Women’s History Month Since 1984, Women’s Network has celebrated Women’s History Month by bringing our community special programs that combine artistic expression with educational content. Taproots The first volume of TAPROOTS: Transcription of the Bartlesville Women’s Network Oral History Project was published in October of 1994. Many volumes of our interviews with local women ìwho…
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Women’s History Month
Since 1984, Women’s Network has celebrated Women’s History Month by bringing our community special programs that combine artistic expression with educational content.
Taproots
The first volume of TAPROOTS: Transcription of the Bartlesville Women’s Network Oral History Project was published in October of 1994. Many volumes of our interviews with local women ìwho have made a differenceî have now been published. more info
History-Maker of the Year
In 1990, the Bartlesville Women’s Network instituted an annual History-Maker of the Year award. Recipients of the award are outstanding advocates/pioneers devoted to improving the human conditions in any arena of human life. The contributions of these women have also advanced the status of women either by example or direct action, through a single achievement or by cumulative effort throughout a lifetime.
2021 Deborah Langley
2019 Ivery Anderson and Jane Hughes Kirkpatrick
2018 Connie Lavoie
2017 Ann Cleary
2016 Joan Dreisker
2015 Sarah Winn
2013 Frances Gardner
2012 Kathryn Reese
2011 Mary Jo Strack
2010 Susan Murphy
2009 Cindra Pribil
2008 Susan Mueller and Margoleine Gravley
2007 Miss Ruth Brown
2006 Mildred Todd
2005 Alice Ririe
2004 Annette Ketchum
2003 Charlotte Lyke
2002 Helen Pittman
2001 Edna Mae Cogswell
2000 Harriet Guthrie
1999 Bettye Dailey Williams
1998 Vel Mason
1996 Mildred Reusser
1995 Odie McReynolds
1994 Joanne Riney Bennett
1993 Nan Buhlinger
1992 Betty Rausch Frey
1991 Lois Straight Johnson
1990 Judge Janice P. Dreiling
History-Makers of the Past1991 Ruth Brown, librarian and civil rights activist in Bartlesville, 1919-1950; awarded posthumously.
1997 During Bartlesville’s centennial year, we honored each anonymous wife, mother, sister and daughter who helped develop and civilize our area during its oil boom years a century ago.
2017 Pat Ashe for her years serving and living with the homeless in Catholic Worker Homes in Chicago and helping start Su Casa.