friday, december 12, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 15
Tradition still governs membership
Service clubs still rule out women
Women may be finally infiltrating the business world,
but when it comes to service clubs, tradition is still strong.'
The Lincoln Jaycees and Sertoma Club both exclude
women, although one has another club for women and the
other is trying to change its bylaws.
The Jaycees, which calls itself a young man's training
organization, has 400 members, including minorities, but
no women.
President Chuck Greenway said the local chapter is
bound by national rules and those rules do not allow
women members.
Greenway said that he did not feel this is particularly a
problem, however, since he has never personally encoun
tered a woman who wanted to be a Jaycee.
Greenway said he feels comfortable about the exclu
sion, because of a group called Jaycee Women, an all
female club that works closely with the Jaycees.
"We have common philosophies and goals, while re
taining our own identity," he said. "They are very suppor
tive of us, and, we in turn, support them."
Greenway explained that Jaycee Women began as a
group called Mrs. Jaycees, which limited membership to
only wives of Jaycees. The group changed its name a
couple of years ago and no longer has this limitation.
Not bound
Jaycee Women are not bound by traditonal roles when
working on joint projects with the Jaycees.
"We don't have cut-and-dried traditions when working
together," Greenway said.
"We do what we feel we do best on projects and so do
they. There are, however, some things females just can do
better. We pool our resources,' he said.
Another Lincoln group, the Sertoma Club, has recently
voted to urge a change in international bylaws that pro
hibit women frorn'joining their group.
Club President Dennis Bongers said the local board
voted to urge the international board, the regional direc
tor and the district governor to promote the bylaw change
at the next International Sertoma Convention, which is
scheduled for May in Houston, Tex.
"It's time to open up service organizations and civic
clubs to all people in the business community," Bongers
said.
June Davis, women's athletic director at UNL, recently
applied to be a member of Sertoma. She said she thought
the board's action in voting for the bylaw change was
"fantastic and says a lot for the club and the city of
Lincoln."
Davis applied
Davis said she applied for membership after she was
invited to speak to the club about women's athletics.
Bongers brought up the subject of women members at
that time. She said her response was, "Hey, I want the first
membership."
"Men are accepting the fact that women are part of the
working world. It only makes common sense that civic
groups function the same as business," Davis said.
The International Sertoma Convention defeated a pro
posal last year to allow women members.
Moira Ferguson, chairwoman of the Women's Studies
Department, said she thought it was about time women
were included in the memberships.
"I think any form of discrimination is offensive," she
said. "It's difficult to deal with medieval attitudes in the
20th century. In this era, to talk about excluding women
is out of step with reality out of phase with the time
and it makes no sense," the chairwoman said.
"It isan old network," said one woman who did not
want her name used. "Elitism encourages sexist attitudes.
We need to reform these attitudes. We are all living together."
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at 3 pjm. Sunday featuring the University Singers,
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Robert Emile will conduct the 60-member Univers
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favorite compositions, his "Symphony No. 104."
G. Edward Bruner will conduct the University
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