WOMEN MAKE THEIR MARK

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: February 8, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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SIX SMART WOMEN carnin,
an average $20,000 annually and
with specialties ranging from
cloak and dagger code work to
cancer research are the winners
of this year's Federal Woman's
Award.
One of the women has the rank'
of medical officer in the Public
Health Service, equal tic an Army,
colonel or Navy chptain. The oth-
ers are all civilians. Two are mar-
sonal qualities of leadership, ludg-1 DILIGENCE Is the outs`an(iing
ment, integrity and dedication, the: uality recommended to young
award's fifth annual recipients eople by the six winners of t his
are: ear's Federal Woman's Award
AND TI,M23 'Heu Ai D
"As up 'vL
women in more ant: more profes
sional occupations these awards
become increasingly valuaale-and
the achievements of each year's.
winners become .increasingly im-
pressive-as. proof Hat women can
excel In any field o" endeavor.
"We are proud th.?t the Federal
Government has ]ell the way in
providing. opportuniies for wom-
en to show what they can do, par-
ticularly in the higher levels of
career service. With stric,: adller-
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Selected for their outstanding, icy of opportunity, more ar.d more
contributions to the quality and' talented young women will he able
efficiency of career Federal serv-' to achieve successful careers in
ice, their influence on major Gov Government."
ernment programs and for per-'
Ann Z. Caracristi, NSA ' seniorJ ' This and high standards of ex-
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intelligence research analyst and; ellence Were: stressed again and
chief of office at Ft. George G.I gain at a press conference the
Meade; Elizabeth B. Drewry, GSA,; op Federal women held Friday at
director of the Franklin D. Roost-, he Civil Service Commission.
velt Library at Hyde Park, N.Y.;' HERE ARE thumbnail biog.ra-.!
Dorothy Morrow Gilford, director' hies of the Federal Woman's
of the mathematical sciences di- ward winners and some of their
vision of the Office of Naval Re-: dvice to college student:: and
search; Carol C. Laise, deputy oung people ? preparing for Fed-
director of the State Department ral careers:
Office of South Asian Affairs;
Dr. Sarah E. Stewart, head of the. ANN Z. CARACRISTI
human virus studies section of the ? When this Bronxviile, 'N.Y., na
National Cancer Institute, Bethes-; ve majored in English at Russell
da, and Penelope Hartland Thun- , age College in Troy, N.Y., she
berg, CIA deputy chief, Interna-! ad no idea 'she would wind u
tionai Division, Office of RtsearehJ an expert in the field of cryp.
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and Reports. logy in Army security work. She THE SIX were selected from a! ell into" code work during World
field of 70 by the following panel: ar II, after working in the adver.
William S. White, journalist, sing department of a newspaper.
chairman; Marion B. Folsom, for- i- Nov, ?? "?"la a mnior National
mer Health, Education and Wel- """"y i`bency element of nearly
fare Secretary; Mary Pillsbury 00 employes and has technical
Lord, former U.S. Representative d operational responsibilities in
lying computers as well as codes.
to the U.N.; Anne C=ary Pannell,
Sweet Briar College president, and a has been responsible for the,'
Caskie Stinnett, Holiday magazine velopment and direction of,
editor. llti-million-dollar research pro-'
The winners will receive their ' ms of vital Importance to the-
wards at a banquet in their honor tional defense.
March 2 in the Statler Hilton. Of her work she says,. "I'.m a
The women earn from $18,170 to s i ht executive. I do a bit of a
$$22,391 In their careers and, in age, 1 of things." When a magazine
average a year less than aity',otlitr f Is open in the dentist's off-Ice,
crop of winners of the awards, es- ,t cryptogram she closes it.
tablished in 1060. Woodward & .'
Lothrop makes the awards cere- ; oung men and women can'
mony possible. l h e exciting careers in mathe
In nossibl n + the award. win- n ics, computer work, liberal ar'ts'
ners' names, Katie Louehheim, Ai ( linguistics," she says.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of'I g cc is important."
