September, 2015 - Ella Baker - Capri

Ella Baker (1903 - 1986)

Baker was born in Norfolk Virginia and grew up in North Carolina.  She studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, and graduated as valedictorian.  She moved to NYC to join social activist organizations.  In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League, whose purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning.  She began to work with the NAACP in 1940 as a field secretary and then served as a director of branches from 1943-6.  In 1957, she moved to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.  In 1960, she left to assist the new student activists from North Carolina A&T University who refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.  Under her mentorship, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born.  SNCC joined with the Congress of Racial Equality to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides.  She was highly respected civil rights leader who mostly worked "behind the scenes" advising, supporting, and mentoring greats like WEB Dubois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks.  Baker's reputation as a leader and movement builder earned her the nickname "Fundi," Swahili for a person who teaches craft to the next generation.

The Drink:

Capri Cocktail:

1.5 oz gin
.5 oz limoncello
.25 oz peach schnapps
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz mango juice
dash of orgeat syrup

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

Comments:

From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster

September, 2015 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo - Mamie Taylor

Viola Gregg Liuzzo (1925-1965)

"We're going to change the world.  One day they'll write about us.  You'll see."

Liuzzo was born in Pennsylvania and lived in Detroit with her second husband and five children.  Politically and socially active, Liuzzo was a member of the Detriot chapter of the NAACP.  After "Bloody Sunday," when civil rights supporters were attacked by police in Selma, Liuzzo traveled to Alabama. On march 21, 1965, more than 3,000 marched from Selma to Montgomery to campaign for voting rights for African Americans in the South.  During the march, Liuzzo drove supporters between Selma and Montgomery.  That night, Liuzzo was driving another civil rigths worker with the SCLC - an African-American teenager named Leroy Moton -- back to Selma on Highway 80, when another car pulled alongside her vehicle.  One of the passengers in the neighboring car shot at Liuzzo, striking her in the face and killing her.  Moton survived the attack by pretending to be dead.  The police arrested four members of the Ku Klux Klah for the killing, one of which was revealed to be an FBI informant.  They were acquitted by an all-white jury on state charges related to the crime, but were later convicted on federal charges.  Despite efforts to discredit Liuzzo driven by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, her murder led President Lyndon B. Johnson to order an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan.  It is also believed that her death helped encourage legislators to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Drink:

Mamie Taylor

2 oz blended scotch
.5 oz fresh lime juice
2-5 oz chilled ginger ale
lemon slice
on the rocks

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

Comments:  

From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster

September, 2015 - Fannie Lou Hamer - Brainstorm

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977)

"Nobody's free until everybody's free"

Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.  She was the youngest of 20 children.  Her parents were sharecroppers and she began working the fields when she was only 6 years old.  She continued to be a share cropper after her 1944 marriage to Perry "Pap" Hamer.  In 1962, she attended a protest meeting and met civil rights activists who encouraged blacks and register to vote, and soon became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which fought racial segregation and injustice in the South.  During the course of her activist career, Hamer was threatened, arrested, beaten, and shot at.  She was severely injured in 1963 in Winona, Mississippi jail when she and two other activists were taken in by police after attending a training workshop.  Hamer was beaten so badly that she suffered permanent kidney damage.  In 1964, she helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and ran for Congress in Mississippi in 1965.  Fannie also helped to establish the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971.  Hamer died in 1977 from breast cancer.

The Drink:

Brainstorm:

1.5 oz Irish whiskey
1.5 oz dry vermouth
.25 oz benedictine
lemon twist

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

Comments:  PoC is a 3 if you dial down the vermouth just a bit.

From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster

September, 2015 - Dorothy Height - Antibes

Dorothy Height (1912-2010)

Born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of a building contractor and a nurse, Height moved with her family to Pennsylvania in her youth.  She was awarded a college scholarship after winning a national oratory competition, and attended NYU, where she would ear a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in psychology.  Height joined the staff of the Harlem YWCA in 1937 where she met educator and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, Mary McLeod Bethune.  Height soon volunteered with the NCNW.  One of Height's major accomplishments at the YWCA was directing the integration of all of its centers in 1946.  She also established its Center for Racial Justice in 1965.  In 1957, Height became the president of the NCNW and helped to organize the March on Washington.  But she was not invited to speak that day despite her oratory skills.  Height later wrote that the event had been an eye-opening experience for her.  Her male counterparts "were happy to include women in the human family, but there was no question as to who headed the household."  In 1971, she helped found the National Women's Political Caucus.  Height was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994) and the Congressional Gold Medal (2004) and died on April 20, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

The Drink:

Antibes

1.5 oz gin
.5 oz benedictine
2 oz grapefruit juice
orange slice
on the rocks

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

Comments:  split vote depending on how you feel about grapefruit juice

From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster

July, 2015 - Interesting Tidbits and Quotes - Summer Martini

Nelfi Ibanez Guerra, 43, a Bolivian mother of two, is the first woman to coach a men's team in Peru,

To those who tell her she chose the wrong profession and that she should be in the kitchen, she responds, "the best chefs in the world are men, so perhaps the best soccer coaches are women."

