Washington Women's History Consortium

Women's History Consortium RCWs

RCW 27.34.370 Responsibility 4


(4) Appointing special committees and task forces including people from consortium members and nonmembers to assist with the consortium's tasks;
Four committees and groups are part of the Women’s History Consortium:


A. Women's History Consortium Partners:

These representatives from Consortium Partner institutions serve on a committee which meets via telephone approximately bi-monthly. Their role has been to provide advice and feedback on WHC initiatives and to provide expertise about the website content and protocols. Members include:

B. Oral History Committee:

This committee reviewed and developed the goals and scope of the oral history project on the International Women's Year Conference in Ellensburg in 1977. Committee Members: Dr. Susan Armitage, Washington State University; Dr. Chris Friday, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University; Teresa Contreras, Dorothy Young Sale, and Senator Pam Roach — all WHC Board Members; Garry Schalliol, Director of Outreach Services, Washington State Historical Society; David Nicandri, Director, Washington State Historical Society; and Anne Kilgannon, Oral History Program Director, Office of the Secretary of State.

C. Grants Committee:

This committee reviewed the criteria for the grant awards and selected the awardees as noted on page 6 of this report. This group made recommendations for further projects associated with the $200,000.00 Supplemental Capital Budget allocation in 2006. Committee Members: Corky Mattingly, Yakima County Auditor; Dr. Karen Blair, Central Washington University; Dorothy Young Sale, and Janet Gallimore—all WHC Board members; Garry Schalliol, Director of Outreach Services, Washington State Historical Society; and David Nicandri, Director, Washington State Historical Society.

D. Fundraising Committee:

This group is developing plans for a fundraising event in March 2007 that would provide seed money for the planned Washington Suffrage Centennial exhibit in 2009-10. Committee Members: Senator Karen Fraser, Senator Pam Roach, Representative Mary Lou Dickerson, and Representative Mary Skinner, Honorary Co-Chairs; Janet Gallimore, Sue Lean, and Dorothy Young Sale—WHC Board members. Other members are being recruited.

Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.