initially teaching American history.
After a decade at U of T, ending with her stint as vice-president, Conway accepted the post of president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass., one of the most renowned women’s liberal arts colleges in the United States. She had been recommended for the position by her old friend Zemon Davis, who was a Smith alumna. Conway was intrigued with the job, because much of her academic work had focused on the history of women’s education in the United States.
As the first female president of Smith, Conway (pictured left in 1992) initially had to battle the patriarchal views of older male faculty. She worked tirelessly to raise money and build new facilities, and defended the role of an all-women college at a time when many were merging with male or co-ed institutions. “Women needed their own intellectual turf….on which to stand as they observed the world,” she wrote in the final volume of her autobiography, A Woman’s Education.
Conway streamlined the admission of older female students, and encouraged programs to help poor working mothers to attend. At the same time, she was supporting her husband, who fought mental illness and was hospitalized several times for the treatment of severe depression.
Conway’s public profile was so strong that she was named one of Time magazine’s dozen “Women of the Year” in 1975. In 2013 she was presented with a National Humanities Medal by U.S. president Barack Obama.
After leaving Smith in 1985, Conway became a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on environmental issues, and concentrated on writing books. She also served on a number of boards, some non-profit and some corporate, including Nike, Merrill Lynch and Colgate Palmolive. She was intent on ensuring these companies improved their corporate social responsibility, says Jim Williams, one of John Conway’s nephews who now lives in Halifax.
Conway was very supportive of members of the extended family and gave “wise counsel” when they needed personal advice, Williams says. “She was a person who was really oriented to problem-solving and helping wherever she could, to family members and the broader community,” he said. “She was masterful at making things happen.”
One issue that meant a lot to Conway and her husband – he had fought and been wounded in the Second World War – was the plight of homeless veterans. They supported the development of an apartment building in Washington, D.C., specifically for veterans. It opened in 2016 as the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence.
In writing her own autobiography, Conway strived to describe a complex woman’s experience, without sentimentality.
“I definitely wanted to create a counter-record to the soppy, sentimental notion of females,” she told the Globe and Mail in a 2002 interview. “I’m very much opposed to the school of psychology of women which argues that women don’t like taking risks, are not ambitious, are not interested in power, except for relational power.” She knew from her research, she said, that women are “huge risk takers, filled with ambition, [and] excited by danger.”
Conway’s husband John died in 1995. The couple did not have any children.
This fall an event to honour Jill Ker Conway will be held at U of T, and a memorial service will be held at Smith College. | ||||
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For a brief time, the ranch prospered, entirely dependent on the amount of rain that fell. The family experienced World War II by listening to radio reports. Jill’s mother organized women into a Red Cross group. When Jill’s brothers were sent to school in town, Jill was taught from correspondence courses. Soon she was reading everything in sight, and her father needed her more as a station hand. Jill rode out with him every day, checking fences, mustering sheep, doing cleaning and maintenance. She became an expert in the year’s round of crutching and shearing of the sheep, hanging out in the sheds with the men as they processed and graded the wool.
Years of drought began to pile up, however. Jill’s father died in an accident in 1944 and it soon became clear that the family could not stay on the station. Jill and her mother moved to Sydney, where the boys were in school, leaving the sheep station to a manager. Slowly the years of privation were tempered by a comfortable life. Jill too went to a formal girls boarding school where the students bathed and changed before dinner into green velvet dresses. “I was as intellectually precocious as I was socially inept,” she writes.
Jill’s mother made good decisions about the sheep station, but she was turning in on herself. When Bob, Jill’s beloved eldest brother, died in a car accident, her other brother was sent out to the sheep station and Jill was left alone with her mother again. “My mother’s devotion to me, the self-denial which had sent her to work to educate me properly, her frequent references to the fact that I was her consolation for her past tragedies, weighed on me like the Ancient Mariner’s albatross.”
Jill attended the University of Sydney, in love with history. Here too, she was at the top of her classes, though it surprised her how much history was taught as coming exclusively from Europe. Jill made friends, but in her head she heard her father: “Do something, Jill. Don’t just put in time on this earth.” She hoped, like her friends, to be accepted into the Australian Ministry of External Affairs. When her male friends were accepted and she was not, she was outraged. She abandoned Australia and applied for graduate study at Harvard. Leaving for America also solved the problem of her mother’s dependence on her.
