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ee wwe a a a canal dal ae lied alle mine , 6 . ‘on le SNS ie RTO FE aes | ee ae a | SEI a See ee in ee ee a, Bs iS Sete ae, : ENG ©’ EAI RATAN a «Inka O'Hanrahan, one m4 .of NOW's founders, a 6died on January 15, a 1970, Born fn Warsiv, i Poland, educated in Berlin and Switzer- a land, she came to° the United States in 1932 to marry a young Irish attorney, § Seams’ O'Hanrahan, -§§ «They had @ son and “@ two daughters. K "When we were mare ried," she was once quoted, “Seamus and , . I wade a deal, We would be partners, func- tion together....He does the meats, I do the soups and sauces, we make the salads together. Nobody feels imposed ypon and our relationship is better.” Inka continued her education at Berkeley and as a clinical biochemist, owed and di- rected her own laboratory in San Francisco until its sale last year. An involved professional and a lifelong feminist, Inka once served as president of the California Association of Clinical Lab- oratories, was once president of the Analy- tical Psychology Club and of the San Fran- eisco Soroptimist Club and was a board mem-. ber of the American Association of Bioanae lysts. She contributed. to profesional journals, lectured here and in Europe on the status of women, was vice chairman of the California Advisory Commission on the Status of Women 1965-67, and was a member of BPW and AAUW, These are pretty much the facts of Inka's life, but there was also a very special spirit and I am impelled to tell her as I knew her: Inka flew into my life on a wiidly rainy mrp repay OE a oe a, at, Se OPE y mw rein = a ery Te tte) re Oe. tae mo ay athe Ra ge wo LO en att BR ek om eee nee CT IIE SS OE ER ENR AENEID N mee we TE wh Weta & ‘can't Imagine her doing anything but chaf- y etake In April, 1967, to organize the South. FS BS EP Opeth iy, 5 Gea INE oS AL I EGA AI et MED ES ern California Chapter of NOW, The evening before, characteristically, she had organi- sed 4 Northern California Chapter in San Francisco. Under her electric spell, those ef us who attended that first meeting--only out of curlosity--suddenly found ourselves accepting multiple NOW positions and making total commitments of time end energy. Thereafter, my contact with Inka vas sporadic, but always incredibly stimlat- ing. As I knew her, she was a woman of charismatic warnth and vivacity, who could | speak with insight and eloquence on a Ren- {[ alssance-range of interests--music, art, poetry, politics, history (women's parti- cularly), psychology, Mothers Alone Work-~ ing, the Flower Children of Haight-Ashbury, what happened yesterday and what might hap- | pen tomorrow, A rare woman, a woman with a special magic, end a demanding woman, She demanded participation as / complete as her owne She was not a faultless woman. Some- times imperious, always inpatient with de- tails and often impetuous, she could and did foul up royally. But she was always forgivable, perhaps because one also caught fleeting glimpses of her as she ence described herself: “Here I come, Joan of Arc on her pony!" Perpetually a little young yet--and humanly impulsive. A first heart attack more than a year ago sharply curtailed her activities. I {ng under the constraints her illness ime posed on her characteristic life style. Of her many activities, she once told an interviewer, “I'm not altruistic. I get pleasure out of these projects, Contribu- ting is what life fs. Seamus calls it *Doing things for enlightened self-inter- est," and he's right. We all have a pur- pose in life so when something comes my | way, I can't say no to it." oNireinis Carabillo ee So dv natindats dh deeinaltbnninbtnstettitidiente, Uinibtalenncih hating sain Rnlastastinesncnanstnataii he AE A hplier PENAL ta, SPI hte A comprehensive @irectory of national ana Canadian women's groups is now in the planning and information-gathering stage, A section of the Directory will lisher, Jane Martelli, has asked that anyone who is willing to be a personal contact provide her vith their name, _ address, phone, hours available and the “provide a list of names of women who want to be contacts for those iné@ivi- duals interested in women's rights and who are in need of epecific infor- mation or help, The Directory's pub- type of Information they want to pro- == =—— vide, She would also like to hear fran any women's liberation groups she has not yet contacted. Her address: 595 62nd St,, Oakland, California # 9709. 11