Celebrate! Carrie Chapman Catt’s 150th Birthday Party & Performance
Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009 at 3:30 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Join the birthday party and enjoy cake, punch, coffee and a performance. Jane Cox, professor and stage director for Iowa State University Theatre, will perform a 30-minute excerpt from her one-woman play highlighting the life of suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt. A graduate of Iowa State, Catt is best known for leading the "winning plan" that achieved suffrage for women with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration.Cosponsored By:
- Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
Sign-ins are after the event concludes. For lectures in the Memorial Union, go to the information desk in the Main Lounge. In other academic buildings, look for signage outside the auditorium.
Lecture Etiquette
- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
- Check with Lectures staff before taking photographs or recording any portion of the event. There are often restrictions. Cell phones, tablets and laptops may be used to take notes or for class assignments.
- Keep questions or comments brief and concise to allow as many as possible.