"There are female Presidents, female mayors, so why not a female coach?  ... It's my first time with a female coach, but I'm already used to it... my mother and my wife tell me what to do a lot, too." - said David Zuloaga, a player for the team.

Helena Costa had been appointed manager of French club Clermont Foot 63, a men's squad, but resigned only a few days later after male colleagues sidelined her and left her convinced she was just a "face" to attract publicity.  

"Michy, the owner, said of her sudden departure:  "She's a woman so it could be down to any number of things ... it's an astonishing, irrational, and incomprehensible decision."

I don't know the exact percentages, but I do know this:  Many NBA players come from single-parent homes where the mother was the sole breadwinner, authority figure, disciplinarian, and mentor.  From LeBron James on down, many NBA players have been raised with little fatherly guidance and a strong female presence in their lives.  They have been programmed to believe that women will look out for their best interests whereas men -- not so much.  - Mike Bianchi
The Drink:

Summer Martini

2 oz vodka
2 oz triple sec
2 oz cranberry juice

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

Comments:  

From "Women in Men's Pro Sports" hosted by BoilerMaker

July, 2015 - Dr. Jennifer Welter - Hot Summer Night

Dr. Jennifer Welter (born October 27, 1977)

is currently a training camp/preseason intern who is coaching inside linebackers for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals.  The signing with the Arizona Cardinals made her the first female coach in the NFL.  This is her third "first" for men's football in 2014 and 2015.

On January 24, 2014, the Revolution announced signing 5-foot-2, 130-pound Jennifer Welter as a running back.  This made her the second female player for a position other than kicker or placekick-holder on a men's professional football team, and the first at running back.

On February 12, 2015, the Indoor Football League's Texas Revolution named Welter their linebackers and special teams coach making her the first woman to coach in a men's professional football league.
Welter is a veteran of several women's professional and semi-professional football teams (including the Dallas Diamonds and Dallas Dragons).  She was a gold medal-winning member of Team USA at the International Federation of American Football's (IFAF) Women's World Championship in 2010 and 2013.  Welter graduated from Boston College and has a master's degree in Sport psychology and a PhD in psychology from Capella University.

The Drink:

Hot Summer Night

1 shot gin
1 shot triple sec
2 shots apple juice

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

Comments: "peach apple hides the gin"

From "Women in Men's Pro Sports" hosted by BoilerMaker

July, 2015 - Sarah Thomas - Jack in the Summer

Sarah Thomas

began her officiating career in 1996, when she attended a meeting of the Gulf Coast Football Officials Association, though she worked her first varsity high school game in 1999.  During the 2009 season, Thomas was one of five female officials in major college football and the only one at the Football Bowl Subdivision level.  She was assigned to crew and given a full schedule of 11 games.  At the end of the season, she was selected to work the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl between Marshall and Ohio, making her the first woman to officiate a bowl game.  On November 12, 2011, Thomas became the first woman to officiate in a Big Ten stadium, working as a line judge when Northwestern hosted Rice.  In 2013, Thomas became one of 21 finalists in contention for a permanent NFL officiating position.  Thomas has worked New Orleans Saints scrimmages, and was part of the NFL officiating development program, spending three days at the Indianapolis Colts minicamp.

On April 8, 2015, the NFL officially announced that Thomas will become the first full-time female official in NFL history.  (Shannon Eastin, hired as a temporary non-union official during the 2012 NFL referee lockout, was the first woman to officiate an NFL game).


The Drink:

Jack in the Summer

1 oz Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey
1 oz cola
handful of strawberries

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

Comments: the strawberries taste like whiskey but not the other way around - PofC depends on your memories of Jack & Coke in college.