In two subsequent memoirs, True North [1994] and A Woman’s Education [2001], Conway describes the success of her writing on American women reformers of the nineteenth century, particularly Jane Addams; her marriage to John Conway, a Canadian veteran and educator; and her growing interest in administration, culminating in her becoming the first woman president of Smith, a woman’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1985.
Conway’s work was always groundbreaking and she describes how she felt about things very directly. At a time when many colleges were becoming co-educational, she writes: “It seems to me that the cozily domestic, introduced too early in youthful development had the effect of obliterating or muting civic and social responsibility. My nineteenth century feminist theorists about social evolution had all worried about where and how commercial society could instill social values that went beyond personal satisfaction and self-interest. I agreed with them that the development of the civic virtues tended to be slighted in exclusively commercial societies, and that leadership and the talent for action came from an education which did not take the paired couple as its social norm.”
Conway’s success is an engaging tale. She never forgot her mother, either. “She was the reason I’d never stopped trying to expand women’s opportunities.” But after ten years at Smith, she decided to begin writing these fine memoirs. She also taught classes at MIT and sat on many boards, one of which built the John and Jill Ker Conway residence for veterans in Washington, DC. The building opened in 2017, just before her death in June, 2018. | |||||
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An historian of American feminism and the first female vice president of the University of Toronto, Conway was little known outside academic circles until her appointment as the president of Smith College in 1975. Following the successes of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement had made important strides, as formerly all-male Ivy League institutions and male liberal arts institutions had either begun to admit women or were in the process of doing so. Where would that leave women’s colleges -- and the storied women’s liberal arts college Smith, in particular? What role might they play? Surely, their survival dictated going coed.
The appointment of a woman -- the first in the Smith’s history and a feminist at that -- almost 100 years to the day after the college admitted its first students, challenged that easy assumption and made national headlines. Time magazine would name Conway, together with Barbara Bush, a “Woman of the Year.”
Conway insisted that men and women should have equal access to any education and career, given their equal intellectual gifts and the strength of women’s bodies. Her argument was not just moral but also pragmatic: our society could not afford to squander the minds and skills of half its members. Smith College should support women at all stages of their lives. Further, it was not enough that a woman received an education equal to that of any man. The institution must undertake in the curriculum to address the existential questions that women encounter when social expectations deprive them of opportunity or push them in directions at odds with realizing their full potential.
Smith’s students and alumnae greeted her appointment with unalloyed joy. But Smith’s senior, mostly male, faculty members did not. They were comfortable teaching the canon, and the only acceptable change for many would have been to go coed. They made things quite difficult for Conway. But over the course of a decade, with the support of a handful of mostly junior faculty (the leader of whom, Susan Bourque, would many years later become Smith’s provost), foundations, her board and various allies in the Five Colleges (including her close friend, Mount Holyoke’s president Elizabeth Kennan), she outflanked the old guard. When she decided to leave Smith in 1985, she left a profoundly changed institution.
As with the other big decisions she took, relinquishing the presidency of Smith was a considered step, followed by a leap into the unknown. She wrote that she did not want to land in an academic program or department. Studying other people’s texts no longer satisfied her; she wanted to write her own. And that is what she did, both figuratively and literally.
Figuratively, she seemed determined to explore the range of careers that opened up to her as a result of her presidency of Smith -- a reaction, perhaps, to her early experience of being closed out of governmental and other nonacademic careers in her native Australia. She became a businesswoman. She explored corporate governance, serving nearly 30 years each on the boards of Nike and Merrill-Lynch. She also founded a nonprofit and served on many nonprofit and educational boards.
Literally, she wrote text. After leaving Smith, she would produce three beautifully written memoirs that sketched the details of her first 50 years. Those works amplified her fame. The first, the bestselling Road from Coorain, told the story of her early childhood on a remote farm in the Australian outback, growing up homeschooled in virtual isolation. She was sent to boarding school at age 10 after the sudden, unexpected death of her father. She blazed through undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney.
