September, 2018 - Margaret Murie - Maple Smash

Margaret Thomas Murie (1902-2003)

Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society.  After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

The Drink:

Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup

Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Alice Eastwood - A Cure for What Ails You

Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)

Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist.  The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names.  She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor. 

The Drink:

A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice

Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4

Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer. 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Ellen Richards - Mead-Hattan

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) 

Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion

The Drink

Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters

Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5 

Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking. 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Florence Baily - Bramble Variation

Florence Augusta Merriam Baily (1863 – 1948)
Born in Locust Grove, NY, grew to became not only an ornithologist, and one of America’s first activists for the protection of birds, but also published the first bird field guide, Birds Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890.  When she first started her study, the standards were based on collections of skins; but she wanted to study the living birds in the field. After college, she moved to Washington and helped organize the Audobon Society of D.C. in 1897, and began to teach classes on birds the following year.  Because of her activist work, she was also instrumental in the passing of the Lacey Act of 1900 that banned illegally traded wildlife to be sold across state lines. After marrying she would do extensive field work with her husband in the American West, and documented her studies in several books, including The Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. In 1908, a subspecies of mountain chickadee was named in her honor; and in 1992, a mountain the southern Oregon Cascade Range was named in honor of both her and her husband by the Oregon Geographic Names Board.

The Drink

Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5

  Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party." 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker

June, 2018 - Robyn Smith - The Belmont Jewel

Robyn Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her biological father deserted her and her 17 year old mother at her birth. Melody's mother was declared mentally unstable and Melody was placed in a foster home. She was adopted and renamed Caroline Smith. Later, after a grueling court battle, she was returned to her birth mother. When her mother's mental illness reappeared, she was placed back in the care of her adoptive family. She became a jockey in 1969, winning the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct in 1973 riding North Sea. She became the first woman to win a major race in the USA. Despite the difficulty she had getting respect, an agent and mounts, by '72 she was the top American-born jockey--of either gender—at Aqueduct Racetrack, where her winning percentage that year was second only to Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero's. On Jan. 1, 1973, at Santa Anita, Smith was preparing for her first mount of the year when a friend introduced her to Fred Astaire, 46 years her senior. Astaire asked whether he should put money on her horse, Exciting Devorcee, and Smith assured him it was a bad idea. He paid no heed, and when the horse beat Willie Shoemaker's mount by a nose, Smith had won her first race at Santa Anita, Astaire had won his wager on a long shot, and the seeds of a great romance had been planted. "I used to kid him and say, 'Oh, you fell in love with me when I won that race,'" says Robyn. In '80 she became Robyn Smith Astaire, and within four months she had left the horse racing circuit to spend more time with her new husband and because Fred was concerned for her safety. She remained married to Astaire until his death in 1987. Although she has tenaciously, and at times controversially, tried to control the use of her husband's image--her efforts helped lead to the passage of a California law limiting the use of deceased celebrities' likenesses--she still needed to satisfy her own competitive urges. "I didn't know what I was going to do with the rest of my life because I'd always been active," says Robyn. "I'm not one to sit home and eat potato chips and watch soap operas." After getting career counseling, she decided to become a helicopter pilot, and flying became her new passion. She started in choppers, worked her way up to jets and now works as a corporate pilot. 

The Drink

The Belmont Jewel - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes since 2011
1.5 oz bourbon
2 oz lemonade
1 oz pomegranate juice

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Accessbility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: We understand why they changed it. This is much easier to batch for a large crowd. The crowds at Belmont are supposed to be terrible.

