FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD

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• Publication Date: February 4, 1972
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4 FEB 1972
NOTE TO: DD/Pers/SP
SUBJECT: Federal Woman's Award
Mrs. Helen Marshall, Office of Incentive Systems, Civil
Service Commission, advised today that 6 winners have been
selected for the Woman's Award. The winners will be announced
at a press conference on 2"L February. Agencies who have winners
w??tbe notified by phone and a follow-up letter prior to the press
conference but no time for this action was specified. Mrs. Marshall
also advised that identification of winners cannot be released at this
time.
Chief, BSD
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FEDEIUL 1%OIIA%'S AWARD
News Release
Care of
U. S. Civil Service Commission
1900 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20415
ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY PAPERS For further information
Not to be used before call [phone].
February 24, 1972.
Federal Woman's Award Winners for 1972: The six Government career women who will
receive the twelfth annual Federal Woman's Award were announced today by Mrs. Patricia
Reilly Hitt, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who is Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Federal Woman's Award. The winners, nominated by their
agencies and chosen by an independent panel of judges, are being honored for their
outstanding contributions to the quality and efficiency of the career service of the
Federal Government, for their influence on major Government programs, and for personal
qualities of leadership, judgment, integrity, and dedication.
The six women selected to receive the Award are:
Dr. Lois Albro Chatham, Chief, Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Branch, Division of
Narcotic Addiction and Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, Department
of Health, Education and Welfare, Rockville, Md.
Mrs. Phyllis Dixon Clemmons, RN, Director, Suicide Prevention and Emergency Mental
Health Consultation Service, Mental Health Administration, Department of Human
Resources, Government of the District of Columbia.
Dr. Ruth Margaret Davis, Director, Center for Computer Sciences and Technology,
National Bureau of Standards, De.partmirt of Commerce, Gaithersburg, Md.
Mrs, Mary Harrover Ferguson, Comptroller and Special Assistant (Financial
Management) to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Development,
Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, Arlington, Va.
Dr. Ruth Mandeville Leverton, Science Advisor (Nutrition), Office of the
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Patricia Ann McCre.edy, Public Health Physician, Project Manager of Village
Health Program, Agency for International Development, Vientiane, Laos.
The winners will receive the Awards at a banquet in their honor on March 14 at the
Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.. As a public service, Woodward and Lothrop, Inc., of
Washington defrays all expenses connected with the Federal Woman's Award.
Biographical and career data on each of the Award winners are given below, followed
by the names of the five judges for 1972 and the Trustees of the Federal Woman's
Award.
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Lois Albro Chatham, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who administers the major
Federal program in the treatment of narcotic addiction and drug abuse, a field of great
national concern which has been given high governmental priority. She joined the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1963 as a psychological advisor in the
National Center for Health Statistics. In 1968 she became director of research in the
Division of Narcotic Addiction and Drug Abuse of the National Institute of Mental Health,
and early in 1969 was appointed Chief of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Branch, grade
15. In this position she has built up the Branch and devised the programs to implement
many new laws, establishing the Federal Government's policy and leadership in this field.
Under Dr. Chatham's direction, the program of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilita-
tion Act, which gives her Branch direct responsibility for the care of patients committed
to the Surgeon General, has been expanded to a national network of 166 agencies caring
for over 2,000 patients. She has also developed community-based treatment facilities to
which over 15,000 patients were admitted in fiscal 1971, and initiated an on-going pro-
gram of research on treatment of the narcotic addict and drug abuser. Her policies, such
as strict standards for the use of chemotherapies, insistence on continuity of care, cen-
tralized evaluation of the program, and research as an integral component to treatment,
among others, have had national and international impact on the Federal role in the treat-
ment of the narcotic addict and drug abuser.
