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Sheila Strong

Dr. Sheila Strong has over twenty years of executive-level experience in the nonprofit and higher education
sectors. As Director of Leadership Development and Equity at United Way of Greater Rochester and the
Finger Lakes, she directs United Way’s six established Leadership Development Programs (Latino, African
American, Emerging Leaders, Pride, Asian-Pacific American, and Development of Indo-American Leaders).
Dr. Strong also leads the DRIVE (Diversity, Racial, Inclusion, Value, Equity) Team at United Way to advance
the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and support other organizations in the
community. She was instrumental in launching United Way’s first Leadership Equity Advancement and
Development (LEAD) Mentoring and Coaching Program, a partnership between United Way and the Greater
Rochester Health Foundation.


Dr. Strong currently serves as a board member of the Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library
and the Susan B. Anthony House, Inc. In addition, she volunteers her time as a mentor with Cheryl Speranza
Leadership Institute at Our Lady of Mercy.


Before joining United Way, she served as the Executive Assistant to the President at Monroe Community
College. She has worked with five college presidents in implementing strategic plan initiatives. Dr. Strong
completed her Doctorate of Education in Executive Leadership from Saint John Fisher University. She holds a
Master’s Degree in Publication Administration, Certification in Nonprofit Management, and Bachelor’s of
Science Degree in Business Communications from The College at Brockport, State University of New York.
She graduated with honors from Monroe Community College in Liberal Arts.

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Holly Bauer-Mergen

A native of Spencerport, Holly Bauer-Mergen retired from New York State after 32 years, with most most of that time with the State addictions agency as a regional program manager. Since that retirement, she has had
another life chapter as a consultant working with non-profit addiction organizations providing a variety
of technical communications functions, while volunteering at the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House
as a receptionist (and other miscellaneous tasks), and serving on both the Votetilla and Votercade
planning committees.

She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and art history (minor radio, television, and film) from SUNY at Albany, an MBA in Health Systems Administration from Union College, and Basic and Advanced Certificates in Technical Communications from RIT. Now that the pandemic is receding, she looks forward to traveling to visit family and friends, including her husband’s family in Turkey (knitting project always in hand), while keeping up with her tai chi classes and auditing classes at RIT.

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Monday Lecture Series 2017-18

2017-2018

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House proudly presents the 15th season of its popular Monday Lecture Series. This season’s innovative line-up features six guest speakers covering a range of topics inspired by the life, work, and legacy of Susan B. Anthony.

September 18, 2017    A Monument to Woman—The Woman Suffrage Statue. Sandra Weber, author and historian

November 13, 2017   Unknown Frederick Douglass: The Life & Times of New Washington City.  John H. Muller, DC Public Library, author, historian

December 4, 2017   Woman Suffrage & the New York Constitutional Conventions of 1846 & 1867-68. ​ Dr. Jenny Lloyd, History Professor Emerita, The College at Brockport

Women’s History Month special Tea – March 5, 2018   Margaret Fuller, the “Marriage Question,” & the Culture of Reform.  T. Gregory Garvey, Professor of English, College at Brockport.  This presentation is SOLD OUT.

May 7, 2018  Funding Feminism: Following the Money in the Woman Suffrage Movement.   Dr. Joan Marie Johnson, historian

June 18, 2018   Spiritualists, Suffragists, & Other Nasty Women of the Mid-19th Century.  Dr. Amy Lehman, Associate Professor, Theater and Dance, University of South Carolina This presentation is SOLD OUT.

Each presentation is offered in our Carriage House as a noon luncheon ($30 individual reservation) or 2 pm informal tea ($15 individual reservation), except for our Women’s History Month presentation on March 5, 2018, which will only be offered as a lecture and tea ($25).

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Women Making History from 1917-2017 Presentation

Join the Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library

March 7, 2017

12:12 – 12:52 pm

Presenter:

Deborah L. Hughes, President and CEO,

National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

Kate Gleason Auditorium

Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County

115 South Avenue, Rochester, NY

This year marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in New York State, and women now hold unprecedented levels of leadership in government. Hear about events planned for upstate New York within the historical context of women’s longstanding struggle for political, social and economic equality.

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Cocktail Reception to Celebrate 100 Years of New York Women¹s Right to Vote

Join the University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Center, the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) as we celebrate, 2017: 100 Years of New York Women’s Right to Vote

 

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

5:30-7:30 PM

*Program begins promptly at 6:15 PM

Memorial Art Gallery, Bausch and Lomb Parlor Room

 

Join us for a cocktail reception and a short program. We will unveil our 2017 calendar of events to commemorate this historic anniversary throughout the year. We will also unveil a self-guided art tour at the Memorial Art Gallery that has been specifically created to honor the centennial to showcase
women artists to celebrate their contributions to the field of art.

