Oveta Culp Hobby- extra credit
I attended the event on Oveta Culp Hobby. Oveta was a native texan who humbly paved a way for women in law as well as the army. She was born in killeen, in 1905 which is part of what make her so remarkable. In her time women had very limited to no rights, but she, from a young age was set firmly in her ways and unwaveringly stood for what she believed in. For example one day during sunday school a woman's temperance group came to her class. The women were having the children sign something for the temperance movement, but she refused to sign it. She got in trouble at school and at home, but she still refused to sign it because she didn’t know what temperance meant and didn’t want to sign something she might not mean. That headstrongness and honesty were the foundation of her admirable character.
Her father was a state legislator and lawyer who wanted the best for his daughter. At the age of fourteen he pulled her out of high school because he believed she’d could learn way more with him then in school. She’d spent plenty of time with her dad and attended sessions with him. Furthermore she had read the congressional record and knew it well enough that she could quote it. Which is in part she was made parliamentarian. Her dad was pretty encouraging and signed a …show more content…
She was a really loyal wife and thought of her husband and son first and last. On her grave stone she chose to acknowledge herself as the wife of William Hobby. The deal breaker for her joining the army and becoming colonel in the women's army corps was her husband wanting her to support the war. She had received multiple calls asking her to do this but she was content with writing with her husband in his paper in Houston. Upon finding out about the calls he told her to call them back and help serve her country and that he’d hold down the fort back in
I attended the event on Oveta Culp Hobby. Oveta was a native texan who humbly paved a way for women in law as well as the army. She was born in killeen, in 1905 which is part of what make her so remarkable. In her time women had very limited to no rights, but she, from a young age was set firmly in her ways and unwaveringly stood for what she believed in. For example one day during sunday school a woman's temperance group came to her class. The women were having the children sign something for the temperance movement, but she refused to sign it. She got in trouble at school and at home, but she still refused to sign it because she didn’t know what temperance meant and didn’t want to sign something she might not mean. That headstrongness and honesty were the foundation of her admirable character.
Her father was a state legislator and lawyer who wanted the best for his daughter. At the age of fourteen he pulled her out of high school because he believed she’d could learn way more with him then in school. She’d spent plenty of time with her dad and attended sessions with him. Furthermore she had read the congressional record and knew it well enough that she could quote it. Which is in part she was made parliamentarian. Her dad was pretty encouraging and signed a …show more content…
She was a really loyal wife and thought of her husband and son first and last. On her grave stone she chose to acknowledge herself as the wife of William Hobby. The deal breaker for her joining the army and becoming colonel in the women's army corps was her husband wanting her to support the war. She had received multiple calls asking her to do this but she was content with writing with her husband in his paper in Houston. Upon finding out about the calls he told her to call them back and help serve her country and that he’d hold down the fort back in