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Celebrating Women’s History Month!
March is Women’s History Month, a time that we set aside to celebrate women’s
contributions and achievements in all spheres of society. There are so many amazing
women we would love to acknowledge that the list is simply too long to count, so we decided
to recognize a few special ones through the lens of our themed rooms. Accordingly, we wish
to honor some extraordinary women who have left their mark throughout history and offer
you a different type of list that you may not find anywhere else. These women come from
very different walks of life, and some even found themselves on the wrong side of the law,
but their incredible feats remain worthy of awe to this very day.
In our Zombie Lab, you need to find a cure to stop an army of the undead. This inspired us
to recognize Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, an American-Swiss psychiatrist and one of the
pioneers of near-death studies. She was named as one of the “100 Most Important Thinkers”
of the 20 th century, received nineteen honorary degrees, and has been inducted into the
American National Women’s Hall of Fame. She is most well known for her book “On Death
and Dying”, where she defined the Five Stages of Grief that people experience when facing
their imminent death. To this day, understanding of the Five Stages of Grief helps individuals
cope with any form of personal loss and leads them down the road to healing. Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross has spent her career working with the terminally ill and has had great impact on
our understanding of what she called the “greatest mystery in science” – death. Later on in
her career she became interested in out-of-body experiences, as well as mediums and other
ways that we could contact the dead. Well, we have some undead for you, and you’re going
to need all of Elisabeth’s wisdom to make it out alive!
Our Prison Break room inspired us to recognize Deborah Gavin, a young woman with a
troubled childhood who found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time back in 1972.
After a night of partying, she got into a car with a couple of young men whom she had met
that night, little to know they would commit an armed robbery of a local gas station with her
still in the car. Following a wild police chase they were all arrested, and Deborah was
convicted as an accomplice and sent to a women’s prison in Georgia. To make matters
worse, she became a victim of continuous sexual abuse at the hands of the male prison
guards, as did many other inmates at that prison. This drove her to escape the prison an
incredible six times! Five times she was captured, but on the sixth escape she disappeared
without a trace. U.S. Marshals finally found her 33 years later, living a quiet life in a small
town in Texas as a loving wife and a dedicated nurse at a local hospital. Deborah Gavin’s
case along with hundreds of other similar cases across the US have led to prison reform and
the adoption of new laws protecting inmates from sexual abuse. Can you be skillful and
elusive enough like Deborah to reach freedom?
Our Bank Job room made us think of Olivera Ćirković, a former professional basketball
player from Serbia who played for the Yugoslavian women’s basketball team that won a
bronze medal at the European Championship for Junior Women in 1988. She later worked
as a sports director for the Red Star basketball club, but this is not actually what she is most
known for. She was in fact one of the masterminds behind the notorious international jewel-
thief gang called the Pink Panthers! According to Interpol and various law enforcement
agencies, the Pink Panthers are responsible for thefts of over $500 million in diamonds, gold
and precious jewels in 35 countries across the globe, in some of the most spectacular heists
worthy of Hollywood movies. She is believed to have been involved in over 350 robberies,
although she personally operated only in Greece where she was first arrested in 2006. After
her second arrest in 2012, she made a spectacular escape from prison but was
apprehended again 4 months later. She spent a total of 8 years behind bars, and after her
release, she published her memoirs detailing the extravagance of her life in crime. Do you
have the skills to get your hands on some diamonds that even Olivera would be impressed
with?!
There are so many other women who could be added to this list who have had a tremendous
impact throughout history, but let’s not forget about all the ordinary women who continue to
give their contributions to the world every single day. They also deserve our recognition, as
well as our respect. Women’s History Month is here to remind us that we must always strive
to create a world that values all individuals, a world that offers recognition, justice and
equality of opportunity for all.
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