Fair organizers weren’t planning a pavilion to feature women’s contributions, but a group of women pushed for a space and raised funds to get it built.
First of two columns My husband jogs through downtown every Saturday and often runs by the Wall of Hands on the side of the Woman’s Pavilion in Hemisfair . I have a personal connection, since one of those ceramic impressions is the hand of my grandmother, Eloise Matthews Gerhardt , a member of the organizing team for this pavilion. I also believe she played a supportive role in the overall Hemisfair , which opened on my 13th birthday.
Mayor remembered with ‘HemisFair Theater’ being renamed for her So Eloise Gerhardt, a prominent civic leader who served on City Council, on the city zoning commission and as president of the San Antonio Council of Churches, was identified publicly through all these roles by the name of her husband, equally prominent construction engineer Manfred J. Gerhardt.
HemisFair house was UTSA’s first home A Woman’s Pavilion Speakers Board sent members of this organizing group to women’s clubs and conventions to make the case for building a pavilion focused on female accomplishments.
Readers remember neighborhood before HemisFair ’68 Although about 12,500 women had bought memberships, representing most U.S. states and several foreign countries, the budget for the pavilion had to be scaled down to $400,000. Through the run of the fair, it was one of the few that charged an additional $1 admission fee beyond fair entrance. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Oct. 3, 1967.
Lost 30-minute ‘Hemisfilm’ ran only six months during San Antonio’s HemisFair ’68 but made lasting impression Besides a standing film-and-exhibit program on “Women’s Changing Role in a Changing World,” that translated into exhibits of works by female artists, there were demonstrations of arts and crafts such as the making of cloisonné jewelry, lectures and slideshows by women, a wig display and collections of miniatures, dolls and dollhouses.
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