{"id":1707,"date":"2015-06-12T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T22:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-12-19T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:21:20","slug":"sixth-women-and-gender-historians-of-the-midwest-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/sixth-women-and-gender-historians-of-the-midwest-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post was originally hosted on Storify, until that service shut down<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth conference of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wghom.org\/wghom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest <\/a>organisation met in Iowa City on June 11-12, 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 1 of Women &amp; Gender Historians of the Midwest conf. Excited to present my work &amp; learn abt others&#39; work, such as: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vxFCTJ99ZS\">http:\/\/t.co\/vxFCTJ99ZS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Abby M. Dubisar she\/they (@ADubisar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADubisar\/status\/608971069534306305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a> conference today\u2014am a medieval interloper among the modernists, but excited to be among so many women&#39;s historians.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/608994728160301056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a> conf on women &amp; philanthropy meets today\/Fri in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IowaCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IowaCity<\/a>\u2014speakers incl members Allison Wells, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yvonneseale<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/q5D0J5PmaI\">http:\/\/t.co\/q5D0J5PmaI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GHS UIowa (@GHSUIowa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GHSUIowa\/status\/609004013606977536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first panel which I attended, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/loras.edu\/Academics\/Majors\/Sociology\/PhilosophicalReligiousSocialCultural.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kristin Anderson-Bricker<\/a> (Loras College), was &#8220;Female Academics as Institutional Reformers: Professional Women Engaged in Social Reform Today, A Round Table Dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anderson-Bricker: conference theme encouraged her to look back at own teaching, realised has always taught through lens of reform <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609014635019157505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anderson-Bricker: Academic research skills central to reform work; enabling students to discuss diffs of opinion, esp. re: sexuality <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609016434740461568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kelsey Kauffman: Teaches college-level courses at Indiana Women&#39;s Prison; speaks of enthusiasm female prisoners have for history <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609017382397345795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Janet Weaver of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWArchives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IWArchives<\/a>: access to archives empowers, esp. as digitised finding aids create more awareness of holdings for non-ac <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609018260118372355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg: Reform has risks\u2014academic freedom allows for work in this area not otherwise possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609018599861125121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nancy Beck Young: Edu reform at large urban uni\u2014bringing back disc. sections to large history survey courses lowered failure rates <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609019838296543233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anderson-Bricker: How to measure success at reform on campus? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609020563101601792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mapel Bloomberg: Community buy-in more important than admin buy-in; emph. that this is way to make comm. better on day-to-day level <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609020898750767105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SueStanfield?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SueStanfield<\/a>: Teaching challenge is how to make students see that reform in the past is relevant to modern social\/political issues <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609021451203547136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lisa Guinn: Creating links between contemp. orgs &amp; history\u2014brings students to local fair trade store to explore women&#39;s econ history <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609025527274348544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The next session, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/clas.uiowa.edu\/history\/people\/r-tyler-priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Priest<\/a> (University of Iowa), was a roundtable talk entitled \u201cDiscussion on Crisis at the State Historical Society of Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now starting at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a>, session on preservation of State Historical Society of Iowa with Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TylerPriest64?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TylerPriest64<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saveiowahistory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SaveIowaHistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609028461282271233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: SHSI faces budget axe; since 2009, staffing decreased by 1\/3. From July, Iowa City branch will have just 2 employees <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609029241250840577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: Limited service hours make difficult\/impossible to use collection in undergrad teaching; no budget to microfilm local papers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609029792948588545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: No money for acquisitions, binding; no active cataloguing programme. Volunteers can only take you so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609030401785368576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: SHSI was housed for many years in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UIowa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UIowa<\/a>&#39;s Schaeffer Hall; pioneering in public history under direction of Benjamin Shambaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609030963398492161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: SHSI now controlled by Iowa Dept of Cultural Affairs; Branstad admin made all employees at-will. Loss of institutional memory <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609032048632709120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: Senior staff of Iowa Dept of Cultural Affairs, State Archives, have no formal training in\/understanding of history\/archives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609033102489321473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: Plans to digitise and then deaccession much archival material\u2014who will make these decisions? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609034133625409537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: SHSI budget is $3.5m a year\u20140.1% of state budget\u2014but no political will. Politicians don&#39;t think Iowa history matters. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609034492720734209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: Not just an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IowaCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IowaCity<\/a> issue\u2014this is an issue for all Iowans who want to preserve their state&#39;s heritage. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609035478340231169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jo Ellyn Clarey: Is there a way to leverage genealogical societies across US as support? What threatens one state threatens all <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609036177270685696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EDinschel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EDinschel<\/a> points to future difficulties of curation at SHSI with volunteer-only staff\u2014lack of skills, knowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609037318465282048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Janet Weaver of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWArchives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IWArchives<\/a>: digitisation is complex &amp; needs infrastructure; can&#39;t be followed by discard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609037891042328577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Priest: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iowa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iowa<\/a> is 47th in nation in expenditure on archives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WGHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WGHOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/609038281141977088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The morning&#8217;s panels then concluded with lunch and a keynote presentation from Prof. Nancy Beck Young (University of Houston), who spoke on the philanthropy of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 began early on Friday morning. 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