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\u201cPILGRIMS ON THE WAVE<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is the cover story for this issue. Writer Pamela J. Podger profiles three alumnae who lead churches in Roanoke: Deborah Hentz Hunley \u201974, Kathy O\u2019Keeffe \u201971, M.A.L.S. \u201995, and Susan Emmons Bentley \u201975. Note that they\u2019re all graduates from the 1970s, a time of sweeping changes in American society, including changing attitudes toward women holding positions of authority, even in the ministry.<\/p>\nThis issue also marks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan\u2019s shocking (at the time) book, The Feminine Mystique.<\/i> In her lecture last fall on campus, social historian Stephanie Coontz told the audience that in 1960 Friedan provocatively titled her Good Housekeeping<\/i> essay \u201cWomen Are People, Too.\u201d That essay laid the groundwork for the publication of her book three years later\u2014a book that many credit with helping to launch the second wave of the women\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n Coontz\u2019 talk was part of a series of events last fall that looked at issues of enduring importance to women. In \u201cGIRLS ON FIRE<\/strong>,\u201d you\u2019ll read a transcript from a meeting of first-year students assembled by Professor of English Julie Pfeiffer in which visiting writer Mary Stewart \u201cPolly\u201d Atwell \u201900 talked about her book, Wild Girls<\/i>, this year\u2019s common reading.<\/p>\n In \u201cA PLAYWRIGHT\u2019S PLEA<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d public relations director Jeff Hodges M.A.L.S. \u201911 profiles Elizabeth Heffron, a student in Hollins\u2019 M.F.A. program in playwriting. Heffron\u2019s play Mitizi\u2019s Abortion: A Saint\u2019s Guide to Late-Term Politics & Medicine in America<\/i>, which was performed on campus last fall, explores the complexities of this hot-button issue.<\/p>\n In \u201cDECONSTRUCTING THE DOLLHOUSE<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d Laura Jane Ramsburg, manager of museum operations for the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, writes about last fall\u2019s American Dreamscape <\/i>exhibition, whose themes were consumerism and the hold advertising has on women, especially when it comes to creating the perfect home.<\/p>\n Expanding on the themes of The Feminine Mystique<\/i>, Jill Hufnagel, associate director of the Batten Leadership Institute, urges us to \u201cunsettle the dust<\/a>\u201d as we work to close the gender gap for good. For Hufnagel and for Coontz, true progress entails changing the ways both<\/i> women and men are supported by the culture as they \u201cnavigate the demands of work, home, and community.\u201d<\/p>\n