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Anna Rose Napravnik - The Belmont Breeze

Anna Rose "Rosie" Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) began her career in 2005 at Pimlico and has been regularly ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won. She initially rode under the name "A.R. Napravnik" to conceal her gender. She acknowledges the struggles for equality that women riders in earlier generations had to face were greater than her own, but notes that women jockeys still "fight a battle.“ In her early career, she simply tried to "blend in" with the male riders, but nonetheless encountered some owners and trainers who refused to hire a female jockey. She later said, "I was very conscious when I raced against their horses—and when I beat them.“ Napravnik has encountered harassment from male jockeys on the track when other riders would deliberately bump her or pen in her horse from all sides. In a 2013 interview with 60 Minutes, Napravnik said that she has heard hecklers at the track yell at her to "go home and have a baby," or "go home and stay in the kitchen.“ In 2011, she won the Louisiana Derby for her first time, and was the first female winner, and was ninth in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, the sixth woman to ride in that race. In 2012, she broke the total wins and earnings record for a woman jockey previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, riding Believe You Can, winning the race for a second time in 2014 on Untapable. She then rode in the Belmont Stakes for the first time, finishing fifth aboard Five Sixteen. Later that year, she won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile aboard Shanghai Bobby, becoming only the second woman jockey to win a Breeder's Cup race. She is the first to win more than one, also winning the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff on Untapable. Napravnik's fifthplace finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and third in the 2013 Preakness Stakes on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jockey in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have ridden in all three Triple Crown races. She is also the first to have run in all three Triple Crown races in the same year, doing so in 2013 and 2014. After her win in the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Napravnik announced she was seven weeks pregnant and taking a "retirement" of "indefinite" duration from race riding following the 2014 Breeders' Cup. She continues to assist her husband in training race horses, including 2017 Kentucky Derby contender Girvin. 

The Drink:

The Belmont Breeze - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes 1997-2010
1.5 oz bourbon
.5 oz dry sherry
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple syrup
splash of orange juice
splash of cranberry juice
5 mint leaves

Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 3.5
Accessibilty: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: 

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Patty Cooksey - Black-Eyed Susan

Patricia Cooksey (born February 25, 1958 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American horse racing jockey. She won her first race with Turf Advisor at Waterford Park (now Mountaineer Park) in 1979. A four-time Turfway Park leading rider, Cooksey has won 2,137 wins since beginning her career in 1979, and she was the all-time leading female jockey by number of victories before Julie Krone overtook her. In 1985 she became the first female jockey to ride in the Preakness Stakes, finishing 6th aboard Tajawa. In 2004, she became the first ever female jockey to be voted the NYRA's Mike Venezia Memorial Award, an honor given annually to a jockey who exemplifies extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship. Cooksey now resides in Georgetown, Kentucky. She is retired from racing and currently works for the Kentucky Racing Commission. In 2006, she was a horse-back riding reporter for ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Breeders' Cup.

The Drink

Black-Eyed Susan (official cocktail of the Preakness Stakes since 1973)
1 oz bourbon
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
2 oz orange juice
2 oz sour mix

Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3.5

Comments: "peachy!"

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Diane Crump - Mint Julep

Diane Crump was born in 1948 in Milford, Connecticut. Her family moved to Oldsmar, Florida, and she began taking riding lessons when she was 13. On February 7, 1969, Crump became the first woman to compete as a professional jockey in the United States. She rode a horse named Bridle 'n Bit at Hialeah Park Race Track. There was so much hostility to a woman riding in a horse race that she needed a police escort to get to the track. Crump ultimately finished 9th in the 12-horse race and returned to cheers of support. Two weeks later, Crump rode her first winning race. She said, “The crowd was just swarming all over me. They were crazy, up in arms. . .The hecklers were yelling: 'Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner.' That was the mentality at the time. They thought I was going to be the downfall of the whole sport, which is such a medieval thought. I was like: 'Come on people, this is the 1960s!‘” The previous year, two women had been forced out of horse races they had entered after male jockeys threw rocks at the trailers used as locker rooms by the women and threatened a boycott. The situation changed at Hialeah because the track officials threatened sanctions against the male jockeys. In 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump won the first race on the underdcard that day, and then on a horse name Fathom, came in 15th in a 17-horse field in the Derby. By the time she ended her racing career in 1985, she had ridden to 235 wins. In a race in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s, she realized the male jockey behind her was holding onto her saddle, basically getting a free ride during the race. She began to hit him with her stick but he eventually pulled away from her and won the race. Crump retired for a time in 1985 and beginning in 1991 worked as a trainer for a small stable of horses at the Middleburg Training Center in Virginia. She resumed race riding in 1992 and rode races through 1998. She now runs an equine sales business. 

