Common Hour: Gertrude Hitz Burton Monday, March 30, 2020 - 8:00 am to 9:00 am There has been an event update as part of the College鈥檚 response to coronavirus concerns. The remaining two Common Hour talks have been canceled: 鈥淐ussedly Independent: Historic Women of the 91色情片 Physics Dept." on March 23 and "Gertrude Hitz Burton: A 91色情片 Alumna鈥檚 Modern Victorian Life" on March 30. Gertrude Hitz Burton: A 91色情片 Alumna鈥檚 Modern Victorian Life Also part of Women鈥檚 History Month Lecture Series Sesquicentennial Edition Gertrude (1861-1896) was a Gilded Age feminist reformer whose writings and lectures in Washington D.C., Boston, and Maine promoted sex education, marriage equality and "voluntary motherhood鈥. Gertrude鈥檚 interactions with family, friends, and well-known colleagues, including Alexander Graham Bell, Robert E. Peary, and Clara Barton 鈥 and her Wilson friend Frances Haldeman Sidwell, co-director of the prestigious Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC -- illuminate her nineteenth-century era and our own twenty-first century Gilded Age. June Vail Professor Emerita, Bowdoin College June Vail founded the dance program at Bowdoin College and chaired the Department of Theater and Dance for many years. In 2010 Bowdoin honored her with its Distinguished Service Award for Faculty and Staff. Undergraduate Campus Events