From 1958 to 1963 Dr. Chatham was Chief Psychologist for the Austin, Tex., Community
Guidance Center. She was born in Groveland, Ill., and lived in Fort Wayne, Ind.; she
received her BA degree from Houghton College in 1951, her MA from Southern Methodist
University in 1954, and her PhD from the University of Houston in 1960. Her husband,
George N. Chatham, is Aerospace Specialist in Science Policy Research, Library of Congress,
and they live in Washington. She fills frequent consultant and lecturer engagements in
the field of clinical psychology; for relaxation she flies her own airplane.
Phyllis Dixon Clemmons, R.N., is a nurse specializing in the field of mental health
and psychotherapy who planned, established, and directs the first Suicide Prevention and
Crisis Intervention Program in this part of the country. With responsibility for execu-
ting the D.C. Mental Health Laws, she has developed several training programs for both
professional and nonprofessional health workers and clerical staff. Both the suicide
prevention program and the training programs have become models for similar activities
in the United States and in foreign countries.
Mrs. Clemmons obtained her graduate nursing degree from Philadelphia's Mercy Hospital
in 1948 and began her Government career in 1949 at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, the Federal
mental hospital in Washington, D.C. During her 13 years there she introduced several
innovations in the care of the mentally ill that are now widely accepted. She came to
the D.C. Government in 1962 with the new Psychiatric Convalescent and Rehabilitation Cen-
ter at D. C. General Hospital, and in 1965 set up the area's first 24-hour emergency tele-
phone service. She also originated a walk-in service, a mobile emergency mental health
service, and a follow-up program for all individuals utilizing the services. She was
appointed Community Mental Health Officer at grade 12 in 1969. Over the past 6 years she
has provided direct service to more than 11,000 persons in suicidal or other psycho-social
crises; during that time the number of suicide-oriented calls has increased while the num-
ber of suicides has greatly decreased.
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A member of several professional associations, Mrs. Clemmons lectures at various
universities and has published a number of articles and monographs. Awards and honors
she has received include national recognition by the American Psychiatric Association for
her outstanding accomplishment in the training and supervision of paraprofessionals in
remotivation group therapy techniques. She was presented in a nationwide television doc-
umentary, "Who Answers the Cry for Help?" Mrs. Clemmons was born in Apollo, Pa., where her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dixon, still live. She has a son 14 and a daughter 9, and
lives in Suitland, Md.
Guth Margaret Davis, Ph.D., is a mathematician and physicist who is one of the
country's leading pioneers in the young field of computer technology. She directs the
Center for Computer Sciences and Technology, which is responsible for providing advisory
services to the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration
to support the formulation of ADP management and procurement policies, and to other Fed-
eral agencies to assist in the solution of specific automation problems. Since her ap-
pointment in 1970 she has developed the Government's ability to make effective use of
computer technology in such fields as health care, protection of environmental quality,
education, law enforcement, and Government operations.
Dr. Davis began her Federal career in 1955 as a research mathematician in the Depart-
ment of the Navy and progressed through positions there and in the Office of the Secre-
tary of Defense, where she was Staff Assistant for Intelligence and Reconnaissance from
1961 to 1967. She went to the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health, in 1967 as Associate Director for Research and Development, and also directed
the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications there. In the latter po-
sition she brought together the Federal Government and the health care community to
apply computer networking and systems technology to the problem of improving biomedical
communications and making computers more readily accessible to physicians in the deliv-
ery of health care services. In her present position with the National Bureau of Stan-
dards she has initiated research in computer sciences and technology which not only can
save millions of dollars in Government operations but also improve the health and safety
of people. She has received numerous national commendations and citations; among many
other honors are medals for accomplishments in information sciences from universities
in Finland and Sweden, both awarded in 1969.
Dr. Davis was born in Sharpsville, Pa., and graduated from American University in
1950. She earned her MA in 1952 and her PhD in 1955, both from the University of Mary-
land. She is married to Benjamin F. Lohr, Comdr. USN(Ret.), who is Vice President,
Kelly Scientific Corporation, and they live in Silver Spring, Md.