The Drink:

Mint Julep (official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby since 1938)
2oz bourbon
1oz simple syrup
Mint

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  4.5
Taxic Diversity:  4
Accessibility:  2
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  Cheers to Dinae Crump! First woman to compete as a professional jockey in the U.S.

From "Female Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

March, 2017 - Moms Mabley - Kir Royale 38

Loretta Mary Aiken (Jackie "Moms" Mabley) - March 19, 1894 - May 23, 1975)
A comedy pioneer credited with being the first female standup comedian.  She was born in Brevard, North Carolina and was one of a family of 16 children.  Her father owned and operated several successful businesses, while her mother kept house and took in boarders.  While working as a volunteer fireman in 1909, her father died when a fire engine exploded.  In 1910, after her mother took over their primary business, a general store, her mother was killed after being run over by a truck while returning home from church.  By age 14, Loretta had been rapced twice (at age 11, by an elderly black man, and at age 13, by a white sheriff) and had two children who she was forced to give up for adoption.  At the encouragement of her grandmother, Loretta ran away to Cleveland, Ohio, joining a traveling vaudeville-style minstrel show called Butterbeans and Susie, where she sang and entertained.  She developed an onstage persona as an old woman with a frumpy housedress, funny hat, and toothless gums, years before she was old.  It was an homage to her grandmother.  In character, she was able to be edgy with her routine covering racism and sexual innuendo through double entendres without offending.  Her "bit" was to pretend to be a dirty old lady, lusting after younger men.  She came out as a lesbian at the age of twenty-seven, becoming one of the first openly gay comedians.  During the 1920s and 1930s she appeared in androgynous clothing (as she did in the film version of The Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson) and recorded several of her early "lesbian stand-up" routines.  It wasn't until the 1960s that Mabley was "discovered" by white audiences, even though she had been performing for several decades at that point.  Loretta Aiken took her stage name, Jackie Mabley, from an early boyfriend, commenting to Ebony in a 1970s interview that he had taken so much from her, it was the least she could do to take his name.  Later she became known as "Moms" because she was indeed a "Mom" to many other comedians on the circuit in the 1950s and 1960s.  She is the subject of Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, an HBO documentary film in 2013.

The Drink

Kir Royale 38
1 tsp cognac
1 tsp grand marnier
6-8oz champagne
1/2 orange slice for garnish

Drinkability:  4
Drunkability:  4
Taxic Diversity:  3
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  Ratings are a little fuzzy - girls have gotten pretty hilarious themselves.

From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster

March, 2017 - Fanny Brice - Whisky Sour

Fania Borache (October 29, 1891 - May 29, 1951)
Known professionally as Fanny Brice, Fania was born in New York City, the third child of a Hungarian Jewish woman and Alsatian immigrant.  The Boraches were saloon owners.  In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue.  Two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies.  Her hit songs included "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose."  Her films include My Man (1928), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938) with Judy Garland.  From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart.  Brice did not like to rehearse the roll ("I can't do a show until it's on the air, kid.") Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation.  Brice married a barber, Frank White, whom she met in 1910 when she was touring.  The marriage lasted three years until she brought suit for divorce.  Her second husband was professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein.  Prior to their marriage, Arnstein served fourteen months in Sing Sing for wiretapping.  Brice visited him in prison every week.  In 1918 they were married after living together for six years.  In 1924, Arnstein was charged in a Wall Street bond theft.  Brice insisted on his innocence and funded his legal defense at great expense.  Arnstein was convicted and sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, where he served three years.  Reluctantly, Brice divorced him on September 17, 1927, soon after his release, and Arnstein disappeared from Brice's life and that of their two children.  Brice married songwriter and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929 and appeared in his revue Crazy Quilt, among others.  Brice sued Rose for divorce in 1938.

The Drink

Whisky Sour
2 oz bourbon whisky
2 tsp sugar (or honey for one lady)
1 tbsp lemon juice
maraschino cherry and orange slice for garnish

Drinkability:  2.5
Drunkability:  5
Taxic Diversity:  2
Accessibility:  5
Priority for Conservation:  4

Comments:

From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.

