FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD NEWS RELEASE

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• Publication Date: February 19, 1974
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FEflEIUL WOMAN'S ALIItD
News Release
ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING NEWSPAPERS, FEBRUARY 20
NOT TO BE USED BY PRESS, RADIO, OR TV BEFORE
6:30 P.M., EDT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1974.
Care of
U. S. Civil Service Commission
1900 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20415
A cancer researcher, speech pathologist, library automation
expert, international lawyer, doctor, and foreign service officer
will be the recipients of the prestigious Federal Woman's Award
for 1974. The six winners, selected from among over 150 Federal
career women nominated by their employing agencies, were announced
today by Civil Service Commission Vice Chairman Jayne B. Spain,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Woman's Award.
The six winners, who will receive their awards at the 14th
Annual Federal Woman's Award Banquet on March 5 at the Shoreham
Hotel, are:
Mrs. Henriette D. Avram, Chief, MARC Development Office,
Library of Congress.
Miss Edna A. Boorady, Regional Legal Adviser, Agency for
International Development.
Dr. Roselyn Payne Epps, M.D., Chief, Division of Maternal
and Child Health, Community Health and Hospitals Administration,
Department of Human Resources, Government of the District of
Columbia.
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Or. Brigid Gray Leventhal, M.D., Head, Chemo-immunotherapy Section,
'ediatric Oncology Branch, Medical Oncology Area, Division of
.ncer Treatment, National Cancer Institute.
Mrs. Gladys P. Rogers, Special Assistant for Women's Affairs to
ie Deputy Under Secretary for Management, Department of State.
Dr. Madge Skelly, Ph.D., Chief, Audiology and Speech Pathology
Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.,
Veterans Administration.
,.e Federal Woman's Award is Government-wide in scope, and is unique
;r, that it is the only award program in the Federal Government that
_s exclusively for women. The winners are judged for their contributions
the Federal Government, based upon specific accomplishments that have
;.made, or are making, an important contribution to administrative, social,
scientific, or technical progress in the work of a Federal agency.
'ersonal qualities of leadership, or sustained individual performance,
ntegrity, honesty, and judgment are also required.
the Federal Woman's Award was founded in 1960, and the first awards
were presented in the spring of 1961. The award program is administered
_Dy a Board of Trustees of 12 members located in Washington, D.C. The
Board is an independent body having no official connection with the
Government. As a public service, Woodward and Lothrop, Inc., of
Washington. D.C., defrays all expenses connected with the Federal Woman's
!ward .
graphical and career data on each of the Award winners and the
names of the five judges for 1974 and the Trustees of the Federal
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Henriette D. Avram is an information systems analyst who is Chief of the
MARC Development Office of the Library of Congress. Her duties include
directing all of the research and development projects necessary for automation
of the technical process of the Library's bibliographic services.
Mrs. Avram came to the Library of Congress in 1965 after 12 years of
experience as a computer systems analyst. In eight years she has become
the single most influential person in the field of library automation, both
nationally and internationally. She developed a standard format for the
interchange of bibliographic records in machine-readable form -- called the
MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) format -- which has been endorsed by the
American Library Association and other organizations. This format has become
an international standard, which will make possible worldwide sharing of
,bibliographic information in an automated mode, and has made the Library of
Congress the acknowledged leader in library automation and standardization
efforts.
Mrs.'Avram's leadership abilities are demonstrated by her chairmanship
of the international Federation of Library Associations' Working Party on
Content Designators, and other committees. She is a member of the Board of
Editors of the Journal of Library Automation, and the only recipient ever of
the Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification who was not a
librarian.
Her accomplishments include a large number of reports written and speeches
and lectures given, especially the series of MARC Institutes that she has
proposed, developed, and attended.
Mrs. Avram was born in New York City and attended Hunter College and
George Washington University. She lives in,Silver Spring, Md., and is
married to Herbert Avram, and they have three children: Lloyd, 29, Marcie, 27,
and Jay, 18.
Edna A. Boorady is an attorney who is Regional Legal Adviser in Southeast
Asia for the Agency for International Development. Since 1967 she has been
providing legal advice and assistance in the implementation of AID's programs --
primarily in Thailand, but also for AID,missions in Laos, Cambodia, the
Philippines, and Indonesia, and for AID's Regional Development Programs for
Southeast Asia. Her duties include representation of U.S. Government interests
in litigation and settlement of claims and disputes arising out of AID programs,
some of which are complex problems involving international economic, financial,.
and political aspects.
Miss Boorady began her Federal career in June 1944, when she went to work
as a Special Assistant and Principal Aide to the Chief of Mission to the
United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration's Mission in Albania.
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After graduating from Fordham University magna cum laude in 1951 and earning
her law degree from Cornell Law School in 1954, Miss Boorady went to work in
the Office of the General Counsel for AID. She was named Assistant General
Counsel for Management and Administration in 1961.
