Evening star., 1942-03-08
50 Women COLLEGES
To Be Represented
Al Sessions Here
Deems, Employment Heads
To EstubIish Educators
Place in War Effort


Nearly $50 deans and employment
heads from SO women's colleges
throughout the country will convene
here March 20 to hear from Govern
ment officials themselves how much
demand there is for college per-
sonnel In the war effort.
Under auspices of the Institute of
Womens Professional Relations, of
whose Board of Directors Mrs.
Catherine Filene Shouse is chair
man, the college leaders will meet
for two days at the Mayfower
Hotel.
The institute held a similar con-
ference here two years ago on op-
portunities for college women in
public service.
Speakers before the general group
March 20 will include Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers. of Mas
sachusetts, Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey. director of selective serv-
ice; Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur S. Flemming. Secretary of
Labor Perkins and Undersecretary
of War Robert P. Patterson.
Round Table Speakers.
Speakers before the business and
law round table in the afternoon
will include William Powers, Ameri-
can Banking Association; Charming
r. Dooley, of the War Production
Board, Miss Elizabeth Westgate and
Miss Dorothy Straus, New York
buslnessWomen, and Harvey A.
Anderson of the Bureau of Indus
trial Conservation, w P. B.
DR.. Warren F. Draper, assistant to
the surgeon general, will preside over
the health round table. Speakers
will be DR.. Sara M. Jordan of the
Lahey Clinic, Boston; DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent of st.
Elizabeths Hospital; Miss Alma
Haupt, Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services: DR.. R. E. Dyer,
National Institute of Health; DR..
Helen Mitchell, chief nutritionist of
the Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services; DR.. E. F. Kelly,
secretary of the American Phar-
maceutical Association; Mrs. John
A. Greene, director of the Boston
School of Occupational Therapy.
and G. St. John Perrott, National
Institute of Health.
Speakers ON scientific services, |
over which Dr. Leonard Carmichael,
chairman Of the Committee of Sci
entific War Requirements, will pre-
side, will be George w. Bailey, Ma
tional Research Council; DR.. Joseph |
w Barker, dean of the Columbia
University School of Engineering; |
DR.. Ruth Tolman. National Re- |
search Council, and DR.. George
Beach of the Dupont Co.
Will Address General Session.
General session speakers listed for
March 81 are Commissioner Flem-
ing, Director Mary Anderson of the
Women's Bureau, Charles Going
Woodhouse, John J. Corson and A.
Ford Hinrichs, acting commissioner
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of |
the Labor Department.
Round table speakers will be Pres |
ident Meta Glass of Sweetbriar
College, Miss Bess Goodykoontz, as /
sistant commissioner of the Office |
of Education; Miss Jane Hoey, dl- !
rector of the Bureau of Public As
sistance of the Social Security
Board; Hugh Clegg, Federal Bureau
of Investigations; Director Joseph |
B. Eastman of the Office of Defense
Transportation; Robert S. Henry,
assistant to the president of the
Association of American Railroads;
Fowler W. Barker, assistant director
of the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton; DR.. Muriel W. Brown. Office of
Education; Miss Marjorie Hazeltine,
Children's Bureau. and Miss Helen
w. Atwater, former editor of the !
American journal of Home Eco
nomiCs.
Speakers on dissemination OF in
formation will be Robert w. Horton,
director of the information division
of the Office Of Emergency Manage
ment; Harry Frantz, assistant to
Nelson A. Rockefeller; William B.
Lewis. assistant director of the Of
flee of Facts and Figures: Lloyd
Free. Federal Communications Com
mission; Arch Mercy, Executive Of
flee of the President, and william
Phillips, chief of the publications
section of o. E. M.