From "Women in Men's Pro Sports" hosted by BoilerMaker

July, 2015 - Nancy Lieberman - Arctic Summer

Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman (born July 1, 1958)

Nicnamed "Lady Magic," Lieberman had a storied international career during the 1970s and1980s and is considered one of the best female basketball players in history.  She earned an Olympic silver medal with the United States in 1976.  In 1986, Lieberman was the first woman to play in a men's professional basketball league (USBL).  After retiring as a player in the Women's national Basketball League (WNBA), Nancy Lieberman was named general manager and head coach of the WNBA's Detroit Shock in 1998.  She helmed the team to the highest winning percentage of any expansion team in professional sports and was runner-up for Coach of the Year.  Lieberman took on another leadership role, when she served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation for two years.  Later, she served as head coach of the Dallas Fury of the NWBL, where she guided the team to a championship title.  On November 5, 2009, she was appointed as the first female head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA), taking the leadership role as head coach for the Dallas Mavericks' NBA D-League Team, Texas Legends.

As of July 30th the Sacramento Kings are planning to offer Nancy Lieberman an assistant coach position, which she will officially accept the following week.  Lieberman, 57, will be the NBA's second female assistant coach, joining the San Antonio Spurs' Becky Hammon.

The Drink:

Arctic Summer

1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz apricot brandy
1 tsp grenadine
4 oz sparkling bitter lemon soda

Drinkability: medium
Drunkability: low

Taxic Diversity: yucky? Medicine?

Accessibility: 3

Priority for Conservation: "OH makes it again, the rest of us stop drinking"

Comments:  (Curator's notes - I have no idea why we suddenly switched off the number system for the first time ever here...)

From "Women in Men's Pro Sports" hosted by BoilerMaker

July, 2015 - Rebecca Hammon - Summer Sunset

Rebecca Lynn "Becky" Hammon (born March 11, 1977)

is an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA and a retired professional basketball player.  Hammon played for the San Antonio Stars and New York Liberty of the WNBA.  She also played for multiple basketball teams outside the United Sates.  Hammon, who was born and grew up in the United States, became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2008 and represented the Russian national team in 2008 and 2012 Olympics.  

On August 5, 2014, Hammon was hired by the Spurs as an assistant coach, becoming the second female assistant coach in NBA history but the first full-time assistant coach.  This also makes her the first full-time female assistant coach in any of the four major professional sports in North America.  On July 3, 2015, the Spurs announced that Hammon would be the team's Summer League head-coach, the first woman to head-coach in that league.  Hammon led the Spurs to the Las Vegas Summer League title on July 20, 2015
The Drink:

Summer Sunset

1.5 oz pineapple juice
.75 oz cranberry juice
champagne 

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

Comments:  "a little sweet," "drunkability depends on the amount of champagne", "tastes like frothy juice" "good but kind of boring"

From "Women in Men's Pro Sports" hosted by BoilerMaker

June, 2015 - Idina Menzel -The Original Trader Vic's Mai Tai

Idina Menzel

Idina Kim Menzel (born Idina Kim Mentzel May 30, 1971 in Syosset, Long Island) is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence when she originated the role of Maureen Johnson in the Broadway musical Rent, a role which she reprised for the 2005 feature film adaptation of the musical. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1996 for her performance in Rent. In 2004, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked. Menzel made her return to Broadway in the 2014 original musical If/Then, which earned her a nomination for the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was then honored with the Breakthrough Artist award at the 2014 Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony.

 Menzel is also known for her recurring role of Shelby Corcoran on the Fox musical comedydrama TV series Glee. This role led to a revival in Menzel's career as her name gained more recognition, leading to a two-year tour and more acting roles. These included the 2007 Disney film Enchanted which she played the role of Nancy and as the voice of Queen Elsa in Frozen. Menzel performed at the 1998 Lilith Fair summer concert festival and continues to write and perform original music. Holiday Wishes (2014), her first album in six years, reached number 6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Menzel is the only competitive Tony Award-winning actress to ever reach the top 10. Holiday Wishes also marked the first that a woman had three different albums (the cast recording to Frozen and If/Then) peak within the top 20 within 10 months of the release date.

 She grew up in Syosset, the daughter of Helene, a therapist, and Stuart Mentzel, a pajama salesman. Menzel's family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. When Menzel was 15 years old, her parents divorced and she began working as a wedding and bar mitzvah singer, a job which she continued throughout her time at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Menzel, however, did not celebrate a bat mitzvah after she quit Hebrew school.

 In 2010, Menzel founded the A Broader Way Foundation with then-husband Taye Diggs as a means of supporting young people in the arts. In Summer 2011, Camp Broader Way welcomed young girls from under-served metro New York communities to a 10-day performing arts camp, run by Menzel and a team of acclaimed professional Broadway artists including Taye Diggs. During this camp the girls collaborated with Broadway artists to write an original musical that was performed at a theatre in New York. Menzel has long-championed LGBT rights by partnering with organizations like The Trevor Project, the Give A Damn Campaign, and the NOH8 Campaign, posing for one of their trademark duct-taped silence photos.

