Gloria Myers will recreate Lola Baldwin's life at PSU program saluting 100th Anniversary of her hire

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 01, 2008 – Portland State University alum and historian Gloria E. Myers will give a free presentation: "Lola Baldwin's World: Policing Vice in Post-Victorian Portland" in period costume while taking on the persona of this Northwestern crusader against crime. During the question and answer period following the presentation, Gloria will answer questions on Lola only up to the year 1922, the year of Lola's retirement.  A free reception and exhibits honoring early female police officers and crime detection in the West will be on display  in the Vanport Room (Room 338) of PSU's Smith Memorial Center beginning at 7:00pm.

Gloria Myers (History, M.A.) is the author of the definitive book on Lola Baldwin's nvaluable contribution to the history of female law enforcement officers: "A Municipal Mother: Portland's Lola Baldwin, America's First Policewoman." Myers is a PSU alum (M.A. History) who first examined the life and achievements of Lola Greene Baldwin as her graduate thesis, and then with the encouragement of her professors and advisors went on to publish in 1995  the "Municipal Mother"  book that proved Baldwin's claims to be the first "municipally paid policewoman in the United States."  

Myers' presentation is sponsored by the Friends of History, with the assistance of co-sponsors Portland Police Museum (where Lola's log books and artifacts are on display) and the Wells Fargo History Museum. The Lola baldwin Centennial Program, the reception and exhibits in the Vanport Room are free and open to the public. A book signing will take place after the presentation by Myers.
   
This Friends of History event is one of several free events they present at Portland State University including panel discussions, commemorations, symposiums and the April 17 Endowed Lecture with Iranian expert Ervand Abrahamian for the education of the students and the general public. Parking is free in the PSU parking structures after 7pm. For more information on this event or other Friends of History events please call KC Piccard at (503)725-5473.