RSVP to Susan B. Anthony Center at sbac@ur.rochester.edu by
Monday, January 16

Free and convenient parking will be available

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Ann Dexter Gordon, Ph.D. to Speak at 2017 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is proud to announce the keynote speaker for the 2017 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon is Ann Dexter Gordon, Ph.D., the leading authority on Susan B. Anthony and editor of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.   Her body of work not only protects the legacy of Anthony and Stanton, but will inform feminist scholarship for generations. The annual luncheon will be held Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center.  The date corresponds with Susan B. Anthony’s 197th Birthday.

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“In 2017, we will launch New York’s suffrage centennial and our theme is Susan B. Inspires Me,” says Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.  “There is no better time to bring this leading scholar who is also an engaging speaker  to our Rochester audience.”

Gordon served as program consultant and gave an onscreen interview for the 1999 Ken Burns documentary series Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.  Her essay “Taking Possession of the Country” appears in the companion volume to the documentary.

She is a graduate of Smith College and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in American history. Gordon is Research Professor Emerita in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.    She has written numerous articles in women’s history and biography, and edited a collection of essays by scholars of African-American history, African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (1997).

The Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon is held each year in mid-February to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s February 15th birthday, to honor contemporary women who continue her legacy, and to raise awareness of the educational and inspirational programs offered by the Museum. Individual seats and group tables may be purchased online at www.susanbanthonyhouse.org or by calling 585/279-7490 x 10.  Corporate sponsorships are still available. Contact Lesia Telega at 585/279-7490 x 12 for more information.

Questions related to this event may be directed to luncheon@susanbanthonyhouse.org.

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Election Coverage November 2016 Media Round Up

For over a week, there were fifteen media outlets including all of the Rochester network affiliates – 8, 10, and 13, Time Warner Cable News, the Democrat & Chronicle as well as national and international media including the New York Times, CNN, and the BBC came or called to the home where Susan B. Anthony lived and worked for over 40 years.

Before the election, CNN Digital sent reporter Tiara Chiaromonte to interview Deborah Hughes the weekend before the election. The CNN digital interview went “viral” with more than 60,000 viewers seeing it on our Facebook page and over SIX MILLION viewers at CNN: http://ow.ly/WkqQ306y0HZ

Also during the week leading up to the election, Susan B. Anthony Museum & House President & CEO Deborah Hughes was interviewed by nyupstate.com from Syracuse and Channel 4 from Buffalo: http://ow.ly/KDa5306y0Op

 

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One of the more poignant interviews during the week leading up to the election was conducted by Berkely Brean of Channel 10.  Brean interviewed Dr. Ruth Scott, Lois Geiss, and Deborah Hughes in the Attic of 17 Madison Street, the home of Susan B. Anthony. Dr. Scott served on the Rochester City Council from 1977-89. In 1986, Dr. Scott was elected as the Council’s first President. Scott’s leadership was instrumental as the City moved from a City Manager form of government to a directly elected mayor.  Lois Geiss also served as Rochester City Council President. Anthony Museum & House President & CEO Deborah Hughes pointed out that the third floor of the house, known as the garret or attic, the location of the interview was dedicated to the woman’s suffrage movement.

On Election Day there was a flurry of activity at the Museum! From New York City, came a reporter and photographer from the New York Times.   The journalists were part of a news team of female journalists who were sent to various locations around the country to report the events of the day. http://ow.ly/nwsx306y1dU

At the end of a very busy day, reporter Solina Lewis from Channel 8 interviewed Deborah Hughes and also did a live report from our parking lot for the 6:00 p.m. News.

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Democrat & Chronicle http://ow.ly/bPN8306y2zC

WROC-TV 8 http://ow.ly/Nwkc306y284  and http://ow.ly/m7mB306y2e9

Live Coverage of gravesite http://ow.ly/8rnZ306y2Uq

WHAM-TV 13 http://ow.ly/mH5y306y2K4

WXXI-TV http://ow.ly/ZfNa306y3je

BBC http://ow.ly/HpsC306y3yw

Talk of the Town http://ow.ly/lvSy306y3IG

Time Warner Cable News http://ow.ly/OpUI306y4az and http://ow.ly/eBAr306y4bu

Huffington Post  http://ow.ly/zFtj306y4BX