FIVE LOCAL WOMEN ARE IN AAUW's `SHOW ME MISSOURI WOMEN'

Five Cape Girardeau women have been listed in "Show Me Missouri Women," a publication of the American Association of University Women.

The organization has just published volume II of the series, featuring nearly 200 Missouri women.

Local women listed are Aileen Lorberg and Jean Bell Mosley, writers; Janet Chamberlain, visual arts; Frances Crowley and Kala Stroup, education.

Grace B. Butler, president of AAUW, wrote in the book's preface, "Because most history and other textbooks have almost totally ignored women's contributions, from colonial days to the present century, AAUW decided it was time to recognize women's accomplishments in our state."

Lorberg began her professional career as a teacher, but began writing. She wrote for teenagers and educational journals.

Her story "Virginia Woolf, Benevolent Satirist," earned the Missouri Writers' Guild nonfiction award for 1953.

She has earned numerous awards for articles and books.

For years Lorberg wrote essays published under the title "Nip and Tuck" in the Bulletin Journal newspaper. In 1983 that column was dropped in favor of her language column, "Lend Me Your Ear," which continues to be published in the Southeast Missourian.

Mosley uses her experiences growing up near the St. Francis River as the basis of much of her writing. She sold the first story she ever wrote to Woman's Day and the first book she wrote, "The Mockingbird Piano."

She has been publishing books and articles ever since. "The Deep Forest," Mosley's first full-length children's book, won the C.S. Lewis Silver Medal for the best children's religious book.

Hundreds of her short stories have appeared in Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day, Farm Journal, Guideposts, and others.

Since 1955 Mosley has been writing columns for newspapers. Since 1977 Mosley has been writing a weekly column, which appears under her byline in the Southeast Missourian.

Chamberlain is an artist, photographer and educator. She began teaching art for junior high school students. Over the years she has developed a series of different art classes for youngsters.

As a photographer, her work has appeared in galleries in 39 states, winning a number of awards and prizes.

She is a producing photographer; from 1987 to 1990 her works were accepted in 53 juried shows.

Crowley's job titles include linguist, editor, research writer, fiction author, but educator is an element of them all.

From 1950 to 1954 Crowley, with her husband Neil, published "Heartland." The journal expanded and its name was changed to "The Great American."

She taught five years in St. Louis public schools as well as evening classes in Spanish and French before joining the foreign languages faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

In 1968 she moved to the foreign language department at Southeast Missouri State University.

Her scholarly writings have made her a traveler and speaker. Through research she discovered the name of Garcilaso de la Vega, a 16th century translator and historian of the Inca culture. She did research in Peru, Portugal, Spain and England.

Crowley was the only woman among seven scholars selected by the University of Alabama Press to edit the DeSoto Chronicle Project for the 1992 quincentennial of the Americas. Her work was a biography and genealogy of de la Vega.

Stroup, president of Southeast Missouri State University, has worked 33 years in higher education.

She holds the title of professor of speech communication and teacher at Southeast and has held similar academic titles at Murray State University and Emporia State University.

She has served on the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, chaired the National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board and was elected to the board of directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Stroup has worked to raise academic standards among students entering the university, to encourage community service efforts, and led Southeast into Division I athletic competition.

She is also author of several publications, including three books, several articles and published addresses.

The publication includes biographies and photographs of the selected women in categories of Women in Colonial Missouri, Pioneer Women in Missouri History, Missouri businesswomen, journalists, writers, musicians, entertainers, visual artists, historians and preservationists, social reformers, inventors, club and community leaders, Missouri women in education, law, politics, medicine, science and religion.