" PORONTO (CP) — Three

Toronto mothers have |

crea obs to avoid the
nine-to-five confines of ‘an
office job when youngsters
must. be ‘left with a
babysitter or in a day-care
centre,

All three mothers have
adopted the stance that if
the job doesn’t fit, don't take
it. Instead, they have
created careers to fit their
new needs as mothers of

- LOS ANGELES (AP) —
On the day that Mao Tse-
tung died, Oriana Fallaci
wrestled with an urge to
drop the novel she was
writing and follow her
journalist’s instinct for news
and history.

“] wanted to be in China,
to go there right away,” she
recalls. “But when I am
writing this book, I say,
“You sit at this desk and you

small children.
Britt Kellie who for years
was a’ well established

career woman on _ the.

executive level with Kelly

Girl Service, a jo
placement .agency in
Toronto, gave most of

that when her tirst child, .

Jennifer, was born six years
ago. ;
After her second child,

Sarah, arrived two years
ago, she started her own

business— Freckles and

Com —esignin ;
Company. design She now

works from her home and
includes the children in her

“All my customers know
Sarah,’ she said. ‘She's
been on the go withme since
she was an infant. I don't
really have to work, but I
get bored staying at home.

order to accomplish what
I wanted to do, I had to bring
her with me.

JOURNALIST'S NOVEL

Letter to an unborn child

do this until you finish.’”’

So she didn’t run off to
China. And the: Italian
journalist whe has in-
terviewed such public fig-
uresas Henry Kissinger and
the shah of Iran, stopped
interviewing.

Celebrities and heads of
state may sigh with relief.
The woman who has been
called “a psychological
guerrilla,” ‘‘a tigress of the
typewriter’? and much

her atinvineee who suffered
rs appraisal, now
is a fulltime TTvaliat,

But the real surprise is
Ms. Fallaci’s latest book.
It’s called Letter to a Child
Never Born.

“Sure I am tough," she
said, “You have to be tough
to write a book like that. I
left pieces of my flesh on
that hook.”

The 114-page novel is

Recreation with gadgets
is not exercise at all

AMHERST, Mass.
(AP) — Most people ride to
work. Carol Fisher skis
during the winter and rides
a bicycle the mile and a half
during the summer,
“People don’t exercise
enough,” sald the 24-year-
old. women’s kayak
champion. “They use the
ear too much. I have a car
but Ionly use it on very long
trips for the kayak races.
“We should use our bodies
to get around. I really enjoy
kayaking because it is
outdoors. Outdoors teaches
the true connection between
the physical and intellectual
é. .

Miss Fisher grew up in
Kansas climbing trees,

riding horses and canoeing.
She is an instructor in the
outdoors rogram
Hampshire College here and
her specialty is the kayak.

For a course in January,
Miss Fisher and a dozen
students ran 350 miles of the
Sewanee and Peace rivers

and The Everglades of

Georgia andFlorida in
covered canoes with double-
blade paddles. ~~

She began kayaking in
1970 her senior year
at the Colorado Rocky

Mountain School, a private .

high scheal t= Carbondale,

o:

She won the U.S. Women’s
Wildwater Kayak Cham-
pionship several years ago

at’

and last fall added the North
American title. Her best
finish in the world cham-
pionships was eighth in 1973.

“T love competition,’ she
said, “I think I'll compete
until I die.” :

Miss Fisher, who holds
degrees in environmental
biology and botany from the

University of Montana, said

her ambition. is “to bring
more ecological interests
into kayaking.”

There is a big energy
crisis now and we should
teach students: an
awareness of that. We waste
a lot ‘of resources using
gadgets. In recreation, we
should use our own
muscles.”’

New barley and wheat strain = *
are this young couple’s breeds:

NAIRN, Ont. (CP) —
Thirtyone-year-old Louisa
C. Ho is probably the only
woman plant breeder in the
Canadian seed industry. —

The China native breeds
new strains of wheat for
CIBAGEIGY Seeds Ltd.
(Formerly Stewart Seeds)
at Nairn, a village of 160
people northwest of London,

mi o

“Last year in Saskatoon

(at the Canadian Committee
of Plant Breeding) Iwas one pla

of two women ina group of
‘about 150,” she said, ‘The

_ other: woman was a
researcher. This year in
Winnipeg I was the only
one,”

- Plant breeding from the -

niversity of Guelph, she
’ and her husband, Keh Ming,

a barley breeder, were hired’

by Stewart Seeds in 1973.
Both stayed at the company
when it was taken over by
CIBA-GEIGY.

