Welcome to AncientFaces, a com "Thank you for helping me find my family & friends again so many years after I lost them. Statens Kunstfond Produktionsprmie (Danish National Art Foundation Prize), 1991 and 1995. Biographies are our place to remember and discover more about the people important to us. In January 1987, the state's agency requested that Ogelbay Norton Co.,[3] a Cleveland, Ohio-based part-owner of the mine, pay US$6,000 in punitive damages and $5,000 to Jenson for mental anguish, but the company refused. "Rejsen til Gud" ("The Journey to God"). "[23], The Square Stories appeal to a wide audience and readership. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. "En Mrkelig Have" ("A Remarkable Garden"). Reading or replaying the story in its Taking a chance, she became one of the first four women to work in the iron mines of Minnesota. "New Versions of the Fantastic: Children's Books by the Danish Author Louis Jensen. "I realised how vulnerable I was in that little room with no way out. In 1987 the sea, the landscapes of rolling hills and verdant truck farms called her to return to California to record her as yet unpainted childhood memories,not as she remembered them, but as if, through the eyes of her most esteemed mentors - Cezanne, Sisley, Monet and Bonnard. "Talking to her gave me so much in terms of figuring out the complexities of the character. Among these women was a 27-year-old single mother named Lois Jenson. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. Kolar, Bob. "These people treated us with respect and they gave us a feeling that what we did was important." [2] In retaliation, her car tires were slashed a week later. The National Womens History Museum is pleased to join with the Hibbing, Minnesota, branch of the American Association of University Women in honoring Lois Jenson and her fellow plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit that established important legal precedents on sexual harassment in the workplace. In the end, Lois Jenson and the other class action participants did not profit greatly from the lawsuit. Blogpost. Estimated read time: 5-6 Her parents warmly invited all the guests to celebrate Louise Jensons birth. [20] He lived in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife, the painter Elisabeth Wegger. Actually, that's probably the best way to say it. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lois Jensen. The women who banded together to challenge the hostile environment at the Eveleth Mines are part of a long and proud tradition of women who have made America a better place to live. In 1988, Lois Jenson and other women sued Eveleth Taconite Co. for the treatment they endured at a Minnesota mine. We have published this article with full information on our website, but you can feel free to contact us and correct this mistake if there is mistake. Ahead of the trial, the plaintiffs endured long depositions that explored their personal lives in great detail. Even now, Jenson is still not sure why she became the first woman to take on Eveleth Mines. Northern Minnesotas Mesabi Iron Range is home to the largest Iron ore deposit in the world. View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Utah Utah County Spanish Fork Louise Jenson has a total net worth of $60 billion. We hope you enjoy her biography and enjoy reading about her life, so give us your feedback in the comments. Jenson took a job at the mines because it paid 3 times as much as she could earn anywhere else and she needed a job that would pay enough to support herself and her young son and provide benefits such as health care. Her curiosity has led her to use many techniques and visual forms and her work spans a wide range of expression. Sample illustrations for square stories (in English). There she was surrounded by lush green farmland to the east and the majestic pacific coast on the west. The National Womens History Museum is an organization dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women, and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nations history. The two women finally convinced enough others to join them and in 1988 the suit was certified as a class action with the USDistrict Court for the District of Minnesota. minutes. AncientFaces is a place where our memories live. Following enactment of civil rights legislation, they seized the opportunity to be employed in jobs and industries that had traditionally been regarded as male occupations. She traveled along the coast in her small RV in the late 1980sand 1990s painting en plein aire. Five Square Stories. When the women continued to complain many of the men would justify the behavior and call it teasing or just having fun and they would excuse it by saying it was just part of their culture, but the women viewed it as hostile, threatening, and humiliating. ", Jenson says that's evident from Theron's performance. "[13], Jensen received multiple awards and prizes. On August 15, 1988, attorney Paul Sprenger filed Lois E. Jenson and Patricia S. Kosmach v. Eveleth Taconite Co. in the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. As for the mine, litigation and negative publicity could have been avoided and millions of dollars saved if Oglebay Norton, Eveleth Mines, and the union would have addressed the womens complaints and taken steps to effectively rectify the situation and protect them. In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. Then she visited the set of "North Country" and began to change her mind. Beginning in 1992, he worked full-time as an author. Louise Jensons father started Her own business after completing Her education and got married after working hard in it. