One of those current players, along with three earlier stars of women's golf, will take part in "A Conversation with Champions: Women, Sports, & the LPGA," a special luncheon and panel program scheduled during the tournament. The event from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21, at Locust Hill Country Club is part of the yearlong initiative, "100 Years Since Susan B. . . . Consider the Anthony Legacy," sponsored by the University's Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership.
Panelists are Paula Creamer, the 2005 LPGA Rookie of the Year and a player in this year's Wegmans LPGA; Heather Daly-Donofrio, an LPGA tour veteran and current president of the LPGA's Players Council; Alice Miller, LPGA rookie of the year in 1978 and executive director of the McDonald's LPGA; and Betsy Rawls, a member of the LPGA's Hall of Fame who won the Texas Amateur in 1949 and went on to amass a total of 55 career victories. Former Sports Illustrated senior editor Myra Gelband '71 will moderate the discussion that will include questions for audience members.
In addition to the discussion, the program includes the presentations of the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award to the national LPGA and the Susan B. Anthony Promise Award to Buffalo-area businesswoman and artist Heather Harris '92S (MBA). The LPGA is the first organization to receive the legacy award, which recognizes work and achievements that reflect the suffragist's commitment to equality between men and women. The award will be accepted by LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens, the first female commissioner in the organization's history.
"The LPGA is a trailblazing organization that has promoted women's professional
development in sports for more than 50 years," says Nora Bredes, director of the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. "Through its programs, the association has helped increase recognition and opportunities for all women athletes."
Harris is the first recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Promise Award, which honors a woman whose career, leadership, and energy promote Anthony's dream of equality. After earning an M.B.A. in finance and economics from the Simon School, Harris worked as a marketing professional for 15 years, developing and selling consumer products for Rich Products, Bausch & Lomb, and Fisher-Price. Since 2004, she has been president of redFISH Art Studios & Gallery in East Aurora, a venue she cofounded to provide artists with studio and exhibition space and to offer art classes for youth and adults. The award is sponsored by the Anthony Center and the Simon School.
Tickets for the June 21 event are $50 and include admission to the tournament that day, which is Pro-Am Day. Tables of eight also can be purchased for $1,000 and include a weeklong pass for each of the guests to the Wegmans LPGA Tournament, which begins June 19. For reservations and more information, contact the Wegmans LPGA at (585) 427-7100 or the Anthony Center at x5-8700. Proceeds benefit the Disabled Children of Monroe County's two camps, Camp Haccamo and the Sunshine Campus.
For more on the Anthony Center's yearlong initiative, visit www.rochester.edu/SBA.
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Golfers join 'conversation' about women
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n 1895, the first Women's Amateur Golf Championship in the United States drew 13 competitors. This year, more than 140 players are competing on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour, which makes a stop in Rochester later this month for the 30th anniversary Wegmans LPGA.
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