We have choices

Sheila Warner, '73, tells interviewer Jenn Bokoch Gillett that "Sister Margaret Furko, her mantra was Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did backwards in high heels. There was a culture at St. Ben's in this period that was really attached to that whole women's movement. You can be more. I mean, for a time, if you were going to college as a woman, you would be a nurse, secretary, teacher, that was it. No, you can be more. And I can remember, I think I was in 10th grade when some of the sisters went to a protest somewhere, and they all got arrested. And it was kind of like, oh, my goodness. But, oh, the environment. Environmental issues became so important. I mean, if we were caught wasting paper, sister would walk up to us and remind us that one of God's trees died to make that paper. And choices, you know, the sisters made us realize that we not only did we have choices, we were capable of making those decisions."