In Memory

We remember those we have known who have made a significant contribution to women’s lives and well-being. With honor and respect for their work and effort, we will not forget.

A Retrospective for This Last Century
Jean Cassidy
Asheville NC

We ourselves,
we who are,
who are becoming
in this time of new millennium
offer a proclamation:

The Eastern horizon darkened first,
a thousand years have set.
Dig down O memory
to find those women,
those in whom we recollect now.


They are the large lap of our safety.
Our forebears whose soul-songs,
unrecorded,
play none-the-less in our consciousness.
Canons of courage, melodious, gnarled notes
to posterity - to Us.

We hear and have become the chord-set,
the Matins of another dawn, this dawn.
Making way,
we make our way,
and the song begins anew!
a thousand years have set.
Dig down O memory
to find those women,
those in whom we recollect now.