March, 2017 - Carol Burnett - Watermelon Champagne

Carol Burnett (April 26, 1933 - )
An American actress, comedienne, singer and writer, whose career spans six decades of television.  She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS.  She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles.  Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA.  Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.  She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962.  In 1963, she was the star of the Dallas State Fair Musicals presentation of "Calamity Jane." Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978.  With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance.  The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces.  Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.

The Drink

Watermelon Champagne
3 cubs cubed, seeded watermelon
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 bottle champagne
(makes 8)

Drinkability:  5
Drunkability:  2
Taxic Diversity:  2
Accessibility:  4
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:

From "Women of Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.

March, 2017 - Gracie Allen - The Old Cuban

Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie "Gracie" Allen (July 26, 1895 - August 27, 1964) was born in San Francisco to Irish Catholics.  She began performing Irish folk dances with her three sisters, who were billed as "The Four Colleens".  In 1909, Allen joined her sister, Bessie, as a vaudeville performer.  At a performance in 1922, Allen met George Burns and the two formed a comedy act.  They were married on January 7, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio.  They toured the country, eventually headlining in major vaudeville houses.  Many of their famous routines were preserved in one-and two-reel short films, including Lambchops (1929).  In the early 1930s, they started a radio show.  Burns and Allen frequently used running gags as publicity stunts.  During 1932-33, they pulled off one of the most successful in the business: a year-long search for Allen's supposedly missing brother.  They would make unannounced cameo appearances on other shows, asking if anyone had seen Allen's brother.  Gracie Allen's real-life brother was apparently the only person who did not find the gag funny, and he eventually asked them to stop.  In 1940, the team launched a similar stunt when Allen announced she was running for President of the United States on the Surprise Party ticket.  Burns and Allen did a cross-country whistlestop campaign tour on a private train, performing their live radio show in different cities.  In one of her campaign speeches, Gracie said, "Everybody knows a woman is better than a man when it comes to introducing bills into the house."  The Surprise Party mascot was the kangaroo; the motto was "It's in the bag." As a child, Allen had been scalded badly on one arm, and she was extremely sensitive about the scarring.  Throughout her life, she wore either full or three-quarter length sleeves to hide the scars.

The Drink:

The Old Cuban
6 mint leaves, plus tip for garlish
3/4 oz lime juice
1 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz amber rum
2 oz champagne
1-2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 lime slice

Drinkability:  4
Drunkability:  4
Taxic Diversity:  3
Accessibility:  4
Priority for Conservation:  5+

Comments:  

From "Ladies of Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.

March, 2016 - Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy - Cosmopolitan

Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy - September 2, 1875 - December 30, 1963)
was teh daughter of former Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston. She held the office of Woman of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Mary and she was invested as a Dame Commander, Royal Victorian Order (D.C.V.O.).  While living in Canada, Stanley helped to popularize ice hockey and is one of the first known women to play the game.  Stanley shared her father's love of the game of ice hockey and was instrumental in convincing her father to create the Stanley Cup.  After the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink, Stanley is mentioned in one of the first games of women's hockey, played at Rideau rink in 1899.  Lady Isobel's role as a pioneer of women's ice hockey in Canada is acknowledged with the Isobel Gathorne-Hardy Award.  The award is given to any active player (at any level) whose values, leadership and personal traits are representative of all female athletes. The (American) National Women's Hockey League's championship trophy is called the Isobel Cup in honor o f her contributions to women's hockey and hockey in general.

The Drink:

Cosmopolitan:
1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz cointreau
1/2 oz cranberry juice
1/4 oz lime juice

Drinkability:  4
Drunkability:  4
Taxic Diversity:  2
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  3.5

Comments:  FR admits to accidentally going a little heavy on the cranberry juice, but those of us who like cranberry juice like it better that way.

From FR's "Women of Sports with Awards Named After Them" themed meeting.

