University Guild Program: Mother Jones adapted & performed by Betsey Means, Womanlore

Please attend the University Guild program on Mother Jones by Betsey Means of Womanlore, on  Monday, January 20, at 1:30 pm in the University Guild Lounge in Scott Hall, 601 University Place, on Northwestern University’s beautiful campus.  

Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a labor leader. She was a spectacular, controversial woman in an occupation – and a time – filled with danger.  America was just becoming an industrial nation when Mother Jones started out The majority of working people put in twelve to fourteen hours a day for wages that were pitifully low. The workers were struggling with conditions that amounted, she said, to slavery.  On May 29, 1903, 100,000 workers including 16,000 children left their jobs at 600 mills in the Philadelphia area. Mother Jones considered child labor the worst of industrial sins. She seized upon the idea of marching the mill children from Kensington, Pennsylvania to President Roosevelt’s home at Oyster Bay in Long Island some 125 miles away. Mother Jones wanted to publicize the unspeakable crime of child labor.

Come hear The March of the Mill Children, a speech by Mother Jones, adapted and performed by Betsey Means.  Web site:  http://womanlore.com/

Next University Guild Program: “Mmmmm….Chocolate!” presented by Sara Drower, on
Monday, Febuary 3, 2014, at 1:30 pm in Scott Hall, Guild Lounge.  David Letterman has joked that chocolate is one of the four major food groups. We'll follow chocolate from the bud to the bar, from cocoa pods growing in tropical rain forests to processing by modern machinery in industrialized countries. We’ll see chocolate in Mayan and Aztec cultures and follow it to Europe and the rest of the world and much more! 

The University Guild’s Annual Membership is $50.  Membership is open to all in the community.  Guests are welcome and cost is $2.00 per program.   The purpose of the University Guild is to bring to the membership of the Guild the intellectual resources of the University, to promote the interests of the University, to work for the collection and exhibition of the objects of art, and to advance the development and appreciation of the fine arts in the University and in Evanston.  The University Guild also gives scholarships to students at Northwestern University.