Talk:Dorothy Healy

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Please merge with new article Dorothy Ray Healey

Er, why not simply add the new material into this page?? JXM 04:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the idea is to get her birth name (Ray) into the title of the article. She was known by both names at different points in her life. GeorgeLouis 04:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The WP naming conventions for people is at WP:NCP. For notes on how to rename pages, see WP:MV. JXM 06:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I support merging the two articles. The other page, Dorothy Ray Healey, is somewhat better than this one. GeorgeLouis 20:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

prior note[edit]

Very interesting woman. I once saw her speak. Does anyone know her whereabouts, if she is still alive.

Died just recently. GeorgeLouis 04:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Age[edit]

"from the late 1920s to the 1950's" ---> If she was really born in 1914, she would have turned 15 in 1929. I guess that's sort-of possible, but something seems wrong here. Wencer 02:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't say whether this is right one way or the other (except that she was an activist in CPUSA until 1973, a mistake I will fix as soon as I type this), but there's no reason to think that she didn't get involved in the Party as an early teen--many people did, and I know she was certainly involved in high school. (See, e.g., Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women/Cannery Lives) 71.77.12.236 20:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have her autobiography here at hand, but it says she started organizing as a teenager. The Nation magazine obituary says b.1914.68.79.19.223 03:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Peg Strobel, 27 February 2007[reply]