March, 2016 - Kim Perrot - Jack Rose

Kim Perrot - January 18, 1967 - August 19, 1999
was an American basketball player.  She played in the WNBA for thee Houston Comets.  Perrot attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and played four years there as a guard.  In one game against the University of Southeastern Louisiana, she scored 58 points, the third most in NCAA history.  After playing six seasons in Europe, Perrot became the regular point guard for the Houston Comets, helping them to win WNBA championships in 1997 and 1998.  At 5'5", she was noted for her ferocious play and was a crowd favorite.  She averaged 7.2 points, 3.3 steals, and 2.9 rebounds per game during her two seasons as a member of the Comets.  In February 1999, she was diagnosed with lung cancer which had already metastasized to her brain.  Perrot underwent surgery and radiation treatments to eradicate the tumors in her head, but declined chemotherapy recommended by her doctors.  Perrot went to Mexico to seek alternative methods to battle cancer.  Many attribute her death to that move - but metastasized lung cancer gave her no chance of survival with conventional medicine.  After her death, the Comets went on to win a third straight WNBA title.  She was posthumously awarded a third championship ring and her #10 jersey was retired, thus making her the first player in league history to have her number retired.  In 2000, the WNBA renamed their sportsmanship award in her honor.  While ill with cancer, Perrot had made many public appearances, and given motivational speeches, mostly at schools.

The Drink:

Jack Rose:
2 oz Laird's Applejack
3/4 oz grenadine
3/4 oz lemon juice
1 dash Pechaud's bitters

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  2.5
Taxic Diversity:  4
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  2

Comments:  Taxic Diversity - diverse, but not blended well . Also, bitters are hard to find in Inwood.

From FR's "Women in Sports with Awards Named After Them" themed meeting.

March, 2016 - Sage Cowles - Income Tax

Sage Cowles
Former LPGA Tour Member Janie Blaylock, softball legend Joan Joyce and tennis icon Billie Jean King, founded the International Women's Professional Softball Association in 1976.  The fledgling association survived four seasons before lack of funds, high travel costs and inadequate facilities ultimately led to its demise.  In 1982, the NCAA began to sanction the Women's College World Series, a move that led to increased participation and exposure for the sport.  Along with her collegiate head coach John Horan, former Utah State University player Sage Cowles, owner of the Cowles Media Company, who agreed to provide financial backing for the endeavor.  Eight years of successful research and planning finally culminated in May 1997, with the Cowles family and title sponsor AT&T Wireless Services launching Women's Pro Fastpitch.  ESPN2 televised over 30 games from 1999 to 2001.  The broadcasts consistently out-rated those of Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League.  On Nov 21, 2002, WPSL announced a rebranding strategy and officially name changed to National Pro Fastpitch.  The 2004 season was distinguished by 178 league-wide games, 96 of the best female softball players in the country, the continued support of Major League Baseball, NPF playoffs, and the inaugural NPF Championship with the NY/NJ Juggernaut capturing the Championship Cowles Cup with a victory over the New England Riptide, fourth place finisher in the regular season.

Sage Cowles passed away in 2013 at the age of 88.  In her life she was "mother, wife, grandmother, friend. Philanthropist, fundraiser, benefactor.  Networker, cajoler.  Feminist, political activist, educator.  Softball and fitness enthusiast.  Artist: choreographer, performer, dancer", according to a profile written for the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota.  In addition to the Cowles Cup in softball, Sage helped make the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts a reality, giving Minnesota its long-awaited flagship for dance; and helped establish the Sage Cowles Land Grant Chair in Dance at the University of Minnesota, which brings in visiting artists.  In 2005, the Sage Awards for Dance were created to honor her profound contributions.  Outside of the arts, Sage served on the board of Planned Parenthood.  She and her husband were fellows at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs , where she taught the other fellows to engage with their bodies during movement workshops and wrote a paper calling for a more holistic educational model as the body isn't "a second-class citizen, separate from the mind."  

The Drink:

Income Tax

1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz dry vermouth
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz orange juice
2 dashes Angostura

Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity:4
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 1

Comments:  it was very diverse, but not a good tasting blend of flavors.

From FR's "Women in Sports with Awards Named After Them" themed meeting.

