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Brown is a former representative in the West Virginia House of Delegates (1982-2012) best known for her advocacy for women's rights.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown was born Bonnie Louise Wonderley in San Francisco, California to Thelma Asbury and Wilbert Wonderly on October 5th, 1942.\nAfter being raised between California and Oregon, she attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, where she met fellow student Gary Leigh Brown, and they married in 1965 June. They both transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho to continue their education.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter Gary L. Brown's graduation from the University of Idaho with his doctorate in chemical engineering, the couple moved to Charleston, West Virginia for his employment with Union Carbide. During the move from Idaho to West Virginia in 1969, Brown gave birth to her daughter Mollie Brown in Kansas. After the birth of her second child, Joel, Brown graduated from the Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston) in Charleston, West Virginia in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She was elected president of the Charleston Chapter National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1975. That same year she attended the National Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Task Force as a representative for West Virginia. She also organized the first \"People's Lobby\" around public interest legislation as the legislative coordinator for the West Virginia Citizen's Action Group.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1976, she stepped down as the president of Charleston NOW to become the president of the state chapter, West Virginia NOW. She would hold this position until 1978. During her time as president of West Virginia NOW, she was the West Virginia delegate to the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas in 1977 and the West Virginia convenor for the U.S. National Women's Agenda. In 1977, she founded the now-defunct Women's Repertory Theatre in Charleston, West Virginia, which sought to combine politics and women's theater.   \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, she stepped down as president of West Virginia NOW to serve as the legislative coordinator and chief lobbyist. During this time, she was active as a consultant and field organizer for the national ERA movement and as a lobbyist in West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Kentucky, Delaware, Florida, and Vermont.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe began a formal political career in 1982. 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Brown is a former representative in the West Virginia House of Delegates (1982-2012) best known for her advocacy for women's rights.","Brown was born Bonnie Louise Wonderley in San Francisco, California to Thelma Asbury and Wilbert Wonderly on October 5th, 1942.\nAfter being raised between California and Oregon, she attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, where she met fellow student Gary Leigh Brown, and they married in 1965 June. They both transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho to continue their education.","After Gary L. Brown's graduation from the University of Idaho with his doctorate in chemical engineering, the couple moved to Charleston, West Virginia for his employment with Union Carbide. During the move from Idaho to West Virginia in 1969, Brown gave birth to her daughter Mollie Brown in Kansas. After the birth of her second child, Joel, Brown graduated from the Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston) in Charleston, West Virginia in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She was elected president of the Charleston Chapter National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1975. That same year she attended the National Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Task Force as a representative for West Virginia. She also organized the first \"People's Lobby\" around public interest legislation as the legislative coordinator for the West Virginia Citizen's Action Group.","In 1976, she stepped down as the president of Charleston NOW to become the president of the state chapter, West Virginia NOW. She would hold this position until 1978. During her time as president of West Virginia NOW, she was the West Virginia delegate to the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas in 1977 and the West Virginia convenor for the U.S. National Women's Agenda. In 1977, she founded the now-defunct Women's Repertory Theatre in Charleston, West Virginia, which sought to combine politics and women's theater.","In 1978, she stepped down as president of West Virginia NOW to serve as the legislative coordinator and chief lobbyist. During this time, she was active as a consultant and field organizer for the national ERA movement and as a lobbyist in West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Kentucky, Delaware, Florida, and Vermont.","She began a formal political career in 1982. She represented District 23 in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1982-1988 and 1990 and District 30 from 1992-1994 and 2000-2012.","During her time in the legislature, she was a member of a variety of committees and commissions, most notably the Constitutional Revision Committee, Health and Welfare Committee, Judiciary Committee, Legislative Commission on Juvenile Law, Select Committee on Children and Families, Women's Legislative Caucus, and South Charleston Human Rights Commission.","After an unsuccessful run for reelection in 2012, Brown did not attempt to run for another political position. As of 2025 April, she lives in Charleston, West Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description of item], [Box/folder number], Bonnie L. Brown Papers, A\u0026amp;M 4511, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description of item], [Box/folder number], Bonnie L. 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There are also collected T-Shirts relevant to her feminist activism and political campaigning. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown loaned several scrapbooks covering her time in the West Virginia House of Delegated to the WVRHC for scanning. These digital files are available for viewing upon request. They mostly include photographs from events such as ERA marches, political rallies, political campaigning, and sessions in the West Virginia House of Delegates. There are also some digital scans of notes and election ephemera. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into two series:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Papers (Boxes 1-5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e- An addendum of 2023 March 02 can be found alongside the original donation in boxes 1-4.\n- An addendum of 2024 September 06 can be found in boxes 1-3 and 5. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. 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There are also collected T-Shirts relevant to her feminist activism and political campaigning.","Brown loaned several scrapbooks covering her time in the West Virginia House of Delegated to the WVRHC for scanning. These digital files are available for viewing upon request. They mostly include photographs from events such as ERA marches, political rallies, political campaigning, and sessions in the West Virginia House of Delegates. There are also some digital scans of notes and election ephemera.","The collection is divided into two series:","Series 1. Papers (Boxes 1-5)","- An addendum of 2023 March 02 can be found alongside the original donation in boxes 1-4.\n- An addendum of 2024 September 06 can be found in boxes 1-3 and 5.","Series 2. Ephemera (Boxes 5-6)","- An addendum of 2024 September 06 can be found in box 5."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe donor of this collection has transferred rights to the intellectual property they created to the Center. 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Stitzel graduated with her Ph.D. in 1968 with the dissertation \"Comedy and the Serious Moralist: The Sexual Ethic in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones\". In 1965, before graduating from the University of Minnesota, Stitzel began working as an instructor in the English department at West Virginia University, where she would remain in employment in several capacities until her retirement in 1998.","Her academic positions at WVU include instructor (1965-1968), assistant professor (1968-1972), associate professor (1972-1979), professor (1979-1998), director of the Writing Laboratory (1969-1973), coordinator of the Women's Studies Program (1980-1984), and director of the Center for Women's Studies (1984-1993).","After expanding courses in WVU's English department to include women's studies topics in the 1970s, Stitzel co-developed and coordinated the Women's Studies Program as an academic discipline at WVU, which would in 1984 become the Center for Women's Studies, and in 2012 the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.","While employed with WVU, she was active in a variety of ways, including as an advisor to student organizations such as the Student Action for Appalachian Progress (SAAP) (1972-1975), Mortarboard (1972-1975), and Women's Center (1975-1982).","She was also active in several non-WVU organizations, including the Modern Language Association (1968-1986), National Council of Teachers of English (1973-1980), Conference of College Composition and Communication (1972-1980), North Central Women's Studies Association (1978-1994), and National Women's Studies Association (1980- ).","Throughout her career, Stitzel published many articles, some of which featured in the Appalachian Review, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, The Japan Women's Studies Journal, and West Virginia History.","After her professional retirement in 1998, Stitzel remained active in West Virginia and WVU. 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