Title IX Listen and Learn Series

1849 Southwest Salmon Street,Portland OR 97205

16 March, 2023

Description

Join us to listen and learn about the impact of the lack of access in 1972 and the role an Oregon congresswomen had in writing the legislation that brought Title IX to be the national standard. Carolyn Wood is an author of Tough Girl and Class Notes. She is a native Oregonian and was an Olympic gold medalist in swimming at age fourteen. This event will highlight her novels, thoughts from her journeys, and include time for a Q&A. Free event and open to everyone. Doors open at 10 AM with coffee availableConversation will be from 10:30 - 11:15 AM Socializing to follow until 11:45 AMCarolyn Wood gained fame as a 1960 Olympic gold medalist in swimming; at fourteen she became one of a handful of child athletes to win gold. A lifelong Oregonian, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon (BA English 1967) and Portland State University (MSW 1979, MS Education 1980), and taught high school English, literature, and composition for over thirty-five years. Wood is a member of the Oregon State Sports Hall of Fame, a fellow of the Northwest Writing Project, and a past participant in the Centrum, Fishtrap, and Banff Writers writing communities. Her work has appeared in Teachers as Writers, Elohi Gadugi Journal, REI Co-op Journal, Women Who Write, and Curve Magazine. Her first memoir, Tough Girl, was awarded the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award by the Independent Book Publishers Association and the 2019 Buck Dawson Authors Award by the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Her latest memoir, Class Notes: A Young Teacher’s Lessons from Classroom to Kennedy Compound, details the year she worked as the governess for Senator Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s children.