Obit of Tully, Mary Jean (t400) - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 18 Jan 2004 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Los Angeles Times 18 January 2004 MARY JEAN TULLY, 78, FENINIST HEADED THE LEGAL FUND FOR NOW Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully, 78, a feminist leader and activist who once headed the Legal Defense and Education Fund for the National Organization for Women, died Dec. 27 in Westchester, N.Y., of a heart attack. Born at Ft. Sill, Okla., Tully attended Stanford and the universities of Texas and Chicago before earning a master's degree in sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit. She was a dedicated member of NOW, having founded the Westchester chapter before she worked for the national organization. Tully served as co-editor of NOW's newsletter before becoming president of its powerful legal fund. In the 1970s, she helped launch a NOW advertising campaign with the catchy reverse-psychology slogan: "Hire Him. He's Got Great Legs." She later started a feminist oral history project at Harvard that inspired her to found another group, the Veteran Feminists of America. Tully was one of the first members of the New York State National Women's Political Caucus. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html