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Last week, in Ashland, Oregon, a reunion of the founders of the Women in Transition program at Southern Oregon College (now called Southern Oregon University) was held. These women created a program in the mid-1970s that empowered many women with a displaced homemakers group, a battered women shelter, assertiveness training, and a supportive place to just hang out. This weekend, events were held to commemorate 30 years of the program’s advocacy for women. Today, SOU has no Women in Transition program; but its descendants are the Women’s Resource Center and the Women Studies program - both very active and important parts of the University.

One of the speakers at today’s community gathering was Dr. Deltra Ferguson [pictured above], director of the Women’s Resource Center. She spoke of a new 3-year women’s history project which the Resource Center will coordinate. The first phase, reaching out to women of the “Second Wave of Feminism”, gathering the stories and images of the period, begins now. Dr. Sandra Coyner, director of the Honors Program at SOU, will coordinate with Dr. Ferguson.
If you have a story to share from Southern Oregon’s Feminism movement, a period roughly spanning 1965-1985, contact Deltra with your piece of herstory.