THEIR HAPPY CYNICISM GOT SIX WOMEN AWARDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200460025-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
AND TIMES HERALD
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Got Six
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are so modest about their
achievements that they
wouldn't talk about them if'
they could, heard; their ac-:
complishmcnt~ in behalf of
the American people praised,
last night at tn' 5th annual
Federal Woman's Award din-.
nor In the St atler Hilton.
Two of the women, Ann Z.
Caracristi, "SA senior intel-
ligence rest arch analyst, and
Penelope 11. Thunberg, CIA
deputy chief, international
division, are, in top-secret
work. The other winners are
Elizabeth Drewry, Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library direc-
tor; Dorothy Morrow Gil-
ford, Navy mathematical sci-
ences division director, Car-
ol C. Laise,~South Asian Af-
fairs deputy director, State
,Department, and Dr. ,Sarah
E: Stewart, who directs hu-
man virology studies at
NIH. ,
TOASTMASTER William
'S. White, journalist, who
By E ;zab4!,.u Shelton
Waah;yttnn cost Foot WrtLcr
headed the panel of judges
said of the women:
"I was ituprsesed that th
ernment could produce s
many people of high achieve
"Every one of t h e
,,deserves a medal from a
grateful Government and
grateful people."
Ile prefaced his remark;
with a whimsical. apology
for "male curntudgeonism"
about feminine achieve-
ment., Ile said the chip
against career women the.
many middle-aged men Carry
on their shoulder goes back.
to school days when a boy
hated to risk being called
{ "teacher's pet."
Katie Louchheim, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State
for ? Community Advisory
Services, who presided over
the dinner, said each of the
winners has arrived at a
"happy cynicism" to w a r ?d
;being a woman. ?
"It's a good time to be a
Woman," Mrs. Louchheim
omen Aw~rds'
friends that she today husband will leave today on
said, citing President John-
son's promotion and appoint-; a trip to Africa and. Asia.
meat of 2000 women to., She said she was,pleased
utilize fully their abilities. with progress in New York
"If you are a woman you,
ou on the recommendations` in
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are
. are a man, an employer,' the report of the Status of
Women Commission.
FOIAb3b
DIRS. GILFORIJ talks in
the accents of a scientist,
which she is, and supplies
the only feminine voice on
the Office of Naval Re-
search's team of six division
directors whose expertise
and cannot property appre-
ciate women, you are 'out'." Dr. Stewart's s i s t r r, covers all scientific disci-
Woodward and Lothrop,; Laura, who is also a N11i plines. She conducted a
"our hosts," are "very much'; scientist working on caned. $18--million research - pro
'in,"' she said, introducingl.research, was escorting gram in ?a dozen countries
Woodward and Lothrop's i 'their mother, Concha Stew-
president, Andrew J. Parker, art, -around the room. Dr., winning the outspoken re
The department store an. Laura's `work is in the of- : apect of military men, (,du
nually makes the dinner feet oLheat on fat. 'French caters and the ;ntcr-iN`iona
possible. fried foods,'! she ovei?simpli' scientific tithe ty.
fird, to make
EACH of the women s ! able. 'It nnrlcrstand-~ Miss Laise sprala in 11t
wa
escorted by a boss from herI All previous winners of 'tactful. tones of a liplomat
agency as she went to the, the award attended the din--i advancing U.S. foreign poll
microphone to receive her! nor,,. except two who had-1 cy objectives through inter
bronze medal from Pulitzer; flit. Evelyn Anderson camel national organizations. She
Prize winner White. t'he all the way from the Amend
medals, encased in lath-1 Research Center, near San! is-.a State Department ex
were accompanied by looath- Francisco, 'for the event. pert on South Asia ;and this
lee-bound citations. ~ does noi include the eastern
The ceremony, took lace' I41SS CARACRISTI and
h e f o r e a sPlit-let l hca part where the Viet-Con
C ~ Mrs. Thunberg both put
table. Seated with , .win- trouble I. going on).
~he their unusually high degree
hers on the top lc+vel were, Dr. Stewart toight have
Assistant Secretary of Labor! of persona] Intelligence to'; spoken Mexican, like ape,
Esther Peterson and U.S. wont in collecting Intel- mother,- but moved to the
Treasurer Kathryn O' H a y, al secligenceptorityinsure the nation-? States when she was 5. Nov
Granahan. her erudite talk usually con
.
On the second deck were; cerns viral carcinogcnesis
the judges. They included A code expert whose con 1"A commissioned officer in
Mrs. Oswald Lord, former, tribution to the National Se- the U.S. Public . II e a I t Y
U.S. Representative to the curity Agency has been to Service, she heads the hu
U.N.; Anne Gary Pannell plan and direct multi-mil- man virus. stutlies section
Sweet Briar College presi-'lion dollar research pro- and, is celebrated for he
dent, and Caskie Stinnett, grams, Miss C.a r a c r i st r unique discovery that err.
Curtis Publishing Co. editor. speaks the language of cryp- twin virus strains jump spr
F o r in e r HEW Secretary tology through computers in, cies barriers and produce
Marion B. Folsom remained her administrative job. cancers ? in other than-their
on the job in Rochester Mrs. Thunberg (associates
call her "Dr." because she natural, hosts.
N.Y., o wh Eastman he is dKodak ke. of, holds a' Ph.D.) serves the Two of these brainy wo
the
Co. Ca;r, and
Trustees were seated -. at Central Intelligence Ag men combine m
ency.' career.Leon Gifford is
the head table and were in" She speaks the, language. of" a statistician with Operation.
troduced as they. took their money; and directs the agen- Inc. in Silver
seats. cy's major research in the.{ Research, Thu
For Elizabeth Carpenter,' 14` Sin Soviet bloc's ititerna- i Sct,g s+ a Howard E. Thusn
press secretary to Mrs. Lyn- ; do al economic activities. in the Office of Coal Re
don B. Johnson, the intro Miss Drewry (she, too, is search ch of the Department o
unction was: "The creative, a? Ph.D.)- speaks .the Tarn , the oflnra
West-wings of the White . Director of the . F.D.R. a-?
House." ? hrary at Ilyde- Park; N.Y.,
she is In charge of all the.`-
AT A RECEPTION in the late - President's archives,
Pan American Room for and is working toward an
head table guests and award addition to house those of..,
winners,, a1Mrs.?? 1Lord ;, told his wife: ? the late .'E1eanorI ,,
Roosevelt, as well..'
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