1967 FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2001
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• Publication Date: February 7, 1967
• Content Type: LETTER

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
OFFICE OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Incentive Awards Office
Washington,D.C. 20415
February 7, 1967
FROM: John D. Roth, Director
Federal Incentive Award rogram
Attached for your information is a press release issued
by the Board of Trustees of the Federal Woman's Award
announcing the winners of the 1967 Award.
The awards will be presented on March 7 at a ceremonial
banquet to be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel.
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FEflEIUL WOMIX'S iiuafl
Chairman:
Mrs. Katie Louchheim
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Community Advisory Services
Department of State
Vice Chairman:
Hon. Robert E. Hampton
Commissioner
U. S. Civil Service Commission
MEMBERS:
Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter
Press Secretary and Staff Director
to Mrs. Johnson
The White House
Alfred Friendly
Associate Editor
The Washington Post
Hon. Edith Green
United States House
of Representatives
Robert W. Hartley
Vice President for Administration
The Brookings Institution
Miss Miriam Ottenberg
The Evening Star
Hon. Charlotte T. Reid
United States House
of Representatives
Hon. Ralph S. Roberts
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Budget
Department of State
Hon. Rocco C. Siciliano
President
Pacific Maritime Association
635 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, California 94119
Dr. Bennetta B. Washington
Director
Women's Centers Division
Job Corps
Office of Economic Opportunity
Dr. Alan T. Waterman
5306 Carvel Road
Washington, D. C. 20016
Honorary Member and Founder
Hon. Barbara Bates Gunderson
3625 Hall Street
Rapid City, South Dakota
WITH THE
COOPERATION OF
Woodward & Lothrop
WASHINGTON, D. C.
News Release
Care of
U. S. Civil Service Commission
1900 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20415
Not to be used before
February 6, 1967
For further information,
call 343-7397
The six Government career women who will receive the seventh
annual Federal Woman's Award were announced today by Mrs. Katie
Louchheim, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of?the Federal Woman's
Award and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. The winners, chosen
by an independent panel of judges, represent high achievement in the
fields of chemistry, diplomacy, education, housing, medicine, and
pathology. They are being honored for their outstanding contribu-
tions 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 recipients of the Award are:
Miss Elizabeth Ann Brown, Director of the Office of United
Nations Political Affairs, Office of International
Organization Affairs, Department of State.
Dr. Barbara Moulton, Medical Officer, Division of Scientific
Opinions, Bureau of Deceptive Practices, Federal Trade
Commission.
Mrs. Anne Mason Roberts, Deputy Regional Administrator, New
York Region, Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dr. Kathryn Grove Shipp, Research Chemist (Organic),
Advanced Chemistry Division, U. S. Naval Ordnance
Laboratory, Department of the Navy.
Miss Wilma Louise Victor, Superintendent, Intermountain
Indian School, Brigham City, Utah; Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of the Interior.
Dr. Marjorie J. Williams, Director, Pathology and Allied
Sciences Service, Department of Medicine and Surgery,
Veterans Administration.
Citations and biographical data on the Award winners are given below.
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The Federal Woman's Award is the only award program created exclusively for
the purpose of honoring career women in the Federal Government. In announcing
the winners for 1967, Mrs. Louchheim said:
"We are proud'to present these six women whose achievements attest to high
levels of excellence in the Federal Government service. In their diverse fields,
each one of them,has attained outstanding distinction. We hope that these six
winners, like their predecessors, will stand as examples and inspiration to the
millions of young women contemplating careers."
The judges who made the final selections for the 1967 Awards were: Robert
Manning, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor of
Mademoiselle, Kenneth Crawford, Newsweek columnist, Margaret Mary Kearney, WCAU-
TV educational director, and C. Easton Rothwell, president of Mills College.
The winners will receive the awards at a banquet in their honor on March 7
at the Statler Hilton 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.
Citations and Biographical Data on Award Winners
Miss Elizabeth Ann Brown, for her unique accomplishments in the precedent-
building field of multilateral diplomacy. A native of Portland, Oregon, Miss
Brown received her BA from Reed College in Portland in 1940, did graduate work
at Washington State College, and received her MA in international relations and
comparative government from Columbia University in 1943. After two years as
executive assistant to the Chairman of the 12th Region War Labor Board, Seattle,
she came into the Department of State in 1946 as an assistant in the Office of
Special Political Affairs. She progressed through increasingly responsible
positions in the Bureau of United Nations Affairs (now the Bureau of International
Organization Affairs), was appointed to the Foreign Service in 1956, and was made
Acting Officer-in-Charge (1958) and then Officer-in-Charge (1959) of the Office
of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, the first woman to hold that
position. During this period she served as adviser on the U.S. Delegation to
most of the U.N. General Assemblies, in which she had frequent dealings with
heads of other delegations and Foreign Ministers. In 1960 she became First
Secretary (Political Officer) of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany, and during
this assignment was detailed to Geneva as adviser to the U.S. Representative on
the 18-Nation Disarmament Commission. She was appointed Deputy Director of the
Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs in 1963, again the first
woman to hold the position, and became Director in 1965. Miss Brown is one of
a. few top experts in this Government on the Charter and procedures of the United
Nations and other international organizations. She is a principal adviser to
the Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs on policy questions
of a political nature, and makes a major contribution to U.S. policy and the
safeguarding of U.S. political interests on issues ranging from problems in the
fields of disarmament, outer space, international peacekeeping, and decolonization,
to those concerning Southern Africa, Kashmir, Cyprus, Palestine, China, and
Germany. Miss Brown lives in Washington, D. C.