The second, True North, details the phase of her life that begins with her decision to move to the United States: “I’d arrived at the choice by exhausting all the possibilities of interesting careers in Australia discovering, one by one, that they were not open to women.” She would ultimately receive her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University for her work on feminism in American history. There, she and John Conway, charismatic Harvard professor and decorated Canadian war veteran, fell passionately in love. Over family objections about the age disparity between them, they married and moved to Toronto. Jill Conway taught at the University of Toronto, where she quickly became professor, then dean, then first female vice president of the university.
Her third memoir, A Woman’s Education, sketches the decade beginning with her 40th birthday in 1975, when the couple returned to Massachusetts so that she could assume the presidency of Smith.
Her memoirs brought her even more fame. Deservedly.
They are well worth rereading today, and not just because of the beauty of the writing and the subtlety of Conway’s thought. She did more than write her own text. In fact, after writing her first two memoirs, she wrote When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography, a book about the literal act of writing one’s own text. In that book, she explores why autobiography is the most popular form of fiction for modern readers, and how society and culture context shape not just options but also how one thinks of those options and one’s life. She examines how that plays out differently for men and for women of different races, writing in different times and societies, and notes, “So we should read feminist memoirs as conscious acts of rebellion.”
Reading any of Conway’s memoirs, especially A Women’s Education, as an act of rebellion has much to say about higher education today. Her insistence that Smith truly welcome all women and honestly prepare them for the world they would encounter outside the college challenges all educators to think through how that translates for our own students, and her experiences changing Smith offer us a model for institutional change. She reminds us that the marginalization of women or any group, and the closure of careers to them, harms everyone. Lastly, her writing teaches us that power resides not just in what you say, but how you say it.
Thank you, Jill Conway. | ||||
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During the height of the women’s movement, Conway focused on what she called “matters of central importance in women’s lives.” In her decade-long tenure at Smith, Conway launched academic programs in engineering, comparative literature, and women’s studies, and she started the Smith Management Program (now Smith Executive Education) for women executives and the Ada Comstock Scholars Program for women beyond traditional college age. As she told Humanities magazine when she was named a Medalist, Conway pushed for better athletic facilities at Smith because leadership skills can be developed by playing competitive team sports, “where you can be beaten over and over again” and then get up and “win the next time.”
Conway came of academic age before women’s studies was considered a genuine area of scholarship. Ignoring that view, Conway studied women reformers, including Jane Addams. Her research works—among them The Female Experience in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women (1982), with Linda Kealey and Janet E. Schulte, Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power (1989), with Susan C. Bourque and Joan W. Scott, and When Memory Speaks (1998)—offer insight into the ways women have narrated their lives.
Many Americans will remember Conway for her memoirs: The Road from Coorain, True North, and A Woman’s Education. In Coorain, a poignant recollection of growing up in Australia’s outback, Conway explored loss and tragedy and her dawning realization that she was meant to live the life of the mind. True North and A Woman’s Education took readers through the early days of Conway’s academic life at Harvard University and the burgeoning of her desire to lead.
After leaving Smith, Conway served on the board of a number of organizations, including Nike, Merrill Lynch, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and she focused on alleviating homelessness, particularly of veterans, and on environmental issues.
Conway once said that she “was a woman who wanted to do serious work and have it make a difference.” She succeeded. | |||||
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Born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934, Dr. Conway resided in a house called "Coorain," the aboriginal word for "windy place" in the Australian outback until the death of her father. The beautiful, but harsh outback and the struggle of her family, particularly her mother, would be a crucial factor in shaping her life as was the death of her older brother shortly after her family left the outback.
It was in Sydney, where she moved with her mother and her remaining brother, that she would have her first taste of patriarchy's cold shoulder. She would be denied acceptance to the Foreign Service because she was "too intellectually aggressive" and "too good looking." In other words: because she was a woman. This experience, along with the lifelong struggle of her mother for access to a formal education, would permeate her writing in the coming years.
En 1958, Jill Ker Conway quitte l'Université de Sydney avec un baccalauréat en poche. Elle part s'établir aux Ãtats-Unis en 1960, où elle s'inscrit à l'Université Harvard. Elle y rencontre celui qui allait devenir son mari. John Conway, professeur d'histoire britannique et héro de guerre canadien.
Après avoir obtenu un doctorat de l'Université de Harvard, elle s'installe à Toronto et enseigne à l'Université de Toronto de 1964-1975. Elle a été vice-présidente de cet établissement de 1973 à 1975.
