[Magdalen] RBG

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Grace: (Yes, only 20 years ago!)


When I read about that recently I thought - what???? 20 years ago already? 
(meaning the decision itself, not the controversial aspects of the timeline)

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 10:50 AM
To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] RBG

> I had the good fortune yesterday to go to Lexington, VA, to hear Justice 
> Ginsburg at Virginia Military Institute and Washington &Lee University.
> She was delightful--talk about great things in small packages!
> It wasn't a political event at all--the one public part of a days-long 
> convocation at W&L--and it was an interview format with her two 
> biographers. She had written the decision of 20 years ago in The United 
> States vs. The Commonwealth of Virginia that forced VMI to begin admitting 
> women. (Yes, only 20 years ago!)
> In talking about that decision, in which Scalia dissented, she said that 
> he told her, "It will be the death of VMI!" He was wrong, of course. She 
> and Scalia were good friends, as you may know, and at one point she was 
> quiet for a moment and said softly, "I miss him."
> As an aside, it was quite amazing to see 1700 uniformed cadets file into 
> the hall. And even 20 years later, women make up only 10% of the student 
> body.=