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Dr. Barbara Moulton,.for her uncommon devotion to the protection of consum-
ers in the use of drugs and her great effectiveness in the prevention of de-
ceptive trade practices affecting their health. Dr. Moulton was born in Chicago.
She attended Smith College and the University of Vienna, received her BA degree
from the University of Chicago in 1937, and her MA (1940)and'MD (1944) from
George Washington University. She taught anatomy at George Washington in
1947-48, and was in general practice as a physician for the next ten years, with
Group Health Association, Washington, D.C.; the Student Health Service, Washington
State College; Student Health Service, Illinois State Normal University (Assist-
ant Director); and Chicago Municipal Contagious Disease Hospital (Assistant
Medical Director). She was instructor in medicine at the University of Illinois
in 1953, and in general practice in Bethesda, Md., from 1954 to 1958. In 1955
she entered Federal service as Medical Officer in the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, evaluating the scientific
data submitted by manufacturers as evidence of safety of new drugs. In 1960
she resigned from FDA to devote her time as a private citizen to assembling and
presenting testimony to Senator Kefauver's Subcommittee which was then inves-
tigating the drug industry, and most of her recommendations for increased
consumer protection were subsequently enacted by the Congress in the Kefauver-
Harris amendments. to the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act. In 1961 Dr. Moulton was
appointed to her present position in the Federal Trade Commission, where she
has spearheaded an attack on consumer deception in the field of nutrition and
hematology. She provides the technical guidance and marshals the evidence that
has resulted to date in several large distributors consenting to.cease-and-
desist orders which prohibit them from making misleading therapeutic claims in
advertising dietary supplements and preparations for the treatment of anemia.
Dr. Moulton is married to E. Wayles Browne, Jr., consulting economist, and
lives in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Anne Mason Roberts, for her outstanding achievements in minority-
group relations, relocation of families, and interagency coordination, in
urban redevelopment programs. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Roberts received
her BA degree in sociology and education in 1928 and her MA in psychology in
1936, both from the University of Cincinnati. She taught in the Cincinnati
public schools before entering Government service in 1945 as a consumer re-.
lations officer for the Office of Price Administration. In 1946 she moved to
the Housing and Home Finance Agency as racial relations officer, and.left in
1948 for private employment. She rejoined HHFA in 1950 as a housing economist
in the Division of Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment, and since then has
held positions of increasingly broad administrative responsibility, including
Field Representative (Relocation and Racial Relations Specialist) for Area IV,
which included all territory west of the Mississippi River; Relocation Adviser
to the Region I Office of HHFA, New York City; Regional Relocation Officer,
Assistant Regional Director for Urban Renewal, and in 1961, Deputy Regional
Director for Urban Renewal. In 1962 she was named Deputy Regional Administrator
for Region I (New England and New York State) of HHFA, with responsibility for
a broad range of Agency programs including the Urban Renewal and Community
Facilities Administrations. In a 19-month interruption of her Federal career,
Mrs. Roberts served as Executive Director of New York City's anti-poverty
program. In June 1966 she was appointed Deputy Regional Administrator of the
recently created Department of Housing and Urban Development. In addition to
general administrative direction, she has the special responsibility for molding
the several program and organizational components of HUD into a cohesive working
unit within a rapidly changing organizational pattern. Mrs. Roberts lives in
New York City; she is married to Stanley Roberts, staff writer with the New York
World-Journal-Tribune, and has three daughters. She is a. member of the National
Urban Leaguehnithe Nadt'on Counc bD61 r~1A?-I~ 4g003113R"t9M04&3sory
Committee on rernaona e1 ousing to the Agency for International Development.