In 1958, she graduated from the University of Sydney, and moved to the United States in 1960. It was there, while she pursued her studies at Harvard, that she would meet her future husband and soul mate, a professor of British History and Canadian war hero named John Conway. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1969 and shortly thereafter they moved to Toronto, where she taught at the University of Toronto from 1964-1975, serving as Vice President from 1973-1975.
It was in her writing that Dr. Conway found "the voice," both her own voice and a voice for countless other women. Her writing is lucid and direct, charged with a heartfelt passion that questions the status quo.
Dr. Conway has written prolifically about the remnants of British post-colonialism in Australian literature. Her first book, The Road from Coorain, is an autobiographical account of her journey from the rural Australian outback to the urban metropolises in both Australia and the United States, and tells of a stifling academic environment that paid scarce attention to Australian literature.
Dr. Conway went on to write True North, a continuation of her life's story that traces her journey from Harvard to her marriage and to her presidency of Smith College in 1975. She documents her years as the first female president in the College's 100-year history in A womanâs Education. Smith, the US's largest liberal arts college for women, was Dr. Conway's home for ten years. During those years, she helped, redefine and redesign the institution, spearheading, among other things, innovative program to help students both academically and financially. The experience reinforced a lifelong commitment to educational policy and the women's education internationally.
Insatisfaite des compromis auxquels devaient consentir les étudiants dans le besoin, elle décide de mettre en place un nouveau système qui permet de leur redistribuer les bourses d'études sous forme de remboursement de loyer et de produits alimentaires ou d'assistance médicale.
Ms Conway has edited three anthologies of women's autobiography from around the world, the most recent being In Her Own Words. Her latest books include a mystery novel written in collaboration with Elizabeth Kennan under the pseudonym, Clare Munnings, titled Overnight Float.
In addition to her scholastic and literary ambitions, Dr. Conway also served on the board of directors for numerous corporations and public institutions and lent her talents to promotion, fundraising and advancement work. At Nike, for example, she frequently visits factories in Southeast Asia to ensure equitable treatment of factory workers employed in making Nike products. She has also spearheaded support for a Nike sponsored literacy program that provides workers with access to middle- and high-school educations. She has been on the board of Merrill Lynch and Co., Colgate Palmolive Co., as well as Lend Lease Corporation where she was Chair from 2000 to 2003. Throughout she looked to increase her understanding of the world and how she could apply it to her work on behalf of those in need.
Dr. Conway has exemplified the values of honesty and integrity, telling her story in her own words and ensuring that fairness and equitability prevail in whatever spheres she can influence, and for this she should be recognized.
Mr. Chancellor, on behalf of Senate and the Board of Governors, it is my privilege and an honour to present to you Dr. Jill Ker Conway, so that you may confer upon her the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. | ||||||
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The book begins on the sheep station in the western grasslands of New South Wales, Australia, where Conway was born, 30,000 acres of grazing land that her parents settled in 1929.
Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents' thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a "man's job" of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. A severe drought and her father's death drove the family to Sydney, where Conway's struggle to get an education and make something of herself began. | ||
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by Allison Backous
The word coorain, in aboriginal Australian dialects, means windy place, which fits the terrain of Jill Ker Conways Australia with a devastating accuracy. Ker Conways memoir, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary of publication this year, documents her life in New South Wales, her early childhood on her familys sheep ranch, and the subsequent upheavals that followed an eight-year drought and her fathers suicide. But the book is more than an account of a life made difficult by natural and familial forces. For Ker Conway, the essential narrative of growing up Australian is an acceptance of cruelty, a cruelty made from the harshness of physical elements and the human response to those elements, which, in Ker Conways estimation, lay mostly in a deterministic stoicism, a refusal to cry, and a dutiful acceptance of fate. Ker Conway, in her writing, seeks to forge a different narrative for herself, and in so doing, finds an openness that does not assure, but frees.