Mary Harrover Ferguson is a financial management expert who during the past 16
years has developed and administered a financial system which has provided resources
vital to the Navy's research and development program. With a dual responsibility as
Comptroller, Office of Naval Research, and Special Assistant (Financial Management) to
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, she deals not only
with complex financial issues but also with high-level scientific, military, and polit-
ical personnel who regularly ask for her counsel on those issues.
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Mrs. Ferguson provides the perfect -- and rare -- example of a complete career in
the Federal civil service, having started at grade I in 1933 with the Depression-born
Farm Credit Administration and progressed steadily upward, through several different
agencies, to her present grade 17. In 1947 she came to the newly created Office of
Naval Research as a budget analyst, advanced to Budget Officer and then to Assistant
Comptroller for Budget and Reports, was appointed Deputy ONR Comptroller in 1968, and
Comptroller in May 1971. She is involved in all aspects of financial management of the
Navy-wide Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program, with authority for commit-
ment in the decision-making process at all levels. Under her direction a staff of 67
analysts, accountants, ADP systems analysts and programmers, and support personnel, ad-
ministers an appropriation of well over $2 billion annually, distributed among 13 admin-
istering offices, to support RDT&E efforts performed by contract with colleges and in-
dustrial organizations and by 45 RDT&E Navy laboratories, test ranges, and installations.
Mrs. Ferguson has received repeated awards and commendations from the Navy Depart-
ment, and last year was named "Woman of the Year" by the American Society of Military
Comptrollers. She is constantly engaged in a wide variety of professional and commun-
ity activities. A native of Manassas, Va., she has an AA degree in business adminis-
tration from George Washington University (1961), and lives in Alexandria, Va. Her
husband, John A. Ferguson, Capt. USN(Ret.), is branch manager of Investors Financial
Services at Landmark, Va. She has two sons (by her first marriage) and five grandchildren.
Ruth Mandeville Leverton, Ph.D., is a scientist in the field of nutrition whose
research and appraisals of research have contributed significantly to adequate diets
and a more satisfying standard of living in this country and worldwide. She has been
instrumental in providing information for planning consumer education programs, for
analyzing the demand for agricultural products, and for determining the food policies
of the Department of Agriculture.
Before entering the Federal service, Dr. Leverton spent 20 years in teaching
nutrition, at the University of Nebraska and later at Oklahoma State University. She
joined the Agricultural Research Service in 1957 as Assistant Director of the Human
Nutrition Research Division, and progressed rapidly through positions of increasing
responsibility in the Service. In 19110 she was appointed Science Advisor for Nutrition
in the Office of the Administrator, at the equivalent of grade 17. Pere she occupies
a key position in the mobilization of the Department's scientific resources for the
worldwide War on Hunger. She directs the expansion of research to provide nutri-
tional knowledge urgently needed in developing countries, and advises on nutritional re-
quirements for foods for distribution in such countries and in domestic programs for
needy families and the school lunch program. She planned and directed the most extensive
survey of food consumption and dietary levels ever attempted in this country, and the
first one to yield data on both individual and family eating habits.
Dr. Leverton is internationally known, not only as a scientist, but as an ac.thor,
lecturer, and educator. She has represented the United States at four Biennial Confer-
ences of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and at a great many inter-
national nutrition conferences. She serves on numerous national committees, and has pub-
lished more than 70 reports of original scientific research and two widely used books on
nutrition. Her many honors include the Borden Award, which she received twice, and an
honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Nebraska. She was born in Minneapolis,
Minn., and received her BS degree in 1928 from the University of Nebraska, her MS in 1932
from the University of Arizona, and her PhD in 1937 from the University of'Chicago. She
lives in Washington, D.C.