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make womens and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. Her father lived Her life like a straightforward man and worked hard to become a successful man in Her life. Left to Right: Marcy Steele, Jan Carey (AAUW Branch President), Audrey Daniels, Diane Hodge, and Stephanie Carlson (AAUW Branch Public Policy Chair). The retired federal magistrate permitted lawyers from the mine company to obtain medical records of all of the women for their entire lifetimes. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. On her first real day on the job, she was working alone sweeping up dirt in an isolated section when a miner passed by. We cover actors, musicians, politicians, and more. When the women of Eveleth Mines decided they would no longer stand for the abuse and demanded a sexual harassment policy, they could not have known the impact that long and tedious struggle would have on their personal lives. Lois Jenson didn't want a movie to be made of her life. If anyone knows about her sisters information, please let us know in the comments. Teater Refleksion: a clip from the 2008 production "Mak-vrk." Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and womens rights advocate. "You are involved in a struggle for so long, looking forward to the trial and all of a sudden," - she snaps her fingers - "it was over.". Before filming began on Minnesota's Iron Range in February, she. Lois A Jensen of Mabank, Kaufman County, Texas was born on September 6, 1910, and died at age 92 years old on February 18, 2003. She likes deep dish pizza, drops biscuits and sausage gravy, hominy grits, and clam chowder. [8] The Danish author and literary critic Rikke Finderup has called this work "one of the most radical literary projects in all of Danish literature,"[9] and the Square Stories have found an audience among adult readers as well as children. The first begins "engang der var," or "once there was," a variation on the traditional opening of a Danish fairy tale "der var engang," which is the equivalent of the English "once upon a time." The case, the first class action lawsuit on sexual discrimination in the US, changed the way Americans live and work. The complaint to the Minnesota human rights commission was just the beginning of Jenson's legal battle. She did not take interest in this college and entered the entertainment world. We will update this article soon. As a young adult she moved to the Southwest U. S. where, for the next twenty-seven years, she lived, studied and worked as an artist. "Square Stories." Her school name was British International Higher College. If you see something that doesnt look right, contact us. 0385496125, Toronto Public Library Their story became the basis for the 2005 movie, Background on the Class Action Suit Brought Against Eveleth Mines, Provided by Stephanie Carlson of the AAUW Chapter in Hibbing, Minnesota. [16] In 2014, he was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize for his eighth collection of square stories, published in 2012. The male miners vocally opposed integration, and a handful of them acted out their frustration in a jaw-droppingly crude manner. Other stories feature human characters, animals, or animated natural beings such as trees, bushes, or grass. Updated: November 11, 2011 . Dr. Lois A. Jensen is a preventive medicine physician in Chico, California and is affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital-Eureka.She received her medical degree from Tel Aviv University Sackler and . But society as a whole has benefited immeasurably because they did not surrender their beliefs. According to Lise Kildegaard, these "ludic and lyrical" stories reveal Jensen's close observation of nature and his poetic appreciation of a world that combines in equal measure "familiarity and strangeness, commonplace reality and ecstatic vision. Here are the latest pictures of Louise Jenson. The company refused, and on her lawyer's advice, Jenson filed a civil suit for sexual discrimination. He made the short list (5 authors, nominated from 34 countries) for the Hans Christian Andersen Award two times, in 2010 and again in 2016. I met all the stars and actually had a chance to speak with Charlize Theron," she says. Jenson woke up one night in the house she shared with her young son to find a miner had broken in. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lois Jensen. Statens Kunstfond Livsvarig ydelse (Danish National Art Foundation Lifelong Stipend), 2002present. "It really was about getting a better paying job with benefits. That is why their enemies try to discredit him and some people even succeed in discrediting him. Former miner Lois Jenson was the first woman to win a sex discrimination case in the US. "I observed a scene at the Hippodrome (ice arena), a hockey scene, and I liked what I saw. They settled for modest amounts and they never received what Lois wanted all along; an apology. The newness of Northern Arizona with its native people inspired her to devote all her time and energy learning to know and paint portraits of the Hopi and Navajo people and their lovely children. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Lois' lifetime. Her character, though based on Jenson, borrows details from the lives of different women behind the suit - Jenson calls it a composite. "Playing with Language and Literature: Louis Jensen's 1001 Stories. ", Jenson says it may take awhile for the movie to sink in. Translated by Lise Kildegaard. Louise Jenson is very beautiful and cute. Kildegaard, Lise, and Daniel Rabuzzi. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. In 1983, in the year of Lois Jenson's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, SUU waiving tuition for Native American students, 19 pounds of fentanyl pills found during traffic stop lead to federal charges, Salt Lake releases water from Parleys Canyon reservoirs over possible flood risks, Only a fraction of reported sexual assaults are prosecuted in Utah. The damage was done and it was irreparable. Skyggebjerg, Anna Karlskov (2016). Over the course of the next 24 years, he accomplished his goal of writing 1001 of these very short stories, each in the shape of a square. "Charlize Theron is playing me, but she's not playing me," Jenson says. The bitter court battles, in which the mining company raked over the women's sexual histories for use in its defence, nearly destroyed her. In 1943, at the age of only 9 years old, Lois was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. After school, Jenson took a secretarial job in what people here call "the cities" - Minneapolis and St Paul - 200 miles away. [18] His family moved from Nibe to Beder, south of Aarhus, when he was 12. Lois Jenson was employed at the Forbes plant when it was Eveleth Mines, before it closed and reopened under new ownership. Reading, photography, learning, traveling, and surfing the internet. The hours were grueling, but the pay was astonishing, and Jenson didn't think twice before accepting a job cleaning viscous soot from enormous grinding machines. We aim to provide comprehensive information on their lives and careers. Teatervrkstedet Madam Bach, 2009. you already know what she does, Check out where your favorite celebrity Louise Jenson is hanging out. [19] Memories of his childhood in Nibe are found in many of his works, including his 2014 collection of short prose pieces, "Elefanterne holdt hver gang med Tarzan" ("The elephants always sided with Tarzan"), which "turns the story of Jensen's childhood into mystic stuff, into literature. 2008. Madsen, Monica. Script adaptation and directed by Marc van der Velden. She joined a college to pursue her education. And in 1975 four women walked into the Eveleth Mines Forbes Fairlane Plant for the first time. "100 Historier--og en til" ("100 Stories--and one more"). "Fantastic Tales and Poetic Square Stories: Important Features in the Danish Author Louis Jensen's Literature for Children." Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C. Andersen Legat (H.C. Andersen Stipend), 1998. Jenson first began working at the site in March 1975 and, along with other women, endured a continuous stream of hostile behavior from male employees, including sexual harassment, abusive language, threats, stalking and intimidation. There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Lois Jensen as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" . Another woman was forced to work with a man who would drop his pants when they were alone. Their fellow workers subjected them to verbal abuse, offensive materials, and unwelcome physical contact. Toilet breaks were timed, just for a laugh. He described his mother's childhood in the biographically based book, "En historie om seks sstre" ("A story of six sisters," Gyldendal, 2009). Her female colleagues at the mines sought employment there for much of the same reasons, many were family breadwinners and some were single women trying to support themselves. Louis Jensen was born in Nibe, Denmark close to the Limfjord in northern Jutland. [1][2][3] While he published more than 90 books for both adults and children, he was best known for his children's books, which include picture books, short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and novels. See What AncientFaces Does to discover more about the community. Photos, memories, family stories & discoveries are unique to you, and only you can control. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. North Country is beautifully shot, with a soundtrack from Bob Dylan, who himself was raised in a Minnesota mining town. She also felt a sense of loss. Then in 1986, a few years before Lois Jenson (who inspired Charlize Theron's character in "North Country") brought her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of a bank employee who. She studied with many highly respected artists including; Donald Puttman, Wilson Hurley, Bettina Steinke, Charles Movalli, John Sanden, George Carlson, Richard Goetz and Gregg Kreutz of Art Students League, N. Y., and above all Clair Fry and Ben Stahl, who were considered masters of the generation of Norman Rockwell, N.C Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. What she hadn't considered was that she was now entering a male-dominated, hard . Her parents warmly invited all the guests to celebrate Louise Jenson's birth. If you see something in this article that you think is incorrect, you can contact us to correct it. Their struggle for dignity in the workplace then moved into the legal system where the process dragged on for years. 