The Drink:

The Original Trader Vic's Mai Tai

2 oz rum
2 tablespoons lime juice
½ oz orange curacao
¼ oz simple syrup
½ oz orgeat syrup
Shake vigorously. Add a sprig of fresh mint
and spent lime shell for garnish

Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1.5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5*

Comments:  FR couldn't find orgeat so she substituted sugar free almond syrup, this was not a good substitution.  PoC * = AZ as outlier, finding it undrinkable with the sugar-free syrup - better to omit

From "Women From Long Island" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2015 - Pat Benatar - Long Island Iced Tea

Pat Benatar

Patricia Mae Andrzejewski (born January 10, 1953 in Greenpoint but then the family moved to Lindenhurst, Long Island), known professionally as Pat Benatar, is an American singersongwriter
and four-time Grammy Award winner. She has had considerable commercial success, particularly in the United States and Canada. During the 1980s, Benatar had two Multi-Platinum albums, five Platinum albums, three Gold albums, and 15 Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot", "Love Is a Battlefield", "We Belong" and "Invincible". Other popular singles include "Heartbreaker", "Treat Me Right", "Fire and Ice", "Promises in the Dark", "Shadows of the Night", and "All Fired Up". Benatar was the first female artist to be played on MTV; the video for "You Better Run“ came on right after “Video Killed the Radio Star”. The Benatar video was specifically chosen by MTV to echo the message to the radio industry contained in "Video Killed the Radio Star", that things were going to change.

 Training as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, Benatar surprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursued health education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At 19, after one year at Stony Brook, she dropped out to marry her first husband, high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar, an army draftee; Pat worked as a bank teller near Richmond, Virginia.

 In 1973, Benatar quit her job as a bank teller to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she saw in Richmond. She got a job as a singing waitress at a flapperesque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and got a gig singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. Her big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Her rendition of Judy Garland's "Rock-aBye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager. Catch a Rising Star was not the only break Benatar got in 1975. She landed the part of Zephyr in Harry Chapin's futuristic rock musical, The Zinger. The production, which debuted on March 19, 1976, at the Performing Arts Foundation's (PAF) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island, ran for a month and also featured Beverly D'Angelo and Christine Lahti.

 In June 2010, Benatar's memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place was released. It touches on her battles with her record company Chrysalis, the difficulties her career caused in her personal life, and feminism. In the memoir, she is quoted as saying, "For every day since I was old enough to think, I've considered myself a feminist … It's empowering to watch and to know that, perhaps in some way, I made the hard path [women] have to walk just a little bit easier."The book went on to become a New York Times Bestseller.  

The Drink

Long Island Iced Tea

1 oz vodka
1 oz gin
1 oz rum
1 oz tequila
½ oz triple sec
2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ cup cola
Shake the liquors and lemon juice with ice, pour into a glass and top with the cola.

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  4.5
Taxic Diversity:  1.5
Accessibility:  3.5
Priority for Conservation:  3

Comments:  

From "Women of Long Island" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2015 - Patti LuPone - Raspberry-Rum Lemonade Punch

Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949 in Northport, Long Island) is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in stage musicals.  She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and a two-time Tony Award winner. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee.   LuPone was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division (1968–1972: Group 1), which also included actors Kevin Kline and David Ogden Stiers. She graduated from Juilliard in 1972 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. LuPone made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973.  She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. She played Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the 1985 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for
her work in both.

 Other stage musical performances include her Tony nominated role as Reno Sweeney in the 1987 revival of Anything Goes, her Olivier nominated role as Norma Desmond in the 1993 original production of Sunset Boulevard in London, her Tony nominated role as Mrs. Lovett in the 2005
production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, her Tony Award winning role as Mama Rose in the 2007 revival of Gypsy, and her Tony nominated role as Lucia in the 2010 original production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

LuPone opposes recording, photographs, and other electronic distractions in live theatre. "Where's the elegance?" she asked in a blog post on her official site. "I mean, I'm glad they show up because God knows it's a dying art form and I guess I'm glad they're all comfortable, sleeping, eating and drinking, things they should be doing at home and in a restaurant. But it's just not done in the theatre or shouldn't be." LuPone has been the subject of some controversy due to the bluntness of her
statements regarding this matter.

A related incident occurred at the second to last performance of Gypsy on January 10, 2009. LuPone, irritated by flash photography, stopped in the middle of "Rose's Turn" and loudly demanded that the interloper be removed from the theatre. After he was removed, LuPone restarted her number. The audience applauded her stance. 

