Advisory Board
ATTENTION:
I haven't consulted this board for years, basically
since I closed the actual museum in my house.
These were folks who graciously consented to
be board members of what I had hoped to be
the future physical museum.
Barbara Czerwinski, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate professor of nursing, University of Texas at
Houston, U.S.A.
Dr. Czerwinski helped create the hygienic facilities for
the space shuttle, and is now conducting a study of the hygienic requirements
of the women in the U.S. military for the Department of Defense.
Harry Finley, B.A., ex officio
Founder and director of the Museum
of Menstruation. More bio data in Who's Who in America 2006 and Who's
Who in the World 2006 (Marquis, to be published Nov. 2005).
Stephanie Harzewski, B.A.
Department of Women's Studies, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Ms. Harzewski's interests include menstrual culture in
the United States after 1970, including menstrual extraction and the revived
use of washable pads.
Monica Lange, Ph.D.
Faculty in Women's Studies and Psychology, California State
University, Long Beach
A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Lange's research
focuses on women's health issues, menstrual product safety and improving
women's ability to make informed consumer decisions.
Rachel K. Sobel, B.A.
Writer for U. S. News & World Report
As a student at Harvard, Ms. Sobel researched the MUM archives
for her senior thesis.
Advoquita Stude, B.
A.
Department of Environmental Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, U.S.A.
Ms. Stude focuses on the development of tampons.
Lana Thompson, M.A.
Boca Raton, Florida
Ms. Thompson is an anthropologist who writes about the
history of medicine and women's studies. She is the author of "The
Wandering Womb: A cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women,"
and is working on her next two books. She teaches forensic anthropology.
Philip
M. Tierno, Jr., Ph.D.
Director of clinical microbiology and immunology, New York
University Medical Center
Associate professor of pathology, New York University School
of Medicine, U.S.A.
Dr. Tierno is the leading independent investigator of menstrual
products safety, and was instrumental in promoting the change to safer materials
in menstrual products after the toxic shock crisis of the early 1980s.
Cheryl Turner, B.A.
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
Mrs. Turner is a licensed social worker and a menstrual
health educator, and owns her own business, Moon Song Trilogy.
Miki
Walsh, B.S.
Hollywood, California
Ms. Walsh, who occupies a museum board seat reserved for
people under 26 years of age, is working on material for menarche education
for girls and their families, and is helping develop the Museum of Menstruation.
She was the MUM spokeswoman at GirlCon '97 at Wellesley College in mid-April
1997. Ms. Walsh tap dances, and she can put her whole fist into her mouth.
Former member (deceased)
Gretchen Worden, B.A.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Ms. Worden directs the Mütter Museum, part of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); her museum
ranks with the National Museum of Health and Medicine,
in Washington, D.C., as the best in America. (Mütter Museum Web site.)
Obituary
Other
Appointments (as of 1998)
Staff
Professor Mack C. Padd
The Distinguished Service Institutional
Wallace C. Meyer Memorial Pouncer at the Museum of Menstruation
The "Black Thunderbolt"
- also called MaxiMUM - specializes in the capture of small, potentially
harmful moving objects; enjoys Fancy Feast (Savory Salmon especially); and
likes getting scratched in just the right place (who doesn't?). Here's more, with photo!
BUT . . .
Recently, the MUM director has observed
Prof. Padd either dozing off or staring into space an awful lot, often at
birds pecking at seed right outside the glass doors of the museum. His mouse-capture
production is stagnant; as a matter of fact, he has never caught one. He's
become a . . . "fat cat."
I brought this up with him on 6 November,
in his rating month, pointing out that his perqs exceeded his performance.
He shrieked what sounded like "Tenure!" to suggestions that he
either move on, "get with it," or forget Fancy Feast.
MUM is reviewing its policy of tenure,
reflecting a nationwide trend.
(A car tire crushed Max's head in
the summer of 2008. He became an indoor-outdoor cat after the vet told me
he suffered from failing kidneys and thyroid and I knew Max wanted to spend
time outdoors more than anything else.
The good thing is that he died fast. He was 14.)
Professor
Minnie Padd
The Distinguished Service Institutional
Albert Lasker Memorial Pouncer at the Museum of Menstruation
MiniMUM joined the MUM pouncing
staff in 1998. His c.v. includes repeated chasing-up-the-tree
events of the following staff member, and aggressive
greeting of guests in the museum; in this, he perfectly balances
out MaxiMUM (above), who hides under the Director's bed when visitors are
present.
Prof. Padd, probably a Maine coon cat, takes his title
from the father of American advertising, Albert
Lasker, whose name also graces the highest award in American medicine.
(Minnie has been missing since early May 1999, the day
before my coronary angioplasty, and is probably dead. I miss him!)
Visiting Assistant Professor Pam
T. Padd (say the name quickly)
The Distinguished Institutional
fax and Fibs Early Commercial Tampon Memorial Part-Time Pouncer at the Museum
of Menstruation
Although beaten up and chased into tree tops almost every
day by Professor Minnie Padd, PamdimoniMUM,
a blue-eyed tabby kitten who doggedly, so to
speak, looks through the glass doors of the museum for hours daily, surely
preventing small mouse-like creatures from entering, joins MUM as the newest
staff member!
The Director of the museum - me -
will override the resoundingly negative decision of the faculty committee
(the other Professor Padd, above) to make her full time, with museum live-in
privileges. (No picture yet available)
Fibs and fax tampons
were among the earliest commercial tampons; indeed, fax - always
written lower case and in italics - may be the earliest, from the early
1930s.
And read about five
feline museum interns, Fibs, fax, Meds,
Zeenie-Weenie, and Wix.
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