Focus On Women

We are very pleased to announce that one of the Focus On Women segments featuring our president, Diane T. Creston, and Lyn Sanborne, manager, Community Campaigns for "Save The Children" is included in the videotapes donated to Harvard University Library by Florence Rapoport and Cablevision.

Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Creston is very grateful to Florence Rapoport for the outstanding work that she has created and for the support that she has given to Diane Creston and other women over the years.

Focus on Women. Videotapes, 1983-1993

Cox Cable Production Studios in New York: A Finding Aid

Acquisition Information and numbers: 91-M194--94-M38, 94-M121, 95-M82, 95-M166, 96-M67, 96-M121

These videotapes were given to the Schlesinger Library between November 1991 and September 1996 by Florence Rapoport and Cablevision.

HISTORY

"Focus on Women," a television program featuring women of achievement, was initiated by Florence Rapoport in 1983, and produced by Long Island Cablevision.

Each half-hour show consists of interviews by Florence Rapoport. Prevalent among the women interviewed are writers, psychologists, health professionals, artists, teachers, scholars, social activists, entrepreneurs, and politicians. "Focus on Women" is directed by Shari Schultz, with assistance from Gayle Chokas.

Florence Rapoport, who lives in Great Neck on Long Island, New York, was formerly a screen- and speech writer, an economic analyst for the federal government, and for more than twenty years, a schoolteacher. In 1978, she co-founded WOMANSPACE, a center created to serve the educational, psychological, and social needs of women in the Great Neck area.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Guests featured in the segments include:

Cuomo, Matilda - Health and social services activist; wife of former Governor Mario Cuomo of New York; Sanborne, Lynn and Creston, Diane. Sanborne serves as manager of Community Campaigns for "Save The Children." Creston, who serves as President and Creative Director of Creston Advertising & Marketing, Inc., is a leading specialist in cause-related marketing; Steinem, Gloria. Parts #1 and #2. Founding voice of the current women's movement. Lecturer; organizer; founding editor of Ms. magazine; author, Thomas, Barbara S. Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.), among others.