THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Beatrice “Bede” Urich
April 17, 1917 -October 11, 2014
“When I went to California I all of a sudden realized that wasn’t my name and I took myself back to my original name of Urich.” – Bede Urich on taking back her maiden name, 1979
Artist. A founder of Milwaukee, WI NOW, 1968. A founder of Santa Monica, CA NOW, early 1970’s. The first pass at creating the chronology on which the Feminist Chronicles is based began in 1980, when volunteers then working on the National NOW Times assembled a draft covering 1966-1979. Those volunteers included Marj Jensen, Bonnie Sloane, Mary Margaret Smith, Gloria Windell and Bede Urich, as well as Chronicle authors Carabillo and Meuli. Honorary board member of Veteran Feminists of America.
More About Bede:
- Computer Plus Talent Equals Artistic Beauty by Bede Urich, May 1979
- The Jewish Artist, Study of ONE, August 1973
- Bede’s remarks from the Veteran Feminists of America Salute to Catherine East event at the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1993
- Acknowledgements and Introduction, The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 470