She was a leading force in the creation of AID and in the development of
legislation and procedures to insure the continuity of operations previously
conducted by the International Cooperation Administration and the Development
Loan Fund.
Miss Boorady's experience in AID legal matters has ranged widely over the
activities of the agency, starting with the so-called "housekeeping functions"
such as personnel, security, management planning, and administrative services.
During her association with AID, she has drafted and substantiated legislative
changes needed for the administration of AID's economic development programs,
provided legal advice and assistance to the senior managers of the multi-billion-
dollar program, and worked closely in the development and monitoring of the
agency's multilateral and bilateral agreements.
In 1972 Miss Boorady was promoted to the rank of Foreign Service Reserve
Officer, Class 1, the highest career rank in the AID system. Other honors
include being the AID nominee for the Tom Clark Award in 1962, recipient of
the AID Meritorious Service Citation in 1963, and nominee for AID Woman of
the Year in 1969.
Roselyn Payne Epps, M.D., is a doctor with the Department of Human
Resources of the District of Columbia Government. She has been Chief of the
Division of Maternal and Child Health since 1971, having served before in the
position of Director of the Clinic for Retarded Children; Chief, Infant and
Preschool Health Division; and Director, Children and Youth Project.
Throughout her career in the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, she
has paved the way for acceptance of new ideas and expedited change, making
possible planned parenthood educational services in clinics, the addition
of social workers to child health teams, expansion of the nurse's role in
treating mental retardation, inclusion of nutrition counseling in child
health services, a program of family-health center aides, and a team approach
to problem solving and management.
Dr. Epps is a native of Little Rock, Ark., and received her B.S. degree
from Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina and her M.D. from Howard
University in Washington, D.C. She holds elected offices and actively works
with many professional, civic, and social organizations, including the
programs of the Children's International Summer Villages, a worldwide summer
exchange camp for 11-year olds. To encourage other young women to enter
medicine, she sponsored the Howard University Junior Branch of the American
Medical Women's Association. From 1961 to 1963 she was the author of a
weekly newspaper column entitled "Your Children's Health."
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She is married to Dr. Charles H. Epps, Jr., Chief of the Division of
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Howard University College of Medicine, and they
have four children: Charles H. III, 16, Kenneth, 14, Roselyn, 11, and
Howard, 10.
Brigid Gray Leventhal is Head of the Chemo-immunotherapy Section of
the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute. She is a
recognized authority on acute leukemia, and is responsible for the design
of treatment programs that have substantially improved the prognosis of
leukemia patients.
Since joining the National Cancer Institute as a postdoctoral fellow
in 1964, she has successfully applied a unique combination of talents to
this growing field: a thorough understanding of clinical and investigative
aspects of childhood leukemia; lengthy experience in the art and sckeiicd'of"
leukemia management; organizational ability in managing a laboratory, ward,
and clinic; and competent laboratory research, both independent and
collaborative. In addition, she is cited for her realistic yet compassionate
approach to the families of children with leukemia.
Dr. Leventhal has pioneered in the development of immunotherapy at the
NIH Clinical Center, and has supervised an active laboratory program in
tumor immunology. Her laboratory was among the first to recognize immunologic
"rebound" phenomenon following chemotherapy. She has now gathered preliminary
evidence that anti-leukemia antibodies can be stimulated by the inoculation
of a lymphoblast culture vaccine.
In addition to her efforts in the fields of chemotherapy and
immunotherapy, Dr. Leventhal has made numerous contributions in other areas.
She has worked extensively on the problem of, meningeal leukemia, and she
has organized the computerization of clinical data for ease in data retrieval
and analysis. Dr. Leventhal recently assumed total responsibility for
directing the outpatient clinic, and has participated in the teaching program
of the clinic.
Dr. Leventhal, a Phi Beta Kappa, graduated from the University of
California at Los Angeles with highest honors and received her M.D. from
the"Harvard School of Medicine. She is married to Dr. Carl M. Leventhal, M.D.,
and they have four children: George, 11, Sarah, 9, Dinah, 7, and James, 4.
Gladys P. Rogers is the Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary
for Management in the State Department. She has played a highly significant
role in effectively organizing and staffing the Department of State to enable
the Secretary to carry out his responsibilities.
Early in her career she proposed and developed a program to consolidate
and improve the overseas administrative support capability of the Department
and other foreign affairs agencies. She also played a decisive role in
development of the concept of Country Director, resulting in departmental
reorganization of key bureaus.
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In 1967 Mrs. Rogers was appointed to the Foreign Service Inspector Corps,
which functions as an evaluator of the effectiveness of the Department's
operations overseas. The first woman ever appointed to this post, she brought
her expertise in management to bear on a wide range of embassies and subordinate
posts abroad by constructive recommendations to effect needed improvements.