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Patricia Ann McCreedy, M.D., is a public health physician who has major responsi-
bility for the Village Health Program of the Agency for International Development, at
Vientiane, Laos. In this program, which assists the Royal Lao Government by extending
medical and clinical services to remote rural areas, Dr. McCreedy has been directly
and indirectly responsible for operational aspects of keeping an average of 176 rural
dispensaries staffed and supplied with medicines; for operation and staffing of eight
hospitals with a total capacity of 614 in-patients and operating at a level of 343,686
? patient-visits per year; and for the training of nurses, sanitarians, and other
paramedical personnel, many of whom are illiterate at the outset, to staff these in-
stallations. She makes all necessary personal inspections, including installations
surrounded by North Vietnamese armed forces. Since many of these areas are accessible
only by air, she travels for hours daily in single-engine aircraft, often in dangerous
weather, over mountain ranges and across jungles, and shares the life and homes of simple
villagers in remote, enemy-encircled, malarial areas. Because of her detailed knowledge
of these places and people, she has made valuable contributions to the Government's
knowledge and understanding of the refugee problems in Laos, and also of the narcotics
problem.
Dr. McCreedy was born in St. Louis, Mo., graduated from Loyola University in 1947,
and earned her M.D. degree at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1951.
Following several years in private practice in Maringouin, La., she served two years as
Public Health Officer in American Samoa, and in 1964 went to Laos as Project Manager of
the Village Health Program. She is also manager of the Population and Family Planning
Project there, and Contract Representative for the Operation Brotherhood Activity.
Dr. McCreedy and her husband, Dr. Charles L. Weldon, senior officer at the A.I.D. Vientiane
mission, often work as a team. They have three children, a daughter 19 and two sons 17
and 15. Their home when in this country is in Biloxi, Miss.
JUDGES FOR THE 1972 FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD
The five judges who made the final selections of recipients of the Federal Woman's
Award for 1972 are:
Hon. Sylvia Bacon, Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Formerly Assistant United States Attorney and also Associate Director of the President's
Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia, Judge Bacon was appointed to the D. C.
Superior Court by President Nixon in 1970.
Miss Joan Crawford, Director of the Pepsi-Cola Company, New York City. Miss
Crawford, star of some 50 motion pictures and an Academy Award winner, has been on the
Board of Directors of Pepsi-Cola for more than 10 years.
Mr. Malcolm Forbes, President and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine. Following
10 years as its editor and publisher, Mr. Forbes became the third president of Forbes
Magazine Inc. in 1964. He was also New Jersey State Senator, 1951-1958, Republican
candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1957, and New Jersey delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1960.
Dr. Milton Harris, founder and President of the Harris Research Laboratories,
Washington, D.C., and former Vice President and Director of Research of the Gillette
Company. Author of 200 scientific papers and holder of 35 patents, Dr. Harris has
been active in a wide variety of business, scientific, and governmental organizations.
Mrs. Jeannette Edris Rockefeller, member of the President's Commission on Mental
Retardation and also of the Advisory Committee for the National Center for Voluntary
Action. Well iP, \rtarF~Plkeig&99 0671$?~CYAE`b tbUStiPOMN240b'2t=O Rockefeller
lives in Seatt1 , Wash.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD
Chairman:
Mrs. Patricia Reilly Hitt.
Assistant Secretary for Community
and Field Services
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare
Miss Miriam Ottenberg
Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter
The Evening Star
Mrs. Charlotte T. Reid
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission
Vice Chairman:
Robert E. Hampton
Chairman
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Dr. Allen V. Astir
Director Emeritus
National Bureau of Standards
Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley
Chairman
Federal Maritime Commission
Benjamin C. Bradlee
Executive Editor
The Washington Post
Joseph B,. Danzansky
President
Giant Food, Inc.
Rocco C. Siciliano
President, T. I. Corporation
of California
Dr. Benetta B. Washington
Associate Director for Women's
Programs and Education.
Department of Labor
Miss Barbara M. Watson
Administrator
Bureau of Security and Consular
Affairs
Department of State
Mrs. H, Douglas Weaver
President
Federation of Republican Women
of the District of Columbia
Founder and Honorary Member
Mrs. Barbara Bates Gunderson
Rapid City, South Dakota
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