2008, 2009. Some carried weapons for self-defense, others took sick days to recover from attacks, and as a result of it all, their mental health continued to decline, they found themselves becoming people they and their family and friends did not recognize. We dont have any videos of them. They all came looking for financial independence, but what they found would cost them so much more. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lois R Jensen. Pornographic pictures and graffiti began showing up everywhere around the mine, dildos modeled out of waterproofing material appeared in the womens workplaces, lewd jokes and unwelcome physical contact form co-workers and supervisors became everyday occurrences. National Women's History MuseumPresident Susan Jollie wrote a letter commending their efforts and the letter was read at the ceremony and each woman received a copy. She is a very beautifulBritish actress and social media star. In theme, style, and content, the stories are diverse. Lois Jenson drove through three feet of snow to begin her new job at the Eveleth Mines on March 25, 1975.She never dreamed that her name would eventually be on the nation's first sexual-harassment class-action lawsuit The parents were overjoyed at the birth and invited all their relatives to the feast. Script adaptation and directed by Marc van der Velden. Louise Jenson is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 58 kilograms. Updated: November 8, 2011 . The Wondrous Beauty of Life: an interview with Louis Jensen.. Almost from the beginning, according to court documents, Ms. Jenson and other women were subjected to sexual. It all came to a head in 1984 when Lois Jenson was stalked by a salaried co-worker who broke into her home and threatened her son. Lois E Jenson are some of the alias or nicknames that Lois has used. The reader simultaneously grasps the 1001 story project in its grand ambition and the individual iteration of a single story in all its local particularity."[22]. These women advocated for a sexual harassment policy. In which she liked a boy and whose name we will update soon. A liability trial began on December 17, 1992, in front of Judge Richard Kyle in St. Paul, Minnesota, and six months later, he ruled that the company should have prevented the misconduct. Former miner Lois Jenson was the first woman to win a sex discrimination case in the US. Gyldendals Store Brnebogspris (Gyldendal's Major Children's Book Prize), 2009. "Mak-vrk" ("Botch-Up"). Jenson v. Eveleth Mines, the first sexual harassment class action in America, permanently changed the legal landscape as well as the lives of the women who fought the battle The women learned to deal with their work environment in their own ways. He described his mother's childhood in the biographically based book, "En historie om seks sstre" ("A story of six sisters," Gyldendal, 2009). The women were all subjected to verbal abuse: whores, sluts, bitches. Bookbird (54.4): 43. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. Jenson's story was the inspiration for the film North Country, which opens in Britain today and this week won Charlize Theron an Oscar nomination. The defense delved into every painful detail of the womens lives. She is a very beautiful British actress and social media star. We will update this article soon. In 1964, when she was 30 years old, on June 11th, activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for conspiring to overthrow the state (because of his numerous anti-apartheid activities). This work was presented for display at Ellis Island. Nordisk Skolebibliotekarforenings Brnebogspris (. Its timeline was condensed, but in reality it took fourteen years for the case to be settled. Her illness was in no way related to or a result of the case, but one example of the ruthlessness of the defense attorneys was demonstrated when they burst into her hospital room and demanded to see her medical records and tried to depose her when she could no longer even speak. And now, more than two decades after she first went to work in Eveleth Mines, Jenson can lay claim to her life. Theater Corona la Balance, Copenhagen. Well never share your email with anyone else, American Association of University WomenChapter and National Women's History MuseumHonor the Real Women of North Country, In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. "He grabbed my wrists, came around the desk and pushed me back in the chair. Lois Jenson Lois Jenson (1934 - 1983) Jump to: Biography Memories . One woman found herself working at the top of a conveyor that was 6 blocks long and high above a pile of taconite. But she was taking home three times as much money as she had been. He waited to speak until he was close to Jenson. The women of Eveleth Mines should take well-deserved pride in their historic contributions. Montanas Litteraturpris: nominated