The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 29, 1982, Page Page 6, Image 6
Page 6 Friday, October 29, 1982 Daily Nebraskan .1 Ruth Thone talks of discoveries, changes By Dulcie Shoener Ruth Thone said she was "a little awed" at being asked to speak at "A Celebration of Women in Journalism" Thursday be cause she doesn't pretend to have spent the 29 years since she graduated from UNL's School of Journalism in the journalism pro fession. Thone was the featured speaker at the 3 luncheon, which was sponsored bv the Affairs R. Neale CoDDle and Wilma Crum- Chancellor's Commission on the Status of ley, acting dean of the School of Jour Women and the UNL School of Journal- nalism. ism. About 100 alumni and other memb- Thone said she was "envious and scared ers of the university pommunity attended 0f women who were clearer of their lives the event in the Centennial Room of the m 1953 e year graduated from Nebraska Union. - tjnl) tnan I was." She had been editor of Other speakers included Linda Beer- the Daily Nebraskan her senior year but mwnn;?atrcaStn f0LK(?LNJ ' 1 did not actively pursue a career in journal- TV' UxTTC5ance"or M,artin, Mf sengdC' m immediately - rather she married acting UNL Vice Chancellor for Academic rh , - then state senator md now Nebraska governor. Ruth Thone has done quite a bit of free lance writing, however, for such publica tions as the Washington Post and the Omaha Wortd-Herald's Magazine of the Midlands. She listed for the audience some of the more important changes and discoveries in her life since she attended the School of Journalism. She said she thought then that she was a total extrovert but has since discovered a very shy person under the extrovert exter ior. In one of her few references to the up coming elections, she added, "Perhaps after next Tuesday, I can give her (the shy per son) more space. "Women need to be financially indepen dent," Thone said, "so they can make very clear choices about their own lives." Fast and Affordable EMBROIDERY SERVICE SWEATERS: SHIRTS: JACKETS: BLOUSES: GIFTS: BACKPACKS: CAPS: TOWELS: SHEETS: GREEK LETTERS: SCRIPT: BLOCK: Free Monogram with purchase of jacket or sweater. EMBROIDERED DESIGNS CO. Lower Level The Atrium 1200 N. 475-1161 ' ' ' - -S Women also need "time alone, time off, time for ourselves . . . and time for solitude," she said. Thone said one thing that has not changed - and perhaps has intensified - is her need to write. "Not to become rich or famous," she mmmmm , .. -... C 1962 Pat BrtmriQ Company Mrfwaufcee. Wsoonm Staff Photo by Craig Andresen Ruth Thone said , "... but write because I must." Thone concluded with a 1975 quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer, with a few changes in pronouns: "This is a world in which each of us, knowing her limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the tenors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to her, to what she knows and to what she can do, to her friends, to her traditions and to her love, lest she be dissolved in universal con fusion and know nothing and love nothing." Following Thone's speech, Beermaiin introduced a special videotape presenta tion called "A Celebration of Women in Journalism." Crumley then gave the clos ing remarks. UFO experts to meet Four of the world's most prominent experts on un explained phenomena will explore the unexplainable Nov. 13 and 14 at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education in Lincoln. J. Allen Hynek, former chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University and consultant on UFO's to the U.S. Air Force, will headline the con ference. Corrections Because of an editing error in Thursday's Daily Ne braskan, columnist Ellen Goodman was reported to have said that she isn't pretentious. The phrase should have said that Goodman "looks at things unpretentiously." In a Page 7 article Thursday, the Daily Nebraskan in correctly reported remarks by an ASUN Sen. Rhonda Greder at Wednesday night's ASUN' Senate meeting. Greder actually said that last year's change of the loca tion of ASUN meetings to the UNL Cultural Center furthers the undesirable impression that the center is for minority students only and the student unions are for non-minorities only. UL-JoodUJUULl 0 mm ? mm. Today Could Be Your Lucky Day! Become a plasma donor I $10 is paid per donation and you can donate twice weekly (but please wait 72 hours between donations). ThaVs up to $95 a month. And that can buy a lot of rabbit's feet! New donors bring this ad for a $2 bonus for your first donation. Call now for an appointment. -475-8645 University Plasma Center 1442 0 Street Open Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00-4:00 federally licensed