Board of Directors of the Museum of Menstruation and Women's health

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Advisory Board

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.

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 Professors 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.

NEWS | homepage | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor (olor)| pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | religion | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads

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