There are several different narratives that exist in this memoir: the story of the landscape itself, the story of Ker Conways immediate familys tragedies, the story of Ker Conways rising academic scholarship and her various encounters with the sexism that pervaded university life (she was denied a position as a historian with the Australian government because, as they reported, she was too attractive to work there). The narratives themselves wind through the central story, Ker Conways account of her deteriorating relationship with her mother, a woman whose reliance and manipulation of her children, in the years of paranoia following her husbands death, made her a female equivalent of King Lear. As a historian, Ker Conway is able to read her mothers faults with compassion: she was a woman who, denied a solid education, found independence through becoming a professional nurse and handling a sheep ranch. She became volatile and paranoid when, after losing a husband and her youth, she was prescribed pain killers to help her troubles, and like so many women during the 1950s, slid into a terrifying bitterness prompted by a lack of support, addiction, and the denial to create and participate in civic life. The illustrations that Ker Conway provides are chilling: the moment that breaks the dysfunction, for Ker Conway, occurs when a visit from her brother and sister-in-law, who are bringing the Ker familys first grandchild, prompts the mother to erupt on the sister-in-law for an imaginary offense (a scratched piece of furniture), and forces Ker Conway to see that the woman who raised her was no longer her mother. It is this realization that helps Ker Conway create a new narrative for herself, one that breaks the hurtful patterns of the former narratives of her life:
Now I realized, in what amounted to a conversion experience, that I was going to violate the code of my forefathers. I wouldnt tell myself anymore that I was tough enough for any hazard, could endure anything My parents, each in his or her own way, had spent the good things in their lives prodigally and had not been careful about harvesting and cherishing the experiences that nourish hope. I was going to be different.
Ker Conway, after the incident, decides to leave Australia for good she applies to Harvard and is accepted, and at the memoirs end, feels a strange measure of complicity, guilt, and freedom. She tries to define her leaving by the narrative forms she knows: odyssey, emigration, quest. She decides, in slightly Australian fashion, that her departure is one of escape and exile I was leaving because I didnt fit in, never had, and wasnt likely to but then goes on to say that her reasons for leaving come out of great love, for her work, her native Australia, and her new found clarity. Ker Conways entire life, in her descriptions, has been a struggle with a fatalistic sense of self, that she was bound to country, and family, and history in a way that made her live grudgingly, always desiring a different kind of life and always feeling guilty for that desire. She does not leave her mother with complete soundness; her mother, refusing psychiatric help, is left at the memoirs end as a bitter old woman, with no seen hope of improving or healing (despite, being all her life, a natural healer of illness herself). Ker Conway is incredibly aware of what her leaving means, and at the same time, knows that living with her mother would be a different kind of narrative form, one of imprisonment. | ||||||||
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In Australia, Ker Conway is best known for her acclaimed memoirs, The Road from Cooraine (1989) and True North (1994), which recount how she fled the narrow, sexist world of her youth to pursue a life of the mind in New England. By the time The Road from Coorain was adapted for television in 2002, Ker Conway was one of Australia’s most iconic expats; a US equivalent to London-based figures such as Germaine Greer and Clive James.
Less well known is the fact that Ker Conway was far from unique. A century before E3 visas enabled today’s entrepreneurs and baristas to create a “Little Australia” in downtown Manhattan, young Australians flocked to the US. Its appeal was especially pronounced for Australian women, who often faced sexism in their attempts to build an independent life at home. Well into the 1970s Australia could be “an inhospitable place for women”, as poet Kate Jennings recalled. When Jennings headed to New York in 1979, she found a reprieve from the “misogyny” that prevailed in Sydney. Many women felt the US was more tolerant of female ambition; one called it a “woman’s paradise”.
By the time Jennings headed Stateside in the 1970s, thousands of women had gone before her. These included anarchist poets, opera stars and film directors, as well as architects, dentists, teachers, librarians, businesswomen and diplomats. They went to the US to further their education, gain professional experience, or simply have an adventure.
Unlike Ker Conway, most returned to Australia after months or years abroad. This trans-Pacific mobility not only transformed their own lives, but also forged professional, cultural and economic links between the two nations. Decades before the “turn to America” announced by Prime Minister John Curtin in 1941, Australian women expats helped pioneer our “special relationship” with the US.
An alternative history
Persia Campbell was a star of this cohort. One of Australia’s first female economists, in 1929 she headed to New York on a Rockefeller Fellowship and established an academic career. After spearheading the field of consumer economics, she was later appointed adviser to President Kennedy and became a development expert at the United Nations.
