UNL woman goes to Beijing
By Rebecca O It mans
Staff Reporter * " 7 “
The day before Emilia
Gonzalez-Clements left for
Beij ing as a delegate for the Fourth
World Conference on Women, she
was still waiting on one important
item — her passport visa.
Gonzalez-Clements, a Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln applied
anthropologist working on her dis
sertation, is one of30,000 delegates
from non-governmental organiza
tions attending the conference Sept.
4 to Sept. 15. The conference is
sponsored by the United Nations.,
Her visa wasn ’t delayed because
she forgot to apply until the last
minute. Gonzalez-Clements was
told only one week before she was
to leave for Beijing that China would
no longer accept the U.N. group
visa she was to travel under.
That meant she would have to
get an individual visa.
Judith Kriss, director of the
Women’s Center, said many non
governmental delegates represent
ing human rights organizations were
having problems obtaining their
visas.
Delegates such as Gonzalez
Clements will attend the confer
ence along with governmental del
egates, representing all the coun
tries of the world.
“But the NGOs are the only ones
having trouble getting their visas
because of their stands against hu
man rights violations, particularly
women,” Kriss said.
Amnesty International was not
even granted a visa by the Chinese
government, Kriss said.
Another discouragement, she
said, was moving the non-govem
mental delegates’ meeting place to
a remote location outside of Beijing.
The move makes it more difficult
for them to get together with others
attending the conference, she said.
During their stay, non-govern
mental delegates also will partici
pate in a separate forum in conjunc
tion with the conference.
But Gonzalez-Clements’ daugh
ter, Mandi Cohen-Tompkins, said
her mother wasn’t bothered by the
move.
“She said she knew a lot of
women who were still going, and
they were all taking laptop comput
ers and modems so no matter where
they met, they would still be heard,”
Cohen-Tompkins said.
Participants at the conference
will assess progress in women’s
status since the last conference in
1985. They also will identify the
most significant problems facing
women today and try to develop
plans to change them, Kriss said.
Conference attendees plan to de
velop a Platform for Action, similar
to a treaty that every country is
supposed to honor and sign, Cohen
Tompkins said.
During the last year, Gonzalez
Clementsworked with the Women’s
Center to develop a platform to take
to the conference.
Cohen-Tompkins, a senior
women’s studies major, said the
platform would be presented to the
Chancellor’s Commission on the
Status of Women after her mother
returned from Beijing.
She said she hoped the platform
would lead to legislation that would
help raise the status of women who
attend UNL.
Kriss said Gonzalez-Clements
would return with valuable infor
mation to add to the Women’s
Center’s library and would talk with
students about the conference.
Gonzalez-Clements was former
president of the United Nations
Lincoln chapter and has traveled
around the world studying
women’s issues.
Decades of 4-H champs to be honored
By Stephanie Gibbs
Staff Reporter
Young men and women have com
peted in the 4-H public speaking con
test at the Nebraska State Fair for 53
years. The 104 people who have
walked away from the event as cham
pions will be honored at a reunion
Sept. 3.
Sue Friesen, administrative coor
dinator of the Nebraska Development
4-H Foundation, said reunion plans
began when Stan and Bev Foster, the
parents of two recent winners, do
nated a plaque to put all the winners
names on.
“The Fosters’ plaque' donation
called for a proper presentation,”
Friesen said. “We invited all the win
ners back to Lincoln for the unveiling
ceremony.”
The program wi 11 focus on how the
experience of winning the public
speaking contest influenced careers.
Lifetime development of skills is a
main 4-H philosophy, said Delwyn
Dearborn, state 4-H program leader in
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources.
The reunion will help winners cel
ebrate their accomplishments and will
promote 4-H in local communities,
Dearborn said.
Ronald Ritchey, the 1945 winner,
said his public speaking experience
was extremely valuable to his career.
“In so many areas of your work,
your effectiveness in public speaking
is so crucial,” Ritchey said. “I see that
in a way now that I didn’t then.”
The reunion not only celebrates 53
years of hard work, a tradition of 4-H
—it also brings together family. Many
people have children or siblings who
also have won the contest.
Cory and Casey Foster, Stan and
Bev Foster’s children, were the latest
sibling team to win. Cory was cham
pion in 1990, and Casey won in 1992.
Edith Solomon, the first winner in
1942, is the mother of 1967 winner
Carol Solomon-Smith. Margaret
Meisner and Jim Schwisow, sister and
brother, won the competitions in 1964.
Other sibling combinations also exist.
Ninety-eight living alumni were
contacted and invited to the event.
About half of those winners will at
tend the reunion. Some winners are
returning from Connecticut, Georgia,
Iowa, Illinois, Utah and New York.
NU President L. Dennis Smith and
former U.S. Sen. Carl Curtis will be
on hand to honor the returning cham
pions.
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