Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-05-29
Miss Lula M. Dryden
Is SignaIIy Honored
Nominee For President Of
Quota International-For-
mer Resident of Pocomoke

Miss Lula M. Dryden, native of
this city, and relative OF Dr. w. H.
Walters and Mrs. A. A. Parker, Po-
comoke is the nominee for President
of Quota International, woman's
organization similar to that of the
mems Rotary body.
In connection with her candidacy,
there has been issued an SPACE pam
phlet, giving sketch of Miss Dry
denis life, said sketch taken from the
book, "Roads to Success by Mary
lands Men and Women of Achieve
ment." This is reproduced for the
benefit of the Democrats readers, and
no doubt will be read with much in
terest:
"To meet Miss Lulu M. Dryden cas-
ually, one, while Immediately attract
ed by her womanly gentleness and
: engaging personality, her simplicity
of manner and her lovable character,
would not suspect that with this es-
sentially feminine attraction is COM
bined the keeness, the force, and the
masculine vigor of pioneer business
genius, for despite her modest denial
that she is "super woman" that is
exactly what Lulu Dryden, unique
figure in the business world of her ma
tive State, is. Only woman of re-
Markable character and ability could
have evolved the little Eastern Shore
school girl into a foremost figure in
the business direction of one of the
biggest steel and iron corporations of
Maryland.
Miss Dryden was born in Pocomoke
City, on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. Through her father, William
Sidney Dryden, she comes from an old
English family Of distinction which
numbered among its members the
poet, John Dryden; her great-great-
grandfather, Noble Dryden, came ov-
er to America, from England and set
tied on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. Her mother was Mary Ann
Walters, daughter of a Virginia min
ister Miss Dryden was sent to the
public schools in Pocomoke City I'M
til the age of ten, when, with her
parents, she came to Baltimore and
completed her education in the public
schools of that city, supplementing
this later by courses in English and
traffic management. After which she
obtained position as stenographer
with the Chesapeake Iron Works, fab
ricatsrs of steel buildings, bridges
and electric travelling cranes. Flor
two years she remained in this ca
pacity, mastering details and familiar
izing herself with the work, taking in
terest far beyond the routine daily
tasks. Then the spirit of the pioneer,
the urge of her unusual ambition,
made itself felt, and, to use her own
words one day she found herself
"Scared-yes, plain scared, standing
at the purchasing end of the bust
ness" For six months she was under
fire in a vital test of her fitness, and
then the Company, satisfied they had
"a find," made her not only the pur-
chasing agent-an unheard of thing
for a woman-but also one of its di-
Tecting officers. To judge of the ire
mendous work passing through her
hands in this capacity, it is enough
to mention that in less than one and a
half years during the industrial up
heaval incident to the World War,
the Chesapeake Iron Works built,
shipped and put into continuous war
service in this country and abroad
over one hundred forty large electric
travelling cranes, representing total
capacity of about 1900 tons and a
total span of nearly 5000 feet. Not
only was the immense amount of de-
tail going to make up this great total
of completed machinery an arduous
task for the best equipped and strong
est man, but also added to it was the
strain of those times "when human
lives hung in the balance and minutes
seemed like drops of blood" To her
was entrusted the management of all
the purchases of the Chesapeake Iron
Works during it's war work for the
United States Government. In 1920
she was admitted to the National As
ISOLATION of Purchasing Agents, being
the only woman in the organization
among a membership of about 5000
men.
But the plucky little girl from the
Eastern Shore met this test and
emerged from it victorious. What she
does in times of peaceful, normal