College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

• September 10, 2007

  ISU Sesquicentennial celebration continues with "The Yellow Rose of Suffrage"

• One of Iowa State University's most prominent alumni will be celebrated as the University's Sesquicentennial Celebration continues with a presentation of "The Yellow Rose of Suffrage."

  The production will be presented Sunday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Theater on the Iowa State campus. The event is free and open to the public.

  The one-woman show illustrates the life and words of women's activist Carrie Chapman Catt and 1881 alumna of Iowa State. ISU Theatre's Jane Cox researched, wrote and performed the play as a one-woman show.

   "The Yellow Rose of Suffrage" chronicles Catt's life from her upbringing on a farm near Charles City, Iowa, to valedictorian of her Iowa State graduating class as well as her days as an women's suffrage movement leader.

  Catt was president of the National American Women Suffrage Association for many years. A tireless organizer and campaigner, Catt's relentless lobbying in Congress, and then in state legislatures, finally produced a ratified 19th Amendment in August 1920. That Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.

  "The Yellow Rose of Suffrage" was first performed at Iowa State in 1993. Since then Cox has performed the show throughout the nation including a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

  "My goal is that by the end of the show, the audience gets to know Mrs. Catt really well," Cox said. "You not only find out the high points of her life, but also what changed her."

  Cox has now been on the Iowa State faculty for over twenty years. She has been involved with over 250 productions as an actress, designer, or director. Her one-woman shows have been performed in over twenty states as well as the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian.

  "The Yellow Rose of Suffrage" is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Sesquicentennial Committee and the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.

Jane Cox

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