Throughout the month of March South Texas College is celebrating Women’s History Month with activities focused on the extraordinary accomplishment of women. Festivities include lectures, movies, an art exhibt, and much more. Admission to each event is free and open to the public. The college’s Center for Mexican American Studies and Department of Library Services will open the festivities with the Jovita Gonzalez Women’s History Month Lecture Series in its second year.
Retired Navy Commander Darlene Iskra will form part of the festivities. On Monday March 5 Dr. Iskra will be at the MidValley campus auditorium at 1:00 pm and at the Pecan campus library 6:00 pm. Her talk “Breaking Through the Brass Ceiling” focuses on the role women have had in the armed forces including the strategies women have used to move to the top in a masculine world. Dr. Iskra was the first female commander of a naval ship.
Historian Julia Camacho will wrap up the Jovita Gonzalez Lecture Series with her talk entitled “Mujeres Chineras: The Tanspacific Journeys of Mexican Women and Chinese Mexican Families 1910-1960.” On Thursday March 22 Dr. Camacho will visit the MidValley campus auditorium at 1:00 pm and at the Pecan campus library 6:00 pm.
“We are immensely proud and excited to be able to continue the Jovita Gonzalez Lecture Series with such powerful and dynamic speakers as Dr. Iskra and Dr. Camacho,” said Victor Gomez of STC’s Center for Mexican American Studies. “Women have been historically overlooked despite the major contributions they’ve given.”
For more information about the Jovita Gonzalez Lecture Series contact Victor Gomez at (956) 872-2070 or email vgomez@southtexascollege.edu.
