JEANE KIRKPATRICK
The next influential woman Williams talked to us about was Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick , who was born in Duncan in 1926 and became the first woman to head the United States delegation to the United Nations , according to her biography .
Jeane was the daughter of an oil well drilling contractor . According to her biography , she lived in our area until age 12 before moving with family to Illinois . Williams said Kirkpatrick went to grade school while living in Duncan .
Jeane then moved on to Stephens College in Columbia , Missouri and Barnard College in New York , before she attended graduate school at Columbia University where she graduated in 1950 . Then , it was onto earning a doctorate in 1968 . Eventually , her master ’ s thesis would become expanded into a book . She also studied under French government scholarship at the Institut de Science Politique in Paris .
Kirkpatrick began her teaching career in 1962 at Trinity College in Washington , D . C . She continued to advance , later joining Georgetown University .
Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan learned of her through a magazine article she had written challenging the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter . Reagan enlisted Kirkpatrick to his foreign policy team , according to her biography , and after his victory , offered her the Cabinet rank post of chief U . S . delegate to the United Nations . She served from 1981-1985 .
Her and her husband , Evron M . Kirkpatrick , have three sons and live around the Washington area now where she continues to write a nationally syndicated newspaper column , according to her biography .
Kirkpatrick , in the 40th edition of “ Who ’ s Who in America ,” said : “ My experiences demonstrate to my satisfaction that it is both possible and feasible for women in our times to successfully combine traditional and professional roles , that it is not necessary to ape mans career patterns — starting early and keeping one ’ s nose to a particular grindstone , but that instead one can do quite different things at different stages of ones life . All that is required is a little luck and a lot of work .”
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BRUNETTA BERNARD GRIFFITH
Williams then spoke of Oklahoma artist Brunetta Bernard Griffith . She said while Griffith was born in Rush Springs and came from Grady County , she owned and operated a bookstore out of the Ward Mall in Stephens County for many years with her husband , Joe Griffith .
According to Willams , Brunetta at some point visited with Mildred and took a photograph of her as an older woman .
“ Mildred brought out that gorgeous buckskin dress that had been hers as a young woman ,” Williams said . “ Typically you would never see a woman that age wearing that dress . It was the pre-wedding ( attire ) that the young woman would wear at the time when her family felt she was old enough to be courted and the young men knew she was available .”
Brunetta , who began painting with oils in 1970 , painted many paintings of Mildred Cleghorn , as well as many others . She was often spotted around the mall in Duncan painting .
“ Some of the paintings that you see in ( the Hall of Fame ), the prominent Indian women — she did 11 ,” Williams said . “ She received a Diamond Jubilee Award for them from the Oklahoma Historical Society , because those are women , Indian women , who were very accomplished .”
Her artwork has received many awards and
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Arizona .” From there , she was elected to the Chickasaw legislature in 1983 . She served three terms .
Her accolades are huge . She has received induction into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame , the Chickasaw Hall of Fame , the International Women ’ s Air and Space Museum Hall of Fame . She is also a charter member of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian .
In 1990 , Pearl received honors as homecoming queen and became the “ Guest of Honor for the 60th Anniversary Celebration of Wylie Post ’ s trip around the world .”