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BROOKLINE, Mass., Sep 17, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Joel Shoner, 61, has been elected president of the Brookline, Mass., chapter of the League of Women Voters.
Shoner told the Boston Globe that although it may seem strange to people to have a male president for such an organization, it does not seem strange to him, or to many of the chapter's members.
"Why not?" asked former Brookline league president Shaari Mittel. "I'll put it that way: Why not? What's the big deal? That's what Joel would say, I'm sure."
Shoner was elected unanimously in June. The Globe reported that he takes his job and title very seriously.
The League of Women Voters was established in 1920, an outgrowth of the women's suffrage movement. Men were not allowed to join until 1974, and men remain a significant minority of the organization's membership.
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