The UIC Library is hosting Adele Hast's lecture, "Service to the Community: Chicago Woman's Aid 1920-1960," on Tuesday, March 8. The event will take place in the Institute for the Humanities (Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan), at 10:00 am.
Chicago Woman's Aid was an active women's organization for 106 years, from 1882 to 1988. Members saw themselves as a civic organization that worked to fill various needs in the larger Chicago community as well as in the Chicago Jewish community. Dr. Hast's paper, which draws on her study of the records of t Chicago Woman's Aid in the Special Collections department of UIC's Daley Library, will focus on several of the club's long-range projects between 1920 and 1960; these include promoting birth control, working for health and well-being in public schools, and involvement in civic reform in Chicago.
Dr. Hast is Scholar in Residence at The Newberry Library and has been a senior research associate of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at UIC. She is editor, with Rima Lunin Schultz, of Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary (2001). In 2003, Dr. Hast was a research fellow with the Jewish Women's Archive Research Fellowship Project.
The lecture is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the UIC Library's Lectures and Forums Committee and the Chicago Jewish Historical Society. It is one of several events in UIC's Office of Women's Affairs celebration of Women's History 2005, Women Change America.
IA map and directions to the Institute for the Humanities is available on the Chicago Jewish Historical Society's Web site http://www.chicagojewishhistory.org/pdf/CJHS-Hast-Postcard.pdf.