State for Community Advisory ' B ZAEETII R. DREWRY
Services and chairman of the Washington native with bathe.
oard of trustees of the Federal to ' and master's degrees in the
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brrsi~urg, Pa., before joining Na-- in political science, sh. began her A -native of Stoneham, Mass., she
tional Archives in 1936. Federal career in 10,o with th 'Ircce;ved her bachelor's degree in
There she headed the Govern- Civil Service Comniiizio.n a; a cc.onomic:; from Brown, her ma:,-
ent's drive from 1950 to 1961 to junior professional assistant. 1cr's anci l h.D. degrees in ecu
.g get all federal records under one N
itomics and international tra.:c
ow she is the stte Dt
acoar retention and disposal system. She ment's'expert and Deputy Director from Radcliffe. She taught ,.4
also advised the Edison Founds- -Wclis, Holyoke and Brown and
tion on organization and mainte- for South Asia. This includes India,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ceylon and .ervcd on the staff of the Presi-
nancc of the papers of inventor Nepal. Sh
Thomas A. Edison e served in New Delhi dcnrs Council of Economic Ad-
.
Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park,
N.Y., finds her scholar] ")Developing pplicics and back- pa invent coal research office con-
N.Y., pursuits ing up our embassies in this area" tract specialist. -
:among the family papers frequent- is the way she terms her work.,
ly interrupted by pilgrimages of. ?
`tourists and the incursion of. tele-; Brilliant performance and
vision cameras for memorial cere-: achievements in diplomacy and ad
monies. The latter recur on Jan., Vancing U.S. foreign policy objec-
30, FDR's birthday; April 12, the' {,fives through international organ-.
-day he died; May 30 (Memorial
. Day) and Oct. 11, Mrs. Roosevelt's, izalions" is the way her citation
death date. . expresses it.
Dr. Drewry said there is "always; DR- SARAH E. STEWART'
room for an archivist.".She recom She worked for years on animals
mends, a background in history - 4-
virus Induced. Now her work is
DOROTHY M. GILFORD with humans with the major draw-
Even though her office is In the back to her research the plain fact
Navy's "attic," she thinks her field that there is "no host" in which to '
,of mathematics Is a good one for
women because the scientific corn-' .reproduce.
. munity "accepts women-especial. Born in Mexico where her fa-
ly in computer work." j ther was a mining engineer, she ,
An Ottumwa, Iowan, with bache-, moved to the States as a child. She
ilor's and master's degrees 'In, graduated from New Mexico Stafc
mathematics from the University University in 1927, and went: on to
of Washington, she did graduate! earn master's and doctor's degrees'
work in statistics at Bryn Mawr." in bacteriology from Ma:e..r chu-
and Columbia. She was an assistant sects State and the U;dver:s;t.y of
professor of statistics at George. Chicago. She taught ;ticdical b.ac-,
Washington before joinin
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Civil Aeronautics Administration shy medical school and, when it
in 1948 to head its biometrics became co-educational, enrolled to:
,branch, become the school's first woman l
'? Now she is the only woman graduate.
,among the Office of Naval Re. In her Public Health Service re-
search's six division directors who search work she has won world-
cover all fields of science. Married wide recognition for her' unique
to a scientist who does work sim- discovery that certain virus Strains
filar to her own, she initiated new can jurD- snerioa and nr+uluce.
research' programs including in' cancers in other than their natural
$18 million one in a dozen coun-' host,5.
tries, and contributed notably to "Desire and -drive" are the e-e-
the Polaris program and to elec-' mcnts she recommends. She
tronic equipment reliability. dohsn't' think her field can., have
? She advises math-minded young too many trained people.
people to send for the career book-
lets published by professional so-i PENELOPE 11. TIiUNI ERG
cities. She thought on her way to the
CAROL C. LAISE award press conference "how com.
One of four women Class I for. fortrable was the cloak of anonym.
eign service officers, she has lty that had just swooshed away."
served on selection boards and has, Her work in planning economics
By WSIJ:+ "rcNamee. stn(! Photographer
DOE.! i'ny' 11, GILFORI)
Navy relies on her
confidence that the State Depart- research for the Central Intelli-
meet picks people on merit. She; gence Agency rcryuiin reading, ? ~Clbt u
is happy and writing' and her
ppy to point out that one of research sources are not. to he
her rank, Margaret. Tebbets, is found In the Library of Congress'
now an Ambassador, and another,! catalog.
a previous Federal Woman's Award . Now that, the .Chinese are be-
. winner, hay Bracken, Is deputy' ginning to talk a little about their
chief of mission In Wellington, N.L.' accomplishments the difficulty of ,
A Winchester native and grail- such work as pvAt?nHn
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brilliant diplomatist
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