I've been involved with organized caving since 1968, and there has
always been way more than 9% female cavers involved. It seems unlikely
to me that cavers have simply forgotten about their deceased female
members. Perhaps female cavers dropped out and disappeared at a higher
rate or have been more cautious and thus lived longer. Even so, it does
seem unreasonable that the differential would be so large.
Mark Minton
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On 2019-11-05 16:33, Diana Tomchick wrote:
I would like to know, perhaps from someone that was around “way back
when”, why there are only 8 female cavers listed in the Hall of
Texas and Mexico Cavers, out of a total of 88 names. That works out to
9.1% of the total population.
As I wasn’t around back when a lot of these people passed on, I
can’t speak as to whether that’s representative of the Texas and
Mexico Caver population, but maybe it was.
Diana
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On Nov 5, 2019, at 4:27 PM, William R. Elliott <[email protected]>
wrote:
EXTERNAL MAIL
Dear Texas Cavers,
I just updated The Hall of Texas and Mexico Cavers again, at
http://cavelife.info/hall/hall.htm
I edited and uploaded 43 new obituaries and 4 revised ones. Some of
these came from the old page of 2010, but I added photos and correct
dates whenever I could.
This now takes us back to about 1980 and Chuck Stuehm. My goal is to
get all of the rest done back to 1960.
You can now read about really interesting cavers like John Fish
(passed away 24 October), A. Richard Smith, Chuck Stuehm, Joe Ivy,
Richard Albert, Barry Beck, Randy Waters, Rod Goke, Stan Moerbe and
others. Look for your friends, and the "Lost Cavers" at the end of the
page, people for whom I need more information.
Thanks to all who sent material and photos. I appreciate it.
WILLIAM R. (BILL) ELLIOTT
[email protected]
573-291-5093 cell
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