No less impressive was Campbell’s contemporary Mary Cecil Allen, a Melbourne-born painter who won plaudits in interwar New York and controversially championed US-style abstract expressionism in 1950s Australia.
One provocative figure was Melbourne-born dentist Dorothy Waugh, who trained and then taught at Pittsburgh’s Temple University during the 1920s. When Waugh visited her hometown in 1934, she publicly condemned Australia’s regressive gender politics.
“The fact that I was a woman had no bearing on my appointment to a University position. That is the attitude in the United States and it should be the attitude here,” Waugh insisted.
Pioneering librarian Wilma Radford also went to the US to study. In 1948, Radford graduated from New York’s Columbia University, making her the first Australian to hold a degree in library science.
Back home, she urged Australia to adopt the US model of training librarians at university – a campaign that came to fruition in 1960 when UNSW opened the nation’s first library science school. By 1968, Radford was both Head of School and a full Professor, becoming Australia’s first chair of librarianship.
Jean Wilmot Bemis made her mark by teaching Australians about the US. A Melbourne-trained journalist, she lived in Boston from the late 1920s. There she hosted an ABC radio program called “American Letters” (1943-65), which advocated Australian-US friendship and espoused the virtues of American modernity.
Wilmot’s broadcasts were a hit, but others found a less receptive audience. When dietitian Alice Caporn arrived in Perth fresh from America in 1938, her newfound enthusiasm for almond milk was condemned by Public Health Commissioner Dr Everitt Atkinson. In an instance of the anti-Americanism then rampant among British-minded male elites, Caporn was denounced as a “food faddist” attempting to spread the “pernicious virus of American ‘hooey’”.
For Melbourne aviatrix Jessie Maude Miller, the US promised fame and fortune. After becoming the first woman to fly between England and Australia, she headed Stateside in 1928 to capitalise on the public fascination with women pilots. There she broke the female record for a transcontinental flight, raked in cash on the competition circuit, and survived a spectacular crash in the Bahamas – all before getting embroiled in a murder scandal that saw her hounded from the country.
Queenslander Dorothy Cottrell had an equally rapid rise and fall. In 1927, this unknown writer became a overnight publishing sensation when she sold her first novel in the US for a fantastic sum. Although confined to a wheelchair, Cottrell relocated to California and built a palatial home with her royalties. A few years later, however, Wall Street crashed and her income evaporated. By 1932, she was penniless.
Australia also exported a steady stream of theatrical talent. Louise Lovely, Enid Bennett and Sylvia Breamer all adorned the silver screen during the 1910s and ’20s – becoming some of Hollywood’s first stars. Over on Broadway, Adelaide’s Judith Anderson was one of the biggest names in the 1920s and ’30s.
Melbourne-born performer Rose Quong was one of several Chinese Australians to forge an American career. After a stint in London, Quong moved to New York in 1939 and there won fame as an authority on Chinese culture. Alongside these pioneering career women, the US also attracted more ordinary Australians who wanted to spread their wings.
By 1940, over 12,000 Australians were resident there, half of whom were women. And when Ker Conway left for Harvard in 1960, she was only one of 3,000 Australian women who arrived in America that year.
In their stories we find an alternative history of Australian-US relations that challenges the existing emphasis on diplomacy, politics and war. | |||||
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“In a labor-scarce society with a shortage of human energy, there is no room for social conventions about women’s work,” Jill Ker Conway, who grew up in just such a place, once noted. “The work had to be done. It never crossed anyone’s mind that you didn’t work up to your competence.”
By the time she made that observation, in 1975 and thousands of miles from her birthplace, Dr. Conway had proved the point. She had just become the first woman to be named president of Smith College, the prestigious women’s institution in Northampton, Mass.
And she was still early in a career filled with accomplishments. After a decade leading Smith, she wrote three acclaimed memoirs, among other books, and championed feminist causes and ideas. In 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Dr. Conway died on Friday at her home in Boston, Smith College announced. She was 83. No cause was given.
Kathleen McCartney, Smith’s current president, said in a telephone interview that she was struck not only by what Dr. Conway did for the college, but also by her multiple roles as feminist, author, scholar and woman of influence on the boards of companies like Nike and nonprofits like the Kellogg Foundation.
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