The Drink:

Raspberry-Rum Lemonade Punch

Muddle the zest of 4 lemons (in wide strips) with 1 pint raspberries and ½ cup sugar. Transfer to a punch bowl and add 2 cups lemon juice, 1 ½ cups dark rum, 1 cup raspberries and some lemon slices. Add 2 cups sparkling wine. Serve over ice.

Drinkability:  2
Drunkability:  2
Taxic Diversity:  4
Accessibility:  2
Priority of Conservation:  2

Comments:

From "Women of Long Island" by Fluffy Ruffle

May, 2015 - Anna Lee Aldred - Kentucky Buck

Anna Lee Aldred 

...was the first woman in the US to receive a jockey’s license.  She was born in Colorado in 1921, the daughter of a famous race horse trainer – she began racing ponies at the age of 3; by 12 she was racing flat, relay races – she was given her license at the age of 18 in 1939 after officials were unable to find a rule that barred women jockeys.   She retired six years later, after growing too tall (5’5”) and too heavy (118lbs) and switched to trick rider for rodeos.  She was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1983, and Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004.  She continued riding until she broke her hip in 2001, she died in 2006 at the age of 85.

The Drink:

Kentucky Buck

.5 oz lemon juice

1 medium strawberry

1.5 oz bourbon

.5 oz simple syrup

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Top with ginger beer

Drinkability:  4
Drunkability:  2
Taxic Diversity:  4

Accessibility:  4
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  "it's the ginger that slows you down" - OH

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam

May 2015 - Julieann Louise Krone - Gravesend Smash

Julieann Louise “Julie” Krone 

Born in 1963, Julie started her equine career as a show horse rider in Western Michigan.  She made her debut as a jockey in 1982, at Tampa Bay Downs, on Tiny Star, and won her first race a month later aboard Lord Farkle.  She became a well known racing personality within only a few years, being the only woman to win riding championships at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands, and Atlantic City Race Course.  In 1993 became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she won the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair.  In that same year, she received an ESPY Award as Female Athlete of the Year.  In 2000, she became the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.  She’s also been honored by induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and Cowgirl Hall of Fame.  She briefly retired in 1999 to try broadcasting horse races, but came out of retirement in 2002 – and went back into retirement in 2003 after fracturing two bones in her lower back.  She returned again later in 2003 to be the first woman to win a Breeders’ Cup race aboard Halfbridled.  Just weeks after, she broke several ribs and suffered severe muscle tears during a fall.  Due to her success in the face of severe inuries (over and over again), Krone was named USA Today’s top 10 Toughest Athletes and was honored by the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award by the Women’s Sports Foundation.  In 2013 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

The Drink:

Gravesend Smash (a Breeder's Cup Cocktail)

2 oz moonshine

¾ oz st. germain

1/4^th grapefruit (medium, not large)

1/2 tsp pink peppercorns (divided)

muddle grapefruit and 1/2 pink peppercorn, add st. germain and moonshine, shake with ice, top with last bit of pink peppercorn

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

Comments:  *Due to potential fresh grapefruit allergy, grapefruit was subbed with pomplemousse rose)  - this took a long time to drink - "hard but good"

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam

May 2015 - Rosemary Homeister, Jr. - Jockey Club

Rosemary Homeister, Jr.  

Born from two jockey parents, she grew up riding horses.  She started her career working with horses as an exercise rider and breaking yearlings before beginning her apprenticeship in 1992.  She started her career by becoming the first woman to win the Eclipse Award for Oustanding Apprentice Jockey in the US.  Since then, she has won more than 2000 races at tracks around the US.  In 2000 and 2001, she was the US leading female jockey in wins, and in 2001 she was the first female jockey (only one so far?) to win the Clasico del Caribe aboard Alexia.  In 2003, she was only the fifth woman to compete in the Kentucky Derby.  She was inducted into the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame in 2006.   She won her 2000^th race in 2008, and temporarily retired in 2011 due to pregnancy.

The Drink:

Jockey Club
1.5 oz bourbon
1 oz sweet vermouth
.25 oz maraschino liqueur

Drinkability:  3.5
Drunkability:  4
Taxic Diversity:  2.5
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  3

Comments:  "manhattan with a kick"

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam

May 2015 - Anna Rose Napravnik - Kentucky Flyer

Anna Rose “Rosie” Napravnik

Born in 1988, began her career in 2005, and has regularly been ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won.  She won the Louisiana Derby for the first time in 2011, and finished 9^th in the 2011 Kentucky Derby aboard Pants on Fire.  In 2012, she broke the total wins and earnings record previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, aboard Believe You Can, and winning it again in 2014 aboard Untapable.  As of 2013, she has been in the top 10 for two years in a row, and is the highest-ranking woman jockey in North America.  She is only the second woman to win a Breeders’ Cup race, and the first to win more than one, having won both the 2012 Juvenile aboard Shanghai Bobby, and Distaff race aboard Untapable.  Her 5^th place finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and 3^rd place in the following Preakness on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jocket in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have riden in all three Triple Crown races.  As of 2014, she announced her pregnancy and “indefinite retirement” – she continues to assist her husband, a horse trainer, Joe Sharp, in training race horses in their homes in Louisville, KY and New Orleans, LA. 