Louisa - was born” in
Shanghai, China, but moved
as a child to Taiwan. Before
starting courses at
University of Guelph, she
sold sportswear in an Ot-
tawa department store 90
she could learn English.

As the only woman among
nt-breeding colleagues,
she said the men are
probably more willing to

shere breeding knowledge —

than if she were a man.

“Although I like being.the _
only woman, I always en- .

courage girls to go into plant
ened she raid.

“It's really hard work and
you have to go outa lot in the

summer into the fields, butI

like it because it is mentally

stimulating.’

She recently took a course
in personnel administration
at Fanshawe College ‘in
London, and another on

women in business at the’
-University of .Western

Ontario. .

She said she wasn’t aware
of discrimination - against
women § in
business until she took the
course because within her
specialty she has been
treated with high regard.

physically’

. Canadian -

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday May 26, 1977. PAGE 9

SO THEY’VE GOT THEIR OWN CAREERS

_ 9-to-5 routine stifles mothers |

“] put Sarah under one
arm and wallpaper under
another, stash the dogs in
the’ station wagon and
Jennifer, too, if she’s not at
school and away we go.”

Gay MacLeod is a former
high school teacher who
pave up that career when

. daughter, Heather, was
born one year ago. :

Like Ms. Kellie, she was
bored with staying home but
she didn't want to leave

about a pregnancy and
miscarriage, but it is also
about one. of a woman’s
most crucial decisions—to
give birth or not.

The story is a monologue
by an unmarried woman
journalist s
unborn fetus about ‘‘the
terrible question.”

Ms. Fallaci said she is not
the woman in the book.

“It is nota true story. If it
was a true story, it would be
a cheap personal journal.”

However, she said there is
a part of her in every book.

‘Of course, I’ve been
pregnant. J know what is

- pregnancy. But that is not

My case.”
In her native Italy, where

the book was published last:

year, it has sold about
£00,000.copies so far. It has
been translated into 14
languages.

e now lives in a New
York City apartment but
spends part of each year in
her Tuscany farmhouse.

Some reviewers have said
her book teeters on the edge
of soap opera. Ms. Fallaci

dismisses reviewers with an -

obscenity. Of accusations
that her book is an anti-
abortion tract, she says:

“The abortionists should
love this book. It points out
that maternity is'a choice
not a duty.” .

peaking to her’

Heather for a full-time job.
So she set up a company,
Logo-mart, which she also
operates from her home. .

She designs and produces ©
business cards and let-
terheads, working at a
drawing board set up in her
kitchen. .

On Mondays, Tuesdays
and Wednesdays she gets in
her car with Heather to call
on suppliers, printers and
typesetters. stopping aay

rks on the way y
vith her child.

“If the people I deal with
don’t ke me _ bringing
Heather along, they don’t
say so,” said Ms. MacLeod.
“Mostly they make a big
fuss over her. The office.
staff usually takes her over
while I make my call on the
boss. But I’m sure some
people feel it's not profes-
sional.” ;

Diane Dupuy has a par- .
ticularly busy working
schedule. She has a
daughter, Jeanine, 14, and
& one-month-old infant
Joanne to care for as well:

Ms. Dupuy is founder,
producer and’ director of

‘amous People Players, a
troupe of performers (most
of them retarded young
adults) who use the
Czechoslovakian technique
of black-light theatre.

Pianist Liberace has
headlined the group during
two of his Las Vegas ap-
pearances and this sprin

‘a using them to launch
his shows.

‘Ms. Dupuy accompanies
the troupe wherever they
travel in Canada and the
U.S, She does this with her
children by her side during
rehearsals that fill her days
and business arrangements
that take up her evenings.

She refuses to leave her
children with a babysitter.
Joanne sleeps in the card-
board grand piano which is
used aS a prop during

rformances while prop.

dy Mary Thornton helps
keep Jeanine busy and
contented.

cess.

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