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WHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic background served as <br />early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement; and <br />WHEREAS, American women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights <br />of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation <br />movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, <br />especially the peace movement, which create a mare fair and just society for all; and <br />WHEREAS, despite these contributions, the role of American women in history has <br />been consistently overlooked and undervalued, in the literature, teaching and study of American <br />history; and <br />WHEREAS, women and their families continue to be undervalued in society through <br />continuing pay inequity, educational inequality, discrimination and marginalization, and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, on March 25, 1976, <br />established the Orange County Commission for Women to promote the growth and <br />development of all Orange County women and the Commission has been doing that for more <br />than 25 years; <br />Naw, THEREFORE, do we, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North <br />Carolina hereby proclaim March 2006 as "Women's History Month" and commend this <br />observance to Orange County residents. <br />THIS THE 2~st day of February 2006. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />7. Special Presentations <br />a. Orange County Arts Grant Recipients <br />The Board presented checks to local artists and arts organizations receiving Orange <br />County Arts Grants. <br />Chair Jacobs read the recipients of the grants and Commissioner Halkiotis distributed <br />the checks. <br />Grant Recipient: <br />A.L. Stanback Middle School - <br />Art for Indigenous Survival - <br />ArtsCenter - <br />Nancy Simpson Carter - <br />Chapel Hill Community Chorus - <br />Chapel Hill Museum - <br />Choreo Collective - <br />Emerson Waldorf High School - <br />Ephesus Road Elementary School - <br />Footnotes Tap Ensemble - <br />Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library <br />Attendee: <br />Janice Wereszczak <br />Suzanne Romey & Shirley McConahay <br />Jon Wilner <br />Nancy Simpson Carter <br />Patricia Brooks <br />(not available tonight} <br />Bridget Kelly, Sarah Covington, Nancy Carter <br />(not available tonight) <br />(not available tonight) <br />Robin Vail, Mimi Benjamin, Erin O'Reilly, and <br />Mary Fletcher Pena <br />Nerys Levy <br />