The Drink:

Kentucky Flyer

2 oz rye whiskey

.75 oz luxardo maraschino

.5 oz lemon juice

1 fresh mint leaf

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

Comments: (hard to gauge drunkability when already drunk going in)

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam

April, 2015 - Fanny Blankers-Koen - Cel-Ray Spring Tonic

*NOTE* March LUPEC was skipped due to inability to meet a quorum.  

Fanny Blankers-Koen

Born in Amsterdam in 1918, Fanny spent much of her childhood swimming, skating, running, and playing tennis.  At the age of 14 and at the request of her father, Blanker-Koen began focusing on track and field.

Her Olympic debut occurred at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where she placed fifth for the 100-meter relay, and sixth for teh high jump.  Although the 1940 and 1944 Olympics were canceled because of World War II, Blankers-Koen continued to compete in various Dutch track meets, where she set multiple world records.  By the 1948 Olympics, she held the world record for the hurdle, long jump, high jump, and 100-meter race.  At the 1948 London Olympics, she became the first woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics.

Over her 20-year career, Blankers-Koen set 20 world records in seven different events.  She was inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.

The Drink:

Cel-Ray Spring Tonic

3 oz vodka
large sprig celery leaves
6 slices of cucumber
2 slices of lime
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
ginger ale

*makes 2 drinks

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

Comments:  Drinks like water - all gone!  "This is the best cucumber water we've ever had"

From "Women Track Stars" hosted by Montana Prairie Fire

April, 2015 - Bobbi Gibb - The Devereaux

Bobbi Gibb

Roberta Louise "Bobbi" Gibb is the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon (1966).  She is recognized by the Boston Athletic Association as the pre-sanctioned era women's winner in 1966, 1967, and 1968.  Gibb's run in 1966 challenged prevalent prejudices and misconceptions about women's athletic capabilities.  Before 1966, it was generally believed that women were physiologically unable to run marathon distances.  The longest Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)-sanctioned race for women was one and a half miles.

Gibb trained for two years to run the Boston Marathon, covering as much as 40 miles in one day.  On writing for an application in February 1966, she received a letter from the race director, Will Cloney, informing her that women were not physiologically capable of running marathon distances and that under the rules that governed amateur sports set out by the AAU, women were not allowed to run more than a mile and a half competitively.

After three nights and four days on a bus from San Diego, California, Gibb arrived the day before the race at her parents' house in Winchester, Massachusetts.  Wearing her brother's Bermuda shorts and a blue hooded sweatshirt over her black, tanked-top swim suit, she hid in the bushes near the starting pen.  After the starting gun fired, she waited until about half of the pack had started and then jumped into the race.  

The men soon realized she was a woman.  Encouraged by their friendliness and support, she removed her sweatshirt.  To her delight and relief, the crowds cheered to see a woman running.  The press began to report on her progress towards Boston, history in the making.  She finished in three hours, twenty-one minutes, and forty seconds, ahead of two-thirds of the pack.

In 1967, Gibb returned and ran again.  She finished in three hours, twenty-seven minutes, and seventeen seconds, almost an hour ahead of the other female competitor, Kathrine Switzer.  In 1968, Gibb ran again, finishing in three hours, and thirty minutes, first among a growing number of women.  (In 1972, the first women's division of the Boston marathon opened.)  In 1996, at the 100th running of the Boston Marathon and the 30th anniversary of Gibb's first running of it, the Boston Athletic Association officially recognized her three wins in 1966, 1967, and 1968, and awarded her a medal.  Her name was inscribed with the names of the other winners on the Boston Marathon memorial in Copley Square.

The Drink:

The Devereaux:

1 oz bourbon
1/2 oz St. Germain elderflower liqueur
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
3 oz sparkling wine

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

Comments:  N/A

From "Women Track Stars" hosted by Montana Prairie Fire

April, 2015 - Clara Hughes - Grapefruit Margarita

Clara Hughes

A Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports.  Hughes won two bronzes in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals (one gold, one silver, two bronze) over the course of three Winter Olympics.  She is tied with Cindy Klassen as the Canadian with the most Olympic medals, with six medals total.

