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1 Women's Bar Association Correspondence, 1982-1983 [1] (1982-1983)

handle is hein.peggy/wbacrsp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONFIDENTIAL THE WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1819 H STREET. N.W.. SUITE 300 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 775-0420 MEMORANDUM TO: Jane A. Golden, President-Elect, WBA PROM: Elizabeth Medag1i President, 1982-83, WBA DATE: February 27, 1983 SUBJECT: Discovery of Self Conference, February 25-26, 1983 The purpose of this Memorandum is to give you some of the thoughts I have had soon after the WBA Discovery of Self Conference. I hope that these thoughts may be useful to you next year, as I anticipate that another conference will be recommended. I will address the Saturday portion of the Conference first, as my comments are more straightforward. The Saturday morning pro- gram was excellent, both in terms of speakers and content. The Saturday afternoon workshops apparently varied in quality. I attended one excellent workshop on the question of whether or not to have children, The workshop I attended on power within systems was less satisfactory. The participants in the program appeared to enjoy it very much, and there was little attrition during the course of the day. I did not attend the final session, which was conducted by Jehane Dyllan. The more troubling aspect deals with the play. The play Friday night was attended by approximately 150 to 175 people. Since registration at the Conference was approximately 50, that means that by far the majority of the people who attended the play were not participants in the Conference. In the registration area was information and a sign-up list about union sisters, and copies of news articles about Silkwood. The play itself was all right. The major themes were union organization and anti-nuclear, but if one tried one could see within the play an element of the emergence of Karen Silkwood as an individual woman. Bettina Lawton told me after- wards that the play was different from what she anticipated - more union, more anti-nuclear, and less feminist. According to Bettina, the play developed greater emphasis on union and anti-nuclear through its run, and even Karen Czapanskiy remarked to Bettina that the play's feminist overtones were less prominent than the last time she had seen the play.