CAREER WOMEN MAKE THEIR MARK IN U.S. GOVERNMENT

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1956
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No. F-65-66
March 1965
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CAREER WOMEN MAKr~ THEIR MARK IN U. S. GOVERNMENT
SUMMARY: This article highlights the achievements that brought Federal
Woman's Awards to six U. S. civil service employees. Their
contributions were in the fields of archives management, inter-
national relations, intelligence research, international economics,
mathematical sciences and medical research.
LENGTH: 730 words
PHOTOS: None
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Six of the most brilliant and effective U. S. Government career
women, with specialities ranging from cryptology to cancer research, are
winners of the fifth annual (1965) Federal Woman's Award.
Seventy candidates were nominated by heads of Federal departments
and. agencies for this top honor, the only Government-wide award program
created exclusively to recognize women's achievements. Winners were selected
by a five-member panel of men and women outside Government service.
Outstanding contributions to the quality and efficiency of Federal
career service, influence on major Government programs, and personal qualities
of leadership, judgment, integrity and dedication are the criteria for the
award .
"As opportunities open up for women in more and more professional
occupations, the achievements of each year's winners are becoming increasingly
impressive as proof that women can excel in any field of endeavor," says
Mrs. Katie Louchheim, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Community
Advisory Services and chairman of the awards board.
"We are proud that the Federal Government has led the way in pro-
viding opportunity for women to show what they can do, particularly in the
higher levels of the career service. With strict adherence in the future to
President Johnson's policy of absolute equality of opportunity, more and
more talented young women will be able to achieve successful careers in
Government."
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The award winners are:
Miss Ann Z. Caracristi, who says she "fell into" code work during
World War II, now heads a cryptology division of 1,000 employees at the
National Security Agency and has been responsible for directing multi-million-
dollar research programs. Her citation is for "exceptional competence in
professional management of research and analysis in the fields of mathematics
and languages as applied to cryptology."
"There is always room for an archivist," says Dr. Elizabeth B.
Drewry, who has proved to be one of the best. Director of the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, she also works closely with the
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation. Dr. Drewry was cited for her "out-
standing scholarly and administrative achievements in the field of historical
archives and records management."
Dr. Dorothy M. Gilford, as Director of the Mathematical Sciences
Division of the Office of Naval Research, has initiated new research pro-
grams, including an $18,000,000 one carried out in a dozen countries. She
was cited for "outstanding technical and management contributions" and
"pioneering extension of mathematical techniques to a variety of scientific
programs." Dr. Gilford thinks her field is a good one for women because the
scientific community "accepts women -- especially in computer work."
Miss Carol C. Laise, a top woman foreign service officer in the
State Department, describes her job as Deputy Director for South Asia as
"developing policies and backing up our embassies in that area." Her
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citation expressed it as "brilliant performance and achievements in diplomacy
and advancing U. S. foreign policy objectives through international organiza-
tions." As former deputy to the U. S. Counselor for Political Affairs in
New Delhi, she made such an impact that she was asked to return to that post
during the crisis caused by Communist China's attack on India.
Dr. Sarah E. Stewart, with an impressive career in public health
service, was cited for "extraordinary accomplishments and discoveries in
virology which have changed the course of cancer virus research." Now chief
of a cancer research laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, Dr.
Stewart has won world-wide recognition for her work. "Desire and drive" are
the qualities she recommends for success in her field, which she thinks can-
not have too many trained people.
"Diligence" is the quality Dr. Penelope H. Thunberg, an international
economist at the Central Intelligence Agency, puts at the top of the list in
her field. Now Deputy Chief of the International Division, Dr. Thunberg
earned a national. reputation when she served on the staff of the President's
Council of Economic Advisors. Her award citation was for "her impressive
contributions to the production of economic intelligence providing a basis
for policy decisions of the U. S. Government."
(See Photo Bulletin No. 14, March 1.965.)
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