Women of Distinction calendar now available

By By Frank Tankard

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The new “Women of Distinction” poster-calendar is out and ready to be tacked on walls.

The free poster includes pictures and brief biographies of 19 high-achieving female students, alumni, faculty and staff, as well as a calendar of the academic year.

Two years ago, Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center director Katherine Rose-Mockry led the effort to produce the poster-calendar, partly in response to the “Women of KU” calendar, which features KU women in revealing outfits.

“I think often-times people are not aware of the important contributions women make to the campus and to the community at large,” Rose-Mockry said.

Marge Heard Franklin, co-founder of an environmental consulting agency in Prairie Village called Franklin Associates, Ltd., is one of the women who appeared on the calendar. She said she was proud to appear as a role model to younger women.

Franklin graduated in 1959 as the first woman to earn a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University.

“From my perspective, there still aren’t enough women in engineering,” she said.

The poster-calendar is available at all KU Bookstores, including the KU Edwards Campus bookstore, and at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center in the Kansas Union.

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