In 1971 she was appointed to the newly created position of Special
Assistant for Women's Affairs. In this capacity she designed a wide-ranging
program to improve the status of women in the Department and the Foreign
Service. A few of her accomplishments in this job include being instrumental
in obtaining several "firsts" in the assignment of women to jobs that were
previously closed to them, sparking a program to enhance the prestige and
developmental opportunities of secretaries, and designing a sound internal
public relations program alerting all women to their rights.i She is also
given major credit for doubling the number of women in the Foreign Service
since 1970, eliminating consideration of a woman's marital status in
determining long-term training opportunities, and establishing an annual
"Secretary of the Year Award" in the Department of State.
Mrs. Rogers joined the Department of State in 1960 as a senior management
analyst, having worked before for the Office of Emergency Management, the
United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Organization, the Foreign Operations
Administration, and as a self-employed management consultant.
Mrs. Rogers is a graduate of the University of California. She is
married to G. Norman Rogers, a management consultant, and they have three
children: William, an attorney, John, a writer, and Sherry, a student.
Madge Skelly, Ph.D., is a speech pathologist who is Chief of the
Audiology and Speech Pathology Service of the Veterans Administration Hospital
in St. Louis. By her clinic research she has contributed innovative approaches
to patient treatment, such as compensatory speech for those whose tongues
have been excised, gestural language for the speechless based on American
Sign Language, and kinetic communication for the blind patient who is also
deaf. She is responsible for initiating the clinic at the St. Louis VA
hospital, and has donated time and expertise to assist seven local hospital-s
in establishing clinics. In addition, she has worked with state, national,
and international organizations and agencies with workshops for improving
service to the handicapped.
Before entering Government, Dr. Skelly was a nationally known professional
actress, director, playwright, and newspaper correspondent, as well as a
college teacher. She appeared on the stage in hundreds of featured roles,
made two movies, wrote a weekly theater column for a newspaper chain, and
served as a foreign correspondent on European theater. She has written 20
full-length plays and written and produced radio serials. She has also been
extremely active in the reactivation of old professional opera houses.
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In 1957, while operating a professional resident theater company,
Dr. Skelly became interested in the problems of people with speech disorders
and earned a Ph.D. in education and speech pathology in 1961. Since that
time she has held five HEW fellowships in various areas of the field, and
has done additional postdoctoral study. She has served since 1964 as Chief
of the Audiology and Speech Service at the Veterans Administration Hospital
in St. Louis, and has recently been appointed to the faculty of the Medical
School of St. Louis University, the first professor in her field in this
hospital. Dr. Skelly was the first woman awarded an Upjohn Company fellowship
to Europe and one of only six women in the nation holding the rank of Chief,
Audiology and Speech Pathology Service, in the Veterans Administration. She
is also one of the few women in the VA surgery research program nationally.
In addition to serving on numerous committees in her field and in the
theater, she serves as president of the Missouri Speech and Hearing Association,
and speaks at numerous professional conventions. She taught previously at
the University of Southern Illinois, Fontbonne College, Maryville College,
the University of Arizona, and Temple University. In the past seven years,
Dr. Skelly has written numerous articles for professional publications
and has co-authored two books in her field.
A native of Pittsburgh, Dr. Skelly earned a B.A. degree from Seton Hill
College, M.A. from Duquesne University, and Ph.D. from St. Louis University.
She has done additional predoctoral study at the University of Arizona and
postdoctoral study at the Medical School of the University of Kansas.
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JUDGES OF THE FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD, 1974
Lindy Boggs, Member of Congress from the Second District
of Louisiana.
Dr. Andre E. Hellegers, M.D., Director, The Joseph and Rose
Kennedy Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Bioethics,
Georgetown University.
Wauhillau La Hay, Journalist. Staff Writer for Scripps-Howard
Newspapers, Washington Bureau.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Associate
Director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Julia Montgomery Walsh, Senior Vice President, Ferris & Company, Inc.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL WOMAN'S AWARD
Chairman
Mrs. Jayne B. Spain
Vice Chairman
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Dr. Allen V. Astin
Director Emeritus
National Bureau of Standards
Honorable Sylvia Bacon
Judge
Superior Court of the
District of Columbia
Mrs. Romana A. Banuelos
Treasurer of the United States
Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley
Chairman
Federal Maritime Commission
Benjamin C. Bradlee
Executive Editor
The Washington Post
Joseph B. Danzansky
President
Giant Food, Inc.
Mrs. Patricia Reilly Hitt
Immediate Past Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the
Federal Woman's Award and
Past Assistant Secretary
Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare
Miss Miriam Ottenberg
Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter
Washington Star-News
Rocco C. Siciliano
President
T.I. Corporation of California
Dr. Bennetta B. Washington
Special Assistant to the
Assistant Secretary for Manpower
Department of Labor
Miss Barbara M. Watson
Administrator
Bureau of Security and Consular
Affairs
Department of State
Founder and Honorary Member
Mrs. Barbara Bates Gunderson
Rapid City, South Dakota
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