December 17: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Judith Rodin
Today in 1993, Judith Rodin was named president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution.
Harriet Taylor Upton joined the suffrage movement in 1890 and later became treasurer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, testified in Congress, managed a suffrage campaign and ratification drive. She was born today in 1853.