Hughes is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.  Hughes is one of only five people to have podium finishes in the Winter and Summer versions of the games, and is the only person to ever have won multiple medals in both.  Hughes is also the only Canadian to have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.  Hughes was the first Canadian woman to win a medal in road cycling at the Olympics (winning two in 1996 Atlanta Olympics).

Hughes started speed skating at the age of 16, she then took up the sport of cycling at the age of 17.  She would eventually return to the sport of speed skating at the age of 28, after achieving success in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.  With her experience and endurance earned through cycling, Hughes went on to a successful career in speed skating, competing in the 3,000 m and 5,000 m.  This would eventually lead her to medal in these long distance events at the Winter Olympics.  She then returned to cycling, at the age of 38, to later successfully return for the 2012 London Olympics.

Throughout her career Hughes received a number of other awards, trophies, and accolades.  She was named Female Athlete of the Year by Speed Skating Canada in 2004 for long track.  In 2006, she received the International Olympic Committee's Sport an Community Trophy.  She was then named to the 2006 List of Most Influential Women in Sports and Physical Activity by the Canadian Association of Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAWS).  In the summer of the year 2010, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

As a result of her success in multiple sports and her humanitarian efforts, Hughes was named to both the Order of Manitoba and as an Officer of the Order of Canada.  She is involved with Right To Play, which is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses sports to encourage the development of youth in disadvantaged areas.

The Drink

Grapefruit Margarita:

3 shots tequila
1 1/2 shot Cointreau 
1 1/2 shots fresh lime juice
1 1/2 shots grapefruit juice
chile salt and lime for garnish

*makes 2 drinks

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

Comments:  "tart, and lots of tequila"

From "Women Track Stars:  hosted by Montana Prairie Fire

April, 2015 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Hop, Skip, and Go Naked

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Born in 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois, Jacqueline Joyner spent her childhood dabbling in cheer leading and dancing.  At the age of nine, she discovered track and field, and her love affair with the sport began.  By the age of 14, Joyner had won her first junior national title.

She spent her college years at the UCLA, where she broke multiple records in track.  After winning the silver medal for the heptathlon in the 1984 Olympics, Joyner married her coach, Bob Kersee.

Two gold medals were secured in the 1988 Olympics for the heptathlon and long jump, followed by another gold medal for the heptathlon in the 1992 Olympics.

Her final Olympic medal was won at the 1996 Olympics, she secured a bronze medal for the long jump.  At the age of 38, Joyner-Kersee retired from track and field.  According to "Sports Illustrated,' she remains one of the greatest Olympic athletes in history.

The Drink:

Hop, Skip, and Go Naked

3 oz vodka
4 sugar cubes
3 oz lemon juice
1 can of summer ale (beer)

*makes 2 drinks

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

Comments:  "3 is an average rating for PfC, some liked it and some had variations

From "Women Track Stars" hosted by Montana Prairie Fire

April, 2015 - Wilma Rudolph - Ginger-Mint Julep

Wilma Rudolph

Throughout her childhood, Wilma Rudolph battled various diseases and afflictions.  Born in 1940, Rudolph suffered from polio, scarlet fever, and double pneumonia.  She wore a leg brace on her right leg, and her doctors questioned whether she would ever walk.  By the age of 16, Rudolph was not only walking on her own, but also qualifying for the 1956 Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay.  She went on to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics in Rome:  the 100m, 200m, and 4 x 100 m relay (world record).  In 110-degree Rome heat, she ran the 100m dash in an astounding 11 seconds flat - but the time was not credited with a world record because it was wind-aided.

Rudolph was United Press Athlete of the Year 1960, and Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year for 1960 and 1961.  Also in 1961, the year of her father's death, Rudolph won the James E. Sullivan Award, an award for the top amateur athlete in the United States.  She was voted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1973, and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974.  She was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, honored with the National Sports Award in 1993.  After retiring, Rudolph held a variety of coaching positions, yet spent most of her time strengthening her community and fighting for human rights.  She died in 1994 of brain cancer; she was only 54 years old.  Since 1997, her home state of Tennessee celebrates Wilma Rudolph Day every June 23rd.

The Drink:

Ginger-Mint Julep

3/4 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 2-inch piece ginger, thinly sliced
1/2 cup bourbon
1 1/2 cups mint sprigs
crushed ice

*makes 6 drinks  (combine water, sugar, and ginger in saucepan and bring to boil, stir until dissolved.  Cover and simmer 5 minutes.  Cool and strain, discard ginger.  Divide mint among 6 tall glasses, add 2 Tbsp ginger syrup each, muddle wint mint, divide bourbon and then top with crushed ice.

