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Pierce to discuss suffrage, Tennessee Women Suffrage Monument during Monday meeting

Posted at 2:39 pm January 24, 2016
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Patricia “Pat” Pierce

Patricia “Pat” Pierce will speak at the Monday, January 25, meeting of the AAUW, Oak Ridge Branch, and she will discuss “suffrage and the effort to erect a Tennessee Women Suffrage Monument at Legislative Plaza in Nashville,” a press release said.

The meeting starts at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church, Room 102, in the activities wing of the church.

Pierce has been deeply involved in the effort to have the memorial approved, the press release said. On December 15, the Tennessee Capitol Commission unanimously approved the request.

A lunch of soup, sandwiches, and cookies at a cost of $8 will be provided by The Soup Kitchen at 11:30 a.m., with the program beginning at noon. Tea and coffee will be available also. Those attending are welcome also to bring a sack lunch.  Reservations are necessary to reserve a space, however. They may be made by calling Mary Uziel at (865) 483-1043 or Marge Congdon at (865) 483-3120. Those wishing to attend were encouraged to call by Thursday, January 21. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Meetings and Events Tagged With: AAUW, First Presbyterian Church, Oak Ridge Branch, Patricia "Pat" Pierce, suffrage, Tennessee Economic Council on Women, Tennessee Women Suffrage Monument

Former nuclear physics teacher in OR to be inducted into TN Women’s Hall of Fame

Posted at 11:23 am October 2, 2015
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Elizabeth Rona

Elizabeth Rona

Elizabeth Rona, a former nuclear physics teacher at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, will be inducted into the Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame on Monday, October 26.

Before she immigrated to the United States, Rona was the first woman to teach chemistry in any university in Hungary.

Once in the U.S., she was on the frontlines of the discoveries of isotopes and fission, and later contributed to work in the Manhattan project. She later taught on theory and methods of nuclear physics at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

Rona is one of two inductees to be honored posthumously. The ceremony will honor a total of eight women from all three grand divisions of the state (East, Middle, and West), including an astronaut, judge, and civil rights pioneer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Government, Meetings and Events, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Carol Gardner Transou, Dena Wise, Economic Summit for Women, Elizabeth Rona, Janice Holder, Joy Bishop, Lizzie Crozier French, Rhea Seddon, Rosetta Miller Perry, Tennessee Economic Council on Women, Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame, Zulfat Suara

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