with Lillian Brgger, 2016, for, Politikens Frit-Flet Pris (Politiken newspaper), 9 March 2017, for, 365TEKSTER, an art and literature project in Aarhus, Denmark, was part of Aarhus being designated a, Finderup, Rikke and Max Ibsen. In 1975, Lois Jenson started working in a mine in northern Minnesota's Iron Range. The numbers both indicate the scope of the 1001 story project, and, by identifying the order of the stories, they locate the reader precisely within it: "By assigning each story a unique place within the collection, the simple enumeration of stories places into tension the whole and the part, the general and the specific. Research resources. n the boxes of memorabilia that Lois Jenson keeps of her life as a miner there is a photograph showing a slim blonde woman almost completely obscured by grimy coveralls, hard hat, goggles and an innovation all her own: a bulky waistcoat. But most importantly by certifying the case as a class action, the court put the principles of collective bargaining to work in the courtroom and it gave once powerless, voiceless workingwomen a platform to demand change and the leverage to achieve it. She was a little more worldly than some of the other women. The Square Stories are Louis Jensen's invented literary form: very short microfictions, formatted in the shape of a square block of text, and printed one to a page. Then she visited the set of "North Country" and began to change her mind. Georgetown University Gallery Port History Museum Atlanta-Fulton County Library Trans America Tower of San Francisco Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Dallas City Hall John F. Kennedy Museum and Library Ronald Reagan Presidential Library State University of New York Gallery Ocean Avenue, Carmel, CA Solo exhibition, 2002 CaliforniaView Fine Arts, Los Gatos, CA "Their California" exhibition, 2003 Big Sur Land Trust Invitational Plein Air Show, New Masters Gallery, Carmel, CA 2004 CaliforniaView Fine Arts Exhibition, Spring 2005 Today, she shares a studio with husband, Ron Grauer, in the Santa Cruz mountains where they continue to paint in theirmuch loved butcrowded little studio. The Nordic Council praised the "humour and seriousness" of Jensen's work, suggesting that his stories have "brought greetings from Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and E. T. A. Hoffman and other great poets to all the children and adults who just wanted to read along."[17]. [20] He published his first poem in 1970 in the literary magazine "Hvedekorn," and his first book of poetry in 1972. It's individuals trying to figure it out. With equal ease, she gives space to a smile as wide as a container ship and to a hairy wart that's so small that you can not actually see it, but you can see it anyway. "[24], The eleven volumes of the Square Stories are illustrated by Lilian Brgger, a prize-winning Danish illustrator. Several stories include inanimate objects as characters, such as forks, frying pans, and rubber balls, in the tradition of the Scandinavian "tingseventyr," or "object fairy tales." "1001 Firkanter--om Louis Jensens firkantede historier.". Pat Kosmach, who originally had her name on the suit with Jenson, developed ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) during the course of the trial. Sexual harassment has by no means disappeared, but without the bravery, determination, and commitment of the Eveleth Mines women and others like them who challenged their treatment, the problem would undoubtedly be worse. Lois Jenson of Clearlake, Lake County, California was born on March 27, 1920, and died at age 68 years old on September 25, 1988. It was absolutely terrifying". As Sren Fan (Lecturer and specialist in children's literature) explains in his review of the eleventh volume, "Smaller children simply listen to the stories, older children contemplate both form and meaning, high school students analyze and interpret them, and among some grown ups they attain cult status and become collectibles. Directed by Lisa Becker. There she was surrounded by lush green farmland to the east and the majestic pacific coast on the west. Because Louise Jenson has not mentioned her family and Relationships in any of her interviews yet. They confronted male-dominated institutions that did not welcome change. Many suffered in different ways from having the courage to participate in and persevere with the court case. The best parts of the film come from the juxtaposition of taut courtroom sequences of repressed rage and emotional confrontations between Theron, her glowering father and a teenage son embarrassed about his mother's notoriety. ", Skyggebjerg, Anna Karlskov. In all these cases, women were confronting large companies run by men who did not want to change. Lois Jensen has 0 artist signature examples available in our database. Some took on the if you cant beat em join em attitude and started dishing it out to the men. The harassment continued and intensified. Lois Jenson of Florida was born on June 25, 1934, and died at age 48 years old in January 1983. The average age of "Since that time, they've been very gracious and generous with their time, answering questions for me and listening to my concerns," says Jenson, who lives in Babbitt, Minn. 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