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Women in the Curriculum / Women's Studies

Maryann Hartman Awards

2006 Award Winners
Honoring five Maine women

Mary Cathcart:
Mary Cathcart began her work for women as a volunteer for Spruce Run, one of the three oldest battered women's projects in the country. Inspired from her first involvement to do something more about domestic abuse, Mary ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives in 1988 where she served until 1994. She then served the maximum four terms in the Senate, 1996 - 2004. Her influence broadened to include just about every aspect of women's lives: education, care-giving, reproductive choice, mental illness, the natural environment, healthcare, veterans affairs, family security, aging, international affairs, and more. Mary is now the Senior Policy Associate in the Margaret Chase Smith Center.

Sarah Hudson:
Sarah (Sally) Hudson began her life's work in a doctor's office while training to be an emergency medical technician (EMT). As an x-ray technician she was the head of emergency services at the twenty-bed hospital now Castine Community health Services. In 1977 she established the Bagaduce Ambulance Service for the town of Castine, which prior to this had been without emergency services. Now at Maine maritime Academy, she currently trains students, preparing them for US Coast Guard licenses in ship medicine. She is also a member of the governor's Advisory Board for Emergency Medical Services. In 2002 the town of Castine presented Sarah with its Citizen of the Year Award.

Lee Sharkey:
Poet, peace activist, and professor, for the past four years Lee Sharkey has been a Maine leader of Women in Black, an international network of women calling for peace, justice, and nonviolent solutions to conflict. She was the first director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she now teaches writing and Women's Studies. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Box of Roses, Pig and Other Portions, and To a Vanished World. In addition, she has edited several collections of New Maine Writing with Constance Hunting. In 2004 she successfully petitioned UMF to adopt "clean clothes" standards and has continued to work on this issue at state and community levels.

 

Winners of the Young Women's Social Justice Award:

Amelia Butman:
Amelia Butman from Greenville co-founded MOOSE (Mentors Offering Anti-Smoking Education) which advocates for healthy eating and physical activity as choices to combat smoking. In 2004 she stared Maine's first chapter of Becca's Closet, a national nonprofit organization that distributes prom gowns to young women who can't afford them. She is a long-time Girl Scout and an accomplished musician. In addition, she has met with girls in middle schools throughout Piscataquis County to talk about peer pressure, bullying, and discrimination. This fall she received a "Teens Who Care" community service award co-sponsored by WLBZ-2 and WCHS-6.

Hazel Stark:
Hazel Stark has worked for peace and justice at a grassroots level for many years. She has written articles for the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine's monthly newsletter News and Views, canvassed and phonebanked for Maine Won't Discriminate, and marched for peace in numerous anti-war demonstrations in Maine and Washington D.C. As a member of Youth Adelantando, a student-led group in Peach though Interamerican Community Action (PICA), Hazel organized other students to convince her school to make a commitment to purchasing clothing made in fair and safe conditions. This summer she became PICA's Youth Organizer.

 

 

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University of Maine
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