March, 2016 - Mae Louise Suggs - Three Mile Limit

Mae Louise Suggs (Sept 7, 1923 - Aug 7, 2015)
was an American professional golfer, one of teh founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' gold.  Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager.  She won the Georgia State Amateur in 1940 at age 16 and again in 1942.  She won the 1946 and 1947 Women's Western Open, which was designated as a major championship when the LPGA was founded.  She finished her amateur career representing the United States on the 1948 Curtis Cup Team.  After her successful amateur career, she turned professional in 1948 and went on to win 58 professional tournaments, including 11 majors.  Her prowess on the golf course is reflected in the fact that from 1950 to 1960 she was only once out of the top 3 in the season-ending money list.  In 1957, she won the Vare Trophy (for low scoring average) and also became the LPGA's first player to complete the career grand slam, which included Titleholders Championship; six other women ahve since accomplished this feat.  Bob Hope nicknamed her "Miss Sluggs" for her long drives.  Suggs was inaugural inductee into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, established in 1967, and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1979.  She was one of the co-founders of the LPGA in 1950, which included her two great rivals of the time, Patty Berg and Babe Zaharias.  Suggs served as the organization's president from 1955 to 1957.  The Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award, given annually since 2000 to the most accomplished first-ear player on the LGPA Tour, is named in her honor.  In February 2015, she became one of the first female members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

The Drink:

Three Mile Limit

1 oz rum
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz grenadine
1/2 oz cognac

Drinkability: ?
Drunkability: ?
Taxic Diversity: ?
Accessibility: ?
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Comments:  Last drink of the night, ranking never recorded, only "Go Syracuse!" 

From FR's "Women Athletes with Sports Awards Named After Them" theme.

January / February, 2016 - Allison De Meulder - the Multitasking Moose

Baker & co: Allison De Meulder
CEO + Founder of Matrick & Eve Design and InvitationConsultants.com
Her theme for brunch surrounded the work life, corporate culture and some of the struggles in the workplace.  She offered ideas on how to make your office more fun.

The Drink:

Multitasking Moose
maple creme
jack daniels

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2.5
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 1
Priority for Conservation: 5

Comments:  just tastes like chocolate milk, fizzy, can't even taste the whisky.  And yet another ingredient you're not getting unless you go to Canada.

From OH and IK's joint-hosted (due to Jan illness) mash-up meeting

January / February, 2016 - Marissa Kraxberger - For Her Sake

The Chester:  Marissa Kraxberger:  

Creative Director at Ivanka Trump.  Marissa has created a series of editorial content to celebrate women working at all aspects of their lives: #WomenWhoWork initiative.

The Drink:

For Her Sake
Sake + something - it's a pun


Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 2.5
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 2

Comments: OH likes to keep us guessing with "mystery drinks"

From OH and IK's joint-hosted (due to Jan illness) mash-up meeting

January / February, 2016 - Katrina Craigwell - The Sheinhordt Wig Co

The Smith:  Katrina Craigwell
Director of Global Content and Programming at General Electric.  Only 28, in 2014 she made Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Marketing & Advertisign and AdAge's Creativity 50 in 2012.  

The Drink:

The Sheinhordt Wig Co.
bourbon
ginger liquer
lime 
pear juice

Drinkability: 3.5
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: OH forgot to write down the recipe.  

From OH and IK's joint-hosted (due to Jan illness) mash-up meeting

January / February, 2016 - Jaime Petkanics - Wisdom of the Elders

Ten Degrees Bistro:  Jaime Petkanics:
founder of the Prepary a job-search consulting service company.  What are people looking for in job candidates?  Qualification - is the candidate qualified from a technical perspective?  Why are you interested in the job?  Are you a good fit for the company?

The Drink

Wisdom of the Elders
1/3 creme de sureau (elderberry)
2/3 sparkling wine

Drinkability:  4.5
Drunkability:  3.5
Taxic Diversity:  2
Accessibility:  1
Priority for Conservation: 5

Comments:  not exactly water, more like soda - like a slushy if you don't mind losing the bubbles.  Another only in Quebec spirit

From OH and IK's joint co-hosted (due to Jan illness) mash-up meeting