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

Comments:  "A sipper, but some say it's too sweet."

From "Women Track Stars" hosted by Montana Prairie Fire

February, 2015 - Yuri Kochiyama - Darkness on the Edge of Town

Yuri Kochiyama

Although, technically born in the U.S., Yuri, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, was not treated as a citizen as a young woman.  The Federal government interned her in Kansas for over 3 years during WWII, and upon her release, she didn't move back to her native California, but instead moved to Harlem.  As a Japanese-American, she joined an unlikely grou - Malcolm X's Organization of Afro-American Unity.  Yuri famously was pictured in Life Magazine holding Malcolm X as he lay dying.  Yuri's activist causes were diverse, including Puerto Rican independence, protesting the Vietnam War, nuclear disarmament, and rights for political prisoners.  Yuri was nominated for a Nobel Prize through the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 Project.  She has been the subject of documentaries and plays.  Yuri died at the age of 93 in June 2014.

The Drink:

Darkness on the Edge of Town

1 oz gin
1 oz Aperol
4 oz chilled porter-style beer
orange wedge

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

Comments:  "Strong votes for PfC for a rating of 5 from OH and BB"

From the inaugural meeting, themed "Newbies" form our newest member ???

February, 2015 - Olga Brajnikoff - Crimson Bulleit Punch

Olga Brajnikoff

At 18, Olga Brajnikoff left her middle-class family behind in Moscow to pursue her education in France, where women were allowed to attend medical school.  She graduated in 1900 from the prestigious Paris Faculte' de Medicine, with a thesis on the effects of heavy alcohol consumption, a new area of interest among physicians.  Brajnikoff practiced at the Ville-Evrard Asylum, the only hospital with a ward for alcoholics.  She was the first woman doctor in France to study and treat alcoholism.  Her status as an outsider marginalized her research interest:  male physicians routinely mocked her for studying what they viewed as a working-class, non-French, problem.  Although her research is largely forgotten today, Brajnikoff was one of many faceless women who courageously braved the male-dominated halls of French medicine.  

The Drink:

Crimson Bulleit Punch

2 parts Bulleit (or other bourbon)
2 parts cranberry-pomegranate juice
1/2 part Domaine de Canton (or other) ginger liquer
2 parts champagne
lime slices

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

Comments:  "temporary tattoos!"

From the inaugural meeting, themed "Newbies", hosted by our newest member Irish Knockout

February, 2015 - Eileen Collins - Queen Mary

Eileen Collins

Daughter of Irish immigrants, Eileen was born in Elmira, NY in 1956.  Starting off with an associate's degree from a community college, Eileen went on to get two Masters degrees and then to become the second woman to be admitted to the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.  Twenty years ago, Eileen broke through the glass ceiling (or literally the atmosphere in this instance), becoming the first female pilot of the Space Shuttle.  Four years later, she was the first female commander of a Space Shuttle Mission.  Eileen has spent 38 days, 8 hours, and 10 minutes in space.  Eileen is an inductee to the national Women's Hall of Fame and has been recognized by Encyclopedia Britannica as one of the top 300 women in history who have changed the world.

The Drink:

Queen Mary

3 cherry tomatoes
1 1/2 oz gin or vodka
1/2 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 oz dill pickle brine
1-2 dashes hot sauce
1 pinch kosher salt (for rim)

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

Comments:  "good with either voka or gin, maybe better with gin as long as its a good gin"

From the inaugural meeting, themed "Newbies" of our newest member, Irish Knockout

February, 2015 - Omited - Fairytale of New York

Archivists Note:  Featured woman omitted due to being a relative of a member, and wanting to maintain member (and member's family) anonymity on the internet.

The Drink:

Fairytale of New York

1 piece of orange peel

3/4 oz Winter Warmth Syrup

2 dashes bitters (orange or walnut)

2 oz bourbon, rye, or Canadian whiskey

Winter Warmth Syrup

1 1/2 cups water

1 cup raw sugar

1/2 apple and 1/2 pear, peeled and diced

12 walnut halves

3 cinnamon sticks broken up

(To make syrup, combine ingredients in sauce pan on medium heat and bring to a simmer.  Simmer 15-20 minutes, cool, strain and refrigerate)

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  4
Taxic Diversity:  4

Accesibility:  3

Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  "for drinking it again, but way too complicated for daily drinking"

From the inaugural meeting, themed "Newbies" of our newest member, Irish Knockout