Kitty Carlisle Hart, chairman?

[Joel S. Berson]

And what's wrong with "chair"?  Almost as long a history as
"chairman" and longer than "chairwoman".

Joel

At 4/19/2007 12:45 AM, Bapopik wrote:
>Not chairwoman? Is this NY Times style?
>...
>...
>_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/theater/19hart.html_
>(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/theater/19hart.html)
>Outgoing and energetic, Miss Carlisle became a visible champion of the arts
>in her middle years, lobbying Congress and the New York State Legislature for
>financing. For 25 years, first as a member and later as chairman of the New
>York  Council on the Arts, she crisscrossed the state to support rural string
>quartets, small theater groups and urban dance  troupes.
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