Wednesday, October 17, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7
OW president is active woman
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I By LINDA ROWLAND
Reporter
I jean Black Williamson says she al-
wavs has admired classic Southern
women with their steely determin-
|on beneath graciously sweet and
larming exteriors. Yet, for her, this
|jmore than mere admiration ... it
|sbecome a self-characterization.
|And it is stuff stronger than steel
js woman says has carried her
through her life.
IWilliamson has found she needs
all she’s ever learned in her life —
and more — to cope with her latest
f\Jrd|, endeavor. The 1949 Miss Bryan has
N ~lly ventured into the world of politics in
|ei tight for women’s equality. She is
the president of the Brazos County
chapter of the National Organiza
tion for Women (NOW).
uiRaised in College Station, Wil-
Janson admits harboring a life-long
(ove lor Texas A&M even though
she went to the University of Texas.
|Td yell for A&M every chance I
|t—even while I was at Texas!”
she said.
|Williamson-graduated from UT
a degree in art and a minor in
isdence. But she said she has worked
^ ®jpr taken classes from nearly every
[lege at A&M.
fcVilliamson was the first medical
gjist for the Texas A&M College of
'Veterinary Medicine.
“I may have been the first, but I
was hardly the best,” she said.
In 1964, she established a local art
school, the Williamson School of
Art. The school began with a variety
of students ranging from a finger-
painter, 5, to a woman, 78.
Eleven years later, Williamson be
came a founding mother of the Bra
zos County branch of NOW. Today,
she is the president.
It is a profession fitting for the
niece of Eleanor Roosevelt’s press
secretary and biographer, one of the
earliest feminists in this country.
“My aunt truly was a feminist,”
Williamson said. “That was admira
ble to me even as a little girl..she was
a wonderful role model.”
Initially, Williamson says she
wanted to follow her aunt’s journa
listic footsteps, but was paralyzed by
stagefright before she could take
that first step. As president of NOW,
Williamson fights that fright with
creativity. While addressing a group
a few months ago, she posed as Dear
Abby and had a friend pose as Ann
Landers.
“That seemed so friendly,” she
said. “I relaxed right away and ev
eryone else loved it.”
As a NOW member, Williamson
said she helped pull the organization
through some rough times. Today,
the Brazos County NOW has 66
members and is growing.
Williamson, 52, calmly counters
all negative attitudes toward femi
nism.
“NOW wants equality, not superi
ority,” she said.
Historically, NOW has been non
partisan. However, this election year
it broke that tradition by endorsing
the Walter Mondale-Geraldine Fer
raro ticket.
“Personally, I have taken a vow of
chastity until Mr. Mondale is elec
ted,” she said. “I certainly hope it’s
not ’88!”
The active NOW president is no
torious for her letters to the editor
printed in the Bryan-College Station
Eagle. She claims to have lost friends
by expressing her political opinions,
but her stance also has won admira
tion and letters of appreciation from
such notables as College Station
Mayor Gary Halter.
Williamson is strongly pro-Demo-
crat.
“Because, I feel, Democrats serve
the people, and the Republicans
serve themselves,” she said.
Williamson plans to open a NOW
chapter on the A&M campus after
the elections, because she said one is
very much needed.
“It is wonderful to see influential
centers of this campus run by
women — The Battalion, the Aggie-
land, and KAMU-TV’s Sheila De
trick ... there’s a real prop’ she said.
Her greatest admiration lies with
the generation of women in the col
lege how.
“They do it all — family, career
and more — and thrive on it,” she
said.
Less than two months ago, Wil
liamson produced a film as a tribute
to women, “Twelve Wise Women
Talk About Life.
Williamson filmed the tribute on
Aug. 26, which is both Women’s
Equality Day and Geraldine Ferra
ro’s birthday. She hopes to sell it, or
at least the concept, to the Public
Broadcasting Service.
While insisting she is basically
lazy, she sports 15 trophies from 10-
kilometer races.
“Oh, I’m just the only one in my
age group,” she said. “They have to
give it to me. In fact, one time, two-
bird-boned grannies came in from
Houston and beat me hands down!”
Somewhere along the way, Wil
liamson managed to raise two
daughters. Ann, the older, is a pro
fessional model and actress in addi
tion to being an account executive
with an Austin advertising firm.
Her younger daughter, Cissy, is
working for her doctorate in psy
chology at Texas Women’s Univer
sity.
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[mbers and friends of A&M soon
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Texas Aggie Credit Union will
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“The association receives pledges of
about $2.5 million a year. People of
ten pledge the money early in the
year, and then give it later in the
year, which is natural enough, be
cause they want to use it as long as
they can. But if the association could
get the money earlier and invest it,
for instance, in jumbo C.D.’s, it
could earn far more interest than
the individual could get.”
Fritts said all credit unions have
two major features: savings accounts
and loan demands. However, the
Texas Aggie Credit Union’s direc
tors do not expect their loan de
mands to be as high as those of other
credit unions, Fritts said.
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their extra funds on hand, the Texas
Aggie Credit Union will invest the
extra funds, Fritts said. Credit union
members will be paid an interest rate
equal to or greater than the interest
rates at commercial banks and sav
ings and loans.
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be given to the Association of For
mer Students and the development
foundation, Fritts said. Those two
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groups who request money, he said.
The primary goal of the credit
union is to provide Aggies world
wide with an opportunity to give
their donations early in the year, but
not loose the interest on the money.
The credit union also will offer
services for full-time students. Fritts
said he hopes to establish several
programs to offer financial assis
tance to students.
“I understand students are having
trouble cashing personal checks,” he
said. “I hope in time to be able to es
tablish a better facility for the proc
ess of cashing checks and other fi
nancial services.”
Other programs Fritts hopes to
establish at the credit union include
student accounts with lower service
charges, short-term loans and senior
loans for graduating students mak
ing major purchases such as cars and
furniture.
“It is not our intention to compete
with local banks ... we want to work
with them,” Fritts said. “But if there
is a need not being met for students,
we’re going to jump in with both
feet.”
Members of the Association of
Former Students and full-time stu
dents may become members of the
Texas Aggie Credit Union by buying
two shares of the credit union —
which will cost $10 — and paying-a
$1 membership fee, Fritts said. The
$ 11 cost was established so that stu
dents could afford membership, he
said.
Friends of A&M may become
members of the credit union by be
coming associate members of the As
sociation of Former Students, then
buying two shares in the credit
union and paying the $1 mem
bership fee, Fritts said.
The Texas Aggie Credit Union
has been approved by the governing
. boards for the Association of For
mer Students and the Texas A&M
Development Foundation. However,
the credit union will not be officially
tied to either of the organizations or
the University, Fritts said.
An application for the credit
union was submitted Oct. 9 to the
state’s commissioner ami deputy
com missiohet; of credit unions. Fritts
said he hopes to receive approval for
the credit union this week. The
credit union will be located at 2405
Texas Ave.
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