AD CLUB DOFFS HAT TO WOMEN'S EDITORS

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CIA-RDP73-00475R000100120001-3
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December 27, 2016
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December 17, 2013
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March 9, 1966
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,STAT WASHINGTON POST Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100120001-3 MAR 9 1966 AWARD WINNERS: Three women's page editors were honored yesterday by the Advertising Club of Metropoli: tan Washington at a luncheon in the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Receiving Award of Excellence honors were (from left) f Of44( 4444i .0....4.1-11/14' City News Bureau Marie Sauer, The Washington Post; Gwen M. Dobson, the Evening Star, and Gloria Ohliger, the Washington Daily News. Ad Club Doffs\ Hat To Women's Editors By Elizabeth Shelton Washington Post Btaf! Writert The Advertising Club of The recurring headlines Me ITT)politan Washington . w,ere What? When? Why? day by honoring the worn.' en's section editor's of three: Washington dailies and ,? conferring a silver medal' on its own Woman of Distinction. /For the event, held in the Cotillion Room of the Sher-. The three were Marie aton-Park, the club put out a Sauer, ?editor of the For and About Women section of special issue of Women's , The Washington Post; Gloria Day News, yoL. 4L_ Ohliger, women's_ _ editor, Who? Women and nearly every story began: "Never underestimate the power of a woman." The editors received their "awards of excellence" from club president Richard C. Vierbuchen, vice president of the Washington Gas Light 'Co. Washington Daily News, and Gwen Dobson, editor of ;the Evening Star's Society and Home section. Mary Pitsch, one of the Ad Club's first women Mem:. bers, was honored as the 1966 Woman of Distinction. She and her husband, Ray, operate Adprint, a local printing firm which uses the silk screen process. WINDSOR BOOTH, presi- dent of the National Press Club and news service chief of the National* Geographic Society, was the luncheon's main speaker. Seated at the head table with the club's officers and the award winners were. Nicholas Blatchford, manag- ing editor of The News; Ken- neth Harter, night managinii editor of The Post, and I. William Hill, managing edi- Also in places of honor 1 were courturier Jacques Heim, whose designs were shown by Garfinckel models during a fhshion shOw fol- lowing the luncheon, and , his daughter, Mrs. Francois Glotz, who is taking the de- signs on a tour of the United States. The show, featuring cdlanese nylon tricot crea- tions also by Britain's Nor- man Hartnell, Spain's Padio .Rodrigues and Italy's Nicol Fontana, was a presentation of Couture Internationale Sleepwear. tor of The Star. Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2013/12/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100120001-3