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Dr. Kathryn Grove Shipp, for her high scientific achievement in the discovery
and development of new explosive chemical compounds and her leadership in train-
ing newcomers in difficult and hazardous research. Dr. Shipp was born in
Annandale, Lawrence County, Pa., and graduated from Mills College in 1925 with
the BA degree in chemistry. She was an instructor at Vassar College from 1925
to 1927, and received her PhD degree in organic chemistry from Yale University
in 1930. In 1930-31 she was a National Research Council Fellow at Oxford
University, England. After 26 years as housewife and mother, she picked up
her professional career in 1957 -- not quite where she had left it, considering
the rapid advance of science -- joining the Naval, Ordnance Laboratory at White
Oak, Maryland, as a research chemist. Since then she has organized and
conducted high-level research in the chemistry of high explosives. Her
achievements include important contributions to the chemistry of DATE, the
first military high explosive substance officially adopted for use which was
developed in the United States, the discovery of a new class of explosive
chemical compounds which contribute materially to the range of the Polaris
missile, and probably most important, a new high explosive of great resistance
to extreme environmental conditions. This material, HNS, has unique ability to
withstand the effect of high altitudes and the heats of re-entry, making possible
its use in the Gemini flights and in other applications where conventional explo-
sives could not exist, such as experiments to be conducted on the lunar surface.
Dr. Shipp has received several awards from the Navy Department and has six
chemical patents to her.credit, for one of which she received a $5,000 award
from the Secretary of the Navy. Her 13 technical reports are all under security
classification, and she has six publications in the open literature. She has
worked and competed with men of extensive background in explosive chemistry,
and has become well known as an authority in the field of nitro-aromatic
chemicals. Dr. Shipp has four children and five grandchildren. She lives in
Silver Spring, Md.
Miss Wilma Louise Victor, for her exceptional creative and executive ability
in the administration of a unique and complex school program for disadvantaged
Indian youth. Miss Victor, a member of the Choctaw Tribe, was born in Idabel,
Oklahoma. She attended Kansas University, and received her BS degree in English
and social studies from Wisconsin State College in 1941 and her MA in school
administration from Oklahoma University in 1952. Her service with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, began in 1941 in an apprentice teaching
program at Shiprock Boarding School in New Mexico, at a time when there were few
Indian teachers in the Federal schools. She enlisted in the Women's Army Corps
in 1943, and won promotion to First Lieutenant. Following her discharge in 1946,
she taught at Idabel High School for two years. In 1949 she returned to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs as Academic Supervisor of Intermountain Indian School,
a new 2,000 pupil boarding school for older Navajo adolescents with little or
no prior schooling, planning and directing the program designed to provide them
in five years with sufficient communicative, academic, and vocational skills to
fit them for employment. She later developed an eight-year special program, for
which she received a cash award for superior performance in 1958. In 1961 she
became principal of the Bureau's Institute of American Indian Art, a new boarding
school at Santa Fe for art-talented youth. She returned to Intermountain School
in 1964 in her present position, and has continued to meet the changing needs
and backgrounds of the pupils through development of a high school program for
Navajo youth, along with the gradual phasing-out of the eight-year special
program. The school, which now has an enrollment of 2,100 in the 12-to-18 age
group and a faculty of 377, has received regional accreditation under her leader-
ship. Miss Victor is a member of the Governor's Commission on Indian Affairs
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for the State of Utah, the Utah State Conference on Social Welfare,. and the Council
for Exceptional Children for Northern Utah, and she fills many speaking engagements
on Indian education, both in the United States and in Canada. She lives at the
Intermountain School in Brigham City, Utah.
Dr. Marjorie J. Williams, for her distinguished service as physician, scientist,
and administrator, and her extraordinary contributions to medical programs through-
out the Government. Dr. Williams was born in Calcutta, India, and grew up in Bath,
England. She received her degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of
Bristol, England, in 1944. Between 1944 and 1948 she was successively an assistant
in pathology at the University of Bristol and at Tulane University, and pathologist
at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Mo. In 1949 she entered Government service as
a pathologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Temple, Texas, where she
was Chief of Laboratory Service for over ten years. She was appointed Deputy
Director of the Pathology and Allied Sciences Service of the Veterans Administration
in 1962, and Director in 1963. In 1963 she was also Assistant Clinical Professor
at George Washington University. The only woman to head a major medical program
in the Department of Medicine and Surgery, she directs the activities of the 195
laboratories in the VA hospital system. The laboratories employ a staff of 3,400,
including 320 pathologists. Dr. Williams has revitalized the VA laboratory service,
stimulated research activity by laboratory personnel, strengthened VA's relationships
with medical schools and organizations, established a council of the country's
leading pathologists to advise the agency, and applied modern computer technology
to laboratory operations. She also organized and.is chairman of the. Interagency
Committee on Laboratory Medicine, serves as consultant and adviser to a number
of Federal agencies, and has published 23 scientific articles in professional
journals. She is a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, the American
Society of Clinical Pathologists, and the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Member
of the Royal College of Surgeons. She actively participates in national and
international organizations, including the International Academy of Pathology,
the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the Pathological
Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the American Medical Association, and the
American Medical Women's Association. She is also a member of the American
Association; of University Women. Dr. Williams lives in Washington. She is
married to Dr. Bill H. Williams, a physician with the National Institutes of
Health, and has one son.
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