Howorth Lecture to Examine Judge Lucy's Career
The impressive career of centenarian Lucy Somerville Howorth will
be the subject of the second Lucy Somerville Howorth Lecture in
Women's Studies sponsored by the Sarah Isom Center on Friday,
October 20, at 11:00 a.m. in the lecture hall of Barnard
Observatory. Martha Swain, Cornaro Professor of History Emerita,
Texas Woman's University, will discuss " Leader Alike in
Voluntary Associations and the Profession of Law': The Public
Role of Lucy Somerville Howorth." Swain's most recent book, Ellen
S. Woodward: New Deal Advocate for Women (1995), was awarded the
Eudora Welty Prize for best manuscript for 1994 by Mississippi
University for Women and the University Press of Mississippi. The
lecture is open to the public without charge.
Pictured above is Lucy Somerville Howorth, affectionately known
as "Judge Lucy," at the celebration of her 100th birthday. With
her is Joanne V. Hawks, director of the Sarah Isom Center for